State No. 1 St. Francis and state No. 2 Roosevelt are both starting the final week of the season as top seeds in the CIF regional playoffs for Northern and Southern California. There is one scenario, however, that would cause a tough decision to be made for the final rankings. Among section title teams getting...
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NEW Softball State TOP 25 Rankings
Monday games this week already have created some news as No. 1 Clovis North won a local tourney while Huntington Beach has shaken the order with a win over Los Alamitos in a Sunset Surf League contest. The big mover, of course, is new No. 4 Granada of Livermore after it captured the Livermore Stampede...
NEW State Top 25 Girls BB Rankings
We had a hunch there could be some movement with all the MLK weekend events and that’s exactly what has happened with the biggest change coming at the top of the heap and with four of the five top teams playing musical chairs. This past week also saw two coaches in the top five reach...
All-State Softball: 2nd & 3rd Teams
The 37th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state teams selections for softball concludes with 30 players named second team overall and nearly 40 more who are third team. Any player from any school regardless of class or school size can be on second team. The third team, however, is only for seniors and only for large schools....
FINAL Softball Expanded Top 40
It takes us extra time to produce, but as is our custom we have gone through all information collected during the 2019 California high school softball season and are ready to release our expanded, final Top 40 overall team rankings. It’s hard to get bumps, especially when the CIF Southern Section playoffs had already ended...
Girls BB: All-State 2nd, 3rd 2019
Here’s where to go to see all of the writeups for those who are second team overall and third team overall on the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Girls Basketball Teams. The second and third teams feature the second player from a few of the state’s very best teams plus some who were players of […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Two of the strongest nominations for this week in SoCal baseball were from the same school. We considered Co-Players of the Week, but as many may know ties for anything just isn’t in our DNA. We also honor a daughter of a former MLB player and current third base coach of the Arizona Diamondbacks. This […]
NEW Softball State Top 25 Ranks
One upset loss in extra innings to a team it has beaten before doesn’t cost Norco the No. 1 ranking in the state. Foothill of Pleasanton stays No. 2 but all of the teams beating each other throughout the rest of Southern California may pay off for the Falcons down the road if they finish...
Girls BB All-State Nominees Part 1
Like the boys several days ago, we are beginning the process toward selection of the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams in girls basketball with this first list of those honored as nominees. Some of the earliest selections include Cheryl Miller (Riverside Poly 1982), Violet Palmer (Compton 1982) and Lisa Leslie (Inglewood Morningside soph 1988). […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
As SoCal Boys Player of the Week Jarod Lucas of Hacienda Heights Los Altos gets closer to 2,900 career points, we also are tracking two others moving up the all-time state list with Joseph Octave of Mary Star (San Pedro) now above 2,400 and Jaime Jaquez of Camarillo now above 2,300. We also have a...
