{"id":153267,"date":"2026-02-06T05:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/153267\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T05:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:04:18","slug":"2026-austin-san-antonio-area-high-school-softball-preseason-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/153267\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Austin\u2013San Antonio area high school softball preseason rankings\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Michael Adams\u00a0<br \/>Austin Sports Journal\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are the preseason softball rankings ahead of the 2026 Texas high school season. Records are from 2025. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Class 6A\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Dripping Springs (31-11) \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Buda Johnson (28-7-1)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. Stony Point (19-9-1)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. Lake Travis (21-11-1)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5. Bowie (16-10)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Class 5A\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Smithson Valley (26-4)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Liberty Hill (26-8-1)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. Leander (30-12)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. Georgetown (24-10-1)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5. Hendrickson (17-13-1)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Class 4A\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Salado (29-7)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Smithville (25-7)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. Gateway (20-4-2)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. Fredericksburg (25-11)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5. Lago Vista (18-11)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Class 3A &amp; Others\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Hyde Park (21-4)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Lexington (27-9) \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. Blanco (23-4)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. \u00a0Johnson City (16-3-2) \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5. Thorndale (19-8)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Michael Adams\u00a0Austin Sports Journal\u00a0 Here are the preseason softball rankings ahead of the 2026 Texas high school&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,8354,63380,63381,60778],"class_list":["post-153267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-dripping-springs-tigers","tag-hyde-park-panthers","tag-smithson-valley-rangers","tag-texas-high-school-softball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}