With the CIF-Southern Section postseason football brackets set to be released on Sunday, expect to see a reshuffling of the top four seeds in the Northern Division.

Devon Blackledge broke a 57-yard gain on third and 2 to sett up a 2-yard Logan Meyer touchdown sneak and a 31-13 St. Bonaventure lead with 3:47 left in the third quarter.

But Buena, aided by 45 yards of St. Bonaventure personal fouls, marched right down the field to pull within 31-19 on Tyler Perry's miraculous 23-yard diving catch of Robert Munoz's fourth down double reverse pass.

Opening the second half, St. Bonaventure running back Devon Blackledge picks up four straight first downs on runs of 14, 29, 11 and a 12-yard screen pass to the Buena 4.

His 9-yard touchdown run, following a delay of game penalty, gives St. Bonaventure a 24-13 lead with 7:29 left in the third quarter. Blackledge has 182 yards rushing and 91 receiving.

Devon Blackledge rips off a 30-yard gain on third and 1 from the Seraphs 44-yard line to move St. Bonaventure to the Buena 26 in the final minute of the half.

St. Bonaventure looked set for a game-tying field goal try, but a roughing the passer flag on a third-down incompletion cost Buena.

One play later, Logan Meyer scrambled for a 10-yard touchdown run and a 17-13 SB lead with 17 seconds left in the half.

UPDATE: St. Bonaventure leads 17-13 at the half. Blackledge has 198 yards from scrimmage on 13 carries and two receptions. St. Bonaventure has four lost fumbles.

Buena quarterback Munoz hits receiver Kevin Leiser across the middle for a 24-yard gain. A personal foul moves the ball to the St. Bonaventure 25.

Two plays later, Munoz finds tight end Tyler Perry for a 26-yard scoring strike on a double pass.

The PAT fails. Buena leads, 13-10, with 1:55 left in the first half

Tyler Perry punts from his own end zone and St. Bonaventure turns the ball over on punt return for the third time in the first quarter, which ends tied 7-7.

St. Bonaventure cornerback Troy Hill gets the ball back with an interception. It's the fifth turnover of the first game.

St. Bonaventure moves the ball to the Buena 9 on six straight Devon Blackledge carries. But Matt Arve sacks Logan Meyer on first and goal for a 14-yard loss.

Two incompletions later, the Seraphs are forced to settle for Mason Kirk's 39-yard field goal and a 10-7 lead with 4:51 left in the half.

Buena's Kyle Robles recovers St. Bonaventure's second fumbled punt of the first quarter on the Seraphs 20-yard line.

One play later, quarterback Robert Munoz hits tight end Tyler Perry in the back of the end zone for a 7-0 Buena lead over St. Bonaventure with 3:53 left in the first quarter.

UPDATE: The Seraphs immediately answer with quarterback Logan Meyer's 80-yard touchdown pass to running back Devin Blackledge, who caught the ball sprinting down the sideline.

In its battle of 5-1 teams, Buena started slowly, going backwards 14 yards on a fumbled snap on the first play from scrimmage and following that inauspicious debut with two incomplete passes.

But St. Bonaventure fumbled the punt. Junior Bret Coleman recovered. Buena quarter Robert Munoz connected with tight end Tyler Perry for 17 yards on a third down. The subsequent late hit gave Buena the ball on the Seraphs 25.

But Buena couldn't convert on second or third and short and missed the 33-yard field goal to spurn the opportunity.

The super-sized Marmonte League has three of the Top 17 teams in this week's CalHiSports' state rankings -- No. 1 Oaks Christian, No. 11 Moorpark and No. 17 St. Bonaventure.

Two weeks ago, prior to St. Bonaventure's upset to Bishop Amat, the poll had Oaks Christian at No. 1, St. Bonaventure at No. 3 and Moorpark at No. 13.

The total jumps to four teams in Rivals.com's Southern Section rankings -- No. 2 Oaks Christian, No. 4 Moorpark, No. 7 St. Bonaventure and No. 24 Westlake.

This week's CIF-SS rankings features No. 1 Moorpark, No. 3 St. Bonaventure, No. 4 Westlake and No. 5 Newbury Park in the Northern Division and No. 1 Oaks Christian in the Northwest Division.

Ventura High football coach Brad Steward on St. Bonaventure leaving the Channel League to join Oaks Christian in the new super Marmonte League next fall:

"I haven't any input in this thing at all. My response today was 'Wow, that's huge news!'

"I kind of have mixed emotions. I feel like... It's a difficult thing to express, isn't it? I've always enjoyed being able to prepare against the best team around. We'll have one more time. It's just been difficult coming out on the short end of it again and again.

