With the 2020-21 season ending on Saturday with CIF SoCal regional championships, here’s a look at our own five-division state rankings for softball. For this year, we are combining the teams in the SoCal regional bracket into divisions (not the same) and then injecting where the NorCal teams would fit in based on our own […]
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NEW State TOP 35 Softball Rankings
The result this week that caused the most changes actually just happened on Monday night as previous No. 5 Mater Dei Catholic lost to league rival Eastlake in the CIF San Diego Section. With playoffs about to start in the CIF Southern Section, the biggest question may be whether its D2 bracket is even stronger...
NEW State TOP 35 Softball Rankings
It’s one of the goofiest weeks ever for Orange County teams, but Esperanza of Anaheim comes out of it with a win over previous No. 2 Villa Park and now jumps up into that spot for this week. Ventura/L.A. County was just as wild-and-wacky but it’s Camarillo now right in front of Westlake at No....
NEW State TOP 35 Softball Rankings
Norco still on top, but there’s shuffling this week beginning right at No. 2 as Villa Park grabs that spot. Crescenta Valley’s win from last Monday over previous No. 2 Huntington Beach was reflected in our home page ticker last week, but not in the rankings until now. This week’s new order also sees big...
Girls BB: All-State Underclass 2020
It’s time to start to get out the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Girls Basketball Teams with a look at the best of the best among juniors, sophomores and freshmen. CIF Southern Section Open Division titlist Mater Dei of Santa Ana leads the way since all five starters were underclassmen and all five landed on...
Boys BB All-State Nominees (Updated)
We released the first run-through of names on our virtual board of all-state boys basketball nominees more than three weeks ago, and now we’re about to start honoring the 41st annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams. More players were added and some other fixes had to be made plus we’ve gone in and selected all new...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
There were no state record book entries this week but we found some diamonds in the rough and some budding young stars in our four winners, and that’s part of what this feature is all about. We start out in the island city of Coronado just across the bay from San Diego, and then head […]
FINAL Medium/Small School Ranks
We’ve already announced Clayton Valley of Concord (medium) and Ripon (small) as the final No. 1 teams in these classifications. Here are the final top 15 teams for each plus five more expanded teams in order and a few more added on as honorable mention. Medium school teams moving up at the end include Camarillo...
NEW NorCal/SoCal Bowl Projections
Every team listed is now officially either a No. 1 seed or high seed in its section playoffs. The big change is putting Camarillo on the board for the CIF Southern Section Division IV playoffs. We also are agreeing with the CIF North Coast Section seeding of Clayton Valley (Concord) at the top of its...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Serra of Gardena knocks off previous No. 19 Alemany and despite some losses when not at full strength now gets to come back up — way up — in this week’s State Top 50. Also new this week is Monte Vista of Danville and Cajon of San Bernardino. We’re also giving slight bumps for several...
