Football: Get ready for more releaguing squabbles in Ventura County

Moorpark’s two-year experiement of being forced to compete against Oaks Christian, St. Bonaventure and Westlake in a four-team Marmonte League football division is over. The Musketeers went 0-6.

Under the rules agreed to, Moorpark will leave the league next fall and join the four-team Camino League for two years. The best team from that league is supposed to move up to the Marmonte, and that would be Camarillo. The new league should be made up of Moorpark, Newbury Park, Thousand Oaks and a fourth team to be decided.

Royal is supposed to move down from the Camino League into the Canyon League, replaced by the best team, which is Calabasas.

However, there’s already talk among some schools of trying to move Calabasas, which is 9-1 this season, into the Marmonte League and leave Camarillo with Newbury Park, Moorpark and Thousand Oaks.

So get ready for the usual squabbling that occurs in Ventura County and led to a lawsuit filed by Oaks Christian and St. Bonaventure in 2013 when those schools didn’t like being ordered out of the area.

The question is will there be enough schools and principals to change the bylaws to send Calabasas packing all the way up to the Pac-5 Marmonte? A vote is likely in January.

And still to come will be another combative releaguing cycle. Moorpark Athletic Director Rob Dearborn has said his school wants to be in one league for all sports and not part of an association.

“It’s not fair and we’ll see what we do in two years,� he said.

Fun times ahead in Ventura County.

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