LAprepSoccer.com's 2/02/04 Poll

[timaeus]

First place votes in parentheses.

Division I

1. Central Lafourche 56 (3)
2. Rummel 54 (2)
3. Lafayette 52 (1)
4. Jesuit 39
5. St. Paul's 33
6. Brother Martin 30
7. Captain Shreve 28
8. Acadiana 14
9. Catholic BR 11
10. Caddo 4

Receiving votes: Mandeville 3, Carencro 3, Northshore 2, St. Amant 1

Division II

1. Vandebilt 59 (5)
2. Ben Franklin 52
3. St. Thomas More 51 (1)
4. Dutchtown 41
5. Loyola 36
6. Alexandria 31
7. Parkway 19
8. Neville 18
8. McKinley 18
10. Salmen 4

Receiving votes: East Ascension 2, Pineville 2


Division III

1. St. Louis 59 (5)
2. Newman 55 (1)
3. St. Thomas Aquinas 48
4. St. Frederick 38
5. Episcopal BR 33
6. University 31
7. St. Martin's 30
8 E.D. White 11
9. Opelousas Catholic 10
10. Catholic New Iberia 7

Receiving votes: Teurlings Catholic 2, West Feliciana 1, Parkview Baptist 1, St. Charles Catholic 1.

[McScruff]

Wow, Caddo is number 10? That's interesting. I guess we'll see if they are deserving tonight. Looks like DIII is back to normal.

[LSU]

i dont understand how EHS is still in front of UHS considering EHS lost to West Feliciana

[Admiral]

Caddo may get a chance to play Mandeville soon in the playoffs to see which one belongs in the top ten. Based upon their game in St Pauls tourney, I would pick Mandeville.

[whoahwhoah]

why is central #1 in dI? who have they beat? i know they are good, but #1? who have the beat to deserve that.... not hating or anything

[Tellme]

Someone in New Orleans just told me, Newman lost to St. Martin's in PKs. THis has to change Div. III

[Uhigh498]

Does anybody know if that is true about St. Martins and Newman? But i am not sure if that will make st. martins the district champs because it is split and Newman might have the upper hand in goal differintial?

[1SuckyPlayer]

central lafourche has beat rummel twice both times 1-0 and thye have beat st pauls 2-0 and vandy 3-1 that i know of

[hannibal]

Newman wins DIII-6 with only one loss. St Martins lost to EDWhite the other day, so they have two losses.

[imeg4fun]

if sulphur beats carencro for the 3rd time tonight do you think they might get recognized next time?

[goat]

i think cro and sulphur should be ranked higher, but i'm a little bias when it comes to dist. 3. i guess we'll have to prove it in the playoffs imeg4fun!

[McScruff]

yeah, I am surprised that Sulphur didn't even get one vote for the top ten. Of course, looking at the top ten, I don't know who I would remove to make room for them...Caddo, maybe. But even then, I would have Carencro ahead of Sulphur.

[hdkjga]

The problem with ranking D1 is that there are 14-15 top 10 teams.....it's just a matter of most recent games vs. each other and tough opponents.

[lasoccerplay12]

This poll is slightly out of date. Last night (the 3rd), Captain Shreve (7) lost to Caddo Magnet (10).

I would actually pick Magnet over Mandeville. I wasn't impressed by Mandeville in St. Pauls, and Caddo Magnet controlled a very large portion of the game.

[Nike1]

Sulphur really has not done much lately to change their position in the pole. They were hot early and now have tailed off a bunch with very narrow victories over weak New Iberia teams and now with a 2-0 loss to Carencro. Top 10 NO, top 15 maybe.

[Bish]

Nike1 said:

Sulphur really has not done much lately to change their position in the pole. They were hot early and now have tailed off a bunch with very narrow victories over weak New Iberia teams and now with a 2-0 loss to Carencro. Top 10 NO, top 15 maybe.

This has been a trend for Sulphur the past 4 or 5 years.

[goat]

i need to defened sulphur catchafishbish. first of all the game last night didn't mean anything. what was there to play for, i still don't know why the game was played to begin with. as far as a narrow win against new iberia, well the game was played on that postage stamp nish calls a field, and noboby scores well there. i beleave the score of the lafayette - nish game there was 1-0 lafayette. so don't knock sulphur for that narrow win. sulphur is a good solid team that i think,(if they play like they did against acadiana the decond time) will make some noise in the playoffs.

[Admiral]

Caddo Magnet and Mandeville played at St Pauls to a tie. However, Mandeville had far more scoring opportunities in the game. I cannot see CM over Mandeville in the rankings.

[LAsoccer1317]

Well, for one Admiral, it was early in the year and yes Mandeville did outplay Magnet, but Magnet had to have been tired after playing Vandebilt Catholic in a hard fought match which they tied 1-1... opposed to yall man-handling Hahnville and barely even breaking a sweat so I admit we were lucky to come out with a tie vs. Mandeville but you have to respect the fact we played the number 1 team in Division II and held them to a tie game and then having to play yall afterwards... but now that the season having progress and losing to Shreve 2-1 on PKs and beating them 1-0, I think Magnet has gotten to be a little bit better... but like it goes down, it's all the matter of the playoffs so let it be there... by the way, sorry yall got stuck with Jesuit... I still think ya'll can beat them honestly.

[livethegame07]

How is loyola moving up? who have they played against? from some of the posts i hear they aren't THAT great??