For this week, we are doing the next-to-last divisional state rankings in softball BEFORE the Tuesday section playoff games and will be doing baseball AFTER those contests. There just aren’t that many games left in softball compared to baseball with all sections done except the Southern and North Coast. Top-ranked teams entering the final week...
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NEW Softball State Top 20
Loss by previous No. 2 Gahr not only screws up the CIF Southern Section Division I seedings, but also drops down the Gladiators in this week’s State Top 20. The other big move was to elevate Foothill of Pleasanton back up to No. 11 after it beat previous No. 11 Amador Valley behind ace pitcher...
NEW Softball State Top 20
The first 11 teams in these rankings stay put after all had strong weeks, but after that we have a lot of movement, including unbeaten Oakdale going from No. 18 to No. 13. Oaks Christian also jumps from No. 19 to No. 14. For the newcomers this week, we have three and they all went...
Hearlihy Wins Add Up: More Than 700
It’s been a strong season so far at Harvard-Westlake with a top four state ranking and on Thursday the Wolverines capped a perfect run through the super-tough Mission League. They’ll now head to the CIF Southern Section Open Division as a co-favorite with Windward of Los Angeles and they’ll do it with a head coach […]
More Softball Players of the Year
There were closer calls among several of the other State Player of the Year choices in softball this year than at the top, but in the end joining Ms. Softball Taylor Dockins of Norco as a statewide honoree are Megan Faraimo from San Diego Cathedral Catholic, Kinzie Hansen of Norco, Nicole May from Foothill of […]
More State Softball Coaches of Year
In addition to overall State Coach of the Year Mike Noel of Clovis, we have additional state coaching honors for the 2017 season going to J.J. Vaivao from Buena of Ventura and Flo Galindo from Village Christian of Sun Valley.
More Softball State Teams of Year
In addition to overall No. 1 Los Alamitos, others that can claim they are mythical state champions for 2017 are Camarillo (Division II), Buena of Ventura (D3), South of Torrance (D4) and Village Christian of Sun Valley (D5). We do try to look for teams outside of the CIF Southern Section, but couldn’t choose one […]
NEW Softball State Top 20
With one week to go in the regular season for almost all teams, there wasn’t much movement in this week’s new pecking order. Every team behind previous No. 8 Rio Mesa of Oxnard that didn’t lose last week was able to move up at least one spot. This week’s lone newcomer ended up being another...
NEW Softball State Top 20
One mighty swing of the bat by Ventura Buena’s Jenessa Ullegue causes a lot of changes in this week’s rankings since her swing gave the Bulldogs a 1-0 win over Rio Mesa in the title game of the Thousand Oaks tourney. Rio Mesa was No. 5 in last week’s pecking order coming into that game....
