A month of high school football in Southern California has come and gone and here is a look at the Inland Sports prep football polls in the Southwest Riverside County region. As Week Four comes in to play, we will check in with Pep Fernandez and the crew from Inland Sports to see which teams are making moves in the polls. Centennial maintains the No. 1 spot with their 2-2 record, but the most recent BOOST Top-25 and coaches preseason polls still have five of the top ten teams hailing from right here in our own backyard.
The biggest drop of the week, from a semi-local look, was Rancho Verde after falling four spots to No. 16. The best bump of the week was made by San Jacinto as they moved up three spots to No. 13. Of the Top 5, 3 are local schools and of the top 25, seven others are schools from the surrounding Valley News coverage area.
This week’s polls (records included, plus movement from last week is noted):
- Centennial (2-2 same)
- Cajon (3-0, same)
- Chaparral (3-1, up one spot)
- Murrieta Valley (1-1, down one spot)
- Vista Murrieta (3-0, same)
- Roosevelt (2-1, same)
- Citrus Valley (1-1, up one spot)
- Beaumont (4-0, up one spot)
- Orange Vista (1-3, down two spots)
- Liberty (3-1, same)
- Yucaipa (3-0, up two spots)
- Aquinas (1-2, down one spot)
- San Jacinto (1-3, up three spots)
- Norte Vista (2-1, same)
- Norco (1-3, same)
- Rancho Verde (3-1, down four spots)
- Eisenhower (4-0, up one spot)
- Great Oak (2-2, up one spot)
- Summit (2-2, up one spot)
- Temecula Valley (2-2, down three spots)
- King (2-1, up three spots)
- Vista del Lago (3-1, same)
- Elsinore (1-2, same)
- Tahquitz (4-0) (new this week)
- Grand Terrace (3-1, new this week)
– Murrieta Mesa and Jurupa Hills fell off the polls this week after their Week Three losses.
This week’s Inland Sports and Ken’s Sporting Goods “Must See Game” is the San Gorgonio Spartans (4-0) versus the Liberty Bison.
“It will be their toughest nonleague test for San Gorgonio with Liberty looking to bounce back following a tough road-loss at Del Norte,” says Fernandez.
Some of the other top games that Inland Sports will have coverage of include King versus Murrieta Valley, Elsinore versus Eisenhower, and Great Oak versus Chaparral.
Continue to look for plenty of updates as the Valley News sports department and Inland Sports aim to provide even better coverage of what’s going on in the world of prep sports in our area, and beyond. Inland Sports news can be followed online at www.inlandsports.wordpress.com and the Inland Sports show can be viewed weekly on YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter.
JP Raineri can be reached by email at sports@reedermedia.com.
