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...
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NEW State Softball TOP 25 Rankings
Tournament wins catapult Tracy from No. 16 to No. 10 and Oaks Christian from on the bubble to No. 18 in this week’s new state rankings. Del Oro also moves up to third after big win vs previous No. 3 Oak Ridge and now has an argument to be No. 1. Pacifica of Garden Grove...
NEW State Softball TOP 25 Rankings
Monday games when one is looking to do state rankings in two sports (baseball too) at the same time can be excruciating. It happened this week in softball when a Oak Ridge of El Dorado Hills team that was pegged to take over as the No. 1 team in these rankings was upset in a...
NEW State Softball TOP 25 Rankings
Norco moves back to the No. 1 ranking with dominance in almost every game this season except one. Oak Ridge of El Dorado Hills and St. Francis of Mountain View, meanwhile, are keeping Northern California near the top of the state. Highest ranked newcomers are Mater Dei Catholic of Chula Vista, El Segundo and Clovis...
NEW State Softball TOP 25
There’s much upheaval from the preseason as a lot of top teams from 2024 have not done well to start 2025. The new No. 1 is El Modena of Orange due to its championship two weekends ago at the Dave Kops TOC in Arizona, but good lord do the Vanguards have a tough schedule. They...
More 2023-24 Grid-Hoopers We Loved
In addition to the first 15 all-state grid-hoop players, here are nearly 60 others uncovered in our research that embodied the best of grid-hoop success. This honor roll includes the son of a prominent college football head coach and two brothers from a CIF state finalist football team. FOR THIS YEAR’S ALL-STATE FIRST, SECOND AND...
More Baseball State Players of the Year
Since the Mr. Baseball State POY honor went to a junior, there’s a Senior of the Year for this season and it’s the same player who led the Class of 2024 as a freshman, sophomore and junior. Corona also has landed the State Sophomore of the Year, which makes history for having the top junior […]
Salute to Larry Allen & Taylor Dockins
Two of the most inspirational athletes we’ve ever written about in the 45 plus years of Cal-Hi Sports both passed away earlier this week on the same day. If the all-time great NFL lineman Larry Allen ever met 2017 Ms. Softball State Player of the Year Taylor Dockins, he could probably lift two Taylors on […]
NEW Softball State TOP 35 Rankings
We’re doing softball first this week since we had CIF Southern Section playoff brackets out on Saturday and we had to wait until they were put out for baseball on Monday. Top eight teams remain same, led by No. 1 St. Francis of Mountain View. Mater Dei Catholic returns to the first 25 while the...
NEW Softball State TOP 35 Rankings
The first 12 teams from last week’s rankings are in the same positions as rainy weather once again causes cancellations of tournaments around the state. The biggest movers this week are Granada Hills Charter of the CIF L.A. City Section and Buchanan of Clovis from the CIF Central Section. Unbeaten Benicia makes its debut inside...
