LAPrep Poll 12/26/05

[PutMeInCoach2]

Thanks goes out to all who participated. Also wish you a safe and happy holidays.... Next week the polls will go back to Sunday (1/1/06)




Division
1. Lafayette (4) - 66
1. St. Pauls (3) - 66 (beat St. Charles 3-0, Holy Cross 7-0, Caddo Magnet 4-0, Brother Martin 2-1, lost to Jesuit 2-5)
3. Dutchtown - 53 (beat Mandeville 2-1, Hahnville 6-0, lost to Brother Martin 0-1)
4. Brother Martin - 50 (beat Hahnville 7-0, Mandeville 1-0, Dutchtown 1-0, lost to St. Paul's 1-2)
5. Acadiana - 35 (beat NISH 2-0, beat Central Lafourche 3-0, tied STM 1-1, lost to Lafayette JV 1-2)
5. Shreve - 35 (beat Ruston 4-0)
7. St. Amant - 18 (beat St. Michaels 2-0, Zachary 3-0, beat W. Feliciana 3-0, beat Parkview 2-0, beat U-High 2-1)
8. Caddo Magnet - 15 (Beat Holy Cross 1-0, St. Charles 5-2, lost to St. Paul's 0-4)
9. Catholic BR - 12 (beat Northshore 3-0, tied STA 1-1, lost to Jesuit 0-2)
9. Mandeville - 12 (lost to Dutchtown 1-2, Brother Martin 0-1, beat Hahnville 2-0)



Others Receiving Votes: Jesuit - 9 (beat STA 1-0, Northsore 3-2, Catholic BR 2-0, Vandebilt 2-1[5-4 PK shootout], St. Paul's 5-2), Baton Rouge - 3 (Beat Fontainebleau 5-4, lost to Vandebilt 0-2, Rummel 1-4, lost to U-High 1-3), Fontainebleau - 3 (loss to Rummel 2-3, Baton Rouge 4-5, Vandebilt 1-4), Destrehan - 3 (tied St. Charles 1-1), Rummel - 3 (beat Foutainbleau 3-2, Baton Rouge 4-1, loss Vandebilt 1-3); Byrd - 2

Pollsters- lakeview, flat3, ShreveDad, Coachray40, werdna289, Pitchstalker, PutMeInCoach2



Division II
1. Vandebilt (4) - 40 (beat Baton Rouge 2-0, Rummel 3-1, Fontainebleau 4-1, lost to Jesuit 1-2[5-4 PK shootout])
2. STM - 36 (beat CL 2-0, tied Acadiana 1-1)
3. ASH - 30 (beat Bolton 2-0, beat Menard 5-2)
4. Deridder - 26
5. Neville - 22
6. Parkway - 21 (beat Ouachita 2-0)
7. Loyola - 14
8. Pineville - 13
9. Ben Franklin - 8
10. St. Michael's - 4(lost to St. Amant 0-2, beat W. Feliciana 3-1, lost to Zachary 2-3)


Others Receiving Votes: Salmen - 3

Pollsters - ShreveDad, coachray40, PutMeInCoach2, Timeaus



Division III
1. St. Louis (4) - 40 (beat Northside 7-0, beat Kelly 3-0, beat Sulphur 4-0)
2. Opelousas Catholic - 35 (beat W. Minster 3-0)
3. Teurlings - 31 (lost to Lafayette JV 0-4, beat Cro in shootout, lost to Lafayette JV 1-2 in OT)
4. University - 27 (beat Central 7-1, beat Redemptorist 5-0, tied E. Ascension 0-0, beat E. Ascension 2-1, lost to St. Amant 1-2, beat BRHS 3-1)
5. St. Martin's - 26 (tied ED White 0-0)
6. St. Charles - 15 (lost to St. Pauls 0-3, Caddo Magnet 2-5, tied Holy Cross 2-2, tied Destrahan 1-1)
6. STA - 15 (tied Catholic BR 1-1, Loss to Jesuit 0-1, beat Northshore 3-1)
8. Christian Life - 10
9. Espicopal - 6
10. Bolton - 5 (lost to ASH 0-2)



Others Receiving votes: E.D.White - 2 (tied St. Martin 0-0); Runnels - 2; West Felicina - 1(beat Zachary 2-0 lost to St. Michaels 3-1, lost to St. Amant 0-3, beat E. Ascension 3-0); ESA - 1
Pollsters - flat3, ShreveDad, coachray40, PutMeInCoach2

[lsucks]

Yo VIP, let's kick it

Jesuit aint no where to be seen
It's as bad as da actin' of Charlie Sheen
Mandy, SanAma', Cath-O-Lick get real
You be pickin' like you on a banana peel

Slippery slip, slip slip slip
Tomorrow's game will be our exhibit
We gonna prove our hatas wrong
And then you gonna' see my true song

Listen up, the J be da #1 STUNNA
And the state champ bet be a hundra
Bills that is, cuz we gonna beat St Paul
And the BM and Laffy gettin da overhaul

JESUIT TAKIN IT TO THE RITZ
CUZ WE DO IT BIG YA HEARD
JUST LIKE YO BOY C MURD

[hdkjga]

minor technicality, but Lafayette should be listed first due to more #1 votes. Other than that D1 poll looks good.

