Like the Boys, the Ridgeview Girls are Top Ranked

Three weeks into the season and the Ridgeview girls are the top ranked Kern County team according to Larry Lung (Central California Cross Country Chair). The Wolf Pack has been racking up wins all season and he has them 5th in the valley followed by Stockdale in 7th.

Stockdale won the EB Invite and ran some fast times at Woodbridge last weekend.

Rounding out his top 20 overall are:

• Foothill (15) - Recently won the Independence Invite
• Garces (17) - They just beat Foothill in a duel meet
• Centennial (19) - Getting better every week
• Shafter (20) - Tied Ridgeview at the McLane Invite (won the 6th runner tie breaker). This weekend at the Wolf Pack is their first big meet of the year and I expect them to move up the rankings soon.

Overall rankings are great but in cross country valley and state are run in divisions and below is how Mr. Lung has our local schools ranked.

Division I

1. Buchanan 31 1
2. Clovis 50 2
3. Clovis East 83 3
4. Bullard 102 4
5. Stockdale 120 6 - Their top five are within a minute of each other.
6. Clovis West 129 5
7. Golden West 199 8
8. Centennial 207 9
9. Madera 232 7
10. Bakersfield 330 10 - The Drillers came in second behind Stockdale at the EB Invite and should be ranked higher despite the lack of a 5th runner (their top four is that good).

Division II

1. Mt. Whitney 101 1
2. Tulare 102 2
3. El Diamante 149 4
4. Foothill 150 5 - Are 2 and 1 in duel meets with a large team to draw from
5. Sunnyside 157 3
6. Garces 158 6 - Also 2 and 1 in duels meets. For several seasons Guzman was alone but now a team has been built around her.
7. Liberty (Bakersfield) 204 7 - Lead by standout Ashley Barton, I have heard that her team mates are getting better.
8. North (Bakersfield) 209 10 - The Stars are a young team that maybe surprise many like their leader Moyer did her freshman year.
9. Sanger 224 8
10.Monache 230 9

Division III

1. Madera South 105 1
2. Ridgeview 107 2 - Defending valley champs, enough said.
3. Clovis North 146 3
4. Shafter 240 4 - A young squad who can keep up with the Wolf Pack.
5. Highland 248 6 - Coach Mayberry's teams are always in the hunt for state berth come November
6. Redwood 288 5
7. Exeter 290 7
8. Independence 324 - Have a returning state qualifier and seniors this year.
9. Delano 360 8
10. Hoover 363 10


Division IV

1. Firebaugh 102 1
2. Taft 183 2 - Lead by Megan Thompson, she hopes to lead her team to a state berth.
3. McFarland 195 4 - Hopes to replicate their boys success but I hear key runners are not competing this year for them.
4. Sierra 251 6
5. Orange Cove 274 7
6. Fowler 283 8
7. Corcoran 295 10
8. Woodlake 314 NR
9. Liberty (Madera) 330 NR
10. Farmersville 343 9

Week #3 (September 21)
Varsity Girls

Overall score last week

1. Buchanan 69 1

2. Clovis 138 2

3. Clovis East 250 3

4. Madera South 283 4

5. Ridgeview 290 6

6. Bullard 317 8

7. Stockdale 380 11
   

8. Mt. Whitney 391 5

9. Tulare 395 10

10. Clovis North 406 9

11. Clovis West 409 9

12. Firebaugh 466 12

13. CVC 549 13

14. El Diamante 605 15

15. Foothill 609 16

16. Sunnyside 637 14

17. Garces 642 19

18. Golden West 652 NR

19. Centennial 680 NR
    

20. Shafter 688 17

The Alpha Males are the Wolf Pack

So far this season, the Ridgeview boys have won every meet they have entered but their latest victory was very special. They went to nine time state champ Mcfarland's Invite and won convincingly. No Kern team has beat Mcfarland at any meet in recent memory and this maybe why they are ranked number two (complete overall rankings at bottom of page) in the valley.

