Wrestling divisions shuffled for next year

With all the new alignments for Inland Valley leagues that begin next year, it's interesting to see how those new leagues will be placed in the new CIF divisions, which were released this week.

In wrestling, the Sierra League will be a bit stronger with the addition of South Hills, but bumping up that league from D3 to D1 in Dual meet wrestling seems a bit far-fetched. The Baseline (D2), Mt. Baldy (D3) and Citrus Belt (D4) all stayed in the same dual-meet divisions, while the Sunkist moved up from D6 to D5 aand the Valle Vista dropped from D1 to D2. The new Hacienda League, featuring not a single school that I would consider a wrestling power (including Inland Valley schools Bonita, Diamond Bar and Diamond Ranch) has been placed in D4.

For individual wrestling divisions, the Mt. Baldy League can at least be happy it won't be going to Oxnard again, where it has had to go for the last 4 years, I believe. The Mt. Baldy and Baseline will be in the same division. Those schools will be in the same division as Perris Citrus Hill, which hosted CIF the last couple of years that the Sierra league was at. The Sierra League is in a division with no other area leagues and could be going to Santa Ana Godinez, which hosted CIF this year. The new Hacienda League is placed in a division that includes the Sunkist League and the Valle Vista League (which includes powerful Covina Northview). The Citrus Belt League is in a division by itself among area leagues, again.