CIF Rankings: Week 7 – We Go to 16

This week, the CIF Southern Section rankings expanded to 16 for each of the five, enrollment based divisions.

Up to this point, the rankings have been mostly for fun, in that they didn’t have any direct impact on CIF post-season qualifying. But beginning with this week and for the next three weeks, any team that does not qualify by finishing in the top half of their league can advance if they are ranked twice in the last four weeks.

Seven teams moved into the rankings this week. The Arroyo boys returned to the Div. 2 Top 10, where they were ranked earlier this year. New to the extended rankings are the Rosemead and Covina girls, and the boys from California, Whittier, Damien & La Cañada. The Condors and Cardinals were ranked earlier this year.

With these updates La Canada joins Claremont, Bonita, Bishop Amat & Flintridge Prep in having both their boys and girls teams ranked.

The teams that were most helped by the rankings were Damien and the boys and girls of Bonita. The Spartans were 4th in the strong Baseline league and may need the help The Bearcat boys are narrowly third and the girls narrowly 4th in the brutal Palomares League, where five of the six girls teams and three of the boys teams are ranked. Conversely, SGV ranked Glendora were unranked, so they will need a not-impossible move up to 3rd at finals to advance.

Four of the SGV Girls Top Ten were unranked: #5 Arcadia, #8 Glendora, #9 California & #10 La Serna. Only #6 Rowland and #9 Glendora are unranked among the boys, but except for Glendora, all of these teams will not need the rankings to advance.

You can view the entire rankings here: Week 7 – 10/15 CIF-SS Rankings

San Gabriel Valley Girls

Div 1 – #6 Walnut (7th last week)

Div 2 – #1 Claremont (Same)

Div. 3 – #9 Bonita (Same); #13 Rosemead (Not ranked)

Div. 4 – #5  Bishop Amat (Same); #6 La Cañada (Same); #8 Mayfield (Same); #16 Covina (Not ranked)

Div. 5 – #2 Flintridge Prep (Same); #7 Poly (Same)

San Gabriel Valley Boys

Div 1 - #6 La Serna (Same); #7 Arcadia (9th); #12= California (Not ranked)

Div. 2 - #1 Claremont (3rd); 9th Arroyo (Not ranked)

Div. 3 – #10 Bonita (9th); 13th Whittier (Not ranked); 15th Damien (Not Ranked)

Div. 4 – #3 South Pasadena (4th); #10 Bishop Amat (Same); #13 La Canada (Not ranked)

Div. 5 – #2= Flintridge Prep (Same)