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So is this the update to the top ten teams? 1. Newport Harbor 2. JSerra 3. Harvard-Westlake 4. Sacred Heart Prep 5. Bishop’s 6. Mater Dei 7. La Jolla 8. Oaks Christian 9. Huntington Beach 10. Cathedral Catholic 11. Miramonte Not sure where you are getting your information. Mater Dei should be three...

Maddox Garrahy, Cathedral Catholic and Del Mar Water Polo, Navy

I get it, your an Atherton fan. Calling VG Seniors an all star team is quite unfair. These boys were all on the same team before VG split into the red (MD) and black (HB). They were beyond dominant, quite possibly one of the most talented age group teams ever. I respect everything you said about Ath...

I have a hard time putting Vanguard seniors behind Atherton or CCU. Watched both of those teams play over the weekend, both played exceptionally well however I just don’t see either one of them having the firepower to compete with the VG seniors team. Could be wrong and probably and but that’s my ta...

I agree, that is not a good list. All over the map and clearly created with more emotion than wisdom.

I see Cathedral as the more talented and deeper team. They are 100% healthy and rested, they were not in either of the first two games.

Dons 13-9

My predictions for tonite.

Bishops get past Vista- Spence will have his boys ready no doubt, they are simply over matched. Bishops 13-7.

Cathedral over La Jolla- The Dons have not played to their potential all year. They put it together tonite. Dons 12-7.

That is a very fair and objective breakdown. I think your right on with those rankings based on results and common opponents. Zero argument. Once those seedlings come out later tomorrow nothing from the regular season will matter. Put up or shut up time. Let’s here some predictions. I’ll go out on a...

I just looked at Jeff's first post on this topic. Heading into section playoffs, I guess it's no surprise to the board how accurate the initial August prediction was. Looking back the exceptional team he discounted was Laguna, which has had a great season. Tonight Newport looks a touch low after it...

That’s a good take and accurate as far as pools. The new facility in Oceanside is state of the art, just opened last month. It would be awesome on to see NSD Stars and Carlsbad water polo form a regional club that would encompass and draw from the entire north end of San Diego. Most of the good tale...

I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade, but CIF-SS (in general) seems to fair better then NorCal "or" the San Diego area with obvious odd-year anomaly's. I'll probably get some heat for this obvious observation,...but yet it's still basically true. I pretty sure nobody here will argue th...

I agree that any of the three can win it -- both the regular season title as well as CIFs. It's as competitive of a year at the top as I can recall recently. You're also right that I forgot to mention the Bishop's loss to Oaks Christian, which wasn't on the CIF website and wasn't against a common o...

Great take on the situation at the top. Its hard to argue that playing better opponents doesn't make you better, however we all know that the teams with the most talent don't always win. These three teams know each other extremely well so throw all the stats out the window when they play, it's about...

Round two goes to Cathedral. The Dons led the entire game and had complete control until a furious fourth quarter by the knights.Trailing 12-7 Bishops erased a 5 goal deficit to send the game to overtime. Cathedral gathered themselves and won both overtime periods for a 16-12 win. Once again a fanta...

HW 15, Los Alamitos 9 OLu 15, Cathedral Catholic 14 I haven't seen Olu play,....but based on the empirical evidence, I no longer think they pose any threat at all to any teams amongst the top 7. OLU is very athletic and pretty deep to. They have size and speed and an athletic goalie that does a gre...