For the third time since 2012, the Norco High softball team has been officially added to the all-time list of State Teams of the Year that extends back to 1974. The Cougars didn’t play in the CIF regional championships, but already had put together a strong enough resume to finish No. 1 after winning the […]
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Coral helps Norco corral another title
Sophomore pitcher Coral Williams plus big production from the bottom of the batting order leads state No. 1 Cougars to triumph over El Modena of Orange in CIF Southern Section D1 softball championship on Saturday in Irvine. It also avenged an earlier loss to the Vanguards from the Dave Kops TOC in Arizona. We hope […]
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 Softball State TOP 25 Rankings
A tie causes a slight change in the first six spots of this week’s rankings. There also were several key Monday games already counted, such as Murrieta Mesa over Beaumont and Marina of Huntington Beach over Edison. We already know as well a lot of Tuesday games were called off with wet weather across the...
NEW State TOP 35 Softball Rankings
All teams statewide that can be in CIF section playoffs are now in them this week. One of them, for the Central Coast Section, will conduct three rounds of games in four days this week. As Norco continues to be No. 1 in the state, biggest movers this week are Upland (up from No. 13...
Softball Schools of Century (So Far)
Going by a points system based on final state top 20 rankings since the 1999-2000 school year and matching previous posts for schools of the century (so far) plus girls basketball and baseball, here’s the list for softball. The No. 1 slot belonging to Norco isn’t a surprise, but it also ended up that the...
State Athlete of Year: Sarah Willis
Even though her senior season in softball was cut way short by the Coronavirus pandemic, Norco’s Sarah Willis did more than enough in her two sports of softball and basketball to earn overall girls state athlete of the year honors. She’s the first from the Inland Empire to be named in nearly 30 years and […]
Baseball/Softball Coaching Milestones
There were only a handful of games in many instances due to the Coronavirus pandemic shutdown, but we have just updated the all-time state coaching wins lists for baseball and softball through the 2020 season. Despite the few games played, we still had a new baseball coach reach 700 wins, another with a 600th win […]
All-Decade Softball 2010s: Honors
We’ll have a separate post coming on Friday containing the actual all-decade all-state softball teams for the 2010s, but for this first announcement we’re taking care of the major awards: State Player of the Decade, State Coach of the Decade, State Team of the Decade and State Game of the Decade. Norco actually could have […]
Ms. Softball 2019: Kinzie Hansen
In another of the closest selections ever, the Norco High catcher edges out two others to collect the state’s longest-running individual softball honor. She is the fourth from Norco to be Ms. Softball this decade and is only the second catcher now on the all-time list. In the end, despite the accomplishments of the five […]