"I'll miss that opportunity to play the best team in the state of California. We got to do that because they were in our league. It's exciting for our guys to put in the preparation like that.

(Is this solving anything? Isn't the Marmonte League just being put in the position the Channel League has been in?)

"Maybe those guys are better suited to having them than we are. I do feel like we've had our turn."

"Things change. I think we need to do as good a job as we can, frequently, to make sure we do the best job we can for kids."

Ventura High athletic director and Channel League representative David Hess on St. Bonaventure and Oaks Christian joining the Marmonte League for the 2010 season, which proposed Thursday in Long Beach:

"I was pretty surprised. We're happy in that our goal from the start of this process was to find a more competitive place for St. Bonaventure football... We feel that we have done that... As it played out, my ultimate obligation was to take care of kids in the Channel League and at Ventura High.

"As (the) meeting approached, nobody was talking to us, which was an indicator that people were talking in a way that was not going to go well for the Channel League... So we needed to look at the process and what was available to us. 

"What do we think will work if whole lot of schools that are not in Ventura County are voting? How do we tell the story?

"We did not want to bring St. Bonaventure in for all sports... Ultimately we felt that would not be good for all sports for St. Bonaventure."

"We didn't want to do something that was simply punative... If we supported St. Bonaventure coming into the league for all sports, we were saying that it was alright for St. Bonaventure to be in the Channel League for football and we're not... We wanted to stand on that principle."

Shocking events today from The Grand in Long Beach, where a late proposal to lump Oaks Christian and St. Bonaventure into the Marmonte League for football was passed by the CIF-Southern Section council.

Here's David Lassen on the events:

LONG BEACH - Oaks Christian and St. Bonaventure will end up in the same football league after all - but it will be a 10-team Marmonte League,  not a proposed four-team private-school football league.

Endorsing appeals by Ventura and Calabasas high schools, the CIF-Southern Section council voted Thursday to move the area's private-school powers into the Marmonte League for football only, while leaving all other schools intact.

In doing so by a 41-21 vote with nine abstentions, the council - a body representing one vote for each Southern Section league - overrode a vote by the nine leagues in the Northern Area that would have had Oaks Christian and Calabasas change places, with Oaks Christian joining the Marmonte League for all sports, while moving Calabasas into the Tri-County Athletic Association.

Coming at the end of a long and contentious releaguing process, the decision is final and will take affect for four seasons, beginning with the 2010-2011 school year.

"As football in Ventura County goes, I believe it's a good thing," said St. Bonaventure principal Marc Groff. "Since it's football only. ... I'm certainly very interested to see what these other configurations are. I need to digest it a little bit."

The 10-team league will be split into two five-team units, details of which are uncertain.

"From a football interest standpoint, I think people in Ventura County should be excited that the best teams are all going to play each other."

The plan to put Oaks and St. Bonaventure in the same league was floated early in the releaguing process but did not gain traction within the Northern Area's releaguing procedure. So its reemergence, as a proposal introduced at Thursday's meeting, created a wide range of reaction.

Lassen's live Twitter updates are available here. More to come at VCStar.com later in the day.

Here is a look at where some of the area teams stand in a few of the state, regional and national rankings:

STATE RANKINGS:
- MaxPreps: No. 2. Oaks Christian
No. 5. Moorpark
No. 14 St. Bonaventure

WEST REGIONAL RANKINGS:
- ESPN Rise Top 20: No. 1 Oaks Christian. West Region bubble: Moorpark.

NATIONAL RANKINGS:
- MaxPreps Xcellent 25: No. 5 Oaks Christian

- USA Today Super 25: No. 5 Oaks Christian

- ESPN Rise Fab 50: No. 4 Oaks Christian

Oxnard's first regular-season loss in 23 games cost the Yellowjackets a place in the Northern Division rankings.

St. Bonaventure's loss to Bishop Amat continues to cost the Seraphs in the national football rankings.

They took a freefall in the Rivals.com Top 100, plummeting from No. 26 to completely out of the rankings. Oaks Christian moved down to No. 16 from No. 13 after it's victory over Venice.

In the USA Today Top 25 national rankings, St. Bonaventure dropped out after being No. 17 last week. Oaks Christian moved up two spots to No. 5. The Lions are the only California school represented in the rankings.

Despite winning its 14th consecutive game, St. Bonaventure (4-0) was dropped from No. 2 to No. 3 in the football state rankings by CalHiSports.com

Max Preps.com and CalHiSports.com have entered the debate over whether Oaks Christian or St. Bonaventure should be the No. 1-ranked football team in the state.

