Alberta high school Top 10 rankings (all 4 tiers): Week one

Here are the Weekly Top-10 Rankings for all four Tier’s of high school football in Alberta for the 2011 season. These rankings will come out every Sunday (except for Labor Day when they will come out on Tuesday) from now up until Nov. 6.

The teams are slotted into Tiers based on their estimated school size, which may change once official counts are known at the end of September. Please note that games vs. US opponents, or tournaments are not taken into consideration for ranking or listed in the overall record of the schools due to too many variables and inconsistent rules for those games.

Tier I (School Pop. 1250 +)

Rank* School & Record City/Town Last Weeks Result and Upcoming Opponent
1(-) Bev Facey (1-0) Sherwood Park beat Spruce Grove 26-7 (next vs. Bellerose)
2(-) Salisbury (2-0) Sherwood Park beat L.C.I. 25-7 (next vs. Paul Kane)
3(-) St. Francis (0-0) Calgary did not play (next week BYE)
4(-) Raymond (0-1) Raymond lost to Twin Falls (ID) 0-7 (next vs. Austin O’Brien)
5(-) Notre Dame (0-0) Calgary did not play (next vs. Spruce Grove)
6(-) Spruce Grove (1-1) Spruce Grove lost to Bev Facey 7-26 (next vs. Notre Dame)
7(-) Harry Ainlay (1-0) Edmonton beat Bellerose 36-0 (next vs. Foothills)
8(-) Bishop O’Byrne (0-0) Calgary did not play (next week BYE)
9(-) L.C.I. (0-2) Lethbridge lost to Salisbury 7-25 (next vs. Bonners Ferry (ID))
10(-) Henry Wise Wood (0-0) Calgary did not play (next week BYE)

* last weeks rank in parentheses.

Tier II (School Pop. 750-1249)

Rank* School & Record City/Town Last Weeks Result and Upcoming Opponent
1(-) Austin O’Brien (1-0) Edmonton beat Foothills 47-6 (next vs. Raymond)
2(-) St. Mary’s (0-0) Calgary did not play (next week BYE)
3(-) Catholic Central (0-0) Lethbridge did not play (next vs. Chinook)
4(-) St. Josephs (1-0) Grande Prairie beat McNally 35-8 (next vs.Grande Prairie)
5(-) Hunting Hills (0-0) Red Deer did not play (next vs. Lacombe)
6(-) Medicine Hat (1-0) Medicine Hat beat McCoy 36-6 (next vs. Brooks)
7(-) Holy Trinity Aca. (0-0) Okotoks did not play (next vs. Centennial)
8(-) Foothills (1-1) Okotoks lost to Austin O’Brien 6-47 (next vs. Harry Ainlay)
9(-) Lacombe (1-0) Lacombe beat West Central 21-0 (next vs. Hunting Hills)
10(-) Archbishop Jordan (1-0) Sherwood Park beat W.P. Wagner 42-13 (next vs. St. Albert)

* last weeks rank in parentheses.

Tier III (School Pop. 450-749)

Rank* School & Record City/Town Last Weeks Result and Upcoming Opponent
1(-) Cardston (0-0) Cardston did not play (next vs. Winston Churchill)
2(-) Cochrane (1-0) Cochrane beat St. Albert 21-7 (next vs. Bow Valley)
3(-) Peace River (0-0) Peace River did not play (next vs. Valleyview)
4(-) Rundle College (1-0) Calgary beat Sexsmith 13-0 (next vs. Bishop Grandin)
5(-) St. Albert (0-1) St. Albert lost Cochrane 7-21 (next vs. Archbishop Jordan)
6(-) Olds (1-0) Olds beat Drumheller 20-0 (next vs. Canmore)
7(-) Cold Lake (1-0) Cold Lake beat Bonnyville 12-4 (next vs. Wainwright)
8(-) Sylvan Lake (1-0) Sylvan Lake beat Lindsay Thurber 9-8 (next vs. Stettler)
9(-) St. Paul (1-0) St. Paul beat Lloydminster 25-17 (next vs. Holy Rosary)
10(-) Stettler (1-0) Stettler beat Camrose 34-14 (next vs. Sylvan Lake)

* – last weeks rank in parentheses.

Tier IV (School Pop. 449 or less)

Rank* School & Record City/Town Last Weeks Result and Upcoming Opponent
1(-) Holy Rosary (1-0) Lloydminster beat Wainwright 39-18 (next vs. St. Paul)
2(-) Ardrossan (1-1) Ardrossan lost to Ross Sheppard 0-30 (next vs. St. Josephs (Edm.))
3(-) Willow Creek (0-0) Claresholm did not play (next vs. Highwood)
4(-) Bow Valley (0-0) Cochrane did not play (next vs. Cochrane)
5(-) Sexsmith (0-1) Sexsmith lost to Rundle College 0-13 (next vs. Whitecourt)
6(-) West Central (0-1) Rocky Mtn. Hs. lost to Lacombe 0-21 (next vs. Wetaskiwin)
7(-) Canmore (0-0) Canmore did not play (next vs. Olds)
8(-) Drumheller (0-2) Drumheller lost to Olds 0-20 (next vs. Strathmore)
9(-) Wainwright (0-1) Wainwright lost to Holy Rosary 18-39 (next vs. Cold Lake)
10(-) St. Timothy’s (0-0) Cochrane did not play (next week BYE)

*- last weeks rank in parentheses.

GAMES OF THE WEEK:

Tier I

#5 Notre Dame Pride at #6 Spruce Grove Panthers
Friday, September 9, 7:00 p.m.
Fuhr Athletic Park (Spruce Grove)

Let’s just say the Spruce Grove Panthers approach to exhibition games to start the season has been…aggressive. Starting with a win over #9 L.C.I. in Lethbridge on August 27 followed by a loss to #1 Bev Facey on September 1 at home, the #6 ranked Panthers finish up their non-conference schedule this Friday with a tilt against the #5 ranked and defending Calgary Division I Champion Notre Dame Pride. In the recorded history of the Football Alberta rankings no Tier I team has ever taken on three Top-10 teams in their tier in successive weeks to start the season until the Panthers did it this year. Luckily they have a BYE the following week.

Tier III

#8 Sylvan Lake Lakers at #10 Stettler Wildcats
Thursday, September 8, 4:30 p.m.
William E. Hay High School (Stettler)

A new year and Central Alberta’s top Tier III teams get after it early. Both teams have made statements early with wins over Camrose and Lindsay Thurber respectively. Playoffs and Provincial qualifying are a long way off but this game may give some indication as to who will be the team to beat out of the Central for their single Tier III berth. Should be fun this Thursday in Stettler!