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 Invite9. 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
The only invite that I found any local teams at this weekend was the Clovis Invite which shook up the boy's rankings. I used the combined results to come up with the rankings for the meet and McFarland 9photo) moved up into the lead with their effort. They won the small school's race.
