With annual selection of high school players for the MLB Draft now proposed to be stopped by the league itself, we thought about all of the high schoolers from California who’ve been selected in the first round since the draft began in 1965. Here’s a ranking of the top 12 of those players plus a...
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All-State Baseball Nominees (SoCal)
Marching on toward the eventual selection of the 44th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Teams, it’s time to present this first, massive list of nominees on our board from the CIF L.A. City Section, CIF San Diego Section and CIF Southern Section. Just as with the previously posted lists of nominees from Northern California, we […]
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 […]
State Baseball/Softball Players of Week
One of those being singled out this week is from a high school in Santa Clara while another is from parochial school Santa Clara of Oxnard. Both of those are softball players. Our visits this week in baseball, meanwhile, are to San Diego for Southern California and Sutter Creek in Amador County for Northern California. […]
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
(Click Arrows to See More Photos on home page) St. John Bosco beats Orange Lutheran in two of three games as No. 1 state ranking flips for a second week. Those two could play again this week in Boras Classic for Southern California. The Boras for NorCal was held last week with St. Mary’s of...
Girls BB All-State Nominees (SoCal)
We still have our first draft list of all-state girls hoops nominees to get out into the space. This list covers the CIF sections in Southern California (not including the Central Section). This will be the 47th year of the annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State teams for girls basketball. Yes, we started doing the girls with […]
NEW State Baseball TOP 35 Rankings
(Click Arrows to See More Photos) Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks moves up to second behind No. 1 St. John Bosco after another strong week. We also have big rises for unbeatens Cathedral Catholic of San Diego (now in top 15) and Thousand Oaks (now in top 20). Bakersfield Christian also is now highest-ranked from...
Friday CIF State Football Finals
On an incredibly foggy night in Mission Viejo with its All-American quarterback sidelined with an injury, Folsom had no trouble putting down Cathedral Catholic of San Diego in the CIF D1-AA state championship. It’s the sixth CIF state title for the program, which is now one away from the state record. It also became a […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
With the CIF Open Division state final not until Saturday of this week, the main changes to this week’s next-to-last rankings of the season are at No. 9 where Folsom moves up one spot and then a few places further down there is upward movement for Cathedral Catholic, Central East of Fresno and Pacifica of...
