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Weekly rankings of New Jersey girls teams from The Star-Ledger's Rich Bevensee

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Week 1 - Sept 24, 2008

Week 2 - Oct 1, 2008

Week 3 - Oct 10

Week 4 - Oct 16

Week 5 - Oct 23

Week 6 - Oct 31

Week 7 - Nov 7

Week 8 - Nov 13

Week 9 - Nov 20


Pre State Meet of Champs rankings

NEW JERSEY GIRLS XC TOP 25 FOR NOV. 20
 
Rank-School (Last Week)
 1-Ridge                                                    (2)
2-Immaculate Heart                                 (8)
3-Red Bank Catholic                                (3)
4-Voorhees                                              (11)
5-Randolph                                               (5)
6-Haddonfield                                           (1)
7-Toms River North                                  (4)
8-Pope John                                             (6)
9-Hillsborough                                          (10)
10-Holy Angels                                         (7)
11-South Brunswick                                 (9)
12-West Windsor-Plainsboro South         (14)
13-Southern                                             (13)
14-Chatham                                              (NR)
15-Hopewell Valley                                   (15)
16-Williamstown                                       (24)
17-Msg r. Donovan                                    (25)
18-Johnson                                               (19)
19-Ridgewood                                           (21)
20-Pingry                                                   (NR)
21-North Hunterdon                                  (NR)
22-Shawnee                                              (NR)
23-Seneca                                                (17)
24-Robbinsville                                           (NR)
25-Holmdel                                                (18)
 
Changing of the guard: Ridge of Basking Ridge took over the top spot in The Star-Ledger Top 25 after capturing its first state Group 4 title at the NJSIAA Group Championships on Saturday at Holmdel Park. It defeated No. 5 Randolph, 108-118. Ridge, which had finished second the last four years in Group 3, last won a group title in 1987, in Group 2, the year before coach Tim Mooney joined the program as an assistant coach.
 
Previously top-ranked Haddonfield slipped to No. 6 after it comfortably won its fourth straight Group 2 title, but with a five-runner average of 20:32, ninth fastest of all teams from six group races.
 
No. 2 Immaculate Heart received a boost from previously injured Mary Kaye Duff, who didn’t know she would run due to a back injury until she stepped off the bus that morning. The Washington Township school from Bergen County, with Kaye back in the fold for the first time in a month, defeated No. 3 Red Bank Catholic, 60-67, for the Non-Public A state title.
 
No. 4 Voorhees snagged its third straight state Group 3 title behind individual champion Lanie Thompson, the Oregon-bound star who out-dueled Kingsway’s Chelsea Ley, 17:56 to 17:59. Thompson’s time ranked No. 7 all-time at Holmdel. Ley owns a 17:43.1 from last month which ranks No. 6.
 
Welcome to the poll: No. 14 Chatham, No. 20 Pingry of Martinsville, No. 21 North Hunterdon of Annandale, No. 22 Shawnee of Medford and No. 24 Robbinsville.
Chatham placed second to Haddonfield, 73-93, in Group 2, and leapfrogged No. 18 Johnson, third with 110.
Pingry claimed its first Non-Public B title since winning back-to-back titles in 2004 and ’05 with a commanding 53-102 decision over runner-up and Somerset County rival Mount St. Mary of Watchung.
No. 21 North Hunterdon jumped back into the poll for the first time in four weeks, when it was No. 14 in the Oct. 23 poll. North Hunterdon did not advance to Saturday’s Meet of Champions, but it finished 10th overall in the always-strong Group 4 thanks in part to getting its senior star, Sam Andersen, back into the lineup after she was shelved by illness nearly a month ago.
Shawnee leaped into the poll after placing third in the Group 3 poll behind Voorhees and No. 15 Hopewell Valley.
No. 24 Robbinsville, led by individual champion Megan Flynn (19:39) makes its debut in the poll as the only Group 1 school in the Top 25 after claiming its first Group 1 state title in just the second year of the program’s existence.


