Football: Alemany moves into Serra League

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The Catholic Athletic Assn. voted today to finalize its sports leagues for 2010, with the major change being that it moved Mission Hills Alemany into the Serra League for football.

The Serra League, which competes in the Pac-5 Division, will consist of Alemany, Loyola, Crespi, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame and Bishop Amat. The biggest impact of the move is what it might do to the Pac-5 playoff picture. With the Serra League now receiving three automatic playoff berths, barring other changes there will be no at-large berth in the division.

A new six-team Mission League in football will include Gardena Serra, Cathedral, Harvard-Westlake, St. Francis, Chaminade and St. Paul.

‘We have to get a lot better,’ Alemany Coach Dean Herrington said. ‘It’s another challenge.’

In other potential developments, the Moore and Trinity leagues are unlikely to change their membership. The South Coast and Sunset leagues could become five-team leagues under some proposals but would each retain three automatic playoff berths under those scenarios.

--Eric Sondheimer