Big coup for Marine League football

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What a day for the Marine League football teams.

Narbonne and San Pedro grabbed the top two seeds in the L.A. City Section Championships, the Marine League was voted the City's toughest and a record five teams made the upper-bracket for the league, including left-for-dead Washington, which got a raw deal against Banning in the regular-season finale.

Below are the first-round matchups that begin Thursday. Watch for the Southern Section seeds tomorrow.

L.A. CITY SECTION CHAMPIONSHIPS
First round
Thursday, 7 p.m.

No. 16 Washington (5-5) at No. 1 Narbonne (9-1); No. 9 Birmingham (5-5) at No. 8 Garfield (6-4); No. 12 Fremont (6-4) at No. 5 Jordan (6-4); No. 13 Banning (4-6) at No. 4 Crenshaw (7-2).

No. 14 Locke (5-4) at No. 3 Taft (9-1); No. 11 Dorsey (7-3) at No. 6 San Fernando (7-3); No. 10 Carson (5-5) at No. 7 Venice (5-5); No. 15 Sylmar (7-3) at No. 2 San Pedro (9-1).

13 Comments

Amazing how the Marine League finally arrived at some parity.

Banning and Carson can't cheat with their recruiting anymore like they use to do in the 70's and 80's and early 90's which is good. It's nice to see some other teams such as Pedro and Narbonne surface to the top. Both programs really have become power houses. It's also nice to see that CIF has now gotten better than City League football overall this past decade as style of football has gone from complete run offenses to balance passing and running attacks. I would love to see Serra play Narbonne because this would be a good matchup and it would show complete domination and superiority of CIF over city...but maybe next year this can take place.

Serra played Carson this season and it was 21-19. not really complete domination if you ask me

Attention Narbonne football team: stay focused, stay hungry, stay healthy. Remember that being #1 at the beginning of the playoffs doesn't matter if you're not #1 at the end of them. Bring it home, Gauchos! Finish!

Attention Narbonne football team: stay focused, stay hungry, stay healthy. Remember that being #1 at the beginning of the playoffs doesn't matter if you're not #1 at the end of them. Bring it home, Gauchos! Finish!

For your information loser. Carson has never recruited players. Try asking Narbonne and Serra where they're getting all that talent. Oh maybe Carson. Stop trying to know or think you know anything. Gaucho loser, ask coach Douglas those pop Warner coaches on staff is from Carson pop Warner or what ever they call themselves these days. I wonder. Oh Carson pop warners home field is Narbonne nachos. Sounds like recruiting to me.

For your information loser. Carson has never recruited players. Try asking Narbonne and Serra where they're getting all that talent. Oh maybe Carson. Stop trying to know or think you know anything. Gaucho loser, ask coach Douglas those pop Warner coaches on staff is from Carson pop Warner or what ever they call themselves these days. I wonder. Oh Carson pop warners home field is Narbonne nachos. Sounds like recruiting to me.

i agree with jack! all the kids that should be at carson(the stars at narbonne)arent because of "recruiting" if thats what you want to call it but with all the loop holes in the rules u can get by! i am very close to both programs (nhs&chs) and it goes both ways so stop with the banning, carson 70s 80s 90s hating

pedro should be 10-0 ref`s gave them a raw deal at the narbonne game! go pdero

bad calls went both ways in that game! all the pedro people talk about the fumble at the 1 yd line but what about the no catch call in end zone when moore clearly caught it on tape, so quit it. we will see if these two teams can make the finals

Long Beach Poly will play the All-Marine Team and beat them! Any place at any time!

poly!!!!! now u want to talk about recruiting they take the cake

Pedro and narbonne can't say anything until they have over 10 city titles! If they can get at least 8 then they can utter a few words.

Im a Carson Alumn who played in 86 and 87. The fact of the matter is, the league has been down considerably even the year Carson won it's last championship. The level of play has been extremely weak when you compare it to Southern Section Schools like L.B. Poly, Orange Luthern, Mater Dei, Oaks Christian, etc. We are not seeing the same high level of athletes coming through the league like we have grown accustomed to watching on Friday nights. Sure there are some really good athletes in league, but not in the key positions with the exception of say a Josh Moten at Narbonne. Carson has the #1 high school prospect at the tight end position, but no legitamit QB to get him the ball. Morell Presely had to earn is scholorship to SC on his own by attending football camps. What is currently seperating Narbonne and San Pedro from the rest of the Marine League is simply veteran athletes at the skilled positions on both sides of the ball. And it never hurts when you good, consistant, motivational and fair coaching.

Growing up in the early 80's the majority of Banning's most famous players all grew up in Carson and made the decision to go to Banning much like families who are torn between USC vs UCLA. There have only been a few athletes like Perry Klien, John Walsh, both QBs who trasferred from places like Pacific Palisades who made a significant impact on any Carson Team.

So lets keep it real guys. I hope the Marine league is restored to the overall respectability that had made us all proud. Otherwise, we all lose.

Good luck to all the Marine League Teams.

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