Back in January, a 30-day break from social media helped the Del Oro of Loomis softball team come together for the 2025 season. The school’s longtime head coach, Sean Erickson, is now the 2025 State Coach of the Year after the Golden Eagles went 31-2 and won the CIF NorCal D1 championship. FOR THIS YEAR’S […]
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More State Softball Coaches of the Year
In addition to overall State Coach of the Year Sean Erickson from Del Oro of Loomis, we have additional state coaching honors for the 2025 season going to Bill Hunyady of San Diego Point Loma (medium schools) and Michelle Felkins of Biggs (small schools).
North wins in another Lions’ barnburner
This time, a trick play in the final minutes helped preserve a 42-37 victory when it looked like the South might pull off another win in the final seconds like last year. Zakery Willson from Sierra of Manteca gained MVP honors with three TD passes and one TD run. This event will reach 50 years […]
State Coach of Year: Andy Rojo
The St. John Bosco baseball program reached up to the level of success this season that the school has had in football and boys basketball and now baseball head coach Andy Rojo is a State Coach of the Year just like Jason Negro in football (2019) and Matt Dunn in basketball (2024). Rojo’s team made […]
More State Baseball Coaches of Year
In addition to overall State Coach of the Year Andy Rojo from St. John Bosco of Bellflower, we have additional state coaching honors for the 2025 season going to Michael Kunipo-Aguirre of Carson (medium schools) and David Trujillo from Menlo School of Atherton (small schools).
FINAL State Softball TOP 40 Rankings
As is our custom, we expand the final rankings at the end of the season and unlike a computer we explain why each move is made. These also are the rankings that go into our archives that include final rankings in California high school softball for more than 40 years. Big moves had to be...
FINAL State Softball Division Rankings
We only had one No. 1 team from the next-to-last division state rankings that lost and had to drop. There are two new No. 2 teams — Hillsdale of San Mateo in D3 and Orcutt Academy in D5 — and there were others that were given solid bumps for the final rankings. That list includes...
Girls BB: Cali Live 25 Top Teams
There were some teams from Southern California on hand, but three-time NorCal Open Division champion Archbishop Mitty (San Jose) was the class of the field at the Girls California Live 2025 held last weekend in Roseville. Players from South Medford (Oregon), St. Mary’s of Stockton, Clovis West of Fresno, Brentwood of Los Angeles and Villa […]
All-State Softball Nominees (SoCal)
With the players from CIF sections in Northern California already listed, here’s the list of nominees so far for the 42nd annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state teams in softball from Southern California. These are ones from the CIF L.A. City, San Diego & Southern Sections. We encourage all coaches, parents and others to send us info...
Lion All-Star Dedicates Play to Friend
Argonaut of Jackson dual-threat QB Seth Mitchell suffered the loss of best friend Dylan Yoacham in 2022 and has dedicated his football performances since then to Dylan’s memory. He will play for the North team next Saturday in the 49th edition of the Central California Lions All-Star Classic to be played in Tracy. We hope […]
