Southern California once again shows its the best in the nation for prep baseball as state No. 1 Orange Lutheran and No. 2 Harvard-Westlake both get to the finals of the National High School Invitational. The Lancers won 6-2 to stay No. 1 with the Wolverines staying No. 2. There are a lot of changes...
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NEW Baseball State Top 25
With previous No. 1 Harvard-Westlake taking a tie, we’ve determined that if either Cypress, Orange Lutheran or Huntington Beach wins the title in this week’s SoCal portion of the Boras Classic then that team should essentially be the No. 1 team in the state. That’s why those three are now No. 1, No. 2 and...
NEW Baseball State Top 20
The earlier start to the 2019 season has been hampered by a lot of rainouts, especially in Northern California, but this upcoming week should really get things going. We’re sticking with preseason No. 1 Harvard-Westlake as the state No. 1 even though that isn’t a consensus No. 1 for Southern California. We have our reasons...
Inside The All-State Football Team
After splitting the watch list for some of the most promising freshmen in the state into a separate post last week, this final installment of our annual all-state football series of posts includes our pick for most inspirational player of the year. We also have a look at year two of competitive equity seeding and...
Preseason Softball State Top 25
The season has actually already begun for a few teams in the CIF Southern Section plus the L.A. City and Central Sections. For the state rankings, the No. 1 team to start shouldn’t be much of a surprise due to the returning players at defending CIFSS D1 champion Norco. There’s also the usual powerhouse squads […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
We usually like to get these out before Friday afternoon, but here’s another edition of this weekly feature that tracks the most amazing single-game football performances every week in California. We have a couple of freshmen we had to include for this report, we explain why we don’t consider Mac Bingham of Torrey Pines as...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
JSerra does indeed move up after suffering a loss since it was by just 35-28 to a St. John Bosco team that is No. 2 in these state rankings but is No. 1 in some national lists. Other moves completed included St. Francis of Mountain View up to No. 13, Narbonne of Harbor City up...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
Corona Centennial edges in front of De La Salle for the third spot this week and it will likely stay that way until the CIF Southern Section D1 semifinals. Buchanan of Clovis, the team partly responsible for the switch, also gets a reward from No. 20 up to No. 17 in anticipation of its showdown...
Preseason All-State FB Teams
We have two squads selected with 30 players each. Defending CIF Open Division champion Mater Dei leads the way with seven who’ve been named with St. John Bosco and Cajon of San Bernardino both checking in with three. Other schools with more than one player chosen are Orange Lutheran, De La Salle, Jesuit of Carmichael, […]
Preseason Orange County FB Team
Mater Dei hasn’t always been this dominant, but now in the “transfer era” the football program has taken off and is clearly among the best in the nation, rivaling only St. John Bosco in California, and with no end in sight. The Monarchs start out 2018 with 11 players on this preseason 30-man All-Orange County...
