California of Whittier didn’t win a CIF Southern Section title and didn’t win a CIF SoCal regional title, but if you find out what Condors’ head coach Jason Ramirez has gone through over the past two seasons with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) there’s no doubt this major coaching honor is very much deserved. He’s also […]
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FINAL State Softball Ranks (Divisions)
Top-ranked teams in each division have already been written up, but here now also are the final rankings for each division. Like the overall State TOP 40, these also go into our archives of final state softball rankings that go back for more than 35 years. Teams coming up at the end include Benicia (D2),...
Gahr Had Own Story To Write In Final
With two outs and nobody on in the bottom of the seventh and trailing 4-3, the Gladiators staged a rally to beat California of Whittier, 5-4, in the CIF Southern Section D2 championship on Saturday. It spoiled what would have been a sentimental win of epic proportions for California, which has been led the past […]
NEW Softball State TOP 35 Rankings
We’re doing softball first this week since we had CIF Southern Section playoff brackets out on Saturday and we had to wait until they were put out for baseball on Monday. Top eight teams remain same, led by No. 1 St. Francis of Mountain View. Mater Dei Catholic returns to the first 25 while the...
NEW Softball State TOP 35 Rankings
Michelle Carew Classic results had a major impact on this week’s rankings with upsets to four of the top 10 teams coming in. Previous No. 2 St. Francis of Mountain View or previous No. 3 Norco were not among them and naturally move up to No. 1 and No. 2. The longtime rival of St....
More State Softball Coaches of the Year
In addition to overall State Coach of the Year Jim Bennet of Poway, we have additional state coaching honors for the 2022 season going to Jason Ramirez from California of Whittier (medium schools) and Melissa Snyder of Holtville (small schools).
