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Top 10 returning California high school baseball run producers for the 2025 season

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Feb 13, 2025; Tampa, FL, USA; a general view of New York Yankees spring training workouts and MLB baseballs at George M. Steinbrenner Field. Mandatory Credit: Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images
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Top 10 returning California high school baseball run producers for the 2025 season

Only one returning player from the 2024 season drove in more than 50 runs and he hailed from the Northern Section and also starred on the mound

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Granada High’s Jake Sekany (22) follows through on his pitch during the CIF Northern California Division 1 title game held at Granada High School in Livermore, CA on June 1st, 2024.
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Winningest California high school baseball pitchers returning for 2025 season

A total of 17 returning hurlers won at least 10 games last season, and here's a list of all of them heading into the 2025 season

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Mitty's Emma Cook swoops in for two points during her team's 79-54 win over St. Joseph on the first day of the Sabrina Ionescu Showcase at Carondelet High School on Jan. 3, 2025.
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Top 15 Northern California High School Girls Basketball Rankings (2/11/2025)

Will Mitty get back to the state championship; How long will Clovis West remain unbeaten; Will Sac-Joaquin Section squad step up to dethrone the Monarchs?

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St. Joseph's junior Julius Price scoops the ball between Alvin Loving and Carlton Perrialliat en route to his 16-point night in the Crush in the Valley Showscase 1-24-25
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Top 15 Northern California High School Boys Basketball Rankings (2/11/2025)

It is time to start thinking about the playoffs. In just a few days time, the regular season for high school basketball in Northern California will be over and

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Westlake 6-foot-2 junior wing Mathis Dritz in a preseason game at Dos Pueblos on Dec. 13, 2024
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Best performances in California high school girls basketball (Feb. 3-8)

Here are 20 top performers from Feb. 3-8, heading into the playoffs in many of the sections throughout the Golden State

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Aliyahna Morris of Etiwanda playing against Incarnate Word in the 2025 Spalding Hoophall Classic.
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California Top 25 girls high school basketball rankings (2/11/2025)

The Southern Section playoffs are upon us with first-round Division 1 games starting Thursday and Open Division pool play begins on Saturday

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Chatsworth guard Alijah Arenas is one of the best high school basketball players in the country for the 2025 class.
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Best performances in California high school boys basketball (Feb. 3-8)

California's leading scorer, Dylan Goosen, continues his strong campaign after busting for 49 points in his latest game

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Kaleena Smith, the nation's top-ranked 2027 girls basketball player, scored 24 points and had seven assists, leading national No. 3 Ontario Christian to a 93-45 win over Millennium in the first day of the of the Sabrina Ionescu Showcase at Carondelet High School On Jan. 3. .Smith is is the state's second-leading sophomore through games played on Feb. 4.
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Top 10 California high school girls basketball sophomore scorers

Every high school basketball team has the goal of being dominant when it comes to scoring. At the high school level, most sophomores are only now starting to fi

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A general view of IHSAA logo basketball during the South Bend Adams-Mishawaka high school 4A sectional semi-final basketball game on Friday, March 01, 2024, at Mishawaka High School in Mishawaka, Indiana.
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Top 10 California sophomore high school boys basketball scorers (2/7/2025)

Francis Parker's Tavid Johnson leads all California sophomores in scoring; Top 10 average between 21.7 points and 27.3

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Notre Dame Sherman Oaks freshman Hamiley Arenas is one of the state's leading freshman scorers.
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Top 10 California freshman high school girls basketball scorers (2-7-2025)

Putting the ball in the bucket. It's the goal of every basketball team. Rarely at the high school ranks do coaches depend on freshmen to fill it up. Their jobs

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St. John Bosco’s Brandon McCoy throws down a windmill dunk against Mater Dei at the Intuit Dome on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025.
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Top 10 California freshman high school boys basketball scorers (2/6/2025)

California Lutheran's Tyler Treder leads four 9th-graders averaging more than 20 points per game in the Golden State

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Pleasant Grove junior Kate Myers (3) under heavy duress is averaging 21.1 points, 8.7 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game, all team highs.
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Best performances in Northern California high school girls basketball (Jan. 27-Feb. 1)

The final few weeks of the Northern California girls basketball season is here, with the playoff push picking up rapidly. As usual, there were some big perform

