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East Bay Softball Poll — 5/2
By Stephanie Hammon
Monday, May 2nd, 2011 at 3:42 pm in Softball.
Here are our latest East Bay rankings. Hardly any movement from last week.
| Team | Record | Points | Last week |
| 1. James Logan (7) | 15-3 | 105 | 1 |
| 2. California | 15-2 | 96 | 2 |
| 3. Pinole Valley | 17-1 | 93 | 3 |
| 4. Heritage | 9-5 | 81 | 4 |
| 5. Amador Valley | 11-5 | 80 | 5 |
| 6. Freedom | 12-6 | 70 | 6 |
| 7. Antioch | 11-3 | 60 | 7 |
| 8. Concord | 13-3 | 58 | 8 |
| 9. Newark Memorial | 17-2 | 45 | 9 |
| 10. Carondelet | 13-4 | 38 | 10 |
| 11. Alameda | 16-3 | 37 | 11 |
| 12. Castro Valley | 13-6 | 29 | 11 |
| 13. Alhambra | 13-4 | 24 | 13 |
| 14. Albany | 12-1 | 14 | 14 |
| 15. Monte Vista | 9-9 | 5 | NR |
Also receiving votes: Clayton Valley (8-7, 3 votes), Arroyo (11-5, 3), Livermore (9-9, 1). The East Bay Prep Softball Poll is voted on by the prep sports staff of Bay Area News Group-East Bay. Records are through Saturday.
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May 3rd, 2011 at 12:15 pm
Interesting – to say the least – on the poll this week.
There’s absolutely no movement in the top 14 posisitons this week? Even though teams like Cal and Freedom were each 5 – 1 and lost in championship games in their respective pools at the NorCal Classic in Tracy.
Even Carondelt who went 2 – 2 remains unchanged even though four teams below them were 1 – 0 or 2 – 0 for the week. The only movement comes at 15, where Monte Vista is rewarded and moved into 15th ranking even though they were 1 – 1, and Clayton Valley did not play but still got knocked down and out of the rankings?
The prep sports staff could have saved themselves the trouble this week, and just put “ditto” in the poll section of the paper?
May 3rd, 2011 at 5:07 pm
Actually there were changes to the point totals. Cal, Freedom and Carondelet each lost some points from the voters. Not enough to move them out of thir current rankings, but it is clear the staff is not just copying their last week’s votes. I don’t think the teams should be moving up or down after every game is played. 5-1 during a week is still pretty good. Stephanie did state above the poll that there was hardly any movement from last week.
It might be more constructive to state who you think should move up and why, as I have seen that the staff does listen to compelling arguments. Support was made for MV to move up into the rankings last week by a poster and some reasons were stated.
May 3rd, 2011 at 8:05 pm
The weird thing about the poll this week is that most voters’ individual rankings changed somewhat, but when all the points were tallied teams ended up staying in the same spots. I know my personal poll definitely did not look exactly the same as the previous week.
May 6th, 2011 at 9:55 pm
http://www.ibabuzz.com/prepcorner/2011/04/25/east-bay-softball-poll-425/
Read…
May 7th, 2011 at 11:19 am
Concord High Fan,
Logan will be a good test to see where Concord stands. Don’t look past Alhambra either. I saw them at the Stampede. They have a good team.
Good luck
May 8th, 2011 at 11:02 am
The way they are playing, I wouldn’t look past a 12U team if they played them. Alhambra has been playing very well, and James Logan… Well it’s James Logan…
We will see if drama continues…