A look at The Times\u2019 top 25 high school baseball rankings for the Southland after the fifth week of the season:<\/p>\n
Rk. School (Rec.); Comment; ranking last week<\/p>\n
1. ST. JOHN BOSCO (7-0): Five shutouts in seven games; 1<\/p>\n
2. SHERMAN OAKS NOTRE DAME (10-0): Big week for Malayke Matsumoto; 4<\/p>\n
3. CORONA (7-0): Anthony Murphy hits for cycle, then comes close again; 2<\/p>\n
4. ORANGE LUTHERAN (3-1): Headed to North Carolina for National Invitational; 3<\/p>\n
5. NORCO (7-1): Three-game series with King this week; 5<\/p>\n
6. HARVARD-WESTLAKE (8-3): Bishop Alemany exposes pitching issues; 6<\/p>\n
7. HUNTINGTON BEACH (7-2-1): 6-0 start in Sunset League; 8<\/p>\n
8. GAHR (5-4-1): Three-game series with La Mirada; 7<\/p>\n
9. SIERRA CANYON (9-3): Brayden Goldstein has become a top hitter; 9<\/p>\n
10. ROYAL (9-1): Sixteen-strikeout performance from Dustin Dunwoody vs. Simi Valley; 10<\/p>\n
11. AQUINAS (6-0): Three-game sweep of Arrowhead Christian; 11<\/p>\n
12. SANTA MARGARITA (9-2): Freshman Cooper Holland provides lift after losing Brody Schumaker to injury; 12<\/p>\n
13. BISHOP ALEMANY (8-3): Warriors about to get stronger by adding Mikey Martinez on Friday; NR<\/p>\n
14. OAKS CHRISTIAN (8-2): Opens Marmonte League vs. Newbury Park; 15<\/p>\n
15. SOUTH HILLS (10-1): Big series vs. San Dimas this week; 16<\/p>\n
16. CYPRESS (8-3): League showdown this week with Foothill; 17<\/p>\n
17. LA MIRADA (8-2): Kaden Corns is 3-0 with 2.17 ERA; 18<\/p>\n
18. AYALA (8-1): Three-game series with Glendora; 19<\/p>\n
19. EL DORADO (8-5): Xavi Cadena has four home runs; 14<\/p>\n
20. THOUSAND OAKS (10-0): Three-game series vs. Calabasas; 21<\/p>\n
21. NEWPORT HARBOR (9-2): Took two of three from Corona del Mar; 22<\/p>\n
22. SOUTH TORRANCE (10-0): Two-game series with El Segundo this week; 24<\/p>\n
23. FOOTHILL (9-3): Pitching has been outstanding; NR<\/p>\n
24. SERVITE (7-3): Three-game series with Santa Margarita this week; NR<\/p>\n
25. CORONA SANTIAGO (9-2): Striker Pence is contributing with his arm and bat; NR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A look at The Times\u2019 top 25 high school baseball rankings for the Southland after the fifth week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[63285,26570,10437,39969,105085,48,52,36018,51,5562,47,50,49,12170,29196,88293,56375,10365,44302,105084,1791],"class_list":["post-231647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-big-week","tag-bishop-alemany","tag-corona","tag-foothill","tag-high-school-baseball-ranking","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-mirada","tag-la-news","tag-last-week","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-nr","tag-oaks-christian","tag-rec","tag-rk","tag-santa-margarita","tag-st","tag-three-game-series","tag-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231647","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=231647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}