Week 7: LaPrep Official Top 10

[PutMeInCoach2]

December 31, 2006

LAHSsoccer.com 2006 Week 4 Boys High School Soccer Rankings

For immediate press release:

(First place votes in parenthesis)

Division I
1. Jesuit (10) 100 (21-0-0) (beat Brother Martin 1-0)
2. Brother Martin 87 (11-1-7)(beat Shaw 8-0) (lost to Jesuit 1-0)
3. Carencro 75 (13-2-4)(beat Lafayette 1-0)
4. Lafayette 71 (11-4-4)(lost to Carencro 1-0)(beat Sulphur 4-2)
5. Caddo 57 (14-3-1)
6. Fontainebleau 50 (13-2-1)(beat Hammond 7-0, beat Northshore 1-0)
7. Acadiana 30 (11-5-3)(beat Comeaux 2-0)
8. St. Paul's 27 (9-7)(lost to Mandeville 2-1 (4-2 PKs))
9. Rummel 20 (10-7-2) (beat Holy Cross 2-1)
10. Catholic BR 16 (8-3-4) (beat Central 15-1)

Others Receiving Votes:
Captain Shreve 8 (13-4-2)(beat Loyola 5-0)
Dutchtown 3 (9-4-4) (beat Woodlawn 2-1)
Northshore 1 (8-6-1) (beat Ponchatoula 2-0)

Division II

1. St. Thomas More (10) 100 (8-4-2) (beat Morgan City 9-0)
2. East Ascension 85 (11-6-0) (beat Parkview Baptist 4-0)
3. Vandebilt Catholic 78 (7-12-1) (lost to E.D.White 2-1)
4. St. Michael’s 69 (7-4-2)
5. DeRidder 62 (14-4-3)
6. Tara 46 (8-5-1)
7. Alexandria 41 (9-5-2) (beat Peabody 10-0)
8. R.E. Lee 35 (10-4-1) (beat McKinley 4-1)
9. Neville 16 (11-5-4)
10. Parkway 10 (13-5-0) (lost to Byrd 5-0)

Others Receiving Votes:
Pineville 7 (8-4-2) (tied West Monroe 1-1)
Ben Franklin 1 (4-9-1) (beat DeLaSalle 12-0, beat St. Martins 4-2)
Division III

1. Teurlings Catholic (10) 100 (20-1-2) (beat Westminster 8-2, beat Catholic NI 10-0)
2. Newman 87 (9-4-4)
3. St. Louis 82 (7-8-2)
4. Opelousas Catholic 66 (6-4-1) (beat Grace Christian 12-1
5. St. Thomas Aquinas 55 (4-4-0)
6. Episcopal BR 44 (7-3-5) (tied University 0-0)
7. St. Martin's 36 (5-8-1) (lost to Ben Franklin 4-2)
8. E.D. White 26 (5-4-0) (beat Vandebilt 2-1)
9. St. Frederick 22 (10-2)
10. University 18 (6-5-5) (tied Episcopal BR 0-0)

Others Receiving Votes:
Menard 12 (12-4-3) (beat Bolton 4-3 in PKs)
Ridgewood 4

[ka4]

i think that 5 is a bit high for Caddo having seen them play but i guess we will find out

[magnet02]

They had a good tournament and made the results

[wowowow]

Rummel moves down in the polls after defeating a hot St. Martins team 5-0.....looks like Rummel is a little underrated.. Rummel also beat Fontainebleau and St. Pauls and gave Jesuit their best game this season..

[timaeus]

Where is Catholic BR?

[timaeus]

St. Frederick listed twice

[ShreveDad]

Looks like PutmeinCoach was in a hurry to get to a New Years Eve party!

[numeroquattro]

do you think teurlings will hold the number 1 spot for the rest of the year and win it all?

[PutMeInCoach2]

shrevedad said:

Looks like PutmeinCoach was in a hurry to get to a New Years Eve party!

You are defantly right on that one!