[lakeview]

Can someone tell me why Caddo Magnet is so highly rated. They beat Holy Cross only 1-0 and were down 4-0 to St Paul at halftime before St Pauls played their second set of players. St Paul must have had 27 or 28 players at the field.

I think next vote Rummel will make some noise, even though Vandy won rather easily 3-1.

[wilkens]

What's been going on with Ben Franklin team wise? Have they reassembled? How are they doing? How many players didn't return? Any info on recent scores?

[magnetdad0509]

Magnet was only down 2-0 at half to St. Paul's and were not a pushover even though they played with only two seniors and two juniors at most on the field at any one time. The Holy Cross game score was 1-0 but was dominated by Magnet. Magnet beat St. Charles 5-2 and I think St. Paul's beat St. Charles 3-0.

St. Paul's definitely won the game but Magnet was competitive even without some key senior players.

[flat3]

lakeview said:

Can someone tell me why Caddo Magnet is so highly rated. They beat Holy Cross only 1-0...
I think next vote Rummel will make some noise, even though Vandy won rather easily 3-1.

It is because there aren't too many other teams which are doing well right now. St. Amant is hurting, Catholic not doing too well, and neither Mandy nor Fontainebleau. With Jesuit definitely making top 5 next week, probably replacing Mandy, Rummel may squeeze into top 10.

[ShreveDad]

The winner of the Jesuit - St. Pauls match will be my #1 next week. The loser most likely will be #3 in my poll, with Lafayette at #2.

[Pitchstalker]

ShreveDad,

After going to St. Paul's this week and seeing several of the top teams at the same time...I've come to one conclusion...At this point in the season...there is NO team that is head and shoulders above everyone else. Obviously Jesuit has just gotten together and time will tell how good they become. St. Paul's is getting results and winning the games big games, but still with tight results, Lafayette obviously is strong (but shown they can be played with), Brother Martin's results have shown they are strong (losing by 1 to St. Paul's and defeating us (dutchtown) by 1), Dutchtown played close with BM losing by 1, Catholic BR will keep games close and give themselves chances against big teams, and in my humble opinion Mandeville still has the potential to make some noise in their district...they're not a top 8 team, but there is some potential there to put good games together. Magnet did not show me a lot this weekend, but word is they were missing 1-2 people as were most of us.

Only point by all this is that with a lot of close games by the top 5-6 teams shows that the potential is there for any of these teams to beat the other come playoff time. This is the last look we get of everyone playing each other at the top. Everyone will get into district play and begin to beat up on each other in district. One thing is for sure..the playoffs should be exciting this year with this many teams playing this closely.

Obviously there are other teams that could be mentioned with these teams....I only mentioned the ones that I saw playing at St. Paul's. (no disrespect to Shreve, STA, Acadiana, etc.) The fact that there are other teams that could be mentioned is just testament to my statement...there are good teams at the top, but all can be beat. Some taking a little more work than others.

[coachray40]

I have to agree completely. I think there are a couple of favorites ahead of others, but every team seems a bit vulnerable. I think this is good, and makes for a good january run in to the state tournament. I believe there will be some interesting second round matchups in state.

Thank you for the opportunity to post--hopefully this post wont inspire another bad Vanilla Ice remix

[coach4365]

coach 4356
got the flu,
i mean the flo.
if you can't beat
i must joint'em
for show!

[duris]

wilkens said:

What's been going on with Ben Franklin team wise? Have they reassembled? How are they doing? How many players didn't return? Any info on recent scores?

LHSAA prohibits practice until January 3 (two weeks before school reopens), so no details yet. My daughter plays girls' soccer there so don't have boys' details yet.

[ShreveDad]

Every team Pitchstalker mentioned has the potential to beat any of the others on a given day. I think Jesuit, St. Pauls and Lafayette are the top 3 right now. I was really impressed with Jesuit coming right out of the gate and winning the St. Pauls tournament. It's a shame that if those 3 teams all win their districts, they will all be in the top half of the bracket again. Jesuit and Lafayette would meet in the quarters. Not a bad year to be in the bottom half of the draw.

[byrdsoccer1]

Where would the #1 and #2 seeds in d1 d1 go?

[ShreveDad]

Here is the link to the brackets. Winner of District 1 is in the top half with D3, D5, and D9 winners. Runnerup is in the lower half. If they win their opener the District 1 winner will have to travel for the second round and most likely play the D4 runnerup, win that and most likely they would travel again for the 3rd round as well. The District 1 runnerup would most likely get a second round home match and then travel to play the winner of the 4-1/3-2 match.

lhsaa.org/2006SoccerBoysBrackets/brackets.htm

[player2010]

Mandeville needs to be taken out of the top ten because they are now where nere good enough to be in that spot! last few years yeah but sorry mandy not this year!

[d1d5fan]

No, actually they deserve to stay in the top10 after their top10 worthy performance at sps tournament... losing by 1 to brother martin and dutchtown is not a bad job at all... if mandy is out, who goes in?

[flat3]

d1d5fan said:

No, actually they deserve to stay in the top10 after their top10 worthy performance at sps tournament... losing by 1 to brother martin and dutchtown is not a bad job at all... if mandy is out, who goes in?

Jesuit....

[d1d5fan]

ahh sorry you are right, i thought jesuit was in there, my bad.