It’s time to again take a tour of the state prior to the start of a football season through the selection of preseason football honor squads. We start again with Orange County of the CIF Southern Section where five of the six teams from the mighty Trinity League reside. Public school Mission Viejo, however, also...
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Baseball: All-State Underclass 2024
It’s time to start releasing the various teams for the 42nd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball honors. We begin with a new way of doing the all-state underclass teams and that’s doing the juniors and sophomores separately (just like football and basketball). We have a first and second team all-state for juniors and first team...
Baseball/Softball Coach Milestones 2024
State record coaching lists for baseball and softball have now all been updated through the 2024 season and here’s a look at the most significant milestone wins that were celebrated. For baseball, the milestone wins got going immediately with Monterey’s Michael Groves winning his 800th game. They continued with many more, including two from the […]
FINAL Softball State TOP 40 Ranks
Going through everything for one last ranking of the California 2024 softball season that will be the one that gets added to our all-time archives was fun, yet challenging. The first question was what to do with Amador Valley of Pleasanton, after its championship in the CIF NorCal D1 playoffs despite having 11 losses. We...
FINAL Baseball State TOP 40 Ranks
Granada of Livermore caps one of the greatest seasons by a team in NorCal history and while the Matadors can’t move up to No. 1 they do have to finish No. 2. La Mirada also uses a big win over Huntington Beach in the SoCal playoffs to earn a final top five ranking. Others coming...
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
There is one week to go in the 2024 season in California with the final No. 1 ranking now locked up by Corona. It’s still possible for changes after that, however, and we’ve made one this week with Granada of Livermore moving up to No. 2. Yes, the Matadors needed 14 innings to win their...
Pacifica Repeats As CIFSS Champion
Whether they play on in the CIF SoCal regionals is for another day, so for now we’ll recap a major milestone accomplishment for the Pacifica of Garden Grove softball team. The Mariners’ win on Friday over Orange Lutheran in the CIF Southern Section D1 title game capped a great season and at the minimum puts […]
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
We’re down to No. 1 Corona, No. 2 Orange Lutheran, No. 3 Harvard-Westlake and No. 7 Huntington Beach for the CIF Southern Section D1 title. Would any other teams have a chance to be final No. 1 if Huntington Beach is the one that wins the title? Granada of Livermore (just one loss) for sure...
Girls BB: Divisional All-State 2024
We roll on with honorees for the 45th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state girls basketball teams with those listed in the same six divisions in which this year’s CIF state championships were contested. Competitive equity seedings continues to make it more complicated placing players into various divisions, but the extra effort is worth it so the […]
NEW Softball State TOP 35 Rankings
It’s a big week for Orange County as Orange Lutheran, Pacifica (Garden Grove) and Canyon (Anaheim) have all moved up into the top five and OLu goes to third. Los Alamitos also rejoins the top 10 and Esperanza goes up nine spots. The big mover in Northern California is Whitney of Rocklin (up 10 spots)....
