(Click Arrows to See More Photos on home page) For the first time, top-ranked baseball teams in the CIF Southern Section can lose a in an early-round playoff game and not have the season end. Those are the teams, including four of the first five in our state rankings, that will be in the new...
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Boys BB: More State Players of the Year
Presented by new partners Brite Legacy, congratulations to all of the Cal-Hi Sports 2026 top honorees for juniors, sophomores and freshmen and for each CIF division with Open & D1 combined. The CIF Southern Section sweeps all of the class-by-class honors, but the CIF Central Section gets two of the four according to divisions.
NEW Softball State TOP 25 Rankings
The first six teams from last week stay the same, led by No. 1 Murrieta Mesa. The Livermore Stampede causes changes after that as the host school wins the title for just the second time and shoots up into the top 10 of this week’s rankings. One of four newcomers this week, Alameda, also comes...
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...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 30 Rankings
We finally reached week where there are major changes in our weekly boys basketball state rankings with the No. 2 and No. 3 teams both going down in the ultra-competitive CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs. Both can still come back, however, in the CIF SoCal regional playoffs. We have plenty of movement involving those...
Baseball Preseason State TOP 35
We have 45 years of final baseball state rankings in our archives and we’re beginning the 46th season with a similar theme as the 45th. That’s with a very strong favorite at the top of the state. The team that was in that spot last year, though, wasn’t No. 1 at the end. Can St. […]
Preseason Boys BB Ranks (1-15)
It’s time to launch our winter basketball content on CalHiSports.com and we’ll do it with our preseason boys basketball state rankings. There are three big questions heading into the 2025-26 season, one being how good Sherman Oaks Notre Dame will be without Tyran Stokes? The second is how many spots did that team deserve to […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (26-50)
This group is now led by Manteca at No. 26. Highest risers include Central East of Fresno (up three), Crean Lutheran of Irvine (up four) and Carlsbad (up six). We also have four newcomers this week since there were two weeks of results to go over. They are Corona del Mar of Newport Beach, Notre...
Preseason Ventura/San Fernando Valley
Our next to last stop on our tour of the state through preseason individual honor teams is for the San Fernando Valley/Ventura County area with a couple of players from Santa Barbara County included. This also wraps all five regions that we break it up for in the massive CIF Southern Section. Sierra Canyon continues...
All-State Softball Frosh Watch List
Just like baseball, we’ve found in softball that there’s just too many top prospects/players from top programs that have not yet done that much on the high school level for there to be an actual all-state team for freshmen. We still like to provide a look at top freshman softball players around the state from...
