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More Softball Players of the Year

Two of these honorees — Ayla Tuua for juniors and Coral Williams for sophomores — also were both close to being the Ms. Softball State Player of the Year. The freshman winner is another one coming up from the Inland Empire while the medium schools and small schools top honors are going to the Northern […]

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FINAL State Softball Division Rankings

We only had one No. 1 team from the next-to-last division state rankings that lost and had to drop. There are two new No. 2 teams — Hillsdale of San Mateo in D3 and Orcutt Academy in D5 — and there were others that were given solid bumps for the final rankings. That list includes...

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More Softball State Teams of Year

State Team of the Year honors for the 2025 softball 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 […]

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NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)

The highest rising newcomer compared to the previous rankings is unbeaten Simi Valley, especially after its win two weeks ago vs St. Bonaventure. Also new is Downey, Long Beach Millikan, San Jacinto and Yorba Linda. Up five spots from last time is Rocklin and St. Mary’s of Stockton. San Juan Hills is up six. TO...

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SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week

Over the years that we’ve been doing this feature, our final week of each school year has always been at the conclusion of the baseball/softball section playoffs, and that is this week. With the CIF Southern Section having concluded last weekend, we had to find our SoCal winners in the CIF Los Angeles City Section […]

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Preseason All-CCS Football Team

This is the final stop in our tour of California through various preseason all-section, all-county or all-area football teams. We planned for the CIF Central Coast Section to go last since its teams don’t start playing for one week later than the rest of the state. Serra of San Mateo is the leader with five...

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Girls BB All-State Nominations (NorCal)

This year will be the 42nd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams in girls basketball and just like the boys we get started with a list of nominations from the CIF sections in Northern California (including the Central Section). Some of these names are obvious, but for some gaining a nomination can be a just reward […]

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NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week

As the funnel narrows for teams still playing, our choices for winners in this feature becomes a little more difficult and also at this point of the season we don’t want to pick a player who may have lost in a season-ending game from the night before. That said, we do have four honorees this […]

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All-State FB 2019: 2nd & 3rd Teams

Releasing these teams on the same day as first team overall can tend to lessen the attention that these players receive, but we do it so people know right away which ones came the closest to first team. Still, these second team players are great in their own right and we know it’s almost a...

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Prep Notes With A Twist

An Open Division or national championship for California teams in a few sports? And the CIF letting California teams compete in it? Yes, we say it’s time to consider exactly that. Unless you like one-sided state finals…..Latest state record file update is for single-game receiving and we already have four this season who’ve gotten five...

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