Week 3 LAHSsoccer.com Rankings

[timaeus]

LAHSsoccer.com 2007-2008 Week 3 High School Boys Soccer Rankings
December 2, 2007

For immediate press release:

(First place votes in parenthesis)

Division I

1. Jesuit 94 (5) (beat Chelmette 7-0)
2. St. Thomas More 91 (3) (beat Comeaux 5-1)
3. Acadiana 85 (2) (tied Lafayette 1-1)
4. Brother Martin 66 (beat Shaw 11-1)
5. Fontainebleau 59 (beat Northshore 3-1, Covington 2-1)
6. St. Paul’s 57 (beat Hammond 5-0, Slidell 5-0)
7. Caddo Magnet 34 (beat Huntington 9-0, Southwood 9-0)
8. East Ascension 30(beat Ben Franklin 3-0)
9. Rummel 21 (beat Grace King 3-0)
10. Catholic BR 8

Others receiving votes: Lafayette 3 (lost to NISH 0-0(5-4 pks), tied Acadiana 1-1), Dutchtown 1 (beat Hahnville 4-2), Captain Shreve 1 (lost to Byrd 0-1)

Division II

1. Teurlings Catholic 96 (6) (tied St. Louis 1-1)
2. Vandebilt Catholic 93 (4)
3. Tara 81 (beat Belaire 12-0)
4. Parkway 68 (beat Northwood 3-1, lost to Neville 0-3)
5. Neville 61 (beat West Monroe 2-1, Parkway 3-0, Ouachita Ch. 9-1)
6. DeRidder 47
7. McKinley 43 (beat Broadmoor 1-0)
8. Loyola 26 (beat Natch. Cen. 2-1, Haughton 2-1)
9. R.E. Lee 17 (lost to McKinley 2-4)
10. Alexandria 13 (beat Leesville 4-2)

Others receiving votes: St. Michael’s 3 (beat Lee 4-2), Morgan City 2 (tied CHNI 3-3)

Division III

1. St. Louis 100 (10) (tied Teurlings 1-1, beat ESA 4-0)
2. Newman 90 (lost to STA 0-2)
3. University 77 (beat Baton Rouge 2-0, Woodlawn 4-1)
4. Episcopal BR 64 (beat Runnels 7-0)
5. Ben Franklin 61 (lost to E. Ascension 0-3)
6. Opelousas Catholic 57 (tied ESA 1-1, beat Catholic PC 4-0)
7. St. Charles Catholic 37
8. Menard 32 (beat Red River 7-1, lost to Ruston 4-5)
9. St. Thomas Aquinas 18 (beat E.D. White 4-1, Newman 2-0)
10. E.D. White 11 (tied St. Martin's 1-1, lost to STA 1-4)

Others receiving votes: Northlake Christian 1(beat Salmen 3-1), Pope John Paul 1, Redemptorist 1 (beat Central 8-1)

LAHSsoccer.com is a website devoted to Louisiana high school soccer. Begun in 1999 as LAprepSoccer.com, it has released weekly rankings each week since. Its voters are from throughout the state.

[PutMeInCoach2]

I guess the most suprising thing is STM beat Jesuit 3-1, and remained number 2. I guess the voters believe the 4 starters reportedly missing from Jesuit would of made an impact.

[timaeus]

We're talking about the rankings in the chat room now.

[soccerjunqie]

Being No. 1 is not all that it is cracked up to be. Time will tell.

[q]

St. Thomas More's win against Jesuit should have them up to #1. And Newman's win against St. Paul's should get them some consideration for the #1 spot in Division III.

[henry10]

considered until you look at the rest of their games....and st louis'

[doornobcrusher]

because STA isnt high in them?

[doornobcrusher]

obviously, beat someone good then complain
you play newman soon, talk after that...

[doornobcrusher]

ok lets consider how you finished last year, with a 5-0 loss to teurlings... wow brag about it. Dutchtown is the only legit win out of those, i think yall should be at 6, OC go to 5... and ben franklin go under that.

[doornobcrusher]

i love how your proof to yalls ranking being bad is games yall played last year.... and yall beat newman 3-1 in the playoffs and having watched that game, yall shouldnt have won that game. and yeah teurlings was good, but they dropped out of the rankings after their first loss to stl. now enough of the sarcasm, what do you really think yall should be ranked?

[flat3]

putmeincoach2 said:

I guess the most suprising thing is STM beat Jesuit 3-1, and remained number 2. I guess the voters believe the 4 starters reportedly missing from Jesuit would of made an impact.

Besides, Jesuit beat STM earlier in the season, and their common opponent, Oakridge, beat STM but lost to Jesuit.

[mefreakfreak1]

me personally doesn't think ash is good enough to be on the top ten

[Formerly Ole School]

I love rankings. This is a complex and well thought out system that has been developed. Hats off to Timaeus for creating and giving his time to do so. I could not imagine the time it takes to collect the data from so many sources and entering in some format that you can make heads or tails.
Keep up the great work.

[crossthatline]

wow, after #2 OC lost to #1 St. louis they really dropped down ay?...all the way to 6th

I'd put STM first and jesuit 2nd. east ascension should be ranked 10th because rummel beat them head up. just my opinion

[stafalcon22]

i'd put STM first because not only did they beat them they also beat a team in the tourny that jesuit tied. the other common opponent i would throw out because STM had already won the tournament so why risk an injury after playing so many games

[mrdashriprock]

clashplaya said:

STM had already won the tournament before playing oakrigde.

How does that work? (winning the tournament before completing the games)

[dougplanchard]

This is kinda ridiculous considering St Thomas Moore JUST BEAT Jesuit,yet Jesuit is still 1, Rummel has only lost one game because of the coach and they're all the way down at 9, Brother Martin loses to St. Pauls yet is still ahead of them. This poll does not seem real legit.

[hideki]

Perhaps some voters are taking into account the missing Jesuit players, and looking at their result when both teams were closer to full strength. It seems fair either way.

[motoman97]

# 3 is undefeated (1 tie)
#4 has 3 losses
#5 & #7 have no wins against top 10 teams
#9 beats #8 2 - 0
time to quit ranking team on prior year results.