In a championship game matchup on Saturday at Peralta Park in Anaheim, state No. 3 Cougars took down No. 2 Fullerton, 7-0, as their pitching all week was dominant. The Indians, who got past Orange Lutheran in the semifinals earlier on Saturday, had to rest their No. 1 pitcher and Norco’s bats got going, especially […]
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NEW State Baseball TOP 35 Rankings
(Click Arrows to See More Photos on home page) It’s a busy week starting Monday across the state as several major Easter week tournaments will be held, including the National Classic in Orange County, the Mike Morrow Lions tourney in San Diego and the Boras Baseball All-Star Classic in Northern California. The biggest games, though,...
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 […]
FINAL State TOP 75 FB Ranks (26-75)
As is our custom, we expand the final rankings out to 75 teams instead of just doing a bubble list. CIF state title game results also helped some other teams come up at the end, including Serra of San Mateo, Clovis and Los Gatos. We also had to figure out where best to place CIF...
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
There’s two weeks of performances to catch up with this time. We lead off with the 15th coach in state history to reach 300 career wins, then go over where Newbury Park’s Brady Smigiel will likely end up on various career passing lists now that unfortunately his season is over with a knee injury. We...
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
Thirteen of the 15 CIF state championship teams from last season have already lost this season, which means that St. Vincent de Paul of Petaluma and Sonora also are the two teams with the longest current win streaks. We also highlight a Central Section QB with seven TD passes in one game last week, eight...
More Softball Players of the Year
Two of these honorees — Ayla Tuua for juniors and Coral Williams for sophomores — also were both close to being the Ms. Softball State Player of the Year. The freshman winner is another one coming up from the Inland Empire while the medium schools and small schools top honors are going to the Northern […]
More Baseball State Players of the Year
Norco lands the State Freshman of the Year honor for the second straight year, but the winner from last year was edged out as the State Sophomore of the Year. We also had to make a difficult call for State Junior of the Year among three strong candidates. In addition, we have State Medium Schools […]
Norco: State Softball Team of Year
For the third time since 2012, the Norco High softball team has been officially added to the all-time list of State Teams of the Year that extends back to 1974. The Cougars didn’t play in the CIF regional championships, but already had put together a strong enough resume to finish No. 1 after winning the […]
NEW State Softball TOP 25 Rankings
With just one week to go, the No. 1 ranking is locked up by virtue of Norco winning the CIF Southern Section D1 championship. Opting out of this week’s regionals doesn’t make a difference. The rest of the order, however, is up for grabs with no major opt outs in the north. Will it be...