[coachray40]

Polls look pretty good. D1 had a lot of upheaval, as 7 of the Top 10 lost. Suprised Acadiana jumped up so far, as they did have a loss and a draw. Cro moving to 3 after a 5-2 thumping (yes I know it was Teurlings), seems odd. Shreve deserves some more consideration. Glad to see i'm not the only one looking longer at Brother Martin--Crusaders are 1-0-6 in their last 7 matches. Time for BM to start winning these matches they are tying. District play will remedy that.

D2......ah D2. Glad to see that the pollsters finally got the message that Ben Franklin didnt deserve the ranking--BF has only scored 3 goals all year. The Vandy bandwagon is cranking back up again--my thought is that it might be a bit early to get on the Terriers jock. They beat the most inconsistent team in the state in Mandeville, the weakest team at St Pauls in Holy Cross, and thier while thier win against Catholic might be convincing, the Bears havent shown a capacity to score regularly against anyone but St Amant. District play for Vandy wont show us anything(VHS's next loss will be their last, cause they wont lose a district macth ahead of the playoffs--very weak district) so we might want to watch them during the first 2 rounds of the playoffs.

D3--whoever it is, stop wasting points on Ridgewood--it taints the validity of your voting. Give those points to a deserving team. Do we even have a result for Ridgewood this year?

[mrdashriprock]

ka4 said:

i think that 5 is a bit high for Caddo having seen them play but i guess we will find out

Often times a team might not look that dominating during the match. but they find a way to get the win in the end. Right now the only Div I Top 10 team with more wins than Caddo is Jesuit, and Caddo has yet to play what is historically the weaker side of their schedule.

[nlasoccer]

Yesterday at 10:50pm, ka4 wrote:i think that 5 is a bit high for Caddo having seen them play but i guess we will find out

Not sure which game you saw. Caddo played three really good teams at the tournament and had good showings against St. Paul's and Vandebilt. They deserved to win both of these games. They created more opportunitiest and came back from two down in both games.

They did not show well against Jesuit but they were totally exhausted. I don't think they used any subs in the semi-finals double OT win against Vandebilt and then had to turn around and play Jesuit with little rest.

Jesuit definitely the best team in the tournament and Caddo did not have the legs to even make it a game. Jesuit would have still won but I'm sure they would have liked the finals to be more of a test. Jesuit is fun to watch and I'm looking forward to seeing them play again down the road. They are definitely the heavy favorites for state.

[chris156]

Caddo has had an awesome season and deserves to be at number 5

[newtosoccer]

What is the baseline for these rankings? Is a side's rank based on their division results or their overall results ?

[PutMeInCoach2]

newtosoccer said:

What is the baseline for these rankings? Is a side's rank based on their division results or their overall results ?

Overall

[newtosoccer]

putmeincoach2 said:

newtosoccer said:

What is the baseline for these rankings? Is a side's rank based on their division results or their overall results ?

Overall

Thanks

[mrdashriprock]

Current Top 10 Div I Records against Current Top 10 Div I and current Top 3 Div II & III in December:

Team	Win	Loss	Draw
Jesuit	5	0	0
Brother Martin	1	0	5
Carencro	1	1	2
Lafayette	0	1	3
Caddo	2	1	0
Fontbleau	1	1	1
Acadiana	1	2	1
St Paul	0	2	0
Rummel	0	1	0
Catholic	1	1	0

November games left out to get a more current trend.
With the exception of Jesuit and BM, no one played more than 4 games against current top teams and all 8 have losses against at least one of them.

[garrincha]

Thanks mrdashriprock for the stats. Caddo had a very good tournament at St Paul's and they deserve being ranked 5th as of now. Maybe Caddo will see them again playing for State :-)

[bpongdd]

I have seen St. Paul's, Catholic BR, and Fontainebleau play, and I'm pretty sure that Shreve should get more respect and votes than that. But I guess you have to earn your respect up north.

[soccerboy07]

brother martins 7 ties almost matches with their ten wins. that many ties disturbs me to be voted so high