This week’s first regular season rankings for California baseball are complicated with a 0-0 tie taking place in a matchup of two top five teams. There are no ties in the rankings so we’ll leave those two teams — Elk Grove and Valley Christian of San Jose — right where they were. The tie did […]
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Baseball: Preseason State Top 25
Eastlake of Chula Vista, the 2017 State Team of the Year, has more than enough firepower returning to start 2018 in the same position. Another CIF San Diego Section team, Cathedral Catholic, also is in the top five. The top CIF Southern Section preseason team, Orange Lutheran, begins at No. 2. Meanwhile, the two top […]
All-State Baseball: First Team
With the No. 1 and No. 2 overall choices in last month’s MLB Draft plus two from Huntington Beach who also were high draft picks, including Mr. Baseball State POY Hagen Danner, this year’s 36th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Team may have as many no-brainers as there’s ever been. Still, it’s not easy for […]
All-State Baseball: Underclass
In a switch of usual protocol, we’re going to go back and forth from softball to baseball in releasing our annual spring sports all-state teams. This is the 36th straight year there has been Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams in baseball and we’re starting with All-State Underclass. It’s the best of the best among juniors, sophomores...
More Baseball State Players of Year
Chula Vista Eastlake’s Grant Holman might even surpass some of the totals next year that State Player of the Year Hagen Danner put up this year at Huntington Beach. Holman, named as this year’s State Junior of the Year, leads this year’s group of other state players of the year. He’s joined by Kyle Ashworth […]
MLB Draft: Top two are SoCal preps
It’s the first time two players from CIF Southern Section schools go 1-2 in the MLB Draft after Royce Lewis and Hunter Greene are selected in those positions during Monday’s MLB Draft. It’s not the first time it’s happened for California. Go inside to read about the 1980 and 2000 MLB Drafts and for a […]
Eastlake State Baseball Team of Year
Win against Helix of La Mesa in CIF San Diego Section Open Division championship keeps Titans on top in the chase for mythical state crown. They earn their first State TOY honor in a close call over two championship teams from the CIF Southern Section. It wasn’t so much the win over Helix, however, but […]
NEW State Divisions Baseball Ranks
Let’s hear it for the Es — Eastlake, Etiwanda and El Toro — who all won huge sectional playoff games on Tuesday. Including all results even from Wednesday night of this week, No. 1 teams with one week to go in these state rankings are Eastlake (D1), Etiwanda (D2), Miramonte (D3), Wasco (D4) and Winters...
NEW Baseball State Top 20
Are there such things as meaningless losses? When it’s the last week of a team’s regular season and everything appears locked up (such as top seeds for the playoffs), yes that’s pretty much true. That’s mainly why Huntington Beach stays No. 1 this week despite a loss to Newport Harbor. Still, there are changes in...