NJ GIRLS CROSS-COUNTRY TOP 25 POLL FOR NOV. 13

Rank-School (last week)

1-Haddonfield (1)
2-Ridge (2)
3-Red Bank Catholic (3)
4-Toms River North (4)
5-Randolph (5)
6-Pope John (6)
7-Holy Angels (7)
8-Immaculate Heart (8)
9-South Brunswick (14)
10-Hillsborough (9)
11-Voorhees (10)
12-Hunterdon Central (13)
13-Southern Regional (15)
14-West Windsor-Plainsboro South (11)
15-Hopewell Valley (12)
16-Colts Neck (17)
17-Seneca (18)
18-Holdmel (21)
19-Johnson (16)
20-Howell (22)
21-Ridgewood (20)
22-Red Bank (NR)
23-Millville (23)
24-Williamstown (19)
25-Msgr. Donovan (24)



The biggest move in the Top 25 was made by Greater Middlesex Conference champion South Brunswick, which defeated Hillsborough, 61-62, to win its first NJSIAA Central Jersey, Group 4 title since 1997 on Saturday at Thompson Park in Jamesburg and leap five spots to No. 9.
Last week, I mentioned how amazing the team’s current front-runner is – freshman Cayla DelPiano. Only now I have to hand out props to the entire squad.
Think about this, folks. The team’s front-runner, junior and 2007 GMC champion Sophia Ginez, missed all of October due to severe knee pain, and yet the team never missed a beat, usually averaging a five-runner gap of about 75-90 seconds.
Then, Ginez rejoined the team in time for the GMC Championships out of race shape, yet she finished second for the team when it won the GMC title with a spread of just 69 seconds between its first and fifth runners. DelPiano led the team with a third-place finish in 19:17.4
A week later at Thompson, DelPiano led the team with a sixth-place finish in 19:36.1 amidst a deluge, Ginez finished third for the team and South Brunswick compacted its one-through-five gap to 63 seconds.
Sixty-three seconds. That’s going to be hard to beat in the state Group 4 race on Saturday at Holmdel Park.

Some may say, imagine where South Brunswick would be had Ginez not missed any training time. I say, consider the fact that coach Wilfredo Rivera’s team is in serious contention for its first state title in spite of his best runner missing all that time.
Making a slightly smaller leap was No. 18 Holmdel, which placed second in the Central Jersey, Group 3 race behind Hopewell Valley with a gap of just 42 seconds between its first and fifth runners.
Welcome to the poll: No. 22 Red Bank, which gave Johnson all it could handle before finishing second behind the Mountain Valley Conference and Union County champion, 64-77, in the Central Jersey, Group 2 team standings.


Next up: The NJSIAA state group championships on Saturday at Holmdel Park. The top three teams in each group, as well as the top 10 individuals in each group, automatically qualify for the Meet of Champions Nov. 22 at Holmdel.
In addition to those qualifiers, two wild card teams and 10 wild card individuals will advance to the M of C. The teams will be selected based on fastest total time among fourth and fifth place teams, but time will not supercede place. The wild card individuals will be selected based on the next 10 fastest times for those runners not on a qualifying team.

GIRLS CROSS-COUNTRY TOP 25 FOR NOV. 7

1-Haddonfield (1)
2-Ridge (2)
3-Red Bank Catholic (8)
4-Toms River North (9)
5-Randolph (4)
6-Pope John (10)
7-Holy Angels (23)
8-Immaculate Heart (3)
9-Hillsborough (6)
10-Voorhees (7)
11-West Windsor-Plainsboro South (14)
12-Hopewell Valley (11)
13-Hunterdon Central (12)
14-South Brunswick (16)
15-Southern Regional (13)
16-Johnson (15)
17-Colts Neck (21)
18-Seneca (17)
19-Williamstown (18)
20-Ridgewood (NR)
21-Holmdel (22)
22-Howell (24)
23-Millville (NR)
24-Msgr. Donovan (25)
25-Holy Spirit (20)

