No fooling: 10 Los Angeles high school football teams, 5 players on national radar

By Mitch Stephens Apr 1, 2016, 12:05pm

Baseball's Opening Day is just days away, but high school football news and interest never stops.

Video: Darnay Holmes - Ultimate Highlights
See the Calabasas star in action.


Hey, it's April 1 and we all know what that means: Fourteen days until tax day? Yes. The day to pull a fast one? Absolutely.

But germane to this national football editor is that we are only a couple months away from selecting our preseason top 25 national football rankings. Here are our final ones from last season.

Here are 10 of the teams from the Los Angeles region we're giving serious consideration to. Let us know if we're missing any.



And below that are the top five Los Angeles region recruits from the Class of 2017, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings. Everything is in alphabetical order - and no, we aren't fooling.

Top 10 teams from Los Angeles

Calabasas

Centennial (Corona)

La Habra

Long Beach Poly

Loyola (Los Angeles)



Mater Dei (Santa Ana)

Mission Viejo

Narbonne (Harbor City)

Oaks Christian (Westlake Village)

St. John Bosco (Bellflower)

Vista Murrieta (Murrieta)



Final 2015 Southern Section football rankings

Final 2015 Los Angeles City Section football rankings


Top 5 recruits from Los Angeles

1. (No. 6 nationally) CB Darnay Holmes - Calabasas

2. (20) WR Joseph LewisHawkins (Los Angeles)

3. (21) WR Tyjon Lindsey – Centennial (Corona)

4. (24) OT Wyatt Davis – St. John Bosco



5. (34) RB Stephen CarrSummit (Fontana)
Tyjon Lindsey, a Southern California native, has transferred back from Bishop Gorman (Las Vegas) to Centennial (Corona) and should help the Huskies toward another state- and national-title run.
Tyjon Lindsey, a Southern California native, has transferred back from Bishop Gorman (Las Vegas) to Centennial (Corona) and should help the Huskies toward another state- and national-title run.
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