Category Archives: softball
State Coach of Year: Jim Bennet
Winning the CIF SoCal D1 championship just two weeks after winning his 400th career game is all that’s needed for Poway’s Jim Bennet to earn State Coach of the Year honors for the 2023 season. Despite many successful seasons from 2003 to 2019, Bennet had to guide the program to major success after the COVID […]
FINAL Softball TOP 40 (Expanded)
CIF Southern Section D1 champion Pacifica of Garden Grove along with finalist Norco and semifinalist Los Alamitos all move up in the final order. Others getting bumps at the end include Poway, Whitney of Rocklin and South Hills of West Covina. As is custom, each of the teams in the final, expanded final state rankings...
FINAL State Softball Ranks (Divisions)
Previously announced No. 1 teams Hollister (D1), Willow Glen of San Jose (D2), Central Catholic of Modesto (D3), Capital Christian of Sacramento (D4) and Holtville (D5) are joined by other teams in final division rankings in keeping with a tradition that we’ve had for more than 40 years. Other teams highlighted in these rankings include...
All-State Softball Nominees (SoCal)
Like the same list posted earlier for NorCal, here’s a first list of nominees on our board for the annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state softball teams for SoCal. We have been doing all-state teams in California for more than 40 years and it’s more than 35 for softball. Here are players we’ve come up with from […]
All-State Softball Nominees (NorCal)
Here’s a first list of nominees on our board for the annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state softball teams. We have been doing all-state teams in California for more than 40 years and it’s more than 35 for softball. Here are players we’ve come up with from CIF sections in Northern California (with the Central Section in […]
More Softball State Teams of the Year
In addition to overall No. 1 and Division 1 No. 1 Hollister, others that can say they are mythical state champions for 2023 are Willow Glen of San Jose (D2), Central Catholic of Modesto (D3), Capital Christian of Sacramento (D4) and Holtville (D5).
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
The baseball and softball seasons still have a week remaining as we move into the third year of the CIF Southern Regional playoffs and the second year of the Northern Regional playoffs, but this will be the last edition of the Player of the Week features for the 2022-2023 school year. There’s still a lot […]