The Academy of the Holy Angels, in Demarest in Bergen County, seems to have woken up from a season-long slumber just in time for the most important part of the cross-country campaign.
And it accounted for the single biggest jump in the New Jersey Top 25 all season, as Holy Angels rose from No. 23 to No. 7.
Following up on its victory in the Bergen County B Division race Oct. 25, Holy Angels enjoyed a performance that surprised even coach Jim McCarthy when it stunned then-No. 3 Immaculate Heart of Washington Township, 47-70, at the Bergen County Meet of Champions on Saturday at Darlington Park in Mahwah.
Let’s check that. McCarthy wasn’t surprised by beating IHA. Taking all the top teams from each of the groups from the county championships the week before – also at Darlington -- and placing them into one hypothetical race, McCarthy said he figured his squad could beat IHA by a couple points at the BCMOC.
What McCarthy was astounded by was the level of improvement his girls showed in their upset triumph. Collectively, Holy Angels’ top five shaved 88 seconds from their times at the county group meet just one week earlier. Its five-runner average shrunk from 19:48 to 19:32.
``I guess you could say we’ve been flying under the radar,’’ McCarthy said. ``After looking at the group results, I thought we could beat IHA. But to show that kind of improvement in one week, yes, I was a little shocked.’’
This was Holy Angels’ victory, and not IHA’s defeat. IHA remained steady between the two meets, averaging 19:36 at the group meet and 19:37 at the M of C. Its top five dropped a collective three seconds from the previous week. The most noted difference was with IHA’s No. 3 runner, Julie Sinkovitz, who lowered her time at Darlington from 19:57 to 19:22. Sarah Pagano remained the team’s superb front-runner, winning medalist honors in 18:13, just six seconds off her winning time at the county group meet, which is also the state’s best this season at Darlington.
Confidence inside the Holy Angels locker room is soaring right now, McCarthy said, heading into the NJSIAA state group meet Nov. 15 at Holmdel Park. Holy Angels won the Non-Public A title two years ago and placed fourth last season.
Holy Angels, IHA, No. 3 Red Bank Catholic and No. 6 Pope John of Sparta will make the Non-Public A race one of the day’s best battles.
``We couldn’t have achieved any of this without my assistant coach, Howie Schuman,’’ McCarthy said. ``He sets up the workouts and gets the girls motivated. He always tells the girls that a positive attitude is contagious, and a negative attitude is destructive. I don’t know if we were before, but we’re believers now.’’

Elsewhere around the state, No. 5 Randolph continued its history-making season by winning its first Morris County title since 1999, despite the fact that sophomore front-runner Joelle Amaral suffered a rare off day and finished third for her team, 12th overall in 20:47.4 on Saturday at the Kraft Foods Complex in East Hanover. Natalie Anthony (sixth, 20:06.8) and Molly Higgins (seventh, 20:08.0) carried the flag for Randolph, which last month won the Iron Hills Conference, Iron Division title for the first time since 1997.
Randolph is now preparing for the North Jersey, Section 1, Group 4 meet on Saturday at Garret Mountain Park in Paterson. Randolph is the defending champion.

No. 11 West Windsor-Plainsboro South moved up three spots and leapfrogged No. 12 Hopewell Valley after earning a 46-47 victory over its Mercer County rival at the Mercer County Championships on Saturday at Washington Crossing Park. Katie Kellner, WW-PS’ sterling senior, continued to impress as she logged a winning time of 17:50.3 and beat her chief individual rival, Hopewell’s Clare Buck, by 31 seconds. Watch out for Kellner’s freshman sister, Caroline, who placed third overall in 18:32.5.

Anyone who witnessed the Greater Middlesex Conference Championships, or at least perused the results, had to notice how jam-packed the No. 14 South Brunswick girls were. Utilizing a spread of just 69 seconds, South Brunswick placed five runners inside the top eight and averaged 20:06.4 to claim its third straight GMC title at Thompson Park in Jamesburg.
Seemed like a good a time as any for a sectional tuneup, seeing as how South Brunswick will return to Thompson on Saturday for the Central Jersey, Group 4 race. That will be a hot one because South Brunswick will take on No. 9 Hillsborough, No. 11 West Windsor South, No. 17 Colts Neck and No. 22 Howell.
South Brunswick junior Sophia Ginez, the GMC champion last season, made her return to the lineup at the GMC meet after missing nearly a month with sore knees. She placed second for her team and fifth overall in 20:02.
Freshman Cayla DelPiano, third overall at the GMC in 19:17.4, can’t be given enough credit for taking over the No. 1 runner’s role in Ginez’ absence. The novice learned what she could from Ginez while racing beside her for the first month of the season, then put it into practice while keeping her team competitive.

Welcome to the poll: No. 20 Ridgewood and No. 23 Millville.
Ridgewood placed third in the Bergen County M of C behind Holy Angels and Immaculate Heart. Millville won the Cape-Atlantic League title, 45-52, over runner-up and No. 25 Holy Spirit.

Next up: The public schools gear up for the NJSIAA state sectionals, at four sites around the state on Saturday: Garret Mountain in Paterson, Warinanco Park in Elizabeth, Thompson Park in Jamesburg, and Delsea High in Franklinville. The top 10 individuals and top five teams advance to the state group meet Nov. 15 at Holmdel Park. The Meet of Champions is Nov. 22 at Holmdel.
Following the Warinanco Park sectional meet on Saturday will be the New Jersey Catholic Track Conference Championships.

