The high school winter sports season is past the halfway point and the updated rankings show quite a few local teams getting great exposure in their perspective divisions as the post season nears. The latest CIF Southern Section polls were released Monday, Jan. 13, as we bring you some of the local area teams that have cracked the rankings:
Boys’ Basketball
DIVISION 1
No. 3 – Rancho Christian (16-3; Southeastern League)
DIVISION 2AA
No local teams
DIVISION 2A
No. 13 – Murrieta Mesa (11-5, 1-1; Southwestern League)
DIVISION 3AA
No local teams
DIVISION 3A
No. 10 – Chaparral (12-6, 1-1; Southwestern League)
DIVISION 4AA
No. 13 – Perris (13-6, 4-0; Sunbelt League)
DIVISION 4A
No local teams
DIVISION 5AA
No local teams
DIVISION 5A
No. 2 – Linfield Christian (8-6, 2-4; Ambassador League)
No. 5 – California Military Institute (9-1, 2-1; South Valley League)
No. 8 – Temecula Prep (10-7, 3-2; South Valley League)
Girls’ Basketball
DIVISION 1
No local teams
DIVISION 2AA
No local teams
DIVISION 2A
No local teams
DIVISION 3AA
No. 15 – Murrieta Mesa (8-10, 2-0; Southwestern League)
DIVISION 3A
No local teams
DIVISION 4AA
No. 2 – Paloma Valley (16-3, 4-1; Sunbelt League)
No. 8 – Orange Vista (12-6, 4-2; Sunbelt League)
DIVISION 4A
No local teams
DIVISION 5AA
No. 3 – San Jacinto Valley Academy (9-1, 5-0; South Valley League)
DIVISION 5A
No. 8 – West Valley (7-7, 0-2; Mountain Pass League)
Boys’ Soccer
DIVISION 1-4
No local teams
DIVISION 5
No. 9 – Chaparral (Southwestern League)
DIVISION 6
No. 6 – San Jacinto (Mountain Pass League)
DIVISION 7
No. 1 – California Military Institute (South Valley League)
No. 2 – Linfield Christian (Ambassador League)
Girls’ Soccer
DIVISION 1 – 3
No local teams
DIVISION 4
No. 3 – Hemet (Mountain Pass League)
No. 9 – Murrieta Mesa (Southwestern League)
DIVISION 5
No. 9 – San Jacinto (Mountain Pass League)
DIVISION 6
No. 10 – Rancho Verde (Ivy League)
DIVISION 7
No. 3 – Linfield Christian (Ambassador League)
Girls’ Water Polo
DIVISION 1 & 2
No. 17 – Murrieta Valley (Southwestern League)
DIVISION 3
No local teams
DIVISION 4
No. 9 – Murrieta Mesa (Southwestern League)
Top 15 – Lakeside (Ivy League)
Top 15 – Vista Murrieta (Southwestern League)
DIVISION 5
Top 15 – Temecula Valley (Southwestern League)
DIVISION 6 & 7
No local teams
*Polls are created by CIF-SS Advisory Committees representing each sport listed above.
JP Raineri can be reached by email at sports@reedermedia.com.
