I’m sitting here in South Plainfield hoping that the oncoming storm skirts us or doesn’t hit us too hard but an hour before the Group 2-3-B meet starts here, it’s not looking good.
I apologize for the lack of rankings in recent weeks and we won’t disclose the final Top 25s until the all-North Jersey teams are announced in late June, but I want to post what they looked like had we printed them before the sectionals.
BOYS
1. Old Tappan
2. Ridgewood
3. Don Bosco
4. Hasbrouck Heights
5. Passaic Tech
6. Ramsey
7. Demarest
8. Hackensack
9. Pascack Valley
10. Indian Hills
11. River Dell
12. Lyndhurst
13. Ridgefield Park
14. St. Joseph
15. Paramus Catholic
16. Northern Highlands
17. Pascack Hills
18. Clifton
19. Eastside
20. Kennedy
21. West Milford
22. Teaneck
23. Lodi
24. Mahwah
25. Cresskill
Comment: Old Tappan and Ridgewood are far ahead of the rest of the schools and there is a much larger margin from 2 to 3 than from 3 to 11. There is also a large gap from 11 to 12.
GIRLS
1. Ridgewood
2. Ramapo
3. Teaneck
4. Holy Angels
5. Demarest
6. Mahwah
7. Northern Highlands
8. Passaic Tech
9. Westwood
10. Garfield
11. River Dell
12. Ramsey
13. Hasbrouck Heights
14. Paramus Catholic
15. Pascack Hills
16. Cresskill
17. Wayne Hills
18. Clifton
19. Eastern Christian
20. Wayne Valley
21. Pascack Valley
22. Paramus
23. Tenafly
24. Hackensack
25. Old Tappan
 Comment: There is a very narrow gap between 1 and 5, a similar small gap between 6 and 9 and anomalies between 10 and 14 which would normally have B teams in a slightly different order