Category Archives: State Record Book
More Baseball State Players of the Year
It’s a smooth move upward for Junior Player of the Year Gavin Grahovac of Villa Park and Sophomore Player of the Year Bryce Rainer from Harvard-Westlake of Studio City as those two were the leaders last season for sophomores and freshmen. A junior also has been chosen as State Medium Schools Player of the Year, […]
State Coach of Year: Mike Centrullo
All of the pieces fell into place for this to be the season we can put the spotlight on the coach of record at Mater Dei Catholic of Chula Vista since the school opened in 2007 and before that at Marian Catholic back to 1999. Centrullo now has nine CIF San Diego Section titles on […]
State Coach of Year: Benji Medure
After his 22nd season, Huntington Beach’s head coach is closing in on his 400th win and has built one of the top baseball programs in California. This year’s capper of winning the CIF Southern California D1 regional title also has gained him the No. 1 coaching honor for the 2022 season. FOR MORE ON THIS […]
Softball: Final Division State Ranks
Teams at the end getting big upward moves include Mater Dei Catholic of Chula Vista (D2), St. Anthony of Long Beach (D3), Ripon (D4) and Fort Bragg (D5). Previously announced teams of the year were St. Francis of Mountain View (D1), Otay Ranch (D2), Sutter (D3), Monterey (D4) and Big Valley Christian of Modesto (D5)....
De La Salle: Baseball State Team of Year
It wasn’t like the more dominant team of 2019, but this year’s baseball team at De La Salle of Concord won the first CIF NorCal D1 title in dramatic fashion over previous state No. 1 St. Francis of Mountain View and gets the school’s second State Team of the Year honor in four years. Other […]
St. Francis: State Softball Team of Year
St. Francis of Mountain View could have been No. 2 for the final evaluations of State Team of the Year candidates in softball this season, but the Lancers already were No. 1 entering the final week and did a great job in winning the CIF Northern California Division I title. They are just the second […]
Fifth Straight NCS Title For De La Salle
The Spartans came from behind with two runs in the seventh to get a tie and won it in the ninth, 9-6, over Foothill of Pleasanton in CIF North Coast Section Division 1 final. They’ve now won five section titles in a row and kept the streak going after a two-year break due to the […]
2022 Boys/Girls BB Coaching Updates
With all of our state honors for the 2021-22 basketball season complete, the next step for us is to begin doing state record updates in all categories. We begin with new lists of the all-time state coaching leaders for both boys and girls. For boys, Mike LeDuc from Damien of La Verne getting to 1,000 […]
