Softball: Streak ends after 80 wins -- who has Southland's longest?

The streak of all streaks ended this past week.

A Michigan softball team's win streak, which dated to the 2005 season, finally ended after 80 games. The team's coach said: "There were no tears." Gosh, I would hope not -- not after never losing for three years.

I'm trying to figure out which Southland softball team has the longest win streak. By my count, it may be No. 8-ranked Simi Valley at 19, but that doesn't sound long enough. If anybody knows of a longer one, please chime in.

-- Anthony Stitt

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Comments

[Martin Henderson]

I may actually be able to answer this question before stats guru Eric Maddy, the difference between us being that I had to look it up and Eric tends to know these things off the top of his head.

According to the California State Record Book compiled by Cal-Hi Sports, the longest Southland winning streak belongs to a City Section team, El Camino Real, at 73 games, set from 1984-87. It's second all-time, but well ahead of the Southland runner-up Santa Maria Righetti (50, 1979-81).

Simi Valley is 21-0 this season, and I have been hit over the head a couple of times by people telling me that Crescenta Valley is 19-0 and should be in our Top 25.

Last year, Valencia (32-1) won its final 25 games behind Times POY Jordan Taylor. Of course, it was playing competition far superior to that of Simi Valley and Crescenta Valley.

I believe in 1985, Ocean View -- behind pitcher Jackie Oakley -- was 31-0.

[Eric Maddy]

Martin beat me to this one, the difference between us being that I'm usually asleep at 2 a.m.

The Southland record was in fact set by ECR during the Beth Silverman era, and the Southern Section record by Righetti during the Tracy Compton years. I'll just add that the state record is 78 (Ferndale, 2003-06).

Oh, and Ocean View was 32-0 in 1985 (though Jackie was 31-0), in a period when the Sunset League might have been the toughest top-to-bottom league in Southern California EVER (Marina and Julie Larsen, Westminster and Debbie DeJohn, Edison and Julie Carpenter, Fountain Valley and Patti Taylor -- a plethora of not only D-I pitchers, but very good D-I pitchers)

[Chris Carr]

As it stands as of today our high school girls varsity softball game win streak is at 70. They are from Lyndon Vermont at Lyndon Institute home of the Vikings

[Debbie (DeJohn) Johnston]

Thanks for kudos Chris Carr for the old memories of high school softball, but I belive the Ocean View's 32-0 streak was in 1986...I still remember their last win that year vividly. It was the CIF championship game against our team, Westminster High School, where we lost the heart breaker.