Lots of Action Remains as Teams Complete the Regular Season

Doubt the coaches like it, but from a fan standpoint you have to love the next five days. While teams have or will complete conference games this week, COVID postponements has created a few non-conference match-ups which could sway the Winning Percentage Index and possible post-season hopes. There is also an interesting home-and-home conference series as Allan Hancock tries to make a late-season run at Ventura for the conference title.

Speaking of the WPI, the CCCMBCA will not be posting an updated report until later this week. Conference commissioners are ruling on forfeits and coaches are scurrying to set up make-up games.

Below is the final CCCMBCA coaches’ poll, a 35-team poll this week since voting was so close. Next week’s final poll will be posted Sunday night, using the regional seeding as the determining factor. Enjoy the week . . . could be interesting.

CCCMBCA Poll
1. San Francisco – Coast-North champions
2. West LA – Western State-South champions
3. San Diego City — Pacific Coast champions
4. Las Positas­ — runner up in the Coast-North
5. Fullerton — one game lead on Riverside City for the Orange Empire title with three to play 
6. Sequoias — Central Valley champions
7. San Bernardino Valley — clinched a share of the conference title; at Victor Valley on Wednesday
8. East Los Angeles — South Coast-North champions
9. West Valley — Coast-South champions
10. Ventura — 1½ game lead on Allan Hancock with two games remaining, both against Hancock 
11. Riverside — a win away from securing second place in the Orange Empire race
12. Contra Costa — holds a 1/2-game lead on Yuba with three to play in the Bay Valley Conference 
13. Citrus — runner up in the Western State-South
14. Santiago Canyon — chasing Riverside for second, but also defending  third place with three to play
15. Porterville — impressive late run (7 straight) gives the Pirates a runner up finish in the Central Valley Conference
16. San Joaquin Delta — clinched a tie for the Big 8 title with a game to play against Folsom Lake
17. Irvine Valley — tied for fourth in the Orange Empire with two to play
18. Santa Rosa — favorite for the Big 8 title whose title hopes rest with Folsom Lake on Thursday
19. Redwoods — champions of the Golden Valley
20. San Mateo — needs a win at Ohlone on Thursday to finish third and earn the tiebreaker with Chabot
21. LA Southwest — tri-champion in the South Coast-South with Long Beach City and Cerritos
22. Cerro Coso — might be the best third-place team in Southern California, outside of the Orange Empire Conference
23. Columbia — might be the best third-place team in Northern California; has a game remaining against fourth-place Merced. It must be played or forfeited, per CCCAA rules; a forfeit by Columbia would force a tie with Merced. 
24. San Jose City — runner up in the Coast-South
25.  Saddleback — in a tie with No. 18 Irvine Valley with two to play, including a Wednesday date with No. 11 Riverside
26. Folsom Lake — will finish third in the Big 8, but could make Santa Rosa happy with a win over SJ Delta 
27. Long Beach — conference tri-champions of the South Coast-South with LA Southwest and Cerritos; not bad for a team who is 7-8 outside of conference
28. Yuba — mathematically still in play for the Bay Valley title, but not really…
29. Copper Mountain — season complete, pulling for Victor Valley on Wednesday; being 3-8 outside of conference could be an issue for the Fighting Cacti and others, ie Mt. San Jacinto
30. Allan Hancock — three games remaining; two of the games vs. No. 10 Ventura
31. Mt. San Jacinto — tough week for the Eagles; but a win at home on Friday against No. 21 LA Southwest might let the Eagles soar into the post-season tournament
32. Los Medanos — three games remaining; including a key game Friday at Mendocino
33. San Diego Miramar — two games remaining, both big in different ways. First, at MiraCosta … a win will keep Miramar in second place, a Palomar loss at Southwestern will break the tie. Miramar also visits No. 2 West LA on Wednesday – which speaks for itself.
34. (tie) Mt. San Antonio — two games remaining, one a conference contest. Will finish second to East LA
35. Cerritos — finishes tied with LA Southwest and Long Beach for the South Coast-South title; will make up games against No. 34 Mt. San Antonio and unranked Palomar