There is one final high school sports competition for the 2025-26 season and it starts Tuesday at baseball and softball diamonds throughout the Bay Area. The CIF Northern California championships open that day with first pitches scheduled for 4 p.m.<\/p>\n
Defending Division 1 baseball champion De La Salle-Concord, winners of four of the past five NorCal titles, opens at home against West Catholic Athletic League champion St. Francis. De La Salle is coming off a North Coast Section Division 1 championship earned Saturday with a 6-0 win over Granada-Livermore, which travels to face second-seeded St. Mary\u2019s-Stockton. Central Coast Section Division 1 champion Valley Christian hosts Bullard-Fresno on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Other top baseball seeds are Clayton Valley Charter-Concord (Division 2), Roseville (Division 3), Half Moon Bay (Division 4) and Minarets-O\u2019Neals of Madera County (Division 5).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Each of the eight-team, five division tournaments end on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The same goes for softball which features a fantastic first-round game between NCS Division 1 champion San Ramon Valley-Danville at perennial state power St. Francis, which lost in the CCS semifinals. The top seed in the Division 1 tournament is Destiny Christian-Sacramento.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Other top softball seeds, all which received first-round byes, are Alameda (Division 2), Monterey (Division 3), West Valley-Cottonwood of Shasta County (Division 4) and Notre Dame-Belmont (Division 5).<\/p>\n
Northern California Baseball and Softball Playoffs<\/p>\n
First round (all games Tuesday at 4 p.m.)<\/p>\n
No. 8 St. Francis at No. 1 De La Salle<\/p>\n
No. 5 Bullard at No. 4 Valley Christian<\/p>\n
No. 6 Soquel at No. 3 Elk Grove<\/p>\n
No. 7 Granada at No. 2 St. Mary\u2019s-Stockton<\/p>\n
No. 8 Mitty at No. 1 Clayton Valley Charter<\/p>\n
No. 5 Northgate at No. 4 Rodriguez-Fairfield<\/p>\n
No. 6 Rio Americano at No. 3 Los Gatos<\/p>\n
No. 7 Chico at No. 2 Franklin<\/p>\n
No. 8 Santa Cruz at No. 1 Roseville<\/p>\n
No. 5 Wheatland at No. 4 Foothill-Palo Cedro<\/p>\n
No. 6 El Capitan vs. No. 3 Alameda at College of Alameda<\/p>\n
No. 7 James Logan at No. 2 Menlo School<\/p>\n
No. 8 Sonoma Valley at No. 1 Half Moon Bay<\/p>\n
No. 5 Amador-Sutter Creek at No. 4 West Valley<\/p>\n
No. 6 Lowell vs. No. 3 Immanuel at Immanuel Sports Complex<\/p>\n
No. 7 University Prep at No. 2 Livermore<\/p>\n
No. 8 Maxwell at No. 1 Minarets<\/p>\n
No. 5 Turlock Christian at No. 4 Roosevelt<\/p>\n
No. 6 Urban at No. 3 Pacific Grove<\/p>\n
No. 7 Los Molinos at No. 2 Skyline<\/p>\n
No. 8 College Park at No. 1 Destiny Christian Academy<\/p>\n
No. 5 San Ramon Valley at No. 4 St. Francis<\/p>\n
No. 6 Whitney at No. 3 Mitty<\/p>\n
No. 7 Elk Grove at No. 2 Clovis East<\/p>\n
No. 5 Hollister at No. 4 Vanden<\/p>\n
No. 6 Central Catholic at No. 3 Willow Glen<\/p>\n
No. 7 Northgate at No. 2 Del Oro<\/p>\n
No. 5 Chico at No. 4 Chowchilla<\/p>\n
No. 6 East Nicolaus at Rodriguez-Fairfield<\/p>\n
No. 7 Foothill at No. 2 Las Plumas<\/p>\n
No. 5 Escalon at No. 4 Alhambra<\/p>\n
No. 6 Amador-Sutter Creek at No. 3 Live Oak<\/p>\n
No. 7 Newark Memorial at No. 2 Alisal<\/p>\n
No. 1 Notre Dame-Belmont, bye<\/p>\n
No. 5 Chester at No. 4 Moreau Catholic<\/p>\n
No. 6 Lowell at No. 3 Durham<\/p>\n
No. 7 Justin-Siena at No. 2 Le Grand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is one final high school sports competition for the 2025-26 season and it starts Tuesday at baseball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,3263,2328,2304,4,2305,2303,1210,185],"class_list":["post-728196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-baseball","tag-high-school-sports","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-softball","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116764815083782262","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}