Here’s a look at top freshman baseball players around the state from the 2026 season who have great promise to be an all-state player very soon. Some are completing the summer at showcase events. We don’t offer an all-state freshman team, but as usual from the best baseball state in the nation there are many...
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All-State Baseball 2026: First Team
The 44th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams for baseball ends with a look at these special players. All first team 30 players are written up in this post. State Team of the Year St. John Bosco leads the way with three on first team. Due to the recent MLB Draft, we also put Mr. Baseball […]
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
(Click Arrows to See More Photos on home page) St. John Bosco and Orange Lutheran go back to the 1-2 positions after the first two rounds of the CIF Southern Section D1 pool play style playoffs. Both have qualified for Friday’s quarterfnals along with state No. 4 Harvard-Westlake and No. 10 Notre Dame of Sherman...
State Baseball/Softball Players of Week
We’ve reached that time of the year when this feature switches from basketball to baseball/softball. For this first fearsome foursome, the honorees hail from Bakersfield and El Dorado Hills for Northern California while for Southern California they’re from Monrovia and Castaic. We hope you enjoy this free post on CalHiSports.com. All regular season State TOP […]
Bakersfield’s First Family of Football
Former High School Football All-American Jeff Buckey and wife are raising four football standout sons. One is a college graduate still going strong at Stanford, another is at UCLA, another is a preseason all-state first team offensive lineman still in high school and the fourth is only a freshman in high school but clearly is […]
Preseason Central Section FB Team
The defending D1AA section champion Central East Bengals (known as Central Grizzlies before) are loaded with returning players and have the most written up in this feature. Last year’s D3AA CIF state champions from Frontier of Bakersfield also look formidable and are not far behind. Tulare, Clovis East and Clovis also are among others with...
All-State FB Nominees (Central-LA-SD)
We continue on in the process of choosing the players for the 47th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state football teams. This is the second of three lists of players considered as nominees for the various 2024 season squads. These are from the CIF Central, LA City and San Diego Sections. The NorCal list (except the Central […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
This week’s highest ranked newcomer is Liberty of Brentwood. Right behind is another of the state’s Liberty Highs — Liberty of Bakersfield. We also welcome Lakewood, Yorba Linda, Mission Hills of San Marcos and St. Mary’s of Stockton. This group also has two more teams playing each other that are ranked right next to each...
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
There is one week to go in the 2024 season in California with the final No. 1 ranking now locked up by Corona. It’s still possible for changes after that, however, and we’ve made one this week with Granada of Livermore moving up to No. 2. Yes, the Matadors needed 14 innings to win their...
