Category Archives: State Record Book
Baseball: All-State Underclass 2026
It’s only one day after we wrapped up the all-state softball teams for 2026, so now we’re starting up with the release of the various teams for the 44th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball honors. We have separate teams for juniors and sophomores with a first and second team for juniors and just one team...
Softball: All-State Medium, Small 2026
After the juniors and sophomores from earlier this week, the 43rd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Softball teams moves to the top players from what we deem medium & small schools. We’re sure some will be confused about some medium & small placements, but we do our best in this age of competitive equity playoff divisions. […]
Baseball/Softball Coach Milestones 2026
State record coaching lists for baseball and softball have now all been updated through the 2026 season and there were a number significant milestone wins and section titles that took place. For baseball, Lakewood’s Spud O’Neil wrapped up his career with 985 wins, the second-most in state history. We also had milestone wins for John […]
State School of Year: Santa Margarita
It’s a different mix of highly successful sports, but the Eagles have repeated as the Cal-Hi Sports State School of the Year for the 2025-26 school year. They’ve also now made it three State School of the Year honors in the last four years. It was not an easy selection since two schools — Mater […]
More State Schools of the Year
For boys sports only, St. John Bosco of Bellflower tops the group with baseball, wrestling, football and boys basketball success. For the girls, overall winner Santa Margarita had to be the winner in that category this time as well. Other schools gaining overall state sports excellence honors for 2025-26 are San Ramon Valley of Danville […]
Cal-Hi Sports Changes For 2026-27
This isn’t a retirement announcement and we’re looking forward to our 50th year of covering California high school sports in the 2028-29 school year, but as a mostly one-person operation over the past 10 to 15 years there are going to some changes to how things are going to be covered and posted on this […]
Ms. Softball 2026: Ayla Tuua
Graduated senior leader of Sacramento Destiny Christian team that finished 31-0, won the CIF NorCal D1 title and was State Team of the Year caps a magical high school career by landing state’s longest-running individual honor. There was no mystery about the strength of Ayla Tuua’s candidacy to be state player of the year. She […]
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 […]
Mr. Baseball 2026: Jared Grindlinger
Leading Huntington Beach to the CIF SoCal D1 regional championship and ranking as the top two-way player in the nation for the upcoming MLB Draft helps last year’s State Sophomore of the Year gain the highest overall state honor for this season. It was not an easy decision, but Jared has become the second ever […]
