Photo at right by Jim Cayer
11:00am | The Lakewood High football team moved into the #3 ranking in the extremely competitive PAC-5 Division when polls were released on Monday, leapfrogging Long Beach Poly who fell from #3 to #7 after a 32-7 loss to St. Bonaventure last week.
Mission Viejo remains at #1 with Servite at #2.
Lakewood, now the highest-ranked team in the Moore League, moved up one spot after the Lancers’ 27-7 victory over St. John Bosco last week. Coming off their Moore League championship season, every local coach named Lakewood as the favorite to repeat this year.
After their first loss of the season, the road doesn’t get any easier for Long Beach Poly. The Jackrabbits scheduled a grueling preseason and will face highly-regarded Narbonne this week and the PAC-5 Division’s top-ranked team, Mission Viejo, after that.
Two other Moore League teams didn’t make the Top Ten but were noted, with the Compton Tarbabes earning a mention for the second consecutive week after a 27-14 victory over Compton Centennial and Long Beach Jordan with new head coach Thomas Barnes, even though the Panthers had a bye last week and did not play. Apparently their opening week victory over Los Angeles Jordan was impressive enough to warrant a mention among the best of the PAC-5 Division.
Here are the complete PAC-5 Football standings for this week:
PAC-5 DIVISION
1. Mission Viejo (2-0) def. Loyola, 42-7
2. Servite (2-0) def. Kennedy/Granada Hills (LAS), 48-7
3. Lakewood (2-0) def. St. John Bosco, 27-7
4. Los Alamitos (2-0) def. Mayfair, 34-19
5. Edison (2-0) def. Wilson/Long Beach, 48-7
6. Bishop Amat (2-0) def. Dominguez, 21-15
7. Long Beach Poly (1-1) lost to St. Bonaventure, 7-32
8. Newport Harbor (1-0) def. Trabuco Hills, 17-6
9. San Clemente (3-0) def. Fountain Valley, 59-24
10. Mater Dei (0-1) ByeOTHERS: Orange Lutheran (2-0); Crespi (1-1); Dana Hills (2-0); Alemany (2-0);
Compton (2-0); Tesoro (2-0); Jordan/Long Beach (1-0); JSerra (1-0).
Here are the current Moore League football standings with their upcoming opponents this Friday.
Moore League
Lakewood (#3) 2-0 (0-0) Mayfair (0-2), 7:00pm Friday
Compton Tarbabes 2-0 (0-0) At Dominguez (1-1), 5:00pm Friday
Jordan Panthers 1-0 (0-0) At Warren (0-2), 7:00pm Friday
Cabrillo Jaguars 1-1 (0-0) North (1-1), 7:00pm
Long Beach Poly (#7) 1-1 (0-0) At Narbonne (1-0), 7:00pm Friday
Millikan Rams 1-1 (0-0) Redondo Union (1-1), 7:00pm Friday
Wilson Bruins 1-1 (0-0) At La Serna (1-1), 7:00pm Friday
See you at the game!