We had two QBs in Southern California that threw for seven touchdowns in a game last week, so we had to pick one of them for the SoCal Offensive Player of the Week honor. That’s the way it goes sometimes when there are no ties in team rankings or individual honors and haven’t been in […]
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State Coach of the Year: Katie Stith
Daughter of legendary travel ball coach Mike Stith of OC Batbusters fame has been the head coach at JSerra of San Juan Capistrano for eight years and now gains the highest California high school coaching honor. Her team has been setting school records the past two seasons, including a victory over Norco in this year’s […]
Softball: FINAL Ranks By Divisions
All five of the No. 1 teams have already been announced, but three of them were not No. 1 in these divisions at the start of the CIF regional playoffs. A few of the CIF regional winners also made giant moves at the end, including Hanford West in D3 and Escalon in D4. We have...
More Softball State Teams of Year
State Team of the Year honors for the 2026 softball season also are going out this week for the four other CIF based playoff divisions. We have done teams of the year in five divisions for many years and these mythical honors considered all teams that played in CIF section playoffs (including those that opted […]
FINAL Girls BB All-State Noms
With all of our players and coaches of the year for boys and girls basketball now out, next up will be for us to finalize all of our nominees for all of our various girls all-state teams. The final boys list already was completed. Here’s the girls. We’ll now start picking all of the all-state...
Softball Preseason State TOP 25
We have done softball state rankings back to 1985 and are beginning 2026 with a familiar name at the top. That’s a few years longer than Rick Robinson has been coaching in the sport and his squad at Norco looks loaded as the season gets going. A few teams may have already played a game […]
All-State Softball 2025: First Team
Final state No. 1 and No. 2 teams Norco and Del Oro (Loomis) both land two players on this elite first team that wraps up our 42nd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Softball teams. Oak Ridge of El Dorado Hills and Poway also both have two first teamers. Go inside this free post for a look […]
State Coach of Year: Sean Erickson
Back in January, a 30-day break from social media helped the Del Oro of Loomis softball team come together for the 2025 season. The school’s longtime head coach, Sean Erickson, is now the 2025 State Coach of the Year after the Golden Eagles went 31-2 and won the CIF NorCal D1 championship. FOR THIS YEAR’S […]
State No. 1 Falls in SJS Softball Final
Oak Ridge of El Dorado Hills wins its third straight CIF Sac-Joaquin Section D1 softball championship with a 3-2 triumph on Saturday over Del Oro of Loomis. That is the same Del Oro that was sitting at No. 1 in the state and was looking to complete its season with a 32-1 record and a […]
NEW State Softball TOP 25 Rankings
We were going to skip one week of softball rankings due a spring football event we covered on Sunday plus we need to finish up the girls basketball all-state teams. We had to do an update, however, since there is a new No. 1 team plus other changes further down due to wild-and-wacky league races...
