A look at The Times\u2019 top 25 high school baseball rankings for the Southland after the ninth week of the season:<\/p>\n
Rk. School (Rec.); Comment; ranking last week<\/p>\n
1. ORANGE LUTHERAN (16-3): Went 4-0, won Boras Classic championship game; 1<\/p>\n
2. NORCO (18-2): Three-game series this week vs. Corona Santiago; 2<\/p>\n
3. HARVARD-WESTLAKE (17-4): Swept Sherman Oaks Notre Dame to take first place in Mission League; 3<\/p>\n
4. ST. JOHN BOSCO (16-5): Big two home-run game for Noah Everly vs. Santa Margarita; 4<\/p>\n
5. HUNTINGTON BEACH (16-4-1): 12-0 in Sunset League; 5<\/p>\n
6. CORONA (15-4): Anthony Murphy raises home run total to seven this season; 6<\/p>\n
7. SIERRA CANYON (16-4): Brayden Goldstein is delivering big hits; 8<\/p>\n
8. SHERMAN OAKS NOTRE DAME (14-6): Critical three-game series vs. Sierra Canyon this week; 7<\/p>\n
9. LA MIRADA (17-4): Three-game series this week versus Downey; 9<\/p>\n
10. ROYAL (18-2): So far, Highlanders have overcome pitching injuries; 10<\/p>\n
11. BISHOP ALEMANY (15-5): A 14-13 win over Chaminade with seven runs in the bottom of the seventh was madness; 11<\/p>\n
12. AYALA (18-2): Caleb Trugman (7-1) and Easton Sarmiento (6-1) are good pitching duo; 12<\/p>\n
13. CYPRESS (17-5): Impressive three-game sweep of El Dorado; 13<\/p>\n
14. OAKS CHRISTIAN (15-5): One game behind Westlake in Marmonte League title race; 14<\/p>\n
15. GANESHA (15-1-1): Logan Schmidt hit two home runs, struck out 14 in single game; 15<\/p>\n
16. SOUTH HILLS (17-4): Faces Alta Loma in three-game series this week; 16<\/p>\n
17. SANTA MARGARITA (14-8): Faces No. 1 Orange Lutheran this week; 18<\/p>\n
18. THOUSAND OAKS (15-6): Jake Ange continues to drive in runs; 19<\/p>\n
19. GAHR (10-9-1): Important three-game series this week versus Warren; 20<\/p>\n
20. NEWPORT HARBOR (16-6): Next up is Fountain Valley; 21<\/p>\n
21. CORONA SANTIAGO (15-7): Troy Randall continues to hit and hit; 23<\/p>\n
22. AQUINAS (14-7): Showdown with 18-4 Linfield Christian this week; 24<\/p>\n
23. MATER DEI (11-7): Battling for automatic playoff berth in Trinity League; NR<\/p>\n
24. VILLA PARK (14-7-1): Jack McGuire struck out 16 in win over Foothill; 25<\/p>\n
25. SERVITE (13-8): Ends regular season with games versus St. John Bosco, Orange Lutheran, Cypress; 17<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A look at The Times\u2019 top 25 high school baseball rankings for the Southland after the ninth week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276313,"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-276312","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\/276312","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=276312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}