St. Francis of Mountain View gains No. 1 ranking for the first time this season after Norco loss to Corona Santiago. Monday results that were counted this week also loomed large as both Archbishop Mitty of San Jose and Central of Fresno were highly ranked teams that lost. One of the biggest risers was No....
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Preseason Softball State TOP 40
Welcome to another season of Cal-Hi Sports state softball rankings. These have been done more than 30 years. The softball “preseason” rankings are different than baseball, which was done last week, because there are some teams in the CIF Southern Section that have already played games. We will continue to use the California rankings we […]
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 […]
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 […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
One week after we had both NorCal honorees from the same county, this week we have both SoCal honorees from the same city, although one was for pitching and the other was for hitting. The NorCal stops this week, meanwhile, are in the Sacramento suburbs of Fair Oaks and along the Central Coast in Watsonville. […]
40 Greatest Baseball Teams (25-40)
This group features the most newcomers since we have expanded by 10 teams since the last time this feature was done. Last year’s team at Cypress is included along with two other very recent State Teams of the Year. Based on additional research, we also have added squads from 2013, 1995, 1986 and 1962 (all...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Even though we only had CIF section title games to choose from, our final edition with football players for this feature this season still has some memorable performances we’re honoring. This week’s winners are from Anaheim, Oceanside and Fullerton in Southern California and Milpitas, Ripon and Santa Rosa in Northern California. We hope you enjoy […]
NEW Softball State Top 20
Loss by previous No. 2 Gahr not only screws up the CIF Southern Section Division I seedings, but also drops down the Gladiators in this week’s State Top 20. The other big move was to elevate Foothill of Pleasanton back up to No. 11 after it beat previous No. 11 Amador Valley behind ace pitcher...
NEW Softball State Top 20
We didn’t think there would be much movement in this week’s rankings, but then a funny thing happened to Mater Dei of Santa Ana heading into its showdown on Friday in the Trinity League with No. 2 Orange Lutheran. The Monarchs lost. They were No. 8 and had to give up some spots after that...