NEW JERSEY GIRLS TOP 25 FOR OCT. 31

Rank-School (last week)

1-Haddonfield (1)
2-Ridge (3)
3-Immaculate Heart (4)
4-Randolph (5)
6-Hillsborough (8)
7-Voorhees (2)
8-Red Bank Catholic (11)
9-Toms River North (9)
10-Pope John (10)
11-Hopewell Valley (12)
12-Hunterdon Central (14)
13-Southern Regional (6)
14-West Windsor-Plainsboro South (13)
15-Johnson (16)
16-South Brunswick (17)
17-Seneca (18)
18-Williamstown (19)
19-West Windsor-Plainsboro North (20)
20-Holy Spirit (21)
21-Colts Neck (NR)
22-Holmdel (22)
23-Holy Angels (23)
24-Howell (NR)
25-Msgr. Donovan (7)

The Skyland Conference Championships and the Shore Conference Championships accounted for some major shakeups in the New Jersey girls cross-country Top 25, with No. 2 Ridge of Basking Ridge and No. 8 Red Bank Catholic making most of the noise.
No. 1 Haddonfield was not in action and remained atop the poll, but Ridge made a huge statement yesterday by knocking off then-No. 2 Voorhees, the reigning Meet of Champions winner.
Ridge improved upon its school record for five-runner average at Pleasant Valley Park in Bernards Township with a 19:22.2 while winning its first ever Skyland Conference title. The meet featured five of the top 15 teams. Ridge won with 64 points and was followed by No. 6 Hillsborough (94), No. 7 Voorhees (97) and No. 12 Hunterdon Central (107).
Ridge beat Voorhees in a dual meet, 27-28, earlier this month, but lost to Voorhees three days later in the Eastern States Championship race at the Manhattan Invitational Oct. 11 at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx.
Then No. 15 North Hunterdon, missing it star, Sam Andersen, who has missed the Hunterdon-Warren Championships and the conference meet due to tonsillitis, finished seventh overall in the conference.
On an individual note from the Skyland meet, Voorhees senior Lanie Thompson, the state’s reigning cross-country individual champion, broke her own meet and course record by 13 seconds with a 17:47.5, then broke some big news. She announced that she concluded her official visit to Oregon on Monday by making a verbal commitment to Ducks coach Vin Lananna. Thompson visited Georgetown last month, and passed up official visits to Duke, Stanford and Michigan.

From the Shore Conference, Michelle Capozzi placed fifth overall in 18:09 to lead No. 8 Red Bank Catholic into a first-place tie with No. 9 Toms River North with 107 points each. RBC led after each team’s second, third and fourth runners had crossed, but Toms River North tied it up when Johanna Petruski placed 36th, four places ahead of RBC’s fifth.
The tiebreaker went to RBC after Keely Eckberg placed 48th, seven spots ahead of RBC’s sixth runner.

A big individual note came from this meet as well. Jill Smith of Southern Regional in Manahawkin won the conference title in a blazing meet record of 17:19, which smashed the old course record of 17:32 set by Jackson’s Jen Clausen in 2003 and matched in 2006 by Colts Neck’s Ashley Higginson (now a sophomore at Princeton).

Elsewhere inside the top 10, No. 3 Immaculate Heart of Washington Township, Bergen County, moved up one spot after it won the Group A title with a five-runner average of 19:36.4 at the Bergen County Championships on Saturday at Darlington Park in Mahwah. Sarah Pagano led the charge for IHA, winning the A race in a meet-best 18:07, a 16-second personal best at Darlington and No. 4 all-time on that course.

No. 9 Pope John of Sparta moved up one slot after winning its sixth straight Sussex County Interscholastic League Festival title. Sarah Cariati won the individual title in 17:57.8 and helped Pope John outscore runner-up High Point, 31-87.

No. 4 Randolph was the only inactive team inside the top 10.

Biggest ascent: For the second straight week, Red Bank Catholic is the poll’s biggest mover and shaker. It leaped three places for the second time in a row, and now has won its last two championship events, the Monmouth County Championships and the Shore Conference Championships.

Welcome to the poll: No. 21 Colts Neck and No. 24 Howell, which placed fourth and sixth, respectively, at the Shore Conference meet.





