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How the NorCal Top 10 Fared, Week 5

Nine wins, and the one loss was a shutout by a team that is not on the board

SPIN NorCal Top 10 scoreboard card for Week 5, gold, listing all ten ranked Northern California teams with their Week 5 results.

Graphic: SPIN

Ten teams played. Nine won. The exception was total.

#TeamRecResult
1De La Salle3-0def. Saint Francis 54-10
2Folsom3-0def. Sacred Heart Cathedral 49-24
3Serra (San Mateo)2-1def. St. Mary's (Stockton) 21-7
4Central East (Fresno)3-0def. Turlock 56-7
5Pittsburg2-1def. James Logan 49-21
6Oak Ridge2-1def. Crean Lutheran 28-21
7Archbishop Riordan1-2lost to Cardinal Newman 0-31
8Central Catholic (Modesto)2-1def. St. Bonaventure 28-19
9Clovis3-1def. Los Gatos 24-7
10Del Oro (Loomis)3-0def. Foothill (Palo Cedro) 44-6

What the board says

Riordan is the only board team that lost, and it did not score. Cardinal Newman of Santa Rosa is not on this board. It was on the wrong end of a 42-3 De La Salle result three weeks ago and it has just shut out a ranked team.

Pittsburg is settled at 49-21. Two numbers were circulating on Friday. No publisher anywhere prints the other one, and the sub-varsity results do not account for it either. Worth naming: no newsroom covered that game. Both confirmations are databases.

De La Salle and Folsom carry this region nationally, at 22nd and 27th, and neither did anything to complicate that. Folsom gave up 24, which is more than it has been giving up.

Serra settled a December argument at St. Mary's, and the three teams that came onto this board a week ago all won.

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