Great players abound historically from all corners of California, which makes the annual selections for the Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Teams that much more difficult. This year’s 38th annual edition of this elite 30-player team happens to include one from the CIF Northern Section and one from the CIF Oakland Section. We also have the […]
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Matt Sweeney: State Coach of Year
He’s a guy we’ve considered for the highest coaching accolades in football, but for various reasons it didn’t work out. But now that Pleasanton Foothill’s Matt Sweeney is coaching softball and had one of the top teams in the nation this season, the timing is perfect to tell his story. It ended up not being […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
We couldn’t wait to get out all the details of this week’s no-hitters pitched on the same day by Clovis baseball and softball pitchers. From last week in baseball, highlights include those from a game played at Anaheim Stadium between two of the oldest schools in Southern California plus we have the scoop on El...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
One of our four honorees for this week is the younger sister of 2018 State Baseball Junior Player of the Year Dawson Netz of Pasadena Maranatha. And little sis is putting up some monster pitching-hitting totals for the early going of this season. Our three other writeups recognize the skills of baseball players from San […]
Preseason Central Section FB Team
It’s an amazing season coming up the Central Valley with record-breaking, rush-pass quarterbacks galore. We couldn’t even fit some players with monster stats from last year on first team. This also is the first year the section welcomes 13 new schools coming in from the CIF Southern Section. Two players from those schools are on...
More State Boys Athletes of the Year
Among others being selected for top state honors is a junior who just committed to USC to play both football and basketball, a sophomore named Jalen who edged out another sophomore from the same school named Jalen and a freshman wrestler from Selma. We also have a State Three-Sport Athlete of the Year from San […]
Honorable Mention Schools of Year
To go with our annual State Schools of the Year tribute, here are some additional schools that were on our board in the various CIF state divisions and in our own five-division format that we would consider to be honorable mention.
All-State Softball Nominees (Part 1)
It’s time to get started on what we call all-state season at Cal-Hi Sports. It’s actually the third one for each year following January for football and April for boys & girls basketball. June is baseball and softball and we begin with the list of initial nominees for the 36th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state softball […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
It’s easy to see that both of our honorees for baseball this week will be first team all-state pitchers at the end of the season. They’ve both been simply mowing down opposing hitters. One of our two even had a no-hitter that was his second no-hitter of the year. For softball, we are introducing a […]