GIRLS XC TOP 25 FOR OCT. 23

1-Haddonfield
2-Voorhees
3-Ridge
4-Immaculate Heart
5-Randolph
6-Southern Regional
7-Hillsborough
8-Toms River North
9-Pope John
10-Red Bank Catholic
11-Hopewell Valley
12-West Windsor-Plainsboro South
13-Hunterdon Central
14-North Hunterdon
15-Msgr. Donovan
16-Cherry Hill East
17-Johnson
18-South Brunswick
19-Williamstown
20-West Windsor-Plainsboro North
21-Holy Spirit
22-Holmdel
23-Ridgewood
24-Holy Angels
25-Seneca


The first nine teams in the Top 25 remained the same after a relatively calm weekend.
The same may not be said after a couple of weeks of county and conference meets, leading up to the Nov. 8 state sectionals.
No. 3 Ridge broke a school record for five-runner average (19:22.8) at Pleasant Valley Park in Bernards Township on Wednesday when it packed five into the top 20 and won its eighth straight Somerset County title over No. 7 Hillsborough, 46-66.
Hillsborough was without the services of its No. 5 runner, Amber Gorman, who was held out with shin pain. Four days earlier, she assisted her team’s impressive victory in the A Division race (19:43.8 average) at the Old Bridge Invitational, 46-65 over No. 13 Hunterdon Central and No. 18 South Brunswick.
No. 5 Randolph had similar, dominating results when it jammed five runners into the top 13 to win its first Iron Division title in 11 years at the Iron Hills Conference meet on Tuesday. Its five-runner average at the relatively flat Freedom Park in Randolph was 19:47.3 on a chilly, windswept afternoon.
No. 11 Hopewell Valley, led by Clare Buck, fared very well at the Brown Invitational on Oct. 18, placing fifth overall behind a quartet of New York teams (19:05.1 average). Buck placed second overall in 17:48.9, 14 seconds behind Foot Locker national finalist Emily Lipari of Roslyn (Long Island, N.Y.).

Biggest ascent: No. 10 Red Bank Catholic rose three places after winning the Monmouth County title with a five-runner average of 20:31 at Holmdel Park, the state’s 3.1-mile championship layout. Sophomore Molly McNamara led the way in third place in 19:44.

Welcome to the Poll: No. 25 Seneca, which captured the team title at the Burlington County Open by a 36-77 margin over runner-up Moorestown on Oct. 17.f



NEW JERSEY GIRLS X-C TOP 25 FOR OCT. 16

Rank-school (previous rank)

1-Haddonfield (1)
2-Voorhees (3)
3-Ridge (6)
4-Immaculate Heart (8)
5-Randolph (2)
6-Southern Reg. (4)
7-Hillsborough (5)
8-Toms River North (10)
9-Pope John (13)
10-Hopewell Valley (9)
11-West Windsor-Plainsboro South (11)
12-Hunterdon Central (16)
13-Red Bank Catholic (7)
14-North Hunterdon (12)
15-Colts Neck (14)
16-Msgr. Donovan (15)
17-Cherry Hill East (18)
18-Johnson=2 0 (23)
19-South Brunswick (17)
20-Williamstown (20)
21-West Windsor-Plainsboro North (22)
22-Holy Spirit ; (24)
23-Ridgewood (25)
24-Holy Angels (NR)
25-Montgomery (21)


Haddonfield maintained its perch in the Top 25 after posting New Jersey’s fastest five-runner average (15:52.5) in the Eastern States Championship race at the Manhattan Invitational on Van Cortland Park’s venerable 2.5-mile course in the Bronx on Saturday.
Voorhees of Glen Gardner, spurred by Lanie Thompson’s victory in the Eastern States race in 14:12.8 and a five-runner average of 15:50.1, moved up a spot to No. 2.
Ridge of Basking Ridge and Immaculate Heart of Washington Township also rose to claim the next two slots in the poll behind Voorhees after placing 13th and 15th, respectively, in the Eastern race.
Randolph finished just four points behind Syosset of New York for the team title in the Varsity A race and rounds out the state’s top five.

Biggest ascent: No. 18 A.L. Johnson of Clark rose five rungs on the NJ ladder after placing eighth in Manhattan’s Varsity C race, second among NJ teams behind No. 17 Cherry Hill East (seventh). Johnson recently won its second straight Mountain Valley Conference title with a school-record average of 20:29 on Warinanco Park’s 3.18-mile dual meet course in Elizabeth.

Three teams picked up four places in the poll: No. 4 Immaculate Heart, No. 9 Pope John of Sparta and No. 12 Hunterdon Central of Flemington.
Pope John was without its top two runners at the Shore Coaches Invitational due to the SATs, but with a full squad, it placed second in Manhattan’s Varsity B race, 10 points behind St. John the Baptist of Long Island, N.Y.
Hunterdon Central’s young squad, bolstered by the steady resurgence of last year’s front-runner Rashmi Singh, who is recovering from injury, placed third in Manhattan’s Varsity F race behind New York schools Bronxville and Northport.



