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State Coach of Year: Andy Rojo

The St. John Bosco baseball program reached up to the level of success this season that the school has had in football and boys basketball and now baseball head coach Andy Rojo is a State Coach of the Year just like Jason Negro in football (2019) and Matt Dunn in basketball (2024). Rojo’s team made […]

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More State Baseball Coaches of Year

In addition to overall State Coach of the Year Andy Rojo from St. John Bosco of Bellflower, we have additional state coaching honors for the 2025 season going to Michael Kunipo-Aguirre of Carson (medium schools) and David Trujillo from Menlo School of Atherton (small schools).

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Lions All-Star FB 2025 Fact Sheet

It’s just one year before the Central California Lions All-Star Football Game reaches the big 5-0, but before that the 49th annual all-star game was set to be played on Saturday night, June 21 at 7 pm at Wayne Schneider Stadium in Tracy.

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FINAL State Softball TOP 40 Rankings

As is our custom, we expand the final rankings at the end of the season and unlike a computer we explain why each move is made. These also are the rankings that go into our archives that include final rankings in California high school softball for more than 40 years. Big moves had to be...

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FINAL State Softball Division Rankings

We only had one No. 1 team from the next-to-last division state rankings that lost and had to drop. There are two new No. 2 teams — Hillsdale of San Mateo in D3 and Orcutt Academy in D5 — and there were others that were given solid bumps for the final rankings. That list includes...

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All-State Softball Nominees (SoCal)

With the players from CIF sections in Northern California already listed, here’s the list of nominees so far for the 42nd annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state teams in softball from Southern California. These are ones from the CIF L.A. City, San Diego & Southern Sections. We encourage all coaches, parents and others to send us info...

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FINAL State Baseball TOP 40 Rankings

The most difficult teams to rank at the end were the double-digit loss teams from Patrick Henry of San Diego and Santa Margarita of Rancho Santa Margarita. They’re both in the final top 10 but not top five. De La Salle also rises to third with Granite Hills fourth and Huntington Beach getting fifth. We...

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FINAL State Baseball Division Rankings

Teams coming up the most for these final rankings are led by the obvious ones that won regional titles coming from a lower seed, including Rancho Bernardo of San Diego (D2), University City of San Diego (D3), Rancho Cotate of Rohnert Park (D4) and Pioneer of Whittier (D5). End of year bumps based on which...

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Norco: State Softball Team of Year

For the third time since 2012, the Norco High softball team has been officially added to the all-time list of State Teams of the Year that extends back to 1974. The Cougars didn’t play in the CIF regional championships, but already had put together a strong enough resume to finish No. 1 after winning the […]

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More Softball State Teams of Year

State Team of the Year honors for the 2025 softball season also are going out for the four other CIF based playoff divisions. We have done teams of the year in five divisions for many years and these mythical honors considered all teams that played in CIF section playoffs (including those that opted out of […]

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