GAINESVILLE – And then there were two.
The number of unbeaten baseball teams has been cut in half as we head into the final three weeks of the regular season. Orlando Olympia, which is ranked No. 1 in the county in the MaxPreps Top 50 National Baseball Rankings, and St. Augustine St. Joseph Academy* are the only undefeated teams remaining in Florida.
*NOTE – The Flashes lost their first game of the season on Monday to 5A Dunnellon, 4-2, but we did not have this score at press time.
The Titans, who went 4-0 last week, remained the top team in Class 8A, while the Flashes (12-1) are sixth in the loaded Class 3A rankings of theprepzone.com state baseball poll.
Lynn Haven Mosley, which lost twice last week, and Fort Myers Canterbury suffered their first defeats of the season.
The nationally-ranked Dolphins (14-2) had a win and a loss against a nationally-ranked team as part of a 2-2 week at the National High School Invitational in Cary, North Carolina, but they dropped one spot to No. 2 in the Class 5A state rankings. Rockledge (16-2), which was nationally-ranked a couple of weeks ago, went 3-0 last week and moved up one spot to the top of the rankings.
The Cougars (14-1), who remained No. 1 in Class 3A, lost their first game of the season last Wednesday at Naples Barron Collier, which is on the cusp of being ranked in Class 6A. Winter Haven (15-3), which is 7th overall in the all-classification rankings, remained No. 1 in that classification.
Classes 6A & 3A have a total of 19 teams each that are either ranked or receiving honorable mention, the most of any of the eight classifications.
Once again the Sunshine State is represented in the national polls with a total of seven teams ranked in the top 50: Oviedo (1), Lake Worth Park Vista (3), Mosley (10), Boca Raton (13), Ft. Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas (29), Haines City (45) and Winter Haven (49).
THEPREPZONE.COM STATE BASEBALL POLL – Week #6
ALL-CLASSIFICATIONS
1. Orlando Olympia (8A) 17-0
2. Lake Worth Park Vista (8A) 17-1
3. Boca Raton (8A) 14-2
4. Haines City (7A) 14-2
5. Rockledge (5A) 16-2
6. Lynn Haven Mosley (5A) 14-2
7. Winter Haven (6A) 15-3
8. Cantonment Tate (7A) 14-2
9. Fort Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas (7A) 14-3
10. Venice (6A) 17-2
CLASS 8A
1. Orlando Olympia 17-0
2. Lake Worth Park Vista 17-1
3. Boca Raton 14-2
4. Loxahatchee Seminole Ridge 14-3
5. Parkland Stoneman Douglas 14-4
6. Orlando Timber Creek 13-4
7. Miami Varela 10-3
8. Pembroke Pines Flanagan 13-4
9. Homestead South Dade 13-5
10. Apopka 14-4
Honorable mention: Coral Gables 12-5; Miami Braddock 13-4; Tampa Alonso 14-5; Riverview 13-5; Lake Mary 13-5; Miami Columbus 13-5; Jupiter 13-5
CLASS 7A
1. Haines City 14-2
2. Cantonment Tate 14-2
3. Fort Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas 14-3
4. Oviedo 16-3
5. Kissimmee Osceola 14-3
6. Brandon 13-3
7. St. Petersburg Northeast 15-3
8. St. Cloud 11-2
9. Winter Springs 12-4
10. Tarpon Springs East Lake 13-4
