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Boys HS Club Top 50 2024: Week 15

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Boys HS Club Top 50 2024: Week 15

Charlotte Cardinals threaten #1. Alan Mitchell photo.

We fielded a question this week ... had the Charlotte Cardinals won the Gonzaga Classic over Gonzaga would we have moved them to #1?

The answer is ... unlikely. It was a tournament and a shortened game. It's tough to ditch a team out of the #1 slot over a shortened game. Had they won might we have moved them to #2? Maybe. But #3 seems right.

Danville moves up after a close loss to De La Salle. Clayton moves up four spots thanks to a very good result or two in the Gonzaga Classic (but, of course, those were shortened games, too, so it's all a little flimsy.

As we've been discussing for a while. Fort Hunt, Aspetuck, Vienna, Berks, and Richmond are sort of intertwined with back-and-forth results (this guy beat that guy who beat someone else who beat the first guy). But this recent Gonzaga tournament showed Fort Hunt in all their best and most frustrating. They didn't lose a game, and yet only won two. Overall they did better than Vienna or Aspetuck at Gonzaga, and we reward them for that. 

Are we too rough on Westside? Well, maybe. We're going to keep an eye on Penn, and if Penn's win is more of a sign tat they are significantly improved, then, yes, Westside gets to move back up.

 

 

Rank Prev Team Notes
1 1 Woodlands (TX)  
2 2 San Diego Mustangs (CA) Beat Rancho Cucamonga
3 4 Charlotte Cardinals (NC) Close loss to Gonzaga
4 3 Layton Christian (UT) Beat Brighton
5 5 Belmont Shore (CA) Beat Try Time
6 6 Okapi (FL)  
7 7 Pendleton (IN) Beat Royal Irish
8 8 Eastside (WA) Beat Rainier 
9 9 Marin (CA)  
10 10 SFGG (CA) Beat Mother Lode
11 11 SOC Raptors (CA) Beat Back Bay
12 12 Granite Bay (CA) Beat Jesuit Sac.
13 13 KC Jr. Blues (MO)  
14 15 Wolverines (CA) Beat Lamorinda
15 16 Fort Hunt (VA) 2-0-2 in Gonzaga Classic
16 14 Charlotte Tigers (NC)  
17 23 Danville (CA) Lost to De La Salle
18 17 Richmond Strikers (VA)  
19 20 Thunder Rugby (CA) Beat OMBAC
20 21 Valor (CO)  
21 22 Elsie Allen (CA) Beat SacPAL (42)
22 26 Clayton (NC) 4th at Gonzaga Classic
23 19 Aspetuck (CT) 2-2 at Gonzaga Classic
24 18 Vienna (VA) 1-2 at Gonzaga Classic
25 24 Berks (PA)  
26 25 Raptor Rugby (TN)  
27 27 Tempe (AZ)  
28 28 Eastside Tsunami (OR) Beat Canby
29 29 901 (Germantown) (TN)  
30 30 Key Biscayne (FL) Beat Gibbons
31 33 F5 (OK) Beat Wichita (46)
32 31 Jacksonville (FL)  
33 32 West Valley (UT)  
34 35 Olentangy (OH) Beat Hilliard
35 36 HSE Mudsock (IN) Beat Bishop Dwenger
36 43 Cavemen (UT) Beat Kearns
37 38 Red Mountain (AZ)  
38 34 Tribal (UT) Beat Olympus
39 40 Moscow (WA) Beat Pendleton
40 41 Camas (WA) Beat Liberty
41 42 SacPAL (CA) Lost to Elsie Allen (22)
42 45 Westfield (IN) Beat Noblesville
43 46 Wichita (OK) Lost to F5 (33)
44 45 Conestoga (PA) Beat La Salle
45 49 Green Bay (WI) Beat Osh Kosh
46 48 AYR War Eagle (GA) Won Gonzaga Classic Varsity Bracket 
47 39 Raleigh Redhawks (NC)  
48 44 Tampa (FL)  
49 47 Schoolhouse (WA)  
50 37 Westside Black Swarm (IN) Lost to Penn