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 […]
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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...
De La Salle: 1st Baseball State TOY
It’s one of the toughest choices atop the final state rankings between De La Salle of Concord and Cypress, but if historical achievements are a factor (and it always has been in the 40 years of Cal-Hi Sports rankings) then the Spartans are getting the nod. This is the first time the school is being […]
NCS Baseball: De La Salle four-peat
We still have to announce the 2019 State Team of the Year, but No. 1 Spartans put themselves in prime position to be named for that honor in the next two days after defeating Heritage of Brentwood on Saturday in CIF North Coast Section Division I championship. Go inside this post to also check out […]
