A look at The Times\u2019 top 25 high school baseball rankings for the Southland after the third week of the season:<\/p>\n
Rk. School (Rec.); Comment; ranking last week<\/p>\n
1. ST. JOHN BOSCO (2-0): Jack Champlin is back to being the best closer in California; 1<\/p>\n
2. CORONA (4-0): Panthers begin league play this week vs. King; 3<\/p>\n
3. ORANGE LUTHERAN (2-1): Lancers went 1-1 on trip to Las Vegas; 2<\/p>\n
4. SHERMAN OAKS NOTRE DAME (4-0): Knights start Mission League vs. St. Francis; 4<\/p>\n
5. HARVARD-WESTLAKE (5-1): It\u2019s showdown time this week vs. Sierra Canyon; 5<\/p>\n
6. GAHR (3-2): 1-0 losses to Harvard-Westlake, St. John Bosco; 8<\/p>\n
7. NORCO (4-1): Next up is Gahr on Wednesday; 9<\/p>\n
8. SIERRA CANYON (5-1): Young pitchers to get tested by Harvard-Westlake; 10<\/p>\n
9. HUNTINGTON BEACH (1-2-1): Rivalry game vs. Edison on Tuesday; 6<\/p>\n
10. ROYAL (5-1): Face Moorpark on Friday; 7<\/p>\n
11. MATER DEI (4-1): Ezekiel Lara is providing lots of offense; 11<\/p>\n
12. EL DORADO (5-2): Xavi Cadena is smashing baseballs; 14<\/p>\n
13. AQUINAS (2-0): Four shutout innings from junior Dorian Valencia; 15<\/p>\n
14. OAKS CHRISTIAN (6-1): Aquinas ended six-game win streak 8-4; 12<\/p>\n
15. SOUTH HILLS (6-0): Win No. 500 for coach Darren Murphy; 17<\/p>\n
16. SANTA MARGARITA (5-1): Eagles on a four-game win streak; 20<\/p>\n
17 . JSERRA (4-2): Lions get doubleheader sweep of Buchanan; 21<\/p>\n
18. CYPRESS (4-3): Two-game series with JSerra this week; 13<\/p>\n
19. LA MIRADA (4-2): 4-3 loss to South Hills; 16<\/p>\n
20. CORONA CENTENNIAL (5-2): Aiden Simpson is nine for 18 hitting; 18<\/p>\n
21. AYALA (4-1): Caleb Trugman continues to impress on the mound; 23<\/p>\n
22. NEWPORT HARBOR (5-0): Austin Gillies is six for 11; NR<\/p>\n
23. VILLA PARK (5-2-1): 13 hits in eight games for Justin Lopez; 24<\/p>\n
24. SOUTH TORRANCE (6-0): Kuturo Kita came through with three hits vs. El Segundo; NR<\/p>\n
25. CHAMINADE (6-1): Open Mission League play vs. Loyola this week; NR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A look at The Times\u2019 top 25 high school baseball rankings for the Southland after the third week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[44308,8825,21172,44306,44305,29950,44303,44307,48,52,51,47,50,49,18158,44304,8841,15192,44302,1791,430],"class_list":["post-210934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-at-large-berth","tag-boy","tag-division","tag-first-trinity-league-title","tag-gold-coast-league","tag-harvard-westlake","tag-high-school-basketball-ranking","tag-john-bosco","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-no","tag-open-division-playoff","tag-playoff","tag-seed","tag-st","tag-times","tag-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}