El Toro Maintains Top Ranking in Poll
El Toro High School, winner of 16 straight games over the past two seasons, remained the top-ranked team in the Orange County Sportswriters’ Assn. prep football poll.
El Toro received five, first-place votes but figures to struggle the next three weeks without quarterback Bret Johnson, who underwent arthroscopic knee surgery last Friday.
Capistrano Valley remained a close second with one first-place vote and Esperanza also received a first-place vote.
In the featured game this week, seventh-ranked Valencia plays hosts to El Dorado at 7:30 on Friday night in Bradford Stadium.
The writers’ poll:
Pos. School (League) Record 1. El Toro (South Coast) 2-0 2. Capistrano Valley (South Coast) 2-0 3. Esperanza (Empire) 2-0 4. Sunny Hills (Freeway) 2-0 5. Servite (Angelus) 1-0-1 6. Mission Viejo (South Coast) 2-0 7. Valencia (Orange) 2-0 8. Bolsa Grande (Garden Grove) 2-0 9. Mater Dei (Angelus) 2-0 10. Newport Harbor (Sea View) 2-0 Others Receiving Votes: El Dorado (2-0).
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