Video: Top 25 national baseball rankings See who's at No. 1 and who is closing in as the season winds down.
Cypress (Calif.), which won the Southern Section Division 1 championship, moved up to the No. 1 spot in the high school baseball media composite rankings this week.
Cypress defeated Harvard-Westlake (Studio City) for the championship while Harvard-Westlake knocked off previous media composite No. 1 Orange Lutheran in the semifinals. The Lancers, although still ranked No. 1 by the MaxPreps Computer rankings, fell to No. 10.
Cypress is ranked no lower than No. 6 in any of the six media polls used to compile the media composite national baseball rankings. The Centurions are ranked No. 1 overall by Perfect Game and No. 2 by Baseball Coaches Association and the MaxPreps Computer Rankings.
Argyle (Texas), the No. 2 team, is no lower than No. 3 in all but one poll, the MaxPreps Computer Rankings, where it ranked No. 13.
IMG Academy (Bradenton, Fla.) and Argyle have the most No. 1 rankings with two each. IMG Academy topped the MaxPreps Top 25 and USA Today poll. Argyle is No. 1 in the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper poll and by Baseball Coaches Association.
All of the services in the composite released their final rankings this week.
Cypress (Calif.), Argyle (Texas), DeSoto Central (Southaven, Miss.), Georgetown (Texas), Barbe (Lake Charles, La.), De La Salle (Concord, Calif.), Colleyville Heritage (Texas), Parkview (Lilburn, Ga.), Harvard-Westlake (Studio City, Calif.) and Orange Lutheran (Calif.) were the only teams ranked by all six services. A total of 50 teams were ranked by at least one service.
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 six polls.
Perfect Game had the most teams in the composite rankings at 23, while the MaxPreps Top 25 and USA Today both had 21. Collegiate Baseball Newspaper and Baseball Coaches Association each had 20 and MaxPreps Computer Rankings had 17.
Top 25 National High School Baseball Composite Rankings
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Average rank: 3.17
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 5
MaxPreps Computer: 2
USA Today: 3
Baseball Coaches Association: 2
Perfect Game: 1
Collegiate Baseball: 6
2. (2) Argyle (Texas)
Average rank: 3.67
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 2
MaxPreps Computer: 13
USA Today: 2
Baseball Coaches Association: 1
Perfect Game: 3
Collegiate Baseball: 1
3. (3) DeSoto Central (Southaven, Miss.)
Average rank: 5.67
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 9
MaxPreps Computer: 5
USA Today: 4
Baseball Coaches Association: 9
Perfect Game: 5
Collegiate Baseball: 2
4. (5) Georgetown (Texas)
Average rank: 7.00
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 3
MaxPreps Computer: 16
USA Today: 9
Baseball Coaches Association: 4
Perfect Game: 7
Collegiate Baseball: 3
5. (7) Barbe (Lake Charles, La.)
Average rank: 8.50
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 8
MaxPreps Computer: 3
USA Today: 5
Baseball Coaches Association: 22
Perfect Game: 8
Collegiate Baseball: 5
6. (9) De La Salle (Concord, Calif.)
Average rank: 10.67
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 7
MaxPreps Computer: 7
USA Today: 20
Baseball Coaches Association: 12
Perfect Game: 11
Collegiate Baseball: 7
7. (6) Colleyville Heritage (Colleyville, Texas)
Average rank: 11.00
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 10
MaxPreps Computer: 25
USA Today: 6
Baseball Coaches Association: 6
Perfect Game: 6
Collegiate Baseball: 13
8. (12) Parkview (Lilburn, Ga.)
Average rank: 13.00
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 13
MaxPreps Computer: 6
USA Today: 19
Baseball Coaches Association: 3
Perfect Game: 9
Collegiate Baseball: 16
9. (16) Harvard-Westlake (Studio City, Calif.)
