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SportStars NorCal Baseball Rankings | March 21
Head-To-Head Wins Among Top Teams Both Simplifies And Complicates Our First NorCal Baseball Rankings In Two Weeks • NorCal Baseball Rankings All records are through Monday, March 20 (via MaxPreps). Previous rank is in parenthesis. PICTURED ABOVE: Junior Outfielder Tatum Marsh Of No. 2 Valley Christian-San Jose. (Ike Dodson... Read more
SportStars NorCal Softball Rankings | March 16
It’s Been A Wet March So Far, But That Didn’t Keep The NorCal Softball Rankings From Seeing Quite A Bit Of Change • NorCal Softball Rankings All records are through Monday, March 15 (via MaxPreps). Previous rank is in parenthesis. PICTURED ABOVE: Emma French of No. 6 Benicia. (Chace... Read more
SportStars’ Preseason NorCal Softball Rankings
No More Jessica Oakland Or Sydney Stewart, But St. Francis-Mountain View Will Top Preseason NorCal Softball Rankings Nonetheless • PICTURED ABOVE: Lexi O’Gorman Of No. 1 St. Francis Slides Safety Into Third Base During A Livermore Stampede Semifinal With No. 4 Sheldon-Sacramento Last April. (Chace Bryson photo) As things... Read more
Youth Movement | Marin Catholic Softball Has A Plan
Marin Catholic Softball Nearly Pulled Off An NCS Title Run With Just Two Seniors In 2022 — This Season The Roster Is Even Younger, But No Less Dangerous • PICTURED ABOVE: Key Sophomores For The Wildcats This Season Will Includes (Left To Right) Selena Pena, Anya Jaroszewski and Lindsay... Read more
High End Returns | Whitney Baseball Is Running It Back
Rocklin’s Whitney Baseball Begins 2023 As The Sac-Joaquin Section’s Top Team After Bringing Back Just About Everyone From Its 28-Win Team • Whitney High is playing baseball with boomerangs. Everything comes back — including 2022 Sac-Joaquin Section championship coach and Whitney baseball alum Jackson Watt. Also back, nearly every... Read more
SportStars’ Preseason NorCal Baseball Rankings
Defending NorCal Div. I Champion De La Salle Begins 2023 Atop Our Preseason NorCal Baseball Rankings — With The WCAL In Hot Pursuit • PICTURED ABOVE: Senior Cal Randall Of No. 1 De La Salle. (Ike Dodson photos) As things transition from scrimmage to nonleague games during the last... Read more
SportStars’ Bay Area 75 Athlete Rankings 2022 | Nos. 50-26
Our 10th Annual Bay Area 75 Athlete Rankings Honoring The Top High School Athletes From The ’21-’22 School Year Continues With Nos. 50-26 • PICTURED ABOVE: No. 49 Makayla Winchell of Granada-Livermore (Chace Bryson photo) Welcome to our tenth annual Bay Area 75 rankings — SportStars’ countdown of the... Read more
SportStars’ Bay Area 75 Athlete Rankings 2022 | Nos. 25-1
Our 10th Annual Bay Area 75 Athlete Rankings Honoring The Top High School Athletes From The ’21-’22 School Year Concludes With Nos. 25-1 • PICTURED ABOVE: No. 16 Talana Lepolo of Carondelet-Concord (Chace Bryson photo) Welcome to our tenth annual Bay Area 75 rankings — SportStars’ countdown of the... Read more
SportStars’ Bay Area 75 Athlete Rankings 2022 | Nos. 75-51
Our 10th Annual Bay Area 75 Athlete Rankings Honoring The Top High School Athletes From The Recently Completed School Year Begins With Nos. 75-51 • PICTURED ABOVE: No. 74 Jamai East of Vanden-Fairfield (Dennis Lee photo) Welcome to our tenth annual Bay Area 75 rankings — SportStars’ countdown of... Read more
2021-22 Yearbook Special Edition Cover Vote
VOTE: From July 5-16, Readers Can Choose Between Six Of Our Favorite ’21-’22 Images To Determine The Yearbook Special Edition Cover • With our recently released June/July Digital Issue, we essentially wrapped up the 2022 spring season with our All-NorCal Baseball/Softball honors. And now we’re preparing for our annual... Read more
SportStars 2022 All-NorCal Baseball Team
This 32-Player All-NorCal Baseball Team Features National Leaders In Both Home Runs And Pitching Wins From This Season • PICTURED ABOVE: From left to right, Palo Alto’s Henry Bolte, McClatchy-Sacramento’s Malcolm Moore and Woodcreek-Roseville’s Braeden Sloan. (Palo Alto Baseball/Twitter; USA Baseball; David Gershon photos) Baseball was all the way... Read more
SportStars’ 2022 All-NorCal Softball Team
Led By Player Of The Year, Jess Oakland, These Are The 32 Players We’ve Selected As Our 2022 All-NorCal Softball Team • PICTURED ABOVE: From left to right, Tianna Bell (Heritage-Brentwood), Jess Oakland (St. Francis-Mountain View) and D’Auna Johnson (Sheldon-Sacramento). Every section got to play its first full season... Read more