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Lake Travis Ranked #8 in the Nation!

#1 Sportsfan — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:36:30 +0000

Yes, you saw that right. Lake Travis high school in Lakeway, Tx (my biggest rival growing up in high school) is ranked in the Top 10 in both the Xcellent 25 (sports writers poll) and the Freeman Computer Rankings. To be completely honest with you, I have never understood how the high school rankings really worked. Last year they we never even close to the Top 25 but because they have won 3 State Championships in a row (07′, 08′ and 09′) they are now ranked in the Top 25. What scares me though is that I really don’t think they have what it takes this season to win another Championship. The one time they finally skirt the Top 25, they may not even stay there but for a few weeks. If they can make it to District play undefeated, you can pretty much sew up the rest of the regular season because the only team I see stepping in there way might be Dripping Springs. I will be reporting all future rankings through SidelineBlog if you are interesting in seeing what the future holds for these high school teams. Well, here you go with your rankings for the week. This is a nationwide computer ranking system so if you do not see your school up there, its really not my fault. I am open to ideas for my own High School poll if you guys want.

Freeman Computer Rankings

Ranking	School	City/State	Record
1	Shiloh Christian	Springdale, AR	1-0
2	Trinity	Euless, Tx	1-0
3	Westlake	Westlake Village, CA	0-0
4	South Panola	Batesville, MS	3-0
5	Abilene	Abilene, TX	1-0
6	Bingham	South Jordan, UT	3-0
7	Dwyer	Palm Beach Gardens, FL	0-0
8	Lake Travis	Austin, TX	2-0
9	DeMatha	Hyattsville, MD	0-0
10	Dorman	Roebuck, SC	2-0
11	Colerain	Cincinnati, OH	2-0
12	Hamilton	Chandler, AZ	3-0
13	West Monroe	West Monroe, LA	1-0
14	Grant	Sacramento, CA	1-0
15	Mullen	Denver, CO	1-0
16	Our Lady of Good Counsel	Olney, MD	1-0
17	Glenville	Cleveland, OH	1-0
18	Sierra	Gadena, CA	1-0
19	Servite	Anaheim, CA	1-0
20	North Gwinnett	Suwanee, GA	3-0
21	Highlands	Fort Thomas, KY	3-0
22	Rockhurst	Kansas City, MO	2-0
23	Catholic Central	Novi, MI	2-0
24	De La Salle	Concord, CA	0-0
25	St. Xavier	Louisville, KY	2-0

MaxPreps Computer Nationwide Top 25 Poll

Stony Point ranked higher than Lake Travis?

#1 Sportsfan — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:06:49 +0000

Depending on who you talk to and where you look, you will see Stony Point High School in Round Rock is ranked higher (6th in the State of Texas) than Lake Travis High School (ranked 7th). This makes absolutely no sense to me only because Stony Point has lost 2 games this season and Lake Travis is currently undefeated playing in the Texas 4A State Championship. Stony Point can only go down from here though I would think. They are out of the playoffs already and their season is through. I am seriously contemplating going to the Lake Travis game tomorrow. I havent figured out if thats what I want to do yet or not. I will more than likely be going to the game though even though it means missing the Division 3 National Championship and the Montana game. I am doing this only because I really want to see Garrett Gilbert play. If he ever reads this, I hope he realizes that he has a huge fan in SideLineBlog. We do sports the right way, and I want to officially make this statement, “Sidelineblog.com believes that Lake Travis High School should be ranked #1 in the nation.” This is true because they have not lost this season, outside of the first game of the season, their closest game has been 15 points. They beat Killeen on a neutral field 71-9 in the Area playoffs. I don’t think they are playing around.

Lake Travis breaks Top 25 in Nation

#1 Sportsfan — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:36:52 +0000

With a 42-3 victory over 9-1 Dripping Springs, a 54-14 win over Marble Falls, Lake Travis was the leading District 25 4A team going into playoffs. They started out this past week where they left off in the regular season beating Johnson High School (Austin, Tx) 55-14. They look good in the Division 1 bracket but I can only thank god that Dripping Springs will more than likely never have to face them. Dripping Springs’ stiffest competition will come this weekend with Kerrville Tivy. The Tivy Antlers, a lot like the Lake Travis Caviliers has been up against multiple 5A schools this season as they are expecting to move up at some point. I think the Tivy – Drip game will decide most of their bracket whereas Lake Travis has a pretty rough schedule ahead of them.

Dripping Springs gets owned in 2nd half against Lake Travis.

#1 Sportsfan — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:15:27 +0000

The score after the first quarter was 3-0 Dripping Springs. You have never seen a happier boy than I was at that moment. Here I was having predicted my favorite teams to win this weekend in big games: Texas at Texas Tech, Dripping Springs at Lake Travis and the Dallas Cowboys at the New York Giants. Then the second quarter rolled around. By halftime I knew it was over and the final score was 42-3 so you tell me. I thought Mitch Lawson would bring the thunder but he only had a few big hits and its apparent that he cant win the game for Dripping Springs by himself. Jeff Tuck and Jacob Moore have got to light it up if they are going to have any chance in the playoffs. Yes boys and girls…your Dripping Springs Tigers are going to the playoffs!!! This is probably the most exciting thing since chocolate. My man Garrett Gilbert looked as good as I thought he would in the game thank goodness. That was the only great thing I got out of that game is the future lifetime longhorn Garrett Gilbert looked good.