With everyone playing on Tuesday this week, the final player of the week feature for this season has been done earlier. We also would have concluded the Player of the Week feature last week, but with the advent of the CIF Regional playoffs for the second year in the Southern Region and the first year […]
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Slugging Lineups Rule In SJS Softball
In back-to-back Division I and Division II championship games played on Saturday, power-packed batting orders from Sheldon of Sacramento and Del Oro of Loomis won CIF Sac-Joaquin Section softball titles and both may have stamped tickets for the top division in next week’s first-ever CIF Northern California regional playoffs. FOR A LOOK AT HOW EACH […]
NEW State TOP 25 Softball Rankings
There’s a shake-up in the top five as St. Francis (MV) returns to No. 2 after No. 1 Oaks Christian and Villa Park moves up to No. 4. One of the teams that caused the changes, Buchanan of Clovis, debuts this week up at No. 18. Strong weeks by Sheldon of Sacramento and Livermore also...
NEW Softball State TOP 25 Rankings
Monday games this week already have created some news as No. 1 Clovis North won a local tourney while Huntington Beach has shaken the order with a win over Los Alamitos in a Sunset Surf League contest. The big mover, of course, is new No. 4 Granada of Livermore after it captured the Livermore Stampede...
Granada Great at Stampede
Livermore school (the other one and not the host school) captures the Livermore Stampede softball tourney final and shakes up the Northern California pecking order just one week after the biggest tourney in Southern California did the same thing down there. Note: We hope you enjoy this free post on CalHiSports.com. All upcoming State TOP […]
Preseason Softball TOP 35 Teams
There are a few teams that have already started, but these rankings will serve as our starting point for the upcoming 2021 spring season. Perennial powerhouse Norco is sitting in the No. 1 position for the state despite nearby school Chino Hills landing a No. 1 national ranking. Those two will play each other, which […]
Schools With The Most All-State Players
Softball all-state selections don’t go back as many years as they do for other sports, but we do have a school with 23 all-state softball selections since 2003 and that’s Norco. The only schools close are both from Orange County — Mater Dei (Santa Ana) and Pacifica (Garden Grove). Pacifica actually has the same number […]
All-State BB: 2nd & 3rd Team
Here’s the place to see all of the writeups for those who are second team overall and third team overall on the 41st annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Boys Basketball Teams. The second team features two players from Etiwanda, some overlooked talents in terms of scholarship offers while there is at least one player from each...
NEW State Top 25 Boys BB Rankings
In one of the wildest weekends we can ever recall in covering boys basketball in our great state, NorCal No. 1 Sheldon is removed from the NorCal regional playoffs on Saturday by the closing of the Elk Grove Unified School District and its related activities for a week, only to see the same district ask...
State Roundup: Games Overshadowed
We wish we were writing about Corona High, Corona Centennial or Corona del Mar, but Saturday’s CIF regional semifinals in both boys and girls basketball were eclipsed in significance by off-the-court developments relating to the coronavirus outbreak. Two-time defending CIF NorCal Open Division champion Sheldon of Sacramento (boys) thought on Saturday that its season ended […]
