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Boys HS Club Rankings Week #3

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Boys HS Club Rankings Week #3

Danville still #1. Kevin Leusing photo.

The latest Goff Rugby Report HS club rankings are here and we have to say, it's always tough to put stock in early-season games.

Those scrimmages and the like might mean something, or maybe they don't, and we've made the mistake in the past of giving so much weight to some early result that a team that's really not all that strong was float around in a decent ranking for weeks thanks to that one result ... or, worse yet, we give an early win credence, and then that early-winner loses to another, and that second team gets a boost and never loses it. And it turned out, none of those guys should have been ranked as high as they were.

That's why we always say that the results will fix it. So ... when Granite Bay has trouble with CK McClatchy in an early game that was likely a scrimmage as much as anything else, do we ignore it, or say there's something to it. A little of both. We dropped GB, but not so far that they can't bounce back against quickly, and we pushed McClatchy up, but not so far we feel like we've overplayed it.

Charlotte Tigers, Katy, and Woodlands all look for real, and they move up. We dropped the last four in last week's rankings and brought in four new teams, including Ahwatukee out of Arizona, which used to be Desert Vista (they changed their name because Desert Vista is the name of one of the several schools they draw from, and a more regional name is thought to attract players from other schools; it has worked so far).

 

 

Goff Rugby Report Boys HS Club Rankings 2017 Week #3
Rank Prev Team Notes
1 1 Danville Oaks (Calif.) Beat Lamorinda
2 3 Royal Irish (Ind.)  
3 4 Fort Hunt (Va.)  
4 5 United (Utah)  
5 6 Doylestown (Pa.)  
6 2 Granite Bay (Calif.) Close scrimmage win over CK McClatchy (42)
7 7 Peninsula Green (Calif.)  
8 8 Back Bay (Calif.)  
9 9 Coastal Dragons (Calif.)  
10 16 Katy (Texas) Bt. New Orleans Jesuit (SS 31), Bayou (43)
11 17 Charlotte Tigers (NC) Bt. Phoenix (35)
12 19 Woodlands (Texas) Bt. Westlake (SS 23)
13 10 Kansas City Jr. Blues (Mo.)  
14 11 Orlando (Fla.)  
15 15 NOLA Barbarians (La.)  
16 12 West Valley Warriors (Utah)  
17 13 Fairfield (Conn.)  
18 18 Mother Lode (Calif.)  
20 20 Red Mountain (Ariz.) Lost to Snow Canyon (SS 33)
21 42 CK McClatchy (Calif.) Close scrimmage loss to Granite Bay (2)
22 21 West End (Va.)  
23 22 Tampa (Fla.)  
24 23 Colorado Springs (Colo.)  
25 24 Jupiter (Fla.) Ppd.
26 25 Chapel Hill Highlanders (NC)  
27 26 Rainier (Wash.)  
28 27 Little Rock (Ark)  
29 28 Solo Falcons (Calif.) Bt. Marin
30 29 Eastside (Wash.)  
30 30 Santa Monica (Calif.)  
31 31 SD Young Aztecs (Calif.)  
32 32 Prince Williams (Va.)  
33 33 SFGG (Calif.) Bt. Los Gatos
34 34 Liberty (Wash.)  
35 35 Phoenix (Ga.) Lost to Charlotte Tigers (17)
36 Unr Okapi Wanderers (Fla.) Bt. Wizards
37 36 Chuckanut (Wash.)  
38 38 Kau Toa (Utah)  
39 39 Chargers (Wisc.)  
40 14 South Greenville (SC) Lost to Greenville HS (SS 44)
41 41 Eagan (Minn.)  
42 Unr Ahwatukee (Ariz.) Bt. Old Pueblo
43 43 Bayou Hurricanes (La.) Lost to Katy (16)
44 Unr Elsie Allen (Calif.) Bt. Bishop O'Dowd
45 37 Cape Pirates (Fla.) Lost to Cardinal Gibbons
46 44 Key Biscayne (Fla.) Ppd.
47 44 Maryland Exiles (Md.)  
48 45 San Diego Mustangs (Calif.)  
49 46 Harpeth (Tenn.)  
50 Unr Irmo (SC) Bt. Lexington