Category Archives: softball
State Softball/Baseball Players of Week
It’s never easy to come up with these four honorees each week and this week we even waited for Monday afternoon games to be played before finalizing two of the winning names. As usual, most of those who gained the final nod have accomplishments both with bat in hand or with ball leaving the hand […]
Crazy Carew as Rosary rises to crown
It was two weeks ago when the last State TOP 25 rankings for softball had been compiled, but unranked Rosary of Fullerton showed it has the makings of another top-level squad in the CIF Southern Section with a title game win in the Michelle Carew Classic on Saturday night vs state No. 4 Orange Lutheran. […]
State Baseball/Softball Players of Week
With half the team that collaborates on producing the State Baseball-Softball Players of the Week feature unavailable due to Cal-Hi Sports co-founder Mark Tennis being on the road, we were left to our own devices to research and pick the winners, so we put out a call on social media for nominations, and thankfully hit […]
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
It’s a wide range of emerging and senior standouts who had huge totals in recent games. In softball, Auburn recruit Delaney Aumua had three homers in one game while freshman Jiannah Freitas of Tulare had four homers in three games. In baseball, Jackson Balden of Bakersfield Legacy Christian has 20 strikeouts in a perfect game,...
State Baseball/Softball Players of Week
It’s bayou time this week for our Northern California Baseball and Softball State Player of the Week award winners, which may seem a bit strange but both of our honorees are committed to LSU for college in Baton Rouge, La. One of the pair is going to grace the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, and […]
NEW State Softball TOP 25 Rankings
Norco moves back to the No. 1 ranking with dominance in almost every game this season except one. Oak Ridge of El Dorado Hills and St. Francis of Mountain View, meanwhile, are keeping Northern California near the top of the state. Highest ranked newcomers are Mater Dei Catholic of Chula Vista, El Segundo and Clovis...
State Softball/Baseball Players of Week
For our second week of honoring baseball and softball players this season, we don’t have any records to track for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, which is one of the purposes of this feature. However, there was no shortage of some hidden gems, a couple of diamonds in the rough, and even a former […]
NEW State Softball TOP 25
There’s much upheaval from the preseason as a lot of top teams from 2024 have not done well to start 2025. The new No. 1 is El Modena of Orange due to its championship two weekends ago at the Dave Kops TOC in Arizona, but good lord do the Vanguards have a tough schedule. They...
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
We have a mix this week with some games from Tuesday’s regional basketball finals involving stars like Brayden Burries, Alijah Arenas, Alijah “Puff” Morris and Lauren Harris. Burries, Arenas & Morris will all be on hand at this weekend’s CIF state finals in Sacramento. Harris has obliterated state three-point shooting records for girls. Final career...
State Baseball/Softball Players of Week
These are the first players of the week for the 2025 spring season and all four honorees have been tabbed for providing big power totals at the plate. One of them is from a family we’ve been covering closely since the early 1990s and another was impacted greatly from the Eaton Fire in Altadena. They […]
