Central
Arizona Reclaims Top Spot,
While
Other Clubs Jockey for Position
The
2013 junior-college season has been marked by significant upheaval
with nine new teams cracking Perfect Game’s latest ranking of the
nation’s top 25 teams—coming on the heels of eight new entries
two weeks ago.
One
thing remains constant in this unpredictable season, however, as
Central Arizona College, which began the 2013 season at No. 1, has
returned to the top spot. But even the Vaqueros have encountered
their share of adversity as they lost three of their first four games
in conference play while falling from No. 1, before winning 13 of
their last 14 to recapture first place in the competitive Arizona
Community College Athletic Conference standings. Overall, Central is
27-7.
The
top three teams in PG’s latest rankings remain the same, though
Central Arizona has replaced Texas’ Grayson County College (21-7)
at the top. Grayson slips to No. 3 while Miami-Dade (27-5) continues
its steady upward surge with a move from No. 3 to No. 2.
Meanwhile,
upheaval is the order of the day elsewhere in the rankings with South
Carolina’s Spartanburg Methodist College (20-10) and California’s
Santa Ana College (16-7), ranked 4-5 in the previous ranking, falling
out of the Top 25 altogether with 10 losses between them in their
last 17 games. Texas’ Cisco College (25-6), ranked No. 6 two weeks
ago, barely hung on to their national ranking at No. 24 after losing
five times, including three of four to No. 3 Grayson County.
Oklahoma’s
Connors State College (23-2) made the most-pronounced leap among
ranked teams two weeks ago by improving from No. 19 to No. 9, while
California’s Sierra College (18-3), now No. 10, and Kansas’
Cowley County College (21-4), at No. 14, made the biggest surge among
teams that were previously unranked.
| RK |
Prev. |
Team |
State |
Overall |
Conf. |
| 1 |
2 |
Central Arizona |
AZ |
27-7 |
14-4 |
| 2 |
3 |
Miami-Dade |
FL |
27-5 |
11-2 |
| 3 |
1 |
Grayson County |
TX |
21-7 |
9-3 |
| 4 |
7 |
LSU-Eunice |
LA |
27-3 |
0-0 |
| 5 |
9 |
Tallahassee |
FL |
32-5 |
6-1 |
| 6 |
11 |
Santa Rosa |
CA |
17-2 |
8-1 |
| 7 |
8 |
Southern Nevada |
NV |
25-8 |
13-3 |
| 8 |
10 |
State College of Florida-Manatee |
FL |
25-8 |
9-1 |
| 9 |
19 |
Connors State |
OK |
23-2 |
0-0 |
| 10 |
NR |
Sierra |
CA |
18-3 |
8-1 |
| 11 |
13 |
Chattahoochee Valley |
AL |
23-4 |
3-4 |
| 12 |
17 |
Crowder |
MO |
22-4 |
5-1 |
| 13 |
24 |
Darton State |
GA |
24-5 |
11-1 |
| 14 |
NR |
Cowley County |
KS |
21-4 |
14-0 |
| 15 |
NR |
Navarro |
TX |
20-9 |
12-2 |
| 16 |
12 |
Polk State |
FL |
27-7 |
8-5 |
| 17 |
22 |
Lamar |
CO |
27-5 |
11-0 |
| 18 |
NR |
Louisburg |
NC |
16-6 |
7-3 |
| 19 |
21 |
Seminole State |
OK |
17-7 |
0-0 |
| 20 |
NR |
Gulf Coast State |
FL |
26-10 |
5-1 |
| 21 |
NR |
Fullerton |
CA |
17-6 |
9-2 |
| 22 |
NR |
Lower Columbia |
WA |
14-2 |
0-0 |
| 23 |
NR |
Cochise |
AZ |
27-9 |
13-5 |
| 24 |
6 |
Cisco |
TX |
25-6 |
7-5 |
| 25 |
NR |
Glendale |
CA |
17-5 |
12-2 |
Dropped out: No. 4 Spartanburg Methodist, S.C. (20-10); No. 5 Santa Ana, Calif. (16-7); No. 14 Walters State, Tenn. (21-9); No. 15 Western Oklahoma State (21-4); No. 16 Bakersfield, Calif., (17-6); No. 18 Chipola, Fla. (24-13); No. 20 Rio Hondo, Calif. (13-8); No. 23 Howard, Texas (17-10); No. 25 Middle Georgia (17-8).