Just like with Mr. Baseball, the State Junior of the Year honor also is claimed by a player who has reclassified and in the case of Norco’s Jordan Ayala he reclassified into the same class as a teammate who perhaps would have been Junior of the Year if he was still a sophomore. Highly ranked […]
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Baseball: State Ranks By Divisions
Here’s our first look at teams across the state placed into state rankings by divisions, which is what we have done since we began doing state baseball rankings in the early 1980s. The problem now, of course, is due to competitive equity playoff placements we have no idea which divisions to place teams in. We […]
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
(Click Arrows to See More Photos on home page) We have arrived at the next to last rankings of the season. St. John Bosco strengthens the No. 1 ranking after winning second straight CIF Southern Section D1 title, but the CIF didn’t do the Braves any favors in the first round of the SoCal regional...
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
(Click Arrows to See More Photos on home page) St. John Bosco stays on top but now it’s Norco at No. 2 with Harvard-Westlake at No. 3. St. Francis of Mountain View joins the top five & Cathedral Catholic also gets three-spot jump. This week’s newcomers are led by new No. 22 Ganesha of Pomona...
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
(Click Arrows on Home Page To See More Photos) The top state record updates this week would include Valley View of Moreno Valley’s Alyssa Torres reaching 60 career homers in softball, which is now tied for second in state history and is just four off the state record. Our exclusive state records also will have...
More Baseball State Teams of Year
State Team of the Year honors for the 2025 baseball season also are going out for the four other CIF based playoff divisions. We have done teams of the year in five divisions for. many years and these mythical honors considered all teams that played in CIF section playoffs (including those that opted out of […]
NEW State Softball TOP 25 Rankings
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...
FINAL State Softball Ranks (Divisions)
Top-ranked teams in each division have already been written up, but here now also are the final rankings for each division. Like the overall State TOP 40, these also go into our archives of final state softball rankings that go back for more than 35 years. Teams coming up at the end include Benicia (D2),...
