It’s not the usual when we honor players from highly-ranked teams, instead looking to highlight those from smaller and medium-size programs, but this week it was impossible for the two baseball honorees not to be pitchers from Valley Christian of San Jose in the north and Maranatha of Pasadena in the south. For softball, we […]
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Softball: 1st ever Hot 100 Player Ranks
Partly as a result of the season getting shut down and our intention to provide extra coverage for spring sports athletes, for the first time we are adding Hot 100 player rankings for softball, specifically focusing on the Class of 2020. We also found the perfect person to do it, longtime Southern California softball analyst...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
One of our four honorees for this week is the younger sister of 2018 State Baseball Junior Player of the Year Dawson Netz of Pasadena Maranatha. And little sis is putting up some monster pitching-hitting totals for the early going of this season. Our three other writeups recognize the skills of baseball players from San […]
Baseball Scoreless Innings Streak Record Update
Alameda High’s Max Nyrop pitches in team’s first game of 2019 season and sees consecutive scoreless innings streak end at 57 1/3 innings. Hornets later defeated Tokay of Lodi 7-5 in a Tracy tourney contest. After pitching around errors in both the first and second innings, Alameda senior pitcher Max Nyrop couldn’t do it in […]
More Baseball Players of the Year
Both Dawson Netz of Pasadena Maranatha and Tyson Heaton of Yucaipa were strongly considered for two separate honors. We don’t have ties or co-players of the year so we did the next best thing. We picked them both. Netz is netting State Junior of the Year recognition while Heaton is gaining the State Medium Schools […]
Baseball: State Record Update
We have not one but two of our Cal-Hi Sports State Players of the Year in baseball who are among the all-time leaders in the state record category of most consecutive scoreless innings by a pitcher.
More Baseball State Teams of Year
In addition to overall No. 1 and Division I No. 1 Valley Christian of San Jose, others that can say they are mythical state champions for 2018 are Alameda (Division II), Maranatha of Pasadena (D3), Winters (D4) and Pasadena Poly (D5).
