Southern California high school team ratings

February 10, 2013 By Frank Burlison 2 Comments

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Ca. – The CIF Southern Section and L.A. City playoffs get under way this coming week.

The following is my Top 15 rankings for teams from those sections – and include ONLY those teams that I watched in person during the regular season.

Among those I didn’t see in the regular season were Riverside JW North and Los Angeles Pacific Hills.

So here we go:

1.Santa Ana Mater Dei (CIF SS 1AA);

2. Torrance Bishop Montgomery (SS 4AA);

3. Long Beach Poly (SS 1AA);

4. Etiwanda (SS 1AA);

5. L.A. Westchester (L.A. City Div. I);

6. L.A. Loyola (SS 1AA);

7. Mission Viejo (SS 1AA);

8 Corona Centennial (SS 1AA);

9. Bellflower St. John Bosco (SS 3A);

10. Woodland Hills El Camino Real (L.A City Div. I);

11. Rancho Cucamonga (SS 1AA);

12. San Juan Capistrano JSerra (SS 4AA)

13. Lake Forest El Toro (SS 1A);

14. L.A. Windward (SS 4A);

15. L.A. Brentwood Academy (SS 5A).

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