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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
Jess Oakland | 2022 NorCal Softball Player Of The Year
After Growing Up On The Campus And Fields Of Mountain View’s St. Francis High, Jess Oakland Leaves As Perhaps Its Most Decorated Softball Player • Jess Oakland certainly has left her imprint on St. Francis High School softball. Oakland seemingly has been around the school in Mountain View her... Read more
Blake Rogers | SportStars 2022 NorCal Baseball Pitcher Of The Year
Blake Rogers Used A Relentless Offseason To Become The Pitcher He Wanted To Be — The Ace For A WCAL And CCS Championship Team • Matt Maguire had no problem spotting the difference in Blake Rogers’ physical appearance when the pitcher arrived back on the Mountain View campus of... Read more
2022 Final NorCal Baseball Rankings | Top 25
Pitching Depth And Stubbornly Resilient Lineup Lead De La Salle To Two Titles And The Top Spot In Our Final NorCal Baseball Rankings • PICTURED ABOVE: No. 1 De La Salle Celebrates Its NorCal Div. I title. (Jean-Paul Toshiro photo) Final NorCal Baseball Rankings. All records are through June... Read more
2022 Final NorCal Softball Rankings | Top 25
For The Second Straight Year, It’s The Saint Francis Lancers Leading The Way In Our Final NorCal Softball Rankings • PICTURED ABOVE: Lexi O’Gorman Slides Safely Into Third For No. 1 St. Francis-Mountain View. (Chace Bryson photo) Final NorCal Softball Rankings. All records are through June 4. 1. (1)... Read more
Grinders, Fighters & Thieves | De La Salle Baseball Does It Again
The 2022 De La Salle Baseball Team Continued The Program’s Championship Tradition — In A Style All Its Own • Every championship team develops its own identity. For some teams, that identity is more subtle and kept behind the scenes.  The De La Salle High baseball team was not... Read more
CIF NorCal Softball Championship Previews
We Break Down The Matchups And Offer Score Predictions For Each Of The Top 3 Inaugural CIF NorCal Softball Championship Games Being Played This Saturday • Well, we had to wait an extra year, but we finally will get CIF NorCal Softball Championship games across five divisions this weekend.... Read more
SportStars NorCal Softball Rankings | May 31
Section Finals Deliver Full Shakeup To The NorCal Softball Rankings — And Regional Playoffs Could Do The Same For Next Week’s Final Rankings • NorCal Softball Rankings Previous rankings in parenthesis. All records are through Saturday, May 28 PICTURED ABOVE: Jessica Im of No. 5 Heritage-Brentwood. (Chace Bryson photo)... Read more
Final NorCal Boys Basketball Rankings | 2021-22
Modesto Christian’s 30-Win Season, Regional Open Title Secure Crusaders The Top Spot In Our Final NorCal Boys Basketball Rankings • PICTURED ABOVE: Div. II State Champions, No. 12 Elk Grove . (David Gershon photo) Final NorCal Boys Basketball Rankings. Previous rank in parenthesis 1. (1) Modesto Christian (30-6) Crusaders... Read more
Ike’s Ironmen/Ironwomen | All-NorCal Wrestlers 2022
Oakdale’s Ceasar Garza, Whitney’s Leah Brown Lead The Way As 20 Different Programs Are Represented In SportStars’ Fourth Annual All-NorCal Wrestling Honors • PICTURED ABOVE: Leah Brown of Whitney-Rocklin (Ike Dodson photo) The return of wrestling was a resounding success for many of the grapplers represented by SportStars’ NorCal... Read more
Promise Fulfilled | Seniors Lead Whitney Soccer To NorCal Title
A Talented 2022 Class Delivered On Long-Awaited Expectations In Leading Whitney Soccer To A CIF Div. I Crown, Cementing The Program Among Region’s Elite • When Joel Williams took over as the Whitney soccer coach, his vision was to help elevate the varsity boys to become one of the... Read more
Ice Surprise | Ellie Kleinheinz Slides Into Success
A Little More Than Two Years Ago, Ellie Kleinheinz Didn’t Even Know What Luge Was —  This Week, The Archbishop Mitty Freshman Will Be Competing To Win Her Second Youth National Title Ellie Kleinheinz picks up the red sled — the one with famous Disney Pixar character Lightning McQueen’s... Read more