Junior College Top 50 Teams

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Allan Simpson

Published: Tuesday, February 28, 2012

2012 Junior College Notebook: Louisburg College

With a 10-2 record, Texas’ Howard College has already lost more games that it did in its magical 2009 season, when it went 68-1 and stormed to a Junior College World Series title, but the Hawks have retained their No. 1 ranking atop Perfect Game’s first in-season ranking of the nation’s Top 50 Junior College teams.

Howard has a roster deep in professional-level talent and has stung the ball at a collective .402 clip while posting a 2.59 ERA through its first dozen games.

Former Nebraska lefthander Logan Ehlers (2-0, 0.53) and Texas righthander Clayton Crum (2-0, 0.00) have been the team’s two most dominant arms, while holdover shortstop Paul Hendrix (.465-2-19), a Texas Christian recruit, has sparked the team at the plate. But the Hawks have struggled in the field and the team’s defensive deficiencies directly led to the team’s two losses.

Still, Howard has been good enough to date to retain its pre-season ranking, unlike No. 2 Chipola (Fla.), which is just 11-10 and has slipped to No. 39, and No. 3 Central Arizona (11-6), which has dropped to No. 17.

The biggest mover in the JC ranks since the start of the 2012 season has been North Carolina’s Louisburg College, which is 17-0 under new coach Mike McGuire and has jumped from No. 38 in the pre-season to No. 5.

P/S - Pre-season ranking

Rank	P/S	Team	State	Record
1	1	Howard	TX	10-2
2	4	Orange Coast	CA	13-1-1
3	9	Walters State	TN	10-1
4	5	Iowa Western	IA	4-0
5	38	Louisburg	NC	17-0
6	15	Santa Fe	FL	16-5
7	39	McLennan	TX	14-2
8	6	Middle Georgia	GA	9-3
9	31	Polk State	FL	16-4
10	7	Grayson County	TX	10-4
11	24	Cypress	CA	10-2
12	20	Wabash Valley	IL	12-1
13	12	Bellevue	WA	0-0
14	14	USC Sumter	SC	10-3
15	18	Western Nevada	NV	11-5
16	17	Navarro	TX	9-4
17	3	Central Arizona	AZ	11-6
18	10	Miami-Dade	FL	12-6-1
19	19	Salt Lake	UT	9-2
20	22	Spartanburg Methodist	SC	12-2
21	25	Jefferson	MO	6-2
22	26	LSU-Eunice	LA	12-2
23	28	Santa Ana	CA	10-2
24	32	Feather River	CA	11-2
25	33	Neosho County	KS	12-0
26	21	Eastern Oklahoma State	OK	8-4
27	35	Georgia Perimeