Category Archives: softball
More Softball Players of the Year
One of these honorees — Dailynn Battee of Etiwanda for the sophomores — is a winner in her class for the second year. We have a new winner compared to last season for the juniors while our freshman honoree is from the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section. This year’s medium schools and small schools winners are from […]
FINAL All-State Softball Noms (NorCal)
The 43rd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Softball Teams will be selected after all of our state players of the year are announced in both softball and baseball and after all final all-state nominations lists are posted. Here is an updated list of nominees who had strong seasons this year from the CIF Central Coast, Central,...
State Coach of the Year: Katie Stith
Daughter of legendary travel ball coach Mike Stith of OC Batbusters fame has been the head coach at JSerra of San Juan Capistrano for eight years and now gains the highest California high school coaching honor. Her team has been setting school records the past two seasons, including a victory over Norco in this year’s […]
All-State Softball Nominees (SoCal)
It’s been since May 29 when we posted these same lists for Northern California, but we were not able to get the SoCal version completed until the season ended, which for us was Saturday, June 6 and then we had state teams of the year and final state rankings to get done first. Here’s the […]
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...
FINAL Softball State TOP 40 Rankings
The first changes for these expanded, final rankings compared to the previous State TOP 25 start at No. 6 with La Habra moving up and staying in front of the Murrieta Mesa and Orange Lutheran teams it beat in the CIFSS D1 playoffs. CIF NorCal D1 runner-up Whitney of Rocklin also moves up five spots...
Destiny Christian: State Team of Year
Everything had to fall into place for the Destiny Christian of Sacramento softball team to be able to finish in the rarified air of being an undefeated State Team of the Year. But that’s what happened plus there was a CIF NorCal D1 championship that had to be won, which was completed last Saturday with […]
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 […]
MD Catholic gets SoCal D1 repeat
Coaches at Chula Vista school tell their players “not to bother” trying out for their team if they can’t commit to playing as late as the CIF SoCal regional playoffs. On Saturday, with University of Arizona commit Arri Romero leading the way, the Crusaders won the CIF SoCal D1 regional title for the second straight […]
Destiny Christian: One inning does it
A three-run homer and a two-run homer within a few swings of one half-inning gives Destiny Christian of Sacramento all it needed in a 6-3 win over Whitney of Rocklin in Saturday’s CIF NorCal D1 softball championship. The Lions completed one of the most historically significant seasons in state history at 31-0 and are expected […]
