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Still in the thick of it over here, with a few last basketball polls to review, as well as the full swing of Spring sports\u2014before somebody says we’re ignoring a sport, please keep in mind there are no ranked Long Beach teams in boys’ volleyball or softball (Lakewood had been ranked at no. 7 for softball but fell out this week).<\/p>\n
Girls’ Basketball We might as well rename this the Poly <\/strong>section, since the Rabbits’ season\u2026somehow\u2026is still stretching on, with one more game to go this Saturday. <\/span>They’re still up near the top in a number of national polls, having moved up a spot in a few of them, since Mater Dei defeated Brea at USC on Saturday. <\/span>They’re up to no. 3 in the nation in the MaxPreps poll, no. 5 in the ESPN poll, and steady at no. 5 in the USA poll (although that won’t change to reflect Saturday’s results until Wednesday).<\/span><\/p>\n Baseball Thanks to MaxPreps bumping Lakewood<\/strong> up to no. 1 in the nation, the Lancers are getting plenty of attention nationwide. <\/span>The 10-0 start probably doesn’t hurt either. <\/span>They’ll be included in next week’s USA and ESPN rankings, and they’re now the top team in the LA Times rankings. <\/span>They’re also sitting on top of the CIF Division 1 rankings, where they’re backed up locally by <\/span>Wilson <\/strong>at no. 9. <\/span>The Bruins are up to no. 37 in the section on Maxpreps, while <\/span>Poly <\/strong>is at 153 and <\/span>Millikan <\/strong>is 163.<\/span><\/p>\n Boys’ Tennis The Moore League is holding down the center of the Division 3 poll, with Poly, Lakewood, <\/strong>and <\/span>Wilson <\/strong>all placed together at fifth, sixth, and seventh respectively. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome back to By the Books, where we break down the standings of all our local teams in the CIF, state, and national polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}