A look at The Times\u2019 top 25 high school baseball rankings for the Southland after the eighth week of the season:<\/p>\n
Rk. School (Rec.); Comment; ranking last week<\/p>\n
1. ORANGE LUTHERAN (12-3): Won Boras Classic South championship; 2<\/p>\n
2. NORCO (15-2): Transfers Jacob Melendez and Codey Brown making big impact; 3<\/p>\n
3. HARVARD-WESTLAKE (14-4): Upcoming three-game series with Sherman Oaks Notre Dame; 5<\/p>\n
4. ST. JOHN BOSCO (13-5): Braves got humbled with three-game losing streak; 1<\/p>\n
5. HUNTINGTON BEACH (15-4-1): Big week of hitting for Ely Mason; 6<\/p>\n
6. CORONA (13-3): Danny De La Torre leads team in hitting at .486; 4<\/p>\n
7. SHERMAN OAKS NOTRE DAME (14-3): It\u2019s final test time versus Harvard-Westlake this week; 7<\/p>\n
8. SIERRA CANYON (14-3): Upcoming three-game series with St. Francis; 8<\/p>\n
9. LA MIRADA (14-4): If all goes well, Matadores should win out rest of regular season; 9<\/p>\n
10. ROYAL (16-2): Dustin Dunwoody\u2019s ERA is 0.18; 10<\/p>\n
11. BISHOP ALEMANY (13-4): Upcoming three-game series vs. Chaminade; 11<\/p>\n
12. AYALA (15-1): Went 3-1 in Boras Classic; 12<\/p>\n
13. CYPRESS (14-5): Holding down first place in tough Crestview League; 13<\/p>\n
14. OAKS CHRISTIAN (13-4): Upcoming three-game series vs. Thousand Oaks; 15<\/p>\n
15. GANESHA (13-1-1): Westlake inflicted first defeat; 14<\/p>\n
16. SOUTH HILLS (14-4): Upcoming three-game series vs. Colony; 16<\/p>\n
17. SERVITE (12-6): Upcoming three-game series vs. Mater Dei; 17<\/p>\n
18. SANTA MARGARITA (14-5): After week of rest, Eagles face St. John Bosco; 18<\/p>\n
19. THOUSAND OAKS (14-4): Andrew Albrecht is 5-0 pitching; 20<\/p>\n
20. GAHR (10-9-1): Took Orange Lutheran to eight innings before losing; 22<\/p>\n
21. NEWPORT HARBOR (16-6): Rough week playing in Boras Classic; 19<\/p>\n
22. FOOTHILL (14-6): Upcoming two-game series with Villa Park; 23<\/p>\n
23. CORONA SANTIAGO (12-7): Upcoming three-game series with King; 24<\/p>\n
24. AQUINAS (11-7): Made it to Boras Classic semifinals; NR<\/p>\n
25. VILLA PARK (13-6-1): 31 hits for Justin Lopez; NR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A look at The Times\u2019 top 25 high school baseball rankings for the Southland after the eighth week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[108982,10437,88059,423,105085,1049,9251,48,52,51,5562,47,50,49,13784,29196,39150,88293,10365,105084,1791],"class_list":{"0":"post-264734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-big-series","9":"tag-corona","10":"tag-gahr","11":"tag-game","12":"tag-high-school-baseball-ranking","13":"tag-hit","14":"tag-home-run","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-la-headlines","17":"tag-la-news","18":"tag-last-week","19":"tag-los-angeles","20":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","21":"tag-los-angeles-news","22":"tag-mission-viejo","23":"tag-oaks-christian","24":"tag-orange-lutheran","25":"tag-rec","26":"tag-santa-margarita","27":"tag-three-game-series","28":"tag-times"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264734","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=264734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}