Staples’ Jack Portman pitches against Xavier during baseball action in Westport, Conn., on Saturday Apr. 7, 2018. Photo: Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut Media / Connecticut Post
Staples only played one game (which is more than many northern Connecticut teams were afforded), but the Wreckers’ 4-3 rally past Xavier in the SCC-FCIAC Challenge on Saturday was enough to make them the unanimous No. 1 team in the GameTimeCT Top 10 for Week 2.
But with the SCC going 11-4 vs. the FCIAC over the weekend, this week’s top 10 has trended more toward the SCC, with Cheshire, Hand and Notre Dame-West Haven all entering the Top 10, giving the SCC five total along with No. 4 Fairfield Prep (3-0) and No. 6 Amity (1-1).
Cheshire was the biggest mover of the week, going from unranked to No. 3 after wins over Amity and Trumbull.
Fairfield Prep and St. Joseph (2-0) also made large leaps, going from a tie at No. 8 to No. 4 and 5, respectively.
Westhill, Branford and Simsbury dropped out.
TEAM (First place votes) | 2017 | PTS | LAST | CLASS |
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| Latest result: Def. Xavier 4-3. Bottom Line: Wreckers walked off with a win against Xavier, gathered all the No. 1 votes in the process. |
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 | 2. WATERFORD |
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| Latest result: def. East Lyme, 9-2. Bottom Line: Took care of business in the opener, full slate of game hopefully awaits. |
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 | 3. CHESHIRE |
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| Latest Result: def. Amity 8-3, def. Trumbull 2-0. Bottom Line: The Rams leap from unranked to No. 3. Beating Amity and Trumbull will do that. |
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 | 4. FAIRFIELD PREP |
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| Latest Results: def. Danbury 7-5; def. Regis-NY 6-4; def. Greenwich, 5-1. Bottom Line: The Jesuits came out of the gate on fire, get Amity, Trumbull and ND-WH this week. |
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 | 5. ST. JOSEPH |
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| Latest Results: def. Hamden 13-2; def. Sheehan 11-2. Bottom Line: Double-digit runs in first two games for the Cadets. |
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 | 6. AMITY |
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| Latest Results: lost to Cheshire 8-3; def. Ridgefield 8-5. Bottom Line: Spartans fall out of the top 5 for the first time since the Obama administration. |
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 | 7. HOLY CROSS |
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| Latest Results: def. Seymour 5-1. Bottom Line: Holy Cross beat Seymour 5-1 this week, fell a spot in the poll. |
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 | 8. HAND |
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| Latest Results: def. East Haven 12-1; def. Foran 10-0. Bottom Line: Out-scored opponents 22-1 in week 1. That’s good enough to get them in the top 10. |
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 | 9. NOTRE DAME-WH |
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| Latest Results: def. Southington 5-2; lost to North Haven 4-3; def. Westhill 4-2. Bottom Line: Mike Sansone held Westhill in check, lifted his team into the land of the ranked. |
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 | 10. RIDGEFIELD |
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| Latest Results: def. Newtown 2-1; def. Ludlowe 6-4; lost to Amity 8-5. Bottom Line: Lefty Alex Price is among the best arms in the state, Tigers rebuilding around him. Ridgefield began its season with a 2-1 win over Newtown. |
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| First-place votes in parentheses and points tabulated on a 30-28-26-24-22-20-18-16-14-12-11-10-9-8-7 basis. | |||||
| Dropped Out: Westhill (5), Branford (7), Simsbury (10). Records through Sunday, April 8. Others receiving votes: Westhill (1-1) 79; Newtown (2-1), 74; New Milford (2-0), 62; Branford (1-1), 60; Fitch (3-0), 58; North Haven (2-1), 54; East Lyme (1-1), 40; Haddam-Killingworth (3-0), 39; McMahon (3-0), 38; Tolland (0-0), 37; Wilton (1-0), 28; Darien (3-1), 26; Thomaston (3-0), 22; Manchester (2-0), 21; Wethersfield (0-0), 18; Bunnell (1-0), 16; Simsbury (0-1), 14; Greenwich (2-1) and South Windsor (0-0), 10; Wolcott (2-0), 9; Berlin (2-0) and Shelton (2-0) 8; Lewis Mills (0-0) and Naugatuck (2-0), 7. |
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| The following voted: Ryan Lacey, Danbury News-Times, Mike DiMauro, The Day of New London; Dave Ruden, The Ruden Report; David Heuschkel, The Valley Press; Bill Bloxsom, HAN; Mike Madera, Walter Camp Foundation/New Haven Register; Dave Phillips, Shoreline Newspapers; Michael Suppe, HAN; Noah Finz, Frontier Cable/Vantage Sports Network; Scott Ericson Stamford Advocate; Jesse Mayfield-Sheehan, Norwich Bulletin; Tim Jensen, Patch Media Corp. | |||||
Why even bother separating schools into different classes if strength of schedule is not considered a meaningful factor when CT ranks its high school sports teams?
@Strength of Schedule: I agree 100%.In a perfect world,lack of a difficult regular season would be offset by a challenging playoff run.Unfortunately this is not always accomplished.High School Hockey and now Basketball proves it’s deserving #1 team on the Field/Court of play.Just look at whom 5 sports writers voted #1 in the state for Football.That Team was VERY good and deserves MUCH recognition but was by no means a #1 ,especially with the Teams they defeated in the Regular or Post Season.
Actually they got Football right for number one but there were several LL schools better than the Class S and Class L teams that were ranked higher than them- several-
@ SOS.Agreed they got it right in Football but Darien Did not receive all First Place votes
Those Daniel Hand boys still up to something down there?!?! Dynasty.