Dear Editor, This is in response to a column in the Feb. 22
edition of the Morgan Hill Times sports section. The Acorns were
seeded lower than Gilroy for the girls CCS soccer competition for a
few reasons:
Dear Editor,
This is in response to a column in the Feb. 22 edition of the Morgan Hill Times sports section.
The Acorns were seeded lower than Gilroy for the girls CCS soccer competition for a few reasons:
• Live Oak had to forfeit three games (as San Benito also had to do) at the beginning of the season which cost them points which would have elevated them above Gilroy (as ours would have, too, which would have probably put San Benito in CCS as an at-large team).
• Gilroy had three wins over a league champion in preseason, Alisal, which boosted its CCS points.
• When the points were added up for both teams, even with the five bonus points Live Oak received for being a league champion, the two teams were tied.
Since they were tied, the CCS board then had to put one of them above the other, so the process is points, then head-to-head record (they tied each other twice), and then it goes to total bonus points, which Gilroy had quite a bit more of, so they were seeded above Live Oak.
No process is going to make everyone happy, but in my four years of attending the CCS seeding, and witnessed the process, and now am a part of it being the CCS league rep for TCAL, I think it is a good system, and does not need any overhauls of it.
If you would take that argument (that league champs should be seeded higher than a second-place team), what if a league champion lost every game in preseason … but won their league, and the second-place team won most of not all of their preseason games …they would still have more power points, which would give them the higher seed.
The league champion still gets five bonus points for being league champ, and the runner up does not get any. How much more should a league champ get? In a normal situation, with no forfeits, Live Oak would have had more points and had been seeded higher.
Look at Alisal, which was a co-champ and was seeded 12th due to its lack of points. They are also a “B” league team, but had less points than both Live Oak and Gilroy. I agree the system may not be perfect, but from what I have seen, from getting to go to CCS and not getting in from lack of points,I still think it is a good system.
One more thing, remember, Live Oak may have been league champion, but they could not defeat Gilroy … both games ended in ties …. and only one team defeated Gilroy in league this season, San Benito, while Gilroy beat or tied all league opponents. The two teams were very close in abilities, and the Gilroy vs Leland game might have been different if Amanda Bruce would have played.
Michael Schurig, Head Coach girl’s soccer
San Benito High School, TCAL CCS Rep
