The most difficult teams to rank at the end were the double-digit loss teams from Patrick Henry of San Diego and Santa Margarita of Rancho Santa Margarita. They’re both in the final top 10 but not top five. De La Salle also rises to third with Granite Hills fourth and Huntington Beach getting fifth. We...
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De La Salle 7th inning rally beats Serra
A baseball team scoring three times in the bottom of the seventh inning to win a major title like the CIF NorCal D1 championship is pretty incredible, but compared to the other two times that the De La Salle of Concord baseball team rallied to win NorCal titles in the last four years what happened […]
State Coach of Year: Corrigan Willis
There hadn’t been a State Coach of the Year from the East Bay region of the CIF North Coast Section from 2011 until last year. But now it’s two in a row as Granada of Livermore’s Corrigan Willis follows De La Salle’s David Jeans after his team had one of the greatest seasons a team […]
State Coach of Year: David Jeans
With two straight CIF Northern California D1 regional titles and six straight CIF North Coast Section D1 titles, the time is right to get De La Salle of Concord’s David Jeans onto the all-time state list of State Coaches of the Year in baseball. He’s just the seventh all-time from the East Bay portion of […]
Tripaldi slam gives DLS historic win
A grand slam in the top of the seventh inning by junior Hank Tripaldi (who just lost his mother to cancer) caps a six-run rally to lift De La Salle of Concord to its second straight dramatic win in its second straight CIF NorCal baseball final. With the 11-8 defeat, state No. 2 Valley Christian […]
De La Salle: Baseball State Team of Year
It wasn’t like the more dominant team of 2019, but this year’s baseball team at De La Salle of Concord won the first CIF NorCal D1 title in dramatic fashion over previous state No. 1 St. Francis of Mountain View and gets the school’s second State Team of the Year honor in four years. Other […]
Fifth Straight NCS Title For De La Salle
The Spartans came from behind with two runs in the seventh to get a tie and won it in the ninth, 9-6, over Foothill of Pleasanton in CIF North Coast Section Division 1 final. They’ve now won five section titles in a row and kept the streak going after a two-year break due to the […]
Baseball: Preseason State TOP 25
The first three teams have begun 1-0, but schools outside of the CIF Southern Section haven’t started yet for the 2022 season. Call these preseason or the first ones, but for our state rankings (that have been done every season for nearly 40 years) they will serve as a starting point. Harvard-Westlake, Orange Lutheran & […]
Thousand Oaks: Baseball Team of Year
With no State Team of the Year selection possible in 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic, there’s a new entry now listed for 2021 and for the third straight time it’s a team that ended its season with 29 wins. This time, it’s 29-1 Thousand Oaks, which is similar in some ways to 29-1 De […]
NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Ranks
Get used to these new state baseball rankings coming out on Mondays for the rest of the spring season. While section playoffs won’t be happening in Northern California, we found out Monday morning that they will happen for most of Southern California. For this week’s rankings, Thousand Oaks stays on top for the second straight...
