Category Archives: baseball division rankings
Baseball: FINAL Ranks By Divisions
It’s rare that all five No. 1 teams didn’t change from the first run-through of teams we did according to CIF divisions, but they didn’t for the final rankings. Two of those were CIF Southern Section teams that opted out of the regional playoffs, but Roseville (D3), Half Moon Bay (D4) and Coastal Academy of...
More Baseball State Teams of Year
State Team of the Year honors for the 2026 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 […]
Baseball: State Ranks By Divisions
Here’s our first look at teams across the state placed into state rankings by divisions, which is what we have done since we began doing state baseball rankings in the early 1980s. The problem now, of course, is due to competitive equity playoff placements we have no idea which divisions to place teams in. 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...
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 […]
FINAL State Baseball Ranks (Divisions)
Top-ranked teams in each division have already been written up, but here now also are the final rankings for each division. These are the ones that go into our archives of final state baseball rankings that go back for more than 40 years. Each division has at least 15 teams ranked plus an honorable mention...
More Baseball State Teams of the Year
State Team of the Year honors for the 2024 baseball season already were handed out to Corona High on May 26 since the Panthers had opted out of the CIF SoCal regional playoffs after winning the CIF Southern Section D1 title. Here now would be other teams that can say they are mythical state champions […]
Baseball: State Ranks By Divisions
We can now do these rankings by division only twice each season because we have no idea what divisions teams are going to placed until the Sunday before CIF regional playoffs and then each team plays three times in five days. Final rankings will be done later next week and we’ll have more time to […]
FINAL State Baseball Ranks (Divisions)
Previously announced No. 1 teams JSerra (D1), Cardinal Newman (D2), Central Catholic of Modesto (D3), Castaic (D4) and Ripon Christian (D5) are joined by other teams in final division rankings in keeping with a tradition that we’ve had for more than 40 years. CIF SoCal D2 champ Calabasas (D2), CIF SoCal D3 champ Westlake (D2),...
