Sheldon ShealerTOP STORY: With only eight newcomers to this week’s rankings, it sounds as if there was limited change in the rankings. But such wasn’t the case. A series of ties by ranked teams and a few big-match wins resulted in a reshuffling of the squads ranked between 10 and 50.
BIG MOVER: Blue Valley Northwest (Overland Park, Kan.). Blue Valley Northwest earned a 26-spot jump in this week’s rankings after beating former ESR Top 50-ranked Christian Brothers (St. Louis, Mo.) and tying current No. 19 Chaminade (St. Louis, Mo.) at the Art Friley Shootout over the weekend. The results allow the team to move from No. 46 to No. 20, the largest jump among teams that were in last week’s rankings.
NEWCOMERS: No. 32 Peters Township (McMurray, Pa.), No. 34 Clarence (Clarence, N.Y.), No. 43 Adams City (Commerce, Colo.), No. 44 Archbishop Molloy (Queens, N.Y.), No. 45 Archbishop Curley (Baltimore, Md.), No. 46 Loyola (Baltimore, Md.), No. 47 Rockford (Rockford, Mich.) and No. 50 Eldorado (Albuquerque, N.M.). Curley, Loyola, Rockford and Eldorado are making return visits to the ESR Top 50 this season.
NOTES: The fall season includes the following states: California (fall), Colorado, Connecticut, D.C., Delaware, Georgia (GISA-fall), Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia (private), West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Rankings through matches played as of Oct. 14, 2012
| Rk. | School (City, State) | Record | Prev. |
| 1 | St. Benedict’s Prep (Newark, N.J.) | 13-0-0 | 1 |
| Johnny Antunes, Jean Wilbert Leveille and Jon Moraes scored second-half goals to lead St. Benedict’s to a 3-0 victory over Hun School, the program’s 49th straight victory — the longest active streak in the country. The win also marked the prorgram’s 575th against 29 losses and 13 ties since 1985. | |||
| 2 | Delbarton School (Morristown, N.J.) | 13-0-0 | 2 |
| Matt DiVite scored three goals to lead Delbarton to a 4-1 win over Chatham last week. | |||
| 3 | DeMatha Catholic (Hyattsville, Md.) | 10-0-1 | 3 |
| DeMatha rolled to a 6-1 win over St. Mary’s Ryken to cap a two-win week. Ryken’s score marked only the second time DeMatha has allowed a goal this season. | |||
| 4 | Brentwood (Brentwood, N.Y.) | 11-0-0 | 4 |
| Ever Torres scored five goals and added three assists last week as Brentwood rolled up a pair of easy wins. | |||
| 5 | St. Xavier (Louisville, Ky.) | 20-0-2 | 5 |
| Joseph Workman scored twice as St. Xavier won the District 26 final with a 4-0 decision over Louisvile Collegiate. | |||
| 6 | St. Ignatius (Cleveland, Ohio) | 12-0-3 | 6 |
| St. Ignatius closed out regular season play with a 4-0 win over Huntington Valley. | |||
| 7 | Jesuit (Portland, Ore.) | 8-1-1 | 7 |
| Jesuit, the current leader in the Metro Conference, will be put to the test this week against league rivals Westview and southridge — both challengers to Jesuit’s reign. | |||
| 8 | Sacramento Jesuit (Carmichael, Calif.) | 19-1-1 | 8 |
| Jesuit’s week-ending 2-0 win over Ponderosa marked the team’s 16th shutout of the season. | |||
| 9 | Wesleyan Christian (High Point, N.C.) | 21-0-0 | 9 |
| In a three-win week for Wesleyan Christian, no result was more important nationally than the team’s 2-0 victory over Top 50-ranked Greensboro Day School. Hudson Owens and Craver Stamey scored first-half goals and keeper Connor Bell was calle on for only two saves. The teams are scheduled to meet again this week. | |||
| 10 | Marquette (Milwaukee, Wis.) | 17-1-2 | 10 |
| Marquette received goals from eight players in an 11-0 win over Milwaukee Pulaski/Arts last week. | |||
| 11 | Morton (Cicero, Ill.) | 22-1-0 | 12 |
| Morton closed out its last week of regular-season play with a 6-0 win over Willowbrook and a 4-1 decision over Kennedy. | |||
| 12 | Naperville Central (Naperville, Ill.) | 17-1-0 | 15 |
| Naperville Central opens regional playoff action Wednesday. Last week, Naperville Central defeated West Chicago 2-0 and Wheaton Warrenville South 4-0. | |||
| 13 | Gonzaga (Washington, D.C.) | 12-1-1 | 16 |
| Gonzaga’s 4-1 win over previous Top 50-ranked Paul VI (Va.) just about clinches one of the top two seeds in the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference tournament for this D.C. program. | |||
