{"id":973,"date":"2010-08-31T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/poly-ranked-4-lakewood-5-in-preseason-football-poll\/"},"modified":"2010-08-31T18:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T18:32:00","slug":"poly-ranked-4-lakewood-5-in-preseason-football-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/poly-ranked-4-lakewood-5-in-preseason-football-poll","title":{"rendered":"Poly Ranked #4, Lakewood #5 In Preseason Football Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/strong>Long Beach Poly head coach Raul Lara and his Jackrabbits lead the Moore League in a recently released preseason poll.<\/em><\/p>\n

4:10pm |<\/strong> A preseason poll released today shows the high school football programs of Long Beach Poly and Lakewood leading the Moore League in a very competitive PAC-5 Division.<\/p>\n

The official CIF Southern Section poll shows Long Beach Poly ranked #4 in the PAC-5 Division, with Lakewood right behind them in the #5 spot. Wilson High School did not rank in the Top 10 but did receive votes and was named an honorable mention. The division is headed by #1 Mission Viejo, #2 Mater Dei and #3 Servite.<\/p>\n

In speaking with all seven Moore League coaches for our official 2010 season preview last week<\/a>, everyone agreed that defending champion Lakewood should be considered the favorites to repeat this season. This poll seems to disagree.<\/p>\n

Poly head coach Raul Lara made no bones about his team’s expectations for this season, telling the lbpost.com last week, “We’re shooting for a national championship.” With the talent and returning players that Poly boasts this season, there’s little question as to whether the Jackrabbits are capable of such a feat. But they’ll certainly face a worthy foe in Lakewood, who are playing with a chip on their shoulder even as defending champs and now have even more motivation to win the Moore League.<\/p>\n

Poly kicks off their season by hosting Bakersfield this Thursday at Veterans Stadium, while Lakewood will host Locke at home on Friday. The Wilson Bruins and their new-look spread offense will play at Huntington Park.<\/p>\n

Do you agree with the rankings?<\/p>\n

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A preseason poll released today shows the high school football programs of Long Beach Poly and Lakewood leading the Moore League in a very competitive PAC-5 Division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16825,"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-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}