There are two huge Moore League football games Friday. Of course, the league title will be determined when Lakewood plays Wilson. But there is another huge game: Poly vs. Compton. The winner qualifies for the CIF Pac 5 playoffs, and the loser is done for the season. Here's why:
Four teams from the Moore League qualify for the playoffs. Lakewood and Wilson are in. If Poly wins, Poly goes in as the No. 3 team at 4-2, and Millikan goes in as the No. 4 team at 3-3. Compton would be 2-4 and out. However... If Compton wins, Compton, Millikan and Poly would all be 3-3 in league. The tiebreaker would be determined on head-to-head matchups. Compton would be 2-0 (wins over both Millikan and Compton), Millikan would be 1-1 (win over Poly, loss to Compton) and Poly would be 0-2 (losses to both Millikan and Compton).
In that case, Compton goes in as No. 3 and Millikan as No. 4. Poly would be out of the playoffs for the first time, I'm told, in 30 years. It also means that Millikan, which doesn't play this week, is already in.
Does anyone know the last time Lakewood won the Moore League?
Poly getting 5th place in the Moore League? I gotta see this!!
The last time the Lakewood football team was the outright Moore League champs was in 1974.
They were co-champs in 1982 and 1983.
CIF usally does a coin toss in cases of ties. Odd man out. I might be wrong but CIF has done this in the past.