Category Archives: baseball
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...
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 Softball/Baseball Players of Week
As the old saying goes “all good things must come to an end” and for this week’s State Baseball-Softball Players of the Week this will be the final installment for the 2024-25 school year. Despite the fact there are only a handful of teams either still alive and competing in the CIF Regional Playoffs, and […]
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 […]
NEW State Baseball TOP 35 Rankings
There was consideration for the first unbeaten team through the CIF San Diego Section playoffs in history to be moved up to No. 1 after Corona’s loss to St. John Bosco of Bellflower. But when the Braves later beat Santa Margarita to win the CIF Southern Section D1 crown, it had to be them at...
