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HS Boys School Top 50 Week 8

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HS Boys School Top 50 Week 8

Xavier vs GGA. Xavier to #1 ... for now.

We're coming to the end of the period where some teams play a lot and others don't.

North Carolina, SoCal, and parts of Northern California all finish their single-school seasons next week, or already have. Other teams are starting to play so it's going to be tough for those teams to hang on to higher rankings because other teams are playing. There is a pretty solid chance next week that the winner of the All-California final, or perhaps Cathedral Catholic if some things fall into place, will be #1. They won't last—they can't last when they're not playing—but they will have their moment.

At the same time, it remains difficult to keep other teams in the Top 50 when they won't play for a long time. Witness Xaverian Brothers, who drop out mostly because more teams are now getting results and XB don't play for a month.

New #1

Could St. Ignatius Cleveland have been put into #1? Sure. They beat the #6 club team. But Xavier beat the #6 school team, which had just beaten an earlier #1. So it could have gone either way here. We opted for Xavier.

Strake Jesuit moved up from #21 to #11 and that was just a case of us waiting for them to beat Dallas Jesuit, which they did.

Coming Up

St. Francis plays Torrey Pines in the All-California final. De La Salle plays Loyola for 3rd. Cathedral Catholic plays La Costa Canyon for the SCIRF final.

Rank Prev Team Notes
1 10 Xavier (NY) Beat Gregory the Great (6)
2 2 St. Ignatius (OH) Beat Pendleton, NDDLS (31)
3 8 St. Francis (CA) Beat De La Salle (1)
4 1 De La Salle (CA) Lost to St. Francis (8)
5 3 Cathedral Catholic (CA)  
5 3 Torrey Pines (CA) Beat Loyola (34)
7 6 Gregory the Great (PA) Lost to Xavier (10)
8 5 Herriman (UT) Beat East HS (14)
9 7 Gonzaga (DC) Beat St. Joseph's (20)
10 9 Sacramento Jesuit (CA) Beat St. Ignatius SF (36)
11 21 Strake Jesuit (TX) Beat Dallas Jesuit (13)
12 11 BC High (MA)  
13 12 Staples (CT)  
14 13 Dallas Jesuit (TX) Lost to Strake Jesuit (21)
15 14 East HS (UT) Lost to Herriman (5)
16 15 Greenwich (CT)  
17 16 St. Thomas Aquinas (KS) Beat St. James
18 17 Marquette HS (WI)  
19 18 South Meck (NC)  
20 20 St. Joe's Prep (PA) Lost to Gonzaga (7)
21 22 Charlotte Catholic (NC)  
22 23 Fairfield Prep (CT)  
23 24 La Costa Canyon (CA)  
24 26 Lake Travis (TX) Beat St. Pius X
25 27 Hough (NC)  
26 28 St. Augustine (NJ) Beat Malvern Prep
27 31 ND de la Salette (IL) Close loss to St. Ignatius (2)
28 19 St. Martin's (KS)  
29 29 Jesuit New Orleans (LA)  
30 30 East HS (CO) Close loss to Valor
31 38 St. Augustine (CA) Beat Mira Costa (47)
32 25 St. Edward (OH) 1-2 at Ruggerfest
33 33 Brother Martin (LA)  
34 34 Loyola (CA) Lost to Torrey Pines (3)
35 35 Orange Lutheran (CA)  
36 36 St. Ignatius SF (CA) Lost to Jesuit Sac. (9)
37 39 Bishop O'Dowd (CA) Beat Serra
38 32 SLUH (MO) Lost to 901
39 37 St. Xavier (OH) 0-3 in Ruggerfest
40 40 Pelham HS (NY)  
41 42 Rye (NY)  
42 43 Georgetown Prep (MD)  
43 44 Eagle (ID)  
44 45 Bixby (OK)  
45 49 Monarch (CO) Beat Vikings
46 50 Bishop Dwenger (IN) Beat SIHS Blue
47 46 Kahuku (HI)  
48 47 Mira Costa (CA) Lost to St. Augustina (38)
49 Unr Brophy Prep (AZ) Beat Neuqua (50). Lost to Red Mountain
50 50 Neuqua (IL) Lost to Scottsdale, Tempe. Close loss to Brophy Prep