Category Archives: softball
All-State Softball: Medium, Small
With All-State baseball for 2019 completely in the books, we switch back to the 37th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Softball Teams. The announcements continue for the most outstanding players from medium or small schools in class. There were several medium school teams that had two players named All-State, including D3 State Team of the Year […]
All-State Softball: Underclass
This is the first of four posts announcing the 37th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Softball Teams and like baseball we are starting with the underclassmen. These are the best of the best for juniors, sophomores and freshmen. There are no frosh on first team underclass, but several from a strong group of Class of 2022...
Keilani Ricketts’ Ms. Softball Writeup (2009)
The San Jose Archbishop Mitty graduate had one of the most memorable seasons for a softball player in California and has been a member of the US National Team for several years. She also led Oklahoma to an NCAA title. Here’s what we wrote about Keilani after her senior year with the Monarchs. (Editor’s note: […]
Softball: All-Time 25 Teams (1)
Just like we’ve done before in football and baseball, we’ve pulled together all of our historical files and have come up with a ranking of the all-time greatest teams in California high school softball. This feature was orginally done in 2018 and doesn’t include Norco’s 32-1 team from this season or Pleasanton Foothill’s 28-0 team....
Softball: All-Time 25 Teams (2)
This group of the state’s all-time greatest Top 25 softball teams begins with No. 13 Norco 2012 and ends with No. 25 Pacifica of Garden Grove 2004. See which other teams were selected and featured from No. 14 through No. 24. You’ll need to be a Gold Club member to read the entire two posts....
All-State Softball Nominees (Part 2)
Here is an updated, second list of nominees who are going to be considered for one or more of the 37th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Softball Teams. Thanks to everyone who sent in a nomination for their favorite player (either already on the first list or just added to this second one). Nominations are not...
Ms. Softball 2019: Kinzie Hansen
In another of the closest selections ever, the Norco High catcher edges out two others to collect the state’s longest-running individual softball honor. She is the fourth from Norco to be Ms. Softball this decade and is only the second catcher now on the all-time list. In the end, despite the accomplishments of the five […]
More Softball Players of the Year
The choices for State Junior Player of the Year, Sophomore Player of the Year and Freshman Player of the Year were equally difficult as for Ms. Softball. There’s not a no brainer of the bunch. We did have one for medium schools, however, since one of our six Ms. Softball finalists was from that category. […]
Matt Sweeney: State Coach of Year
He’s a guy we’ve considered for the highest coaching accolades in football, but for various reasons it didn’t work out. But now that Pleasanton Foothill’s Matt Sweeney is coaching softball and had one of the top teams in the nation this season, the timing is perfect to tell his story. It ended up not being […]
FINAL Softball Expanded Top 40
It takes us extra time to produce, but as is our custom we have gone through all information collected during the 2019 California high school softball season and are ready to release our expanded, final Top 40 overall team rankings. It’s hard to get bumps, especially when the CIF Southern Section playoffs had already ended...
