In one of those kind of baseball weeks in which most of the top teams takes a loss (some more than one), De La Salle of Concord moves back to the same position it ended in the final state rankings from 2022. Santa Margarita also surges up to second after its three-game sweep of Orange...
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All-State Baseball: Underclass
This is the first of four posts announcing the 40th annual edition of the Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Teams (without one year due to COVID). This one highlights the best of the best among juniors, sophomores and freshmen. Looking over names, it also stands out how strong teams like Villa Park, JSerra of San Juan...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
For this week’s award winners, our two stops in Southern California are in Sherman Oaks and West Covina and then we head north to Elk Grove before we end up in the Central Valley town of Caruthers. For our SoCal softball honoree there was a solid candidate from the Michelle Carew Classic winning Canyon team, […]
All-State Baseball: 2nd & 3rd Teams
The 38th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state teams selections for baseball concludes with 30 players named second team overall and more than 40 more who are third team. Any player from any school regardless of class or school size can be on second team. The third team, however, is only for seniors and only for large...
NEW State Baseball Top 25 Ranks
In a difficult week to do rankings since eight of the top 10 teams from last week all lost at least once, the team we’re moving to No. 1 is previous No. 2 Orange Lutheran. Getting a win over Cypress (No. 1 last week) and still having just three losses overall is the difference. The...
All-State Baseball Nominees (Part 2)
It’s time to start getting really serious about the 37th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state baseball honors, which are now just a few days from the first teams being released. This list of nominees is once again grouped according to CIF sections, but has been updated from Part 1. We thank everyone who contributed information. It...
NEW Baseball State Top 20
Valley Christian back up to No. 3 but that’s also the team’s seeding in the goofed up, nonsensical world of the CIF Central Coast Section Open Division playoff pairings. Others coming up include La Mirada (now in the top five), Palm Desert (now in the top 10) and El Toro (back in at No. 14...
Baseball, Softball State Rank Updates
It’s been less than one week since the last State Top 20s were done, but the weekend created mass changes. Los Gatos leads a group of five newcomers in baseball and goes in all the way up at No. 11. Softball is even more crazy with seven new teams, including two San Diego Section teams […]
Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
Long Beach Poly shocks SoCal with win over No. 4 Mission Viejo, but the only other State Top 25 team from last week to lose to a lower-ranked foe is No. 25 Clovis. You can now vote too to help determine next week’s highest-rising newcomer.