Northern Division

St. Bonaventure 42, Los Angeles Jordan 21: Meyer leads Seraphs by David Lassen in Los Angeles.
Moorpark 31, Ventura 7: Rohach singled out for Moorpark by Loren Ledin in Moorpark.
Channel Islands 28, Santa Clara 7: CI uses sizeable advantage by Derry Eads in Oxnard.
Oxnard 30, San Luis Obispo 14: Oxnard rallies by staff reports

Northwest Division

Oaks Christian 28, Skyline (Wash.) 25: Oaks wins battle by Mason Kelly, Seattle Times
Fillmore 27, Bishop Diego 25: Big plays lift Fillmore by Barry Punzal in Santa Barbara
Nordhoff 14, Santa Ynez 12: Nordhoff hangs on by Ted Cotti in Ojai

Some news, notes and highlights from Friday night's games:

Oaks Christian 28, Skyline 25: The Lions took a big step toward a bowl berth by passing their toughest test of the season on the road in Washington. Oaks (3-0) jumped out to an early 14-0 lead, and managed to hold off a late Skyline charge. Malcolm Jones (19 carries, 133 yards) scored the game-winning touchdown on a 48-yard run in the fourth quarter, and Max Napolitano clinched the win with an interception in the waning seconds. Playing in the state he will soon reside full time, Oaks quarterback Nick Montana, a University of Washington commit, completed 21 of 32 passes for 258 yards and three touchdowns to hand Skyline QB Jake Heaps his first high school loss. But the most pressing question of the night might have been how many times ESPNU showed Joe Montana and his wife on the split screen. Can you say overkill?

Moorpark 31, Ventura 7: Moorpark (3-0) employed a single-QB offense with Brody Rohach taking all the snaps and Brian Blechen being used as a receiver and defensive back. Rohach passed for 177 yards and touchdowns of 50, 42 and 23 yards. Should we expect this to continue? Ever-coy Moorpark coach Tim Lins wasn't telling. Ventura (0-2) cut down on its turnovers, but its offense couldn't generate much against Moorpark's strong defense.

Channel Islands 28, Santa Clara 7: Raise your hand if you had Channel Islands and Hueneme both starting the season 3-0. Didn't think so. But CI used its passing attack to improve to 3-0 for the first time in 19 years. QB Bobby Diaz was 13 of 20 for 209 yards and one touchdown. Santa Clara committed four turnovers to fall to 0-2.

Nordhoff 14, Santa Ynez 12: Nordhoff held off the Santa Ynez comeback when Logan Crow intercepted a pass with 40 seconds remaining. The Rangers led 14-0 behind touchdowns from Cody Burgess (117 yards rushing) and Crow. Santa Ynez failed on a two-point conversion to tie the game on its second score with 7:38 to play. Nordhoff QB Skyler Logsdon was 10 of 20 for 133 yards.

St. Bonaventure 42, L.A. Jordan 21: Friday night lights was Friday afternoon sunlight for the Seraphs (3-0) as they played a day game. Senior QB Logan Meyer had his best statistical performance of the season, completing 18 for 25 for 312 yards and three touchdowns in just three quarters. Meyer started 7 for 7 for 187 yards and two touchdowns.

Fillmore 27, Bishop Diego 25:  The Flashes rallied for their first win when Zach Golson caught a pass from Corey Cole on 3rd-and 11 and sprinted 85 yards down the right sideline for the game-winning touchdown. Bishop Diego opened the game by scoring a touchdown on the very first play from scrimmage - a 72-yard scamper by Brandon Gonzalez - and led 13-0 at one point.

Oxnard 30, San Luis Obispo 14: That long bus ride was much more pleasurable thanks to those 20 points Oxnard scored in the fourth quarter to rally for the win. The Yellowjackets trailed 14-10 entering the final quarter, but Henry Fernandez ran for three touchdowns. Fernandez compiled 103 of his 166 yards rushing in the fourth quarter. Alex Gavin had 103 yards rushing.

Thacher 52, Cuyama Valley 6: QB Austin Krause threw for 143 yards and three touchdowns for the Toads in an eight-man road victory.   
  

Oaks Christian remained at No. 6 and St. Bonaventure moved up two spots to No. 16 in this week's USA Today Super 25 high school football rankings.

Oaks Christian, which hammered Muir 51-0 last week, plays at No. 17 Skyline of Sammamish, Wash. on Friday.

St. Bonaventure beat Long Beach Poly 27-7 last week, and plays Los Angeles Jordan in broad daylight on Friday at 3 p.m.

Nothing changed for either team in the MaxPreps Xcellent 25. Oaks Christian remained ranked No. 10 and St. Bonaventure is ranked No. 23. Skyline is ranked No. 12.