WCAL Reigns Supreme
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Pretty down year though in terms of a supreme team but St. Francis was legit. Mitty got really lucky winning that game last night. Nobody thought Whitney would be that good.
WCAL has always been a top league in norcal if not state. A lot of dog fights.
WCAL has always been a top league in norcal if not state. A lot of dog fights.
Agree no great team, but top to bottom show me a better league? Had Sabastian Much not transferred and a healthy Kone, Mitty would have been interesting this post season.
That is a good call Queso. I thought Much was a borderline Pac12 type guy. Not sure he has the foot speed but the skills at 6"8 were there. Any news on how he did or where he's going? Would be a great WCC type player.
You gotta figure they were an open team contender with those guys. I watched them with Kone nearly beat MC up at Jesuit. I think they lost by 2.
You gotta figure they were an open team contender with those guys. I watched them with Kone nearly beat MC up at Jesuit. I think they lost by 2.
You saw our best team SF lose to Modesto Christian by 3. Not the point. Show me a league that's better in NorCal top to bottom? You can't!
BTW unless you're nationally ranked why would you want to play in NorCal open? SoCal depending on ranking services usually has at least 2 nationally ranked teams going to Open.
Funny you mention Sheldon as both Serra and Sheldon knocked out MC. Sheldon looks impressive.
Btw Serra Blasted Ayala a highly ranked SoCal team in preseason. I expect Serra will be NorCal champs in division this year.
It helps to have only 1 team selected to go to the Open, and have teams from a lot of different divisions. The WCAL definitely has a lot of very competitive teams and has to be the best league from top to bottom. But most other good leagues have teams in only 1 or 2 divisions and even if they were all better than the WCAL teams (hypothetical) they wouldn't be able to have 5 teams in the NorCal semis. It is impressive to have all these teams still playing, but the WCAL has a unique set up and they had a lot of successful teams in different divisions long before the Open was taking away the top teams from those divisions.
Had San Bruno's Eddie Stansberry not been asked to remove himself from the venerable academic institution on West 20th Avenue in San Mateo a couple of years ago, his presence in the Serra lineup this season would have been HUGE. Going small would have been absolutely lethal. Ah, yes, what might have been.
Correct. The WCAL is unique in NorCal. Nothing else like it north of the Grapevine.
Never mind Serra...He made Riordans' team successful and rallied every player on the team to play better and win, the mark of true great leader.
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He could have gone anywhere and probably could have played his soph year if he didn't choose 175 Phelan Ave. Learned a valuable life lesson and now has brothers for life.