Honorable mention: Coconut Creek Monarch 13-3; Davie Nova 11-3; Tallahassee Lincoln 11-4; Plant City Durant 13-5; Tallahassee Leon 16-4; Melbourne 11-4; Gainesville Buchholz 12-5
CLASS 6A
1. Winter Haven 15-3
2. Venice 17-2
3. Pembroke Pines Charter 11-3
4. St. Johns Creekside 14-3
5. Miami Goleman 14-2
6. Miami TERRA Institute 14-4
7. Tampa Jefferson 13-4
8. Hialeah Gardens Mater Academy 11-6
9. Jensen Beach 13-3
10. Lake Wales 15-4
Honorable mention: Naples Barron Collier 13-5; Cape Coral Ida Baker 14-4; Port St. Lucie 12-3; Ocala Forest 14-3; Tampa Hillsborough 12-5; Pace 13-4; Naples 14-5; St. Johns Bartram Trail 12-4; Miami Belen Jesuit 10-7
CLASS 5A
1. Rockledge 16-2
2. Lynn Haven Mosley 14-2
3. Dunedin 15-2
4. Tampa Jesuit 13-7
5. Southwest Ranches Archbishop McCarthy 15-3
6. Merritt Island 13-3
7. New Port Richey River Ridge 11-3
8. Plantation American Heritage 11-6
9. Wesley Chapel 14-4
10. Umatilla 11-2
Honorable mention: Eustis 10-3; Glen St. Mary Baker County 15-5; Palm Bay Bayside 12-5
CLASS 4A
1. Delray Beach American Heritage 14-3
2. Miami Gulliver Prep 12-5
3. Fort Myers Bishop Verot 14-4
4. Jacksonville Trinity Christian 14-4
5. Pensacola West Florida 13-5
6. Pensacola Catholic 10-6
7. Jacksonville Bolles 13-5
8. Bushnell South Sumter 9-2
9. Fort Lauderdale Calvary Christian Academy 12-5
10. Orlando Bishop Moore 13-4
Honorable mention: Key West 11-6; Fort Lauderdale Pine Crest 11-6; Keystone Heights 12-4; North Broward Prep 11-7; Jacksonville Bishop Snyder 12-4; Miami Monsignor Pace 11-7; Lakeland McKeel Academy 11-6.
CLASS 3A
1. Fort Myers Canterbury 14-1
2. Jacksonville University Christian 14-4
3, Clearwater Calvary Christian 13-2
4. Spring Hill Bishop McLaughlin 13-3
5. Miami Palmer Trinity 13-2
6. St. Augustine St. Joseph 12-1
7. West Palm Beach Benjamin 14-3
8. Largo Indian Rocks Christian 14-3
9. Miami Westminster Christian 15-5
10. Jacksonville Providence 11-7
Honorable mention: Lake Worth Trinity Christian 13-5; Tallahassee North Florida Christian 8-8; Miami Slam Academy 15-6; Hialeah Educational Academy 13-4; Sarasota Out-of-Door Academy 13-2; Lake Mary Prep 12-3; Orlando The First Academy 14-4; Winter Garden Windermere Academy 12-4; Sarasota Cardinal Mooney 14-5
CLASS 2A
1. St. Petersburg Keswick Christian 12-3
2. Naples Seacrest Country Day 11-5
3. Ocala St. John Lutheran 13-4
4. Deltona Trinity Christian 12-6
5. Quincy Munroe 12-6
6. Sarasota Christian 11-3
7. Brito Miami Private 9-7
8. Vero Beach Master’s Academy 10-4
9. Belle Glade Glades Day 9-2
10. Jacksonville Christ’s Church 8-4
Honorable mention: Tampa Bayshore Christian 6-3; Kissimmee City of Life Christian 7-4; Tampa Cambridge Christian 8-7; Jacksonville First Coast Christian 7-7; Jacksonville Cedar Creek Christian 10-9
CLASS 1A
1. Williston 15-2
2. Panama City Bozeman 15-1
3. Mayo Lafayette 15-2
4. Paxton 12-1
5. Blountstown 14-3
6. Bratt Northview 11-2
7. Chiefland 11-5
8. Wewahitchka 14-3
9. Sneads 11-4
10. Bonifay Holmes County 12-5
Honorable mention: Hilliard 12-4; Milton Central 9-3; Pierson Taylor 10-5; Bell 11-6; Newberry 8-6; Trenton 9-5; Chipley 8-8
