Would Charter Oak have won three straight Southeast titles, or would this have been West Covina, Bonita, Rowland or DRanch’s turn?

New season, new arguments: The new Hacienda and Sierra League’s are growing on me, but what bums me out is this could have been the year Bonita unseated Charter Oak in the Miramonte League while West Covina already would have unseated South Hills in the San Antonio, though who knows what might of happened in a playoff rematch. That’s what happened in 2004, South Hills beating West Covina for league, but West Covina returning the favor by beating South Hills in the Divisional title game. If the old Southeast Division were alive today, don’t you think undefeated Bonita and once-beaten West Covina would be favored to reach the finals over Charter Oak and struggling South Hills? Too bad we won’t know, the powers that be voted Charter Oak and South Hills into a tougher league and division mostly because they felt they were too dominant for a number of years and no longer wanted to face them. The timing couldn’t be worse. I would have loved to know if West Covina or Bonita could have beaten Charter Oak in a playoff game with a season on the line. That’s the best way to become champion, to beat the champion. It’s disappointing in that this could have been the changing-of-the-guard season for our top-tier teams not named Bishop Amat, but now we’ll never know for sure. Whether West Covina, Bonita or anyone else wins the Southeast Division Charter Oak can always counter: “Nice title, but you never went through the champs to get it.”


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