If you believe the latest Cal-Hi Sports CIF State Bowl Game projections, Palma will not be headed to the marquee event.
Instead, it will be Marin Catholic vs. Lompoc in Division III. Of course, that could change if Marin falls in the North Coast Section Division III finals on Friday.
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Another thing going against Palma is that Bellarmine will be going from CCS. When the bowl selection committee meets they have been much more likely to send two teams from the North Coast Section or the Sac Joaquin Section. In fact since 2006, only Bellarmine (once) and Palo Alto (twice) have represented CCS in state bowl games. NCS and SJS teams have filled all the other slots. You probably could argue that Commissioner Blaser should be taking some online salesmanship courses to better prepare her for those meetings.
The reason the CCS is sending only 1 team is because of the Open division. No other CCS division has SOS because their best teams are up.
Palma dominated Newman 2 years ago and Newman got the bid because Palma lost in the Open. VC dominated both Newman and Palma last year and they should have been the D III rep.
Campolindo would go over Palma if they defeat Marin Catholic in NCS D3 final. MC is favorite (defeted two section champions in divisons higher than Palma (CCS D3 and SJ D2), Campo is second. Campo is undefeated, won league a decent one with SOS not much different, and decisively defeated Cardinal Newman which Palma tied. Palma is out. If they got in, there would be extreme protests because two other teams have better cases based on the criteria than Palma does. If Palma only had a tie....they would not likely get in either. Margin of victor doesn't count, but the common opponent lose knocks them out. Doesn't matter what Palma did last year...you culd sy the same thing about Marin Catholic as far as being a strong program for years. If Palma defeated Neman, thy might have a better shot at gtting picked over Campo but probabloy still wouldn't.
I meant the common oppent Palma tied and Camp defeated ...a stated criteria gives Campo the sdvantage.
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