long beach top 10 jan 20

SoCal High School & Prep Report

Long Beach Press Telegram
Top 10 Teams--(January 20, 1998)

All right, those of you who continue to ask, you've convinced us. We will continue to post up as many of the "Top 10" or "Super 25" ratings as we can get our hands on. Not because they may or may not be accurate, meaningful or anything else of the sort. Or they might be. We trust some of the lists, and others we've had up, well, we just have to question what they really mean.

In any event, here are the Top 10 ratings for the week (published Tuesday, January 20, 1998) by the Long Beach Press-Telegram for both boy's and girls' teams in the region served by the LB P-T, i.e., Long Beach, Northwestern and North Orange County, and South and Central LA City, Compton, Cerritos, Norwalk, etc. You know the area. Anyway here are the selections for this week:

BOYS BASKETBALL

1. Dominguez (10-3) 2. Artesia (16-1) 3. Compton (16-3) 4. Poly (14-5) 5. Bellflower (16-2) 6. Jordan (12-7) 7. Centennial (12-5) 8. Lynwood (12-6) 9. Los Alamitos (10-7) 10. Gahr (11-6)

GIRLS BASKETBALL

1. Narbonne (16-1) 2. Cerritos (14-2) 3. Bellflower (15-2) 4. Wilson (12-2) 5. Lynwood (10-3) 6. Dominguez (14-4) 7. Gahr (12-4) 8. Millikan (13-5) 9. Poly (14-3) 10. Valley Christian (14-5)

There now, don't you feel better knowing this. We know we do. And this list really does have some of the finest teams in the area. We really mean that. Not one that we can see that doesn't belong there. Congratulations to all the teams selected. To Dominguez and Narbonne, we hope you can hang on. To all the others, keep trying.