Category Archives: softball divisional rankings
Softball: FINAL Ranks By Divisions
All five of the No. 1 teams have already been announced, but three of them were not No. 1 in these divisions at the start of the CIF regional playoffs. A few of the CIF regional winners also made giant moves at the end, including Hanford West in D3 and Escalon in D4. We have...
More Softball State Teams of Year
State Team of the Year honors for the 2026 softball season also are going out this week 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 […]
Softball: 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 softball rankings in the early 1980s. Just like baseball, the issue due to competitive equity playoff placements is that we have no idea which divisions to place teams in […]
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...
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 […]
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 Softball Ranks (Divisions)
Top-ranked teams in each division have already been written up, but here now also are the final rankings for each division. Like the overall State TOP 40, these also go into our archives of final state softball rankings that go back for more than 35 years. Teams coming up at the end include Benicia (D2),...
More Softball State Teams of Year
In addition to overall final No. 1 and Division 1 No. 1 Pacifica of Garden Grove, others that can say they are mythical state champions for 2024 are Gahr of Cerritos (D2), Capital Christian of Sacramento (D3), Sutter (D4) and Big Valley Christian of Modesto (D5).
Softball: State Ranks By Divisions
Here is the first place in any ranking national or state to see Pacifica of Garden Grove now at the top of the state as the Mariners have supplanted St. Francis of Mountain View following Tuesday’s massive upset pulled off by Amador Valley of Pleasanton. Oak Ridge & Whitney of the Sac-Joaquin Section both had […]