With this lost, Mcfarland dropped to number five. Highland (9) and Stockdale make it four teams in the top ten overall. Of course, in cross country valley and state are competed in division actio and below are the rankings:

Division I - Top three go to state and Stockdale's young talented squad might just make it in November.

1. Buchanan 25 1
2. Clovis West 51 2
3. Clovis 56 3
4. Stockdale 82 4 - Had a real good showing at Woodbridge this past weekend (16:15 avg)
5. Clovis East 114 5
6. Madera 124 6
7. Bullard 170 7
8. Mt. Whitney 187 8
9. Centennial 203 9 - New coach and new direction brings better results. Now if they were in the SEYL instead of the SWYL ...
10. Central 342 10

Division II - The Scotsmen have been bridesmaids two years running at valley.

1. Highland 65 1 - Their top 5 runners beat East's first runner at their duel.
2.Golden West 107 4
3. Redwood 115 2
4. Tulare 126 5
5. East Bakersfield 136 3 - So far this year they have been M.I.A. Only lost one from last year but so far no results this year.
6. Sunnyside 160 6
7. Tulare Western 195 9
8. North (Bakersfield) 196 10 - Won the Independence Invite
9. Hoover 196 8
10.Liberty (Bakersfield) 198 7 - Lost to Foothill but team is improving each week.

Division III - This a stacked division!

1. Ridgeview 71 2 - Undefeated & Ranked #2 in the valley plus their 1 through 5 gap is getting tighter.
2. Madera South 91 2
3. Roosevelt 113 3
4. Clovis North 174 5
5. Shafter 205 4 - They have been laying low so far but loaded with sub five minute milers.
6. Wasco 224 6 - Another good Kern squad.
7. El Diamante 313 8
8. Foothill 337 NR - New head coach and won their first dual of the year.
9. Frontier 389 10
10. Yosemite 408 NR

Division IV*

1. McFarland 59 1 - Despite their first local lost in recent memory, the Cougars are still number one
2. Avenal 67 2
3. Parlier 167 4
4. Exeter 191 3
5. Firebaugh 241 9
6. Kerman 258 8
7. Taft 288 10
8. Mendota 291 NR
9. Farmersville 293 6
10. Caruthers 333 NR

This week, the Wolf Pack hosts their own meet at River Walk and most of the top teams including McFarland are expected to compete. Besides ranking on Lung's chart, they are also number one on my invite rankings system which rewards points on how well a team performs at invites. My formula is the winning teams point score divided by your score times the number of teams in the meet times 100.

So at the Mcfarland Invite, Ridgeview won with a score of 36 and there were 7 teams:
Ridgeview score - (36/36*7)*100 = 700 points
Mcfarland score - (36/69*7)*100 = 365 points

As of 9.23.09, my rankings are:

ridgview	2900
stockdale	1724
highland	1170
mcfarland	826
north	559
shafter	513
wasco	481
foothill	399
centennial	330
east	325
taft	286
liberty	255
arvin	234
frontier	215
independence	196
garces	184
golden valley	144
south	133
tehachapi	123
bakersfield	113
bchs	71

Noise Invite Power Rankings HERE (excel file)

Week #3 (September 21)

Varsity Boys

Overall score last week

1. Buchanan 60 1

2. Ridgeview 170 5

3. Clovis West 180 3

4. Clovis 200 6

5. McFarland 224 2

6. Madera South 226 4

7. Avenal 265 9

8.Roosevelt 288 7

9. Highland 297 8

10. Stockdale 316 10

11. Clovis North 458 12

12. Clovis East 462 11

13.Madera 509 18

14. Golden West 531 17

15. Shafter 543 14

16. Redwood 574 13

17. Wasco 595 15

18. Tulare 637 20

19. East Bakersfield 690 16

20. Bullard 716 NR

-compiled by Larry Lung,

Central California

Cross Country Chair