{"id":42599,"date":"2014-09-30T18:29:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T01:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=42599"},"modified":"2017-06-10T00:51:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T07:51:55","slug":"top-ten-northwest-division-9302014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=42599","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten: Northwest Division (9\/30\/2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_38248\" style=\"width: 447px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Cantwell-Valencia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38248\" class=\" wp-image-38248\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Cantwell-Valencia-996x768.jpg\" alt=\"Cantwell QB Matt Valencia---photo courtesy of Cantwell Football.\" width=\"437\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cantwell Cardinals and QB Matt Valencia have crawled back into the Top Ten&#8212;photo courtesy of Cantwell Football.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Joe Torosian<\/p>\n<p><strong>Starting to believe any of the top four teams could take the Northwest&#8230;One of them will, certain of it. Maranatha needs to be tested like Nipomo has been. The Minutemen have not taken a punch since Bassett in Zero Week. Pasadena Poly is playing good football right now, it will be interesting to see how it translates against Rio Hondo Prep.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1.) Maranatha Minutemen, 5-0 (Olympic League): It\u2019s not a leap to guess that this team might be 10-0 come playoff time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.) Nipomo Titans, 3-2 (Northern League): Tough schedule, still best team in Northern League.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3.) Arrowhead Christian Eagles, 5-0 (Ambassador League): Notre Dame-Riverside will give them a challenge, after that they\u2019ll have to wait till post-season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.) Templeton, 4-1 (Northern League): En fuego with four consecutive victories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>5.) Valley Christian Crusaders, 4-1 (Olympic League): Bounced back from disappointing loss&#8230;A victory over the Minutemen could make entire season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6.) Big Bear Bears, 4-1 (De Anza League): The class of the De Anza.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>7.) Pasadena Poly, 4-0 (Prep League): Is this the best team in the Prep League&#8230;We\u2019re starting to think so.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8.) Village Christian Crusaders, 4-1 (Olympic League): Bad loss to Verdugo Hills.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>9.) Mission Prep Royals, 3-2 (Northern League): Need to get the passing game going if they plan on going far in the post-season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10.) Cantwell Cardinals, 3-1 (South Catholic League): Anything less than a 50-burger and they drop out of the top ten.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Others (in no order): Rio Hondo Prep (2-3), Aquinas (2-2), St. Bernard (3-2), Heritage Christian (3-2), Notre Dame-Riverside (4-1), Verbum Dei (2-2).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joe Torosian Starting to believe any of the top four teams could take the Northwest&#8230;One of them will, certain of it. Maranatha needs to be tested like Nipomo has been. The Minutemen have not taken a punch since Bassett in Zero Week. Pasadena Poly is playing good football right now, it will be interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12816],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hsfootball"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42601,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42599\/revisions\/42601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}