Haddonfield moved up from No. 6 and took over the top rung on the New Jersey ladder after winning the E Division of the Shore Coaches Invitational on Saturday at Holmdel Park, the state’s renowned championship course, and posting a meet-best, five-runner average of 20:03.
Randolph moved up three slots to No. 2 after claiming the powerful A Division (large school) title with an average of 20:19.
Defending state champion and previously top-ranked Voorhees of Glen Gardner drops two notches to No. 3, despite winning the team title in the D Division with an average of 20:06. Voorhees, led by senior Lanie Thompson who earned the individual title with an 18:14, is in action today in a dual meet against No. 6 Ridge of Basking Ridge.

Biggest ascent: Hillsborough, paced by junior Ashley Smolinka (third, 19:01), leaped 13 spots to No. 5 after placing third in the Shore Coaches A Division race behind Randolph and Southern.
North Hunterdon posted the next biggest jump, moving up 10 spots to No. 12 after placing fifth in the A Division.

Biggest surprises: The fact that South Brunswick junior standout Sophia Ginez suffered an injury on the Holmdel course and didn’t finish the race didn’t seem to faze this young Middlesex County squad. Led by freshman Cayla DelPiano (fifth, 19:19), No. 17 South Brunswick still placed a respectable seventh in the A Division and dropped only three slots in the poll.
Everyone knew about Kingsway junior Chelsea Ley heading into the season, so it wasn’t a complete surprise when she turned in a sizzling 17:44 in the C Division race, No. 3 all-time at Holmdel. But who could have expected the Woolwich Township school in Gloucester County to perform so well as a team. No. 19 Kingsway placed second to No. 9 Hopewell Valley with an average of 20:33.

Welcome to the poll: No. 18 Cherry Hill East, No. 19 Kingsway, No. 20 Williamstown, No. 21 Montgomery, No. 23 Johnson of Clark, and No. 24 Holy Spirit of Absecon.

GIRLS X-C TOP 25 FOR WEDNESDAY, OCT. 8

1-Haddoonfield
2-Randolph
3-Voorhees
4-Southern Regional
5-Hillsborough
6-Ridge
7-Red Bank Catholic
8-Immaculate Heart
9-Hopewell Valley
10-Toms River North
11-West Windsor-Plainsboro South
12-North Hunterdon
13-Pope John
14-Colts Neck
15-Msgr. Donovan
16-Hunterdon Central
17-South Brunswick
18-Cherry Hill East
19-Kingsway
20-Williamstown
21-Montgomery
22-West Windsor-Plainsboro North
23-Johnson
24-Holy Spirit
25-Ridgewood


Voorhees remains on top with Toms River North and Red Bank Catholic jumping up



GIRLS CROSS-COUNTRY TOP 20 FOR WEEK 2

1-Voorhees
2-Toms River North
3-Red Bank Catholic
4-Immaculate Heart
5-Randolph
6-Haddonfield
7-Southern Reg.
8-Ridge
9-Colts Neck
10-Msgr. Donovan
11-Pope John
12-Holmdel
13-West Windsor-Plainsboro South
14-South Brunswick
15-Hopewell Valley
16-Lenape
17-Ridgewood
18-Hillsborough
19-Holy Angels
20-Morris Knolls
21-Hunterdon Central
22-North Hunterdon
23-West Windsor-Plainsboro North
24-Seneca
25-Middletown South




2007 State Meet of Champs winners Voorhees starts 2008 right where they left off at the top of the rankings. The 2007 NTN qualifiers have already taken down some Regional ranked teams in taking the Bowdoin Classic.

New Jersey Girls Top 25 - Week 1 - September 24, 2008

1-Voorhees
2-Immaculate Heart Academy
3-Toms River North
4-Red Bank Catholic
5-Haddonfield
6-Southern Regional
7-Randolph
8-Ridge
9-Msgr. Donovan
10-Colts Neck
11-Roxbury
12-Pope John
13-Lenape
14-Ridgewood
15-Holmdel
16-West Windsor-Plainsboro South
17-Hopewell Valley
18-Hillsborough
19-Shawnee
20-Holy Angels
21-North Hunterdon
22-Westfield
23-West Windsor-Plainsboro North
24-Hunterdon Central
25-Princeton

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