| 14 | Rustin (West Chester, Pa.) | 14-0-1 | 27 |
| Rustin might not be getting a lot of local love, but this team is one of the final undefeated large-school programs remaining in Pennsylvania. Last week, this Philadelphia suburban program defeated West Chester East 3-0 and Sun Valley 4-2. | |||
| 15 | Maria Carrillo (Santa Rosa, Calif.) | 15-0-2 | 25 |
| Cesar Farias and James Pierpoint scored in Maria Carrillo’s 2-0 win over Windsor last week. Maria Carrillo and St. Anthony’s (N.Y.) are the only schools to have teams in the boys and girls top 25s this season. | |||
| 16 | St. Anthony’s (Melville, N.Y.) | 10-2-1 | 19 |
| Brendan Reardon had four goals and two assists in three St. Anthony’s wins last week. Chris Visconti delivered the lone goal in the team’s 1-0 win over Kellenberg. | |||
| 17 | Martin Luther King (Manhattan, N.Y.) | 13-1-0 | 20 |
| Kerfala Sylla scored two goals and Jesus San Martin added one as MLK defeated St. Edward (Ohio) in the team’s most compelling result of the season. | |||
| 18 | Salesianum (Wilmington, Del.) | 7-1-0 | 21 |
| Salesianum shut out both opponents last week, 2-0 over C.M. Wright (Md.) and 9-0 over one-time state power St. Mark’s. | |||
| 19 | Chaminade (St. Louis, Mo.) | 18-2-2 | 22 |
| Chaminade and Blue Valley Northwest (Kan.) played to a 1-1 draw at the Art Friley Shootout. The match was supposed to go into overtime, but a coach’s decision to end the game at that point resulted in the final score. | |||
| 20 | Blue Valley Northwest (Overland Park, Kan.) | 12-1-1 | 46 |
| Blue Valley Northwest makes the biggest jump up in this week’s rankings after defeating current Missouri No. 5 Christian Brothers (Mo.) and tying Missouri No. 1 Chaminade (Mo.) at the Art Friley Shootout. | |||
| 21 | Ramapo (Franklin Lakes, N.J.) | 11-0-0 | 24 |
| Ramapo escaped a close call with a 1-0 win over Ridgewood last week. | |||
| 22 | Great Valley (Malvern, Pa.) | 14-1-0 | 48 |
| Every Rustin win helps Great Valley. This team that started the year with a victory over the defending state champion has only one loss — that coming to undefeated Rustin. The teams could clash again in the district playoffs. | |||
| 23 | Marin Academy (San Rafael, Calif.) | 11-1-2 | 31 |
| Marin Academy makes its Top 25 debut this week. This section favorite’s lone loss is an early season setback to Sacramento Jesuit. | |||
| 24 | Sanderson (Raleigh, N.C.) | 18-0-2 | 45 |
| A second key win over Leesville Road and a 20-match undefeated streak helps vault Sanderson to No. 1 in the state’s Class 4A rankings and into the top 25 this week. | |||
| 25 | Lee’s Summit North (Lee’s Summit, Mo.) | 14-1-2 | 36 |
| Michael Panarisi scored five goals to help Lee’s Summit North post wins over Blue Springs and Liberty last week. | |||
| 26 | Parkland (Allentown, Pa.) | 14-0-3 | 40 |
| 27 | Hicksville (Hicksville, N.Y.) | 10-0-2 | 29 |
| 28 | Scotch Plains (Scotch Plains, N.J.) | 11-1-2 | 30 |
| 29 | Prairie Seeds Academy (Brooklyn Park, Minn.) | 12-0-0 | 34 |
| 30 | Twinsburg (Twinsburg, Ohio) | 13-0-3 | 41 |
| 31 | Pingry (Martinsville, N.J.) | 10-1-2 | 32 |
| 32 | Peters Township (McMurray, Pa.) | 12-1-2 | NR |
| 33 | Greensboro Day School (Greensboro, N.C.) | 12-1-1 | 35 |
| 34 | Clarence (Clarence, N.Y.) | 14-0-0 | NR |
| 35 | East Kentwood (Kentwood, Mich.) | 15-1-4 | 38 |
| 36 | De La Salle (Warren, Mich.) | 9-1-10 | 39 |
| 37 | Lyons Township (LaGrange, Ill.) | 17-3-1 | 42 |
| 38 | Peoria Notre Dame (Peoria, Ill.) | 15-2-2 | 43 |
| 39 | Quincy (Quincy, Ill.) | 18-2-1 | 44 |
| 40 | Upper St. Clair (Upper St. Clair, Pa.) | 15-1-1 | 26 |
| 41 | Montville (Oakdale, Conn.) | 10-0-0 | 49 |
| 42 | Allentown (Allentown, N.J.) | 12-0-0 | 50 |
| 43 | Adams City (Commerce, Colo.) | 11-0-2 | NR |
| 44 | Archbishop Molloy (Queens, N.Y.) | 10-1-0 | NR |
| 45 | Archbishop Curley (Baltimore, Md.) | 10-2-0 | NR |
| 46 | Loyola (Baltimore, Md.) | 9-2-1 | NR |
| 47 | Rockford (Rockford, Mich.) | 16-2-4 | NR |
| 48 | Green Hope (Cary, N.C.) | 14-1-0 | 14 |
| 49 | McDonogh (Owings Mills, Md.) | 7-1-2 | 11 |
| 50 | Eldorado (Albuquerque, N.M.) | 11-2-1 | NR |
