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...
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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...
FINAL State Softball TOP 40 Rankings
As is our custom, we expand the final rankings at the end of the season and unlike a computer we explain why each move is made. These also are the rankings that go into our archives that include final rankings in California high school softball for more than 40 years. Big moves had to be...
State Softball/Baseball Players of Week
It gets tricky in these last weeks of the school year as we avoid choosing anyone who might be playing his/her final game on the day they are honored. We still can find very strong candidates with that restriction and this week have found them in San Diego and Sherman Oaks for Southern California plus […]
Boys BB: More State Players of the Year
Congratulations to all of the Cal-Hi Sports 2025 top honorees for juniors, sophomores and freshmen and for each CIF division with Open & D1 combined. The CIF Southern Section captures all four of the class-by-class honors, but only has one winner for the CIF divisions....
NEW Boys BB State TOP 30 Rankings
As the NorCal and SoCal regional playoffs begin this week, we run down the first round matchups in our latest State Top 30 boys basketball rankings. CIF Central Section D1 champ St. Joseph gets the No. 2 seed in SoCal open, but that doesn’t mean it moved up to No. 2 in the state. It...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 30 Rankings
For the second consecutive week, there is plenty of change in the bottom half of the latest State Top 30 boys basketball rankings, and once again it’s the results of the CIFSS D1 playoffs that have teams shuffling around. There is also a new state No. 1 after Harvard-Westlake goes down for the first time...
NEW Hot 100 Class of ’26 Player Ranks
Our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club VIPs rolls on with a look at the state’s top college prospects in each class. We just published our 2025 Hot 100 for seniors and now we take a look at the Hot 100 juniors (2026), which has the best crop of players at the top since at...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 30 Rankings
We do this week’s State Top 30 boys basketball rankings thinking about all those affected by the devastating SoCal wildfires. A handful of games were canceled and some won’t be played this week, but a vast majority of SoCal teams play on. Mater Dei of Santa Ana is back in the Top 20 after one...
