Top 25 national high school baseball composite rankings

Calvary Christian (Clearwater, Fla.) tightened its grip on the No. 1 ranking in the media baseball composite poll, pulling well ahead of a group of teams tightly grouped in the top 10.

The Warriors are ranked No. 1 by four ranking services and no lower than No. 6 by others. Their average ranking is a 2.0, which is 7.8 points higher than the next team in the rankings.

No. 2 Blessed Trinity (Roswell, Ga.) is ranked No. 1 by Baseball America, while No. 9 Valley Christian (San Jose, Calif.) is ranked No. 1 by the MaxPreps computer rankings. The six teams between Blessed Trinity and Valley Christian are tightly bunched with only 4.4 average rankings points separating them.



Calvary Christian and Valley Christian join American Heritage (Plantation, Fla.), Huntington Beach (Calif.), Harvard-Westlake (Studio City, Calif.), and St. Xavier (Louisville, Ky.) as the only teams ranked by all six services.

Teams are given points that correspond to their ranking in each poll. Teams that were not ranked in a certain poll were given 40 points. Teams were then ranked by the lowest average across the five polls.

MaxPreps, USA Today, and Baseball America all released polls this week while Perfect Game and Collegiate Baseball American released their most recent rankings May 8.

MaxPreps Xcellent 25 and USA Today had the most teams in the composite rankings at 21, Baseball America had 20, Collegiate Baseball Newspaper had 16, MaxPreps computer rankings had 15 and Perfect Game had 19.


1. (last time 1) Calvary Christian (Clearwater, Fla.)
Average rank: 2.00
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 1
MaxPreps Computer: 6
USA Today Expert: 1
Baseball America: 2
Perfect Game: 1
Collegiate Baseball: 1

2. (2) Blessed Trinity (Roswell, Ga.)
Average rank: 9.8
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 7
MaxPreps Computer: 3
USA Today Expert: NR
Baseball America: 1
Perfect Game: 3
Collegiate Baseball: 5

3. (4) Riverdale Baptist (Upper Marlboro, Md.)
Average rank: 10.0
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 6
MaxPreps Computer: NR
USA Today Expert: 2
Baseball America: 4
Perfect Game: 5
Collegiate Baseball: 3

4. (12) American Heritage (Plantation, Fla.)
Average rank: 11.3
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 20
MaxPreps Computer: 13
USA Today Expert: 6
Baseball America: 6
Perfect Game: 12
Collegiate Baseball: 11



5. (5) Huntington Beach (Calif.)
Average rank: 11.8
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 25
MaxPreps Computer: 8
USA Today Expert: 8
Baseball America: 8
Perfect Game: 9
Collegiate Baseball: 13

6. (6) Lake Travis (Austin, Texas)
Average rank: 12.0
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 5
MaxPreps Computer: NR
USA Today Expert: 4
Baseball America: 7
Perfect Game: 10
Collegiate Baseball: 6

7. (13) Harvard-Westlake (Studio City, Calif.)
Average rank: 12.2
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 10
MaxPreps Computer: 16
USA Today Expert: 20
Baseball America: 3
Perfect Game: 7
Collegiate Baseball: 17

8. (11) St. Xavier (Louisville, Ky.)
Average rank: 13.0
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 12
MaxPreps Computer: 18
USA Today Expert: 11
Baseball America: 14
Perfect Game: 15
Collegiate Baseball: 8

9. (9) Valley Christian (San Jose, Calif.)
Average rank: 14.2
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 19
MaxPreps Computer: 1
USA Today Expert: 10
Baseball America: 24
Perfect Game: 22
Collegiate Baseball: 9

10. (7) Argyle (Texas)
Average rank: 15.3
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 3
MaxPreps Computer: NR
USA Today Expert: 5
Baseball America: NR
Perfect Game: 2
Collegiate Baseball: 2



11. (8) Vianney (Kirkwood, Mo.)
Average rank: 15.8
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 15
MaxPreps Computer: NR
USA Today Expert: 9
Baseball America: 13
Perfect Game: 11
Collegiate Baseball: 7

12. (15) Cleburne (Texas)
Average rank: 18.3
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 4
MaxPreps Computer: NR
USA Today Expert: NR
Baseball America: 5
Perfect Game: 17
Collegiate Baseball: 4

13. (18) John Curtis Christian (River Ridge, La.)
Average rank: 19.2
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 8
MaxPreps Computer: 12
USA Today Expert: 7
Baseball America: NR
Perfect Game: 8
Collegiate Baseball: NR

14. (17) Mountain Vista (Highlands Ranch, Colo.)
Average rank: 21.0
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 17
MaxPreps Computer: 15
USA Today Expert: 15
Baseball America: 16
Perfect Game: 23
Collegiate Baseball: NR

15. (NR) Parkview (Lilburn, Ga.)
Average rank: 21.3
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: NR
MaxPreps Computer: 7
USA Today Expert: 24
Baseball America: 11
Perfect Game: 6
Collegiate Baseball: NR

16. (10) McAllen (Texas)
Average rank: 22.3
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 18
MaxPreps Computer: NR
USA Today Expert: 13
Baseball America: 9
Perfect Game: NR
Collegiate Baseball: 14



17. (14) Montverde Academy (Montverde, Fla.)
Average rank: 22.7
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 2
MaxPreps Computer: 11
USA Today Expert: 3
Baseball America: NR
Perfect Game: NR
Collegiate Baseball: NR

18. (16) Orange Lutheran (Orange, Calif.)
Average rank: 23.0
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: NR
MaxPreps Computer: 10
USA Today Expert: 17
Baseball America: 17
Perfect Game: 14
Collegiate Baseball: NR

19. (25) Flanagan (Pembroke Pines, Fla.)
Average rank: 24.2
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 9
MaxPreps Computer: NR
USA Today Expert: 21
Baseball America: 15
Perfect Game: 20
Collegiate Baseball: NR

20. (19) Mill Creek (Hoschton, Ga.)
Average rank: 24.5
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 13
MaxPreps Computer: 20
USA Today Expert: 12
Baseball America: 22
Perfect Game: NR
Collegiate Baseball: NR

21. (22) Faith Academy (Mobile, Ala.)
Average rank: 25.0
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 24
MaxPreps Computer: 2
USA Today Expert: NR
Baseball America: NR
Perfect Game: 4
Collegiate Baseball: NR

22. (24) La Cueva (Albuquerque)
Average rank: 25.5
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 21
MaxPreps Computer: NR
USA Today Expert: 22
Baseball America: 10
Perfect Game: NR
Collegiate Baseball: 20

23. (20) Puyallup (Wash.)
Average rank: 26.5
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: NR
MaxPreps Computer: NR
USA Today Expert: 14
Baseball America: NR
Perfect Game: 13
Collegiate Baseball: 12



24. (NR) George County (Lucedale, Miss.)
Average rank: 28.7
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: NR
MaxPreps Computer: 9
USA Today Expert: 25
Baseball America: 18
Perfect Game: NR
Collegiate Baseball: NR

25. (NR) Staley (Kansas City, Mo.)
Average rank: 28.8
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 11
MaxPreps Computer: NR
USA Today Expert: NR
Baseball America: 19
Perfect Game: NR
Collegiate Baseball: 23