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Stockton Classic Results Don’t Change The Very Top Of The NorCal Volleyball Rankings, But Several Teams Move Up This Week •

NorCal Volleyball Rankings

All records are through Tuesday, Oct. 11. Previous ranking in parenthesis. Record obtained via MaxPreps.
PICTURED ABOVE: Members Of No. 10 Marin Catholic-Kentfield Celebrate A Point During Their Stockton Classic Match Vs. No. 12 Amador Valley-Pleasanton. (Chace Bryson photo)

1. (1) St. Francis-Mountain View   24-0

2. (2) Archbishop Mitty-San Jose   23-6

3. (3) Sacred Heart Prep-Atherton   17-4

4. (5) San Ramon Valley-Danville   19-6

5. (6) Monte Vista-Danville   22-4

6. (8) St. Mary’s-Stockton   17-7

7. (9) Oak Ridge-El Dorado Hills   25-3

8. (10) Campolindo-Moraga   19-6

9. (11) Redwood-Larkspur   20-6

10. (12) Marin Catholic-Kentfield   18-9

11. (4) Amador Valley-Pleasanton  19-4

12. (7) Branson-Ross   12-9

13. (13) Whitney-Rocklin  25-2

14. (14) Foothill-Pleasanton   23-6

15. (16) University-S.F.   20-5

16. (19) Valley Christian-San Jose   15-6

17. (20) St. Ignatius-S.F.   13-14

18. (17) Sacred Heart Cathedral-S.F.   11-8

19. (18) Bishop O’Dowd-Oakland   26-7

20. (NR) Pitman-Turlock  26-2

DROPPED OUT:

No. 15 Burlingame

5 TEAMS KNOCKING (ALPHABETICALLY):

Burlingame (18-5), Escalon (27-1), Hillsdale-San Mateo (21-8), Rocklin (19-10) and Salinas (20-6).

AT THE NET

It’s hard to ever put a huge amount of stock into tournament results. That’s for two reasons: Matches are shorter, and it’s never a given that teams will be at full strength when they play them. Nine out of 10 times, we’re going to value a league match head-to-head win over a tournament one.

And that’s how it came to be that San Ramon Valley went 0-for-4 in the top flight of Saturday’s Stockton Classic, but still climbed one spot to supplant previous-No. 4 Amador Valley-Pleasanton (which went 2-2 in the same flight of the same tournament). However, San Ramon Valley won a set in all four of its Stockton Classic losses (which included matches vs. No. 2 Mitty-San Jose and new-No. 6 St. Mary’s-Stockton) — and it did so without its best player, senior outside hitter Audrey Ross.

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Ross was on her future campus, attending events for Boston College commits. She was back on Tuesday and the Wolves rolled to a straight-set East Bay Athletic League win over Amador Valley. Fellow EBAL juggernaut, Monte Vista-Danville, moved up one spot to No. 5 after going 5-1 last week with its only loss to No. 1 St. Francis-Mountain View at the Stockton Classic. San Ramon Valley stays above them based on a 3-0 league win on Sept. 22. The two rivals face each other at SRV on Oct. 20.

Amador Valley and Branson-Ross, both of which had three losses last week, each dropped out of the Top 10. Amador fell to No. 11 and stays ahead of the No. 12 Bulls based on a head-to-head win in Stockton. Former No. 15 Burlingame was the only team to drop all the way out of the NorCal Volleyball Rankings this week.

Burlingame went 5-1 during the week, but lost to unranked Aragon-San Mateo in the championship match of Aragon’s tournament. Taking the Panthers spot is a Pitman-Turlock squad that has won 23 straight matches and are 66-9 in sets this season.

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Chace Bryson

Chace Bryson is the managing editor of SportStars Magazine. Reach him at [email protected]

  • Gabriel Leal

    October 16, 2022 #1 Author

    Thank you for covering The Stockton Classic.

    Please let me know Chace if you need anything next time ahead of time.

    Spoke to the missing sac teams they will be back next year.

    Would be awesome to have you as a sponsor as well.

    Gonna try and get some Utah talent and socal teams.

    Let’s talk
    -Gabe

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