Author Archives: Mark Tennis
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...
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...
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...
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 […]
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 […]
St. John Bosco: State Team of Year
Bellflower school has ended No. 1 in the state in football four times (all since 2013), but has never finished No. 1 in any other sport we cover until this week. The Braves won the CIF SoCal D1 baseball title last Saturday to add to their CIF Southern Section D1 title from the previous week […]
More Baseball State Teams of Year
State Team of the Year honors for the 2025 baseball 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 […]
De La Salle 7th inning rally beats Serra
A baseball team scoring three times in the bottom of the seventh inning to win a major title like the CIF NorCal D1 championship is pretty incredible, but compared to the other two times that the De La Salle of Concord baseball team rallied to win NorCal titles in the last four years what happened […]
State Rankings By Divisions (Part 2)
Since there were first round CIF regional playoff games in baseball and softball that were halted or not played on Tuesday due to lighting and thunderstorms in Southern California, we had to do the first run-through of our state rankings by divisions in two parts. This is Part 2 and it’s for D1 softball, D2 […]
State Rankings By Divisions (Part 1)
Since there were first round CIF regional playoff games in baseball and softball that were halted or not played on Tuesday due to lighting and thunderstorms in Southern California, we’re doing the first run-through of our state rankings by divisions in two parts. It’s today for D1, D3 and D5 for baseball plus D2, D3 […]
