SportStars NorCal Volleyball Rankings | Top 20, Oct. 12

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.