These are the first rankings for the 2025-26 regular season. Among the Top 10, only one drops out of that range and it’s a shocker as 11-time CIF state champ Mater Dei clings to a state ranking (but no longer in the top 25) while looking to finish in the Top 3 of the vaunted...
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NEW State Softball TOP 25 Rankings
With just one week to go, the No. 1 ranking is locked up by virtue of Norco winning the CIF Southern Section D1 championship. Opting out of this week’s regionals doesn’t make a difference. The rest of the order, however, is up for grabs with no major opt outs in the north. Will it be...
NEW State Softball TOP 25 Rankings
Top seed Norco has reached the title game in the nation’s toughest playoff bracket for the 10th time and will go for the CIF Southern Section D1 title on Saturday night as the state’s No. 1 team. The Cougars have moved back to that position after previous No. 1 Del Oro of Loomis lost to...
NEW State Softball TOP 25 Rankings
Del Oro of Loomis is still No. 1 and Norco has gone up from No. 3 to No. 2, but the biggest changes this week are from No. 3 on down the pecking order. Several upsets in the CIF Southern Section D1 playoffs plus previous No. 4 St. Francis taking a loss in the CIF...
NEW State Softball TOP 25 Rankings
The super-loaded CIF Southern Section D1 playoffs start on Thursday with very intriguing matchups in the very first round. Winning the Michelle Carew Classic didn’t help Rosary of Fullerton to get a high seed, but we do not match computer rankings based section seedings with our own rankings. Teams that are moving up in our...
NEW State Softball TOP 25 Rankings
Tournament wins catapult Tracy from No. 16 to No. 10 and Oaks Christian from on the bubble to No. 18 in this week’s new state rankings. Del Oro also moves up to third after big win vs previous No. 3 Oak Ridge and now has an argument to be No. 1. Pacifica of Garden Grove...
NEW State Softball TOP 25 Rankings
The result from last week that caused the most changes to this week’s rankings was Mater Dei of Santa Ana getting past previous No. 3 Orange Lutheran in the Trinity League. The Monarchs also had a big win vs Santa Margarita and are one of six newcomers this week. The highest ranked newcomer, however, is...
Return To Glory At Livermore Stampede
There was only a mini-series of games last year at the Livermore Stampede softball tourney, one of the most prestigious in the state, due to rainy weather. This year, the team that won it all two years ago under normal conditions, St. Francis of Mountain View, won it again on Saturday with a 6-0 triumph […]
NEW State Softball TOP 25 Rankings
Monday games when one is looking to do state rankings in two sports (baseball too) at the same time can be excruciating. It happened this week in softball when a Oak Ridge of El Dorado Hills team that was pegged to take over as the No. 1 team in these rankings was upset in a...
NEW State Softball TOP 25 Rankings
Norco moves back to the No. 1 ranking with dominance in almost every game this season except one. Oak Ridge of El Dorado Hills and St. Francis of Mountain View, meanwhile, are keeping Northern California near the top of the state. Highest ranked newcomers are Mater Dei Catholic of Chula Vista, El Segundo and Clovis...
