Week 5: LAPrep Official Top 10-Girls

[barbedad20]

LAHSsoccer.com 2007-2008 Week 5 High School Girls Soccer Rankings

For immediate press release:

(School) (Total Votes) (First Place Votes) (Current Record) (Weekly Results)

Division I

1. St Thomas More 70 (7) 13-0-2
2. St Scholastica 60 11-3-0 Covington W 6-0
3. Mt Carmel 52 11-2-1 Sacred Heart W 2-0
4. Barbe 50 6-3-3 Acadiana L 0-1
5. Fontainebleau 45 8-1-0 Ponchatoula W 9-0
6. Mandeville 32 16-1-1 Northshore W 1-0
7. Caddo Magnet 23 13-2-0 Capt Shreve W 6-1
8. Dutchtown 18 14-2-0
9. Lafayette 16 6-3-1 Westgate W 10-0
10. Dominican 9 3-6-1 Newman L 1-2

Others receiving votes: Byrd 4 7-3-3 Parkway W 6-1, St Joe's 5, Acadiana 1 4-4-0 Barbe W 1-0

Division II

1. Vandebilt Catholic 57 (4)
2. Neville 55 (2) 11-5-1
3. Parkway 50 12-3-0 Byrd L 1-6
4. DeRidder 41 9-5-2 ASH W 6-0
5. Teurlings Catholic 32 1-3-1
6. St Michael 22 1-1-1
7. Tioga 21 3-1-0 W Leesville 3-2
8. Loyola 20 2-3-1
9. Cabrini 12
10. Haughton 8 3-3-0,


Others receiving votes: Sam Houston 7 0-2-1, Alexandria Deridder L 0-62 , Opelousas 1

Division III

1. Sacred Heart 60 (6) 7-2-2 Mt Carmel L 0-2
2. Newman 52 6-2-2 Dominican W 2-1
3. St. Louis 50 8-3-1
4. CHSNI 41 7-0-2
5. Ben Franklin 24 2-3-3
5 Ursuline 24 7-4-0
5. Menard 24 11-2-0
8. ED White 22 3-2-0
9. St. Thomas Aquinas 18 9-1-0
10. Opelousas Catholic 6 3-0-2
10. Ouachita Christian 6 10-6-1 West Monroe T 2-2


Others receiving votes: Country Day 3 1-2-2

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.

Why don't you post the coaches' poll either instead of or in conjunction with this poll? It might bring in some fresh objectivity and provide some pithy fodder for discussion.

[stafalcon22]

st thomas aquinas is 13-2-0

[sokerfan]

Lafayette High wins again. Yes a weak team, but with loses only to Newman, Mt. Carmel and St. Louis, the lady Lions are beginning to roll. Should move up the poll, right Barbedad20. Show the Lady Lions some love. You asked where would our scoring come from? Chelsea Granger -4 Macie Andrus -3 Brooke Perry -1 and 2 more by I don't know. They were very nice goals - headers off crosses, vollies off crosses, and near post finishes instead of post bangers. Most importantly, didn't play down to the level of opponent.

[know1important]

Another great rivalry game is about to take place on Friday night. FHS ranked number 5 in the state is hosting number 2 in the state St. Scholastica. I would have to think FHS moves up in the polls a few spots if they win tomorrow. All of these kids play with each other during the club season, so it should be a good one.

[diverdo]

Mandeville at #6 is quite a complement to the program but they have struggled to their excellent record over these 18 games mostly against teams that they SHOULD defeat. Quality win against Caddo Magnet and also Div II Neville and Parkway. Quality loss against Fontainebleau. I have seen only a few of the ranked teams but I believe that there is a lot of separation tetween the top 2 or 3 teams and the rest of the top 10 - even if on a given night one of those top 2-3 teams gets a loss.

[neutral]

Couldn't agree more diverdo. Just because those top 2-3 teams play a quality team and get a loss it doesn't mean that a team moves ahead of them because they beat a mediocre team. This all goes back to strength of schedule which right now is all up to the individual coach and whether that coach wants some good strong games or just a record that looks good.

[my2centsplus]

Mount Carmel is 10-2-1. Your missing the 3-1 win over Dominican on the coaches thread.

[diverdo]

Neutral, I agree that Dominican, for instance, with a losing record may be every bit as good as Mandeville which has won a bunch of games. But just to clarify my thoughts regarding mandeville, the coach replaced graduated starters from last year, more than 1/2 the team, with almost all freshmen and I believe his gameplan of carefully developing the chemistry among the players on this year's team is a reasonable approach. Ws/Ls really do not matter until district, nor does the polling during the season. Peaking at the end is what it is all about and each coach has to figure out how best to get to that point - Dominican, again, is an excellent example from last year.

[alleyball]

The one thing about Mandeville's freshman class is that they are pretty talented bunch of girls from the Mandeville Premier state championship team, which has won the championship the last 2 years for sure.

[neutral]

Diverdo, I agree.

By the way, there are some more results missing from the records in some of the New Orleans teams besides the Dominican - Mt. Carmel 1-3 result for district:

Dominican - Chapelle = 2-0 (district)
Sacred Heart - Mount Carmel = 0-2 (last night, 12/19)
Newman - Dominican = 2-1 (last night, 12/19)

[adelantero]

to "alleyball"
The girls from the current U-15 girls team which were State Champions last year, are split between Fontainebleu, SSA and Mandeville. One could say that all 3 schools enjoy the talent of 3 Premier State Champions and 1 Premier State Finalist. Just because they all played in the Premier State Championship games last year does not translate into automatic team chemistry. Team cohesion will evolve over the season or they will just desintegrate .

[adidas76]

how does newman lose 3-0 to st. louis and is still ranked ahead of them?

[neutral]

Good point adidas76. Please let me know if you hear of a good reason.

[soccerrouge]

Dutchtown record 14-2-0

[soccerdog]

Hey...take a good look at NCS, you may like what you see!