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Portola's Connor Sheridan is the SBLive/Sports Illustrated NorCal boys basketball Athlete of the Week (2/4/2025)

The 6-foot-9 junior beats out 24 other candidates to win the coveted award

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Kamryn Jones graphic of him going to Boise State
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California National Signing Day Live updates: Langi to Arizona; Amituanai to San Diego State; Jones to Boise State

Under radar recruits fill in the gaps, fulfill lifelong dreams of landing college football scholarships

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Mitty's Emma Cook swoops in for two points during her team's 79-54 win over St. Joseph on Friday in the first day of the Sabrina Ionescu Showcase at Carondelet High School. Mitty will play in the second national showdown with Ontario Christian Saturday two weeks after the the Monarchs thumped the then No. 3 team in the nation, 59-34. Ontario Christian believes they learned from the loss and are ready to give the Monarchs a much more competitive game.
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Top 15 Northern California High School Girls Basketball Rankings (2/4/2025)

Even without its star player, Mitty remains the top-ranked team in Northern California

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St. Joseph's Tounde Yessoufou (24) attempts to dunk the ball during the first round of the Capitol City Classic at Willamette University on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023, in Salem, Ore.
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Top 15 Northern California high school boys basketball rankings (2/4/2025)

Will anyone be able to stop St. Joseph?

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Mater Dei, despite a loss of one of their leaders and top players, are still finding ways to stay connected and victorious.
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California Top 25 girls high school basketball rankings (2-4-2025)

Season-ending injury to Mater Dei's top junior wing Kaeli Wynn could shift power, rankings in uber competitive Southern Section landscape

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Mater Dei and St. John Bosco go at it in the Trinity-Mission League showcase at Intuit Dome.
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Top 25 California high school boys basketball rankings (2/3/2025)

Intuit Dome event highlights competitive week between the state's elite, No. 3 St. Joseph's Tounde Yessoufou highlights personal achievement, makes bold prediction

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Tounde Yessoufou stands alone among all his teammates Saturday after breaking the California High School career scoring record for St. Joseph High School in Santa Maria.
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Mitch Stephens: Tounde Yessoufou's unique path, drive for mom, family vaults him to top of California's perch

St. Joseph senior, West African native and Baylor-bound star uses Kobe Bryant's Mamba Mentality, Russell Westbrook's relentlessness to break DeMarcus Nelson's state record for career scoring

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Tounde Yessoufou gives one last acknowledgement to crowd after he scored 30 points to break the California High School career scoring record Saturday at St. Joseph of Santa Maria High School. Following video tribute and speech from Yessoufou who now has 3,467 points to surpass Demarcus Nelson's 3,462. The class Nelson sent a video congratulations message to Yessoufou as well.
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Tounde Yessoufou live updates recap: Baylor signee breaks California state scoring record (2-1-2025)

St. Joseph of Santa Maria senior, McDonald's All-American enters Saturday game versus Weston Ranch-Stockton just 26 points shy of state career scoring record

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Tounde Yessoufou just before being introduce at Atascadero High School 1-31-2025
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Tounde Yessoufou closes in on California state scoring record: Baylor signee should set coveted mark Saturday

Packed Atascadero gym watches the St. Joseph star go for 29 in three quarters, then mob him for autographs, pictures, dabs

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Vote: Who should be SBLive's Northern California High School Boys Basketball Athlete of the Week (1/29/2025)

Voting runs through 11:59 p.m. on Monday

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Vote: Who should be SBLive's Northern California High School Girls Basketball Athlete of the Week (1/29/2025)

Voting runs through 11:59 p.m. on Monday

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De La Salle's Dominic Kelley breaks free on a go-ahead and ultimately game-winning 35-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter while QB Brayden Knight signals touchdown en route to a tough 10-7 victory over Pittsburg in the CIF North Coast Section Open Division title game at Diablo Valley College on Nov. 22. | Photo: Dennis Lee
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Top 10 uncommitted Northern California football players from class of 2025

With a week left until signing day, there is still plenty of Division I talent available for colleges to lock up.

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Mitty girls pose with WNBA champion last season after defeating University in the 2024 Sabrina Ionescu Showcase game
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Best performances in Northern California high school girls basketball (Jan. 20-26)

Lot of big scores and top scorers last week around Northern California

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