Category Archives: State Top 25 Rankings
FINAL Softball TOP 40 (Expanded)
CIF Southern Section D1 champion Pacifica of Garden Grove along with finalist Norco and semifinalist Los Alamitos all move up in the final order. Others getting bumps at the end include Poway, Whitney of Rocklin and South Hills of West Covina. As is custom, each of the teams in the final, expanded final state rankings...
FINAL Baseball TOP 40 (Expanded)
CIF NorCal D1 champ De La Salle ends third this time behind JSerra and Santa Margarita. All of the CIF San Diego Section teams also get big bumps at the end after that huge day of wins in the CIF SoCal D1 playoffs by La Costa Canyon, Eastlake and Rancho Bernardo. We also had to...
JSerra: Baseball State Team of Year
Repeating as CIF Southern Section Division I champions is the difference as JSerra of San Juan Capistrano lands its first-ever State Team of the Year selection in baseball and is the first winner from Orange County since 2009. Its high number of losses and opting out of the CIF SoCal D1 playoffs is overcome as […]
Tripaldi slam gives DLS historic win
A grand slam in the top of the seventh inning by junior Hank Tripaldi (who just lost his mother to cancer) caps a six-run rally to lift De La Salle of Concord to its second straight dramatic win in its second straight CIF NorCal baseball final. With the 11-8 defeat, state No. 2 Valley Christian […]
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
With one week to go in the season and before State Teams of the Year are named, the top five shuffles a bit with Valley Christian (San Jose) inching up to No. 2 behind JSerra. The opt out of the Lions for this week’s CIF regional playoffs just can’t cause a change at the top....
NEW Softball State TOP 25 Rankings
With previous No. 2 and No. 3 losing, the possibility of No. 1 St. Francis (Mountain View) or its rivals from Archbishop Mitty (which already has one win over the Lancers) ending No. 1 in the state has become more juicy. With CIF Southern Section D1 champ Pacifica moving up to third, more scrambling could...
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
JSerra repeats as CIFSS D1 champion and moves up to No. 1 for the first time since it started there in the preseason. Franklin of Elk Grove & Whitney of Rocklin also will both be in the top 10 when they play each other for Sac-Joaquin Section title. We also have a bump for CIFSS...
NEW Softball State TOP 25 Rankings
St. Francis of Mountain View goes back to No. 1 while Norco moves up to No. 2 with the CIF Southern Section D1 final coming up Friday vs new No. 7 Pacifica of Garden Grove. Central of Fresno also gains 12 spots after its big win over previous No. 1 Clovis North. This week’s newcomers...
