Jared Jones of La Mirada and Jonathan Cymrot of San Jose Valley Christian gain honors for their classes for the second straight year while this year’s medium schools and small schools winners ended up both being from the CIF Northern Section. That’s only happened one other time in state history. Plus, we have a State […]
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NEW Baseball State Top 25 Rankings
After previous No. 1 Orange Lutheran was stunned by a three-run seventh-inning rally in a loss to Harvard-Westlake in the CIF Southern Section D1 quarterfinals, a new No. 1 needed to be declared for this week. Go inside to see all of our reasons why the new No. 1 is De La Salle of Concord....
State Stat Stars of the Week
It’s a week of milestone acheivements highlighted in this feature, including a girl who has notched her 200th career hit, a boy who has gone past 400 career strikeouts and a baseball coach with his 500th win. We also have a no-hitter for La Mirada baseball but maybe not by the pitcher you’re first thinking...
Baseball: Preseason State Top 25
The earliest start for all sports in the CIF state calendar continues since some teams in the CIF Southern Section are scheduled for non-scrimmage baseball games this weekend. We’ll have to start the state rankings in spring sports earlier than ever as well (watch for softball next week) and are beginning today in baseball. This […]
All-State Baseball: Underclass
The second of four posts announcing the 37th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Teams focuses on the underclassmen. These are the best of the best for juniors, sophomores and freshmen. It’s harder for the younger players grouped with the juniors, but some sophomores broke through and we also have listed our State Freshman of the...
More Baseball Players of the Year
Both Dawson Netz of Pasadena Maranatha and Tyson Heaton of Yucaipa were strongly considered for two separate honors. We don’t have ties or co-players of the year so we did the next best thing. We picked them both. Netz is netting State Junior of the Year recognition while Heaton is gaining the State Medium Schools […]
All-State Baseball Nominees (Part 1)
Welcome to the first step toward selection of the 37th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Teams. Current New York Yankees stars Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, C.C. Sabathia and Aaron Hicks were all on these teams in the past. These nominees are grouped according to each CIF section in the state. It’s not a final list. […]
NEW Baseball State Top 20
There’s a new No. 1 team in California baseball for the third straight week as Harvard-Westlake’s dominance of the tough Mission League pulls it in front of previous No. 1 Huntington Beach, which lost a game last week to Fountain Valley. There are also four new teams ranked this week, including defending CIF Southern Section...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Sometimes we just have to include a Monday game for this feature and we have this week with Palm Desert’s Sydney Sprinkle, who did more than sprinkle a few runs batted in during a game with Shadow Hills. We also have chosen two others with huge power numbers — one softball player from Oakland and […]
Updated All-State Baseball Nominees
Nearly 100 more names have been put on the list since the first one went out plus additional other fixes have been done. We’re now switching into selection mode for the various Cal-Hi Sports all-state teams, which for baseball will mark the 36th year of the honors. It’s never too late to send in a...
