New NorCal High School Baseball Rankings

Bulldog Blast | Bats Lead Alhambra Softball To First Win Since 2019

High School Baseball/Softball North Coast Section March 12, 2021 1

Behind A 13-Hit Assault, The Senior-Driven Alhambra Softball Team Topped Clayton Valley For The Program’s First Win In 22 Months For the Alhambra Softball team, a long year of waiting to play softball together again ended Tuesday, March 9. That was followed by a long 44 hours of waiting... Read more

High School Sports | A Spring For All Seasons

High School Baseball/Softball High School Football HS / CLUB Soccer March 5, 2021 0

Athletic Directors And League Commissioners Want Nothing More Than To See Kids Back Competing — But Getting To That Point Has Never Taken More Work. So are the administrators who make high school sports tick breathing a sigh of relief that sports are coming back? Only if by some... Read more

SportStories, Ep. 02 | Freedom Finishes The Business Trip

High School Baseball/Softball North Coast Section Podcasts February 24, 2021 0

Former Freedom Softball Players And Coaches Mark The Five-Year Anniversary Of The 2016 Team’s Inspiring Championship Run In Honor Of Slain Assistant Coach Scott Lunger Scott Lunger was the “good cop” on the Freedom High School varsity softball coaching staff. The Freedom softball players loved the good-natured humor that... Read more

2020 Taught Me… | Athletes & Coaches Reflect, Share Outlook For New Year

Central Coast Section High School Baseball/Softball High School Basketball High School Football High School Golf High School Sports Features North Coast Section Sac-Joaquin Section January 5, 2021 0

NorCal Athletes And Coaches Sound Off On What They Learned Over A Difficult Year, And Express Hope As We Start Anew • From the pandemic to social unrest, 2020 was a tidal wave that hit us all. Especially the world of high school athletics. Now that the water may... Read more

Who’s Got Next? | Readers Get Final 2020 SportStars Cover Choice

Central Coast Section High School Baseball/Softball High School Wrestling Pinned by TCW HS / CLUB Soccer North Coast Section Sac-Joaquin Section December 22, 2020 14

Vote On The Final 2020 SportStars Cover — What Image Should Represent An Issue Containing Our Favorite Work From A Frustrating Year Paired With A Hopeful Look Forward? So yeah, NorCal high school athletic programs are unlikely to remember 2020 with much fondness. We get it. However, SportStars worked... Read more

Elk Grove Baseball | EGHS Alums Lead Region’s Growing MLB Footprint

High School Baseball/Softball Sac-Joaquin Section August 19, 2020 0

Dylan Carlson’s MLB Debut Continues A Wave Of Elk Grove Baseball And Sacramento Region Talent Reaching The Bigs • While regional diamonds sit eerily quiet, Elk Grove baseball is leading a region that’s making noise at the highest level. Area stars, and Elk Grove High alumni in particular, are... Read more

’19-’20 Bay Area 75 Rankings, Part 3 | Nos. 25-1

Aquatics Central Coast Section High School Baseball/Softball High School Basketball High School Football High School Golf High School Wrestling Pinned by TCW North Coast Section Track & Field, Anchored by Youth Runner VOLLEYBALL — Served by NCVA Water Polo XC-Track-Running August 3, 2020 0

SportStars Magazine Counts Down The Bay Area’s Top 75 Athletes From 2019-20 In Its Eighth Annual Bay Area 75 Rankings • Welcome to our eighth annual Bay Area 75 rankings — SportStars’ countdown of the top 75 Bay Area athletes from the 2019-20 school year. Obviously, the 2019-20 season... Read more

’19-’20 Bay Area 75 Rankings, Part 2 | Nos. 50-26

Aquatics Central Coast Section High School Baseball/Softball High School Basketball High School Football High School Wrestling Pinned by TCW HS / CLUB Soccer Lacrosse North Coast Section Sac-Joaquin Section Tennis: High School & Club Track & Field, Anchored by Youth Runner VOLLEYBALL — Served by NCVA XC-Track-Running August 3, 2020 4

SportStars Magazine Counts Down The Bay Area’s Top 75 Athletes From 2019-20 In Its Eighth Annual Bay Area 75 Rankings • Welcome to our eighth annual Bay Area 75 rankings — SportStars’ countdown of the top 75 Bay Area athletes from the 2019-20 school year. Obviously, the 2019-20 season... Read more

’19-’20 Bay Area 75 Rankings, Part 1 | Nos. 75-51

Central Coast Section High School Baseball/Softball High School Basketball High School Football High School Golf High School Sports Features High School Wrestling Pinned by TCW North Coast Section Oakland Section Rankings Sac-Joaquin Section Track & Field, Anchored by Youth Runner VOLLEYBALL — Served by NCVA XC-Track-Running August 3, 2020 0

SportStars Magazine Counts Down The Bay Area’s Top 75 Athletes From 2019-20 In Its Eighth Annual Bay Area 75 Rankings • Welcome to our eighth annual Bay Area 75 rankings — SportStars’ countdown of the top 75 Bay Area athletes from the 2019-20 school year. Obviously, the 2019-20 season... Read more

Anson Aroz: The Constant | Meet Placer Baseball’s Problem Solver

High School Baseball/Softball High School Sports Features Sac-Joaquin Section July 6, 2020 0

Baseball Is A Game Of Equations For Relentlessly Driven Oregon-Bound Catcher Anson Aroz Of Placer-Auburn There’s baseball IQ and then there’s whatever-in-the-Isaac-Newton Anson Aroz is. The Oregon-committed, switch-hitting catcher from Placer High-Auburn seems to see the diamond in code — or at least in distances and times. “Say a... Read more

SportStars’ Softball Big 10 | NorCal’s Best Players (’11-’20)

Big 10 Anniversary Project Central Coast Section High School Baseball/Softball North Coast Section Northern Section Sac-Joaquin Section June 30, 2020 0

For The Magazine’s 10th Anniversary, SportStars Continues Its Big 10 Series With Its Softball Big 10 —NorCal’s Best Players Of The Past Decade • The Softball Big 10 is an installation of the SportStars Big 10 Project: A 10-months-long series celebrating the magazine’s 10-year anniversary in June 2020. We’ll... Read more

MLB Draft 2020: Seven NorCal Natives Selected, Two Stay In Bay

Central Coast Section Central Section High School Baseball/Softball North Coast Section Northern Section Oakland Section Sac-Joaquin Section San Francisco Section June 15, 2020 0

Detroit Tigers Take Former Casa Grande High Slugger Spencer Torkelson No. 1 Overall As Seven Former NorCal Standouts Are Chosen In Five-Round MLB Draft • The two-day 2020 MLB Draft started with a bang for local fans as Case Grande-Petaluma’s Spencer Torkelson was drafted first overall by the Detroit... Read more