Average rank: 13.17
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 17
MaxPreps Computer: 8
USA Today: 12
Baseball Coaches Association: 7
Perfect Game: 16
Collegiate Baseball: 19
10. (1) Orange Lutheran (Orange, Calif.)
Average rank: 14.00
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 19
MaxPreps Computer: 1
USA Today: 14
Baseball Coaches Association: 10
Perfect Game: 20
Collegiate Baseball: 20
11. (8) IMG Academy (Bradenton, Fla.)
Average rank: 14.67
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 1
MaxPreps Computer: 4
USA Today: 1
Baseball Coaches Association: NR
Perfect Game: 2
Collegiate Baseball: NR
11. (9) Blanchard (Okla.)
Average rank: 14.67
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 6
MaxPreps Computer: 10
USA Today: 18
Baseball Coaches Association: NR
Perfect Game: 4
Collegiate Baseball: 10
13. (13) Farragut (Knoxville, Tenn.)
Average rank: 17.00
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 12
MaxPreps Computer: NR
USA Today: 24
Baseball Coaches Association: 5
Perfect Game: 10
Collegiate Baseball: 11
14. (15) New Hanover (Wilmington, N.C.)
Average rank: 18.00
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 4
MaxPreps Computer: NR
USA Today: 7
Baseball Coaches Association: NR
Perfect Game: 13
Collegiate Baseball: 4
15. (14) Lake Travis (Austin, Texas)
Average rank: 18.17
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 15
MaxPreps Computer: NR
USA Today: 11
Baseball Coaches Association: 13
Perfect Game: 18
Collegiate Baseball: 12
16. (23) Valley Christian (San Jose, Calif.)
Average rank: 21.50
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 24
MaxPreps Computer: 15
USA Today: 16
Baseball Coaches Association: NR
Perfect Game: 19
Collegiate Baseball: 15
17. (18) Cypress Ranch (Houston)
Average rank: 22.00
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 11
MaxPreps Computer: NR
USA Today: NR
Baseball Coaches Association: 16
Perfect Game: 17
Collegiate Baseball: 8
18. (9) Sam Houston (Lake Charles, La.)
Average rank: 22.33
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 20
MaxPreps Computer: 9
USA Today: 17
Baseball Coaches Association: 25
Perfect Game: 23
Collegiate Baseball: NR
19. (20) Benedictine (Richmond, Va.)
Average rank: 22.83
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: NR
MaxPreps Computer: NR
USA Today: 8
Baseball Coaches Association: 17
Perfect Game: 14
Collegiate Baseball: 18
20. (22) Hamilton (Chandler, Ariz.)
Average rank: 25.00
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 16
MaxPreps Computer: 22
USA Today: NR
Baseball Coaches Association: 20
Perfect Game: 12
Collegiate Baseball: NR
21. (NR) Desert Oasis (Las Vegas)
Average rank: 25.17
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 25
MaxPreps Computer: 14
USA Today: NR
Baseball Coaches Association: 1
Perfect Game: NR
Collegiate Baseball: 21
22. (21) Huntington Beach (Calif.)
Average rank: 26.83
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: 22
MaxPreps Computer: 11
USA Today: 25
Baseball Coaches Association: 23
Perfect Game: NR
Collegiate Baseball: NR
23. (NR) St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)
Average rank: 27.50
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: NR
MaxPreps Computer: NR
USA Today: NR
Baseball Coaches Association: 15
Perfect Game: 21
Collegiate Baseball: 9
24. (NR) Delbarton (Morristown, N.J.)
Average rank: 28.67
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: NR
MaxPreps Computer: NR
USA Today: 15
Baseball Coaches Association: NR
Perfect Game: 15
Collegiate Baseball: 12
25. (NR) Calvary Christian Academy (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)
Average rank: 31.67
MaxPreps Xcellent 25: NR
MaxPreps Computer: NR
USA Today: 22
Baseball Coaches Association: 24
Perfect Game: 24
Collegiate Baseball: NR
