We begin this week with a salute to two coaches (one baseball, one softball) who both earned their 600th win last week. Baseball’s best also includes an update on state home run season lead after Oaks Christian’s Quentin Young hit a pair of them on Wednesday, a catcher with five RBI at Oracle Park and...
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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...
State Baseball/Softball Players of Week
State record implications are there for two of the four we’re honoring this week, but considering the competition involved it was one of the other honorees who perhaps made the biggest impact. Our four winners are from Moreno Valley and Lakewood in Southern California and then it’s Livingston and Loomis for Northern California. We hope […]
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 […]
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
UCLA-bound Jazmine Leyva of South El Monte is closing in on state record for career doubles, but will she get enough pitches to hit? We also have softball players knocking in 12 runs in one game, going 6-for-7 with seven RBI and another with three homers. For baseball, Orland’s Luke Schager breaks a 76-year-old school...
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...
Crazy Carew as Rosary rises to crown
It was two weeks ago when the last State TOP 25 rankings for softball had been compiled, but unranked Rosary of Fullerton showed it has the makings of another top-level squad in the CIF Southern Section with a title game win in the Michelle Carew Classic on Saturday night vs state No. 4 Orange Lutheran. […]
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
It’s a wide range of emerging and senior standouts who had huge totals in recent games. In softball, Auburn recruit Delaney Aumua had three homers in one game while freshman Jiannah Freitas of Tulare had four homers in three games. In baseball, Jackson Balden of Bakersfield Legacy Christian has 20 strikeouts in a perfect game,...
State Baseball/Softball Players of Week
It’s bayou time this week for our Northern California Baseball and Softball State Player of the Week award winners, which may seem a bit strange but both of our honorees are committed to LSU for college in Baton Rouge, La. One of the pair is going to grace the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, and […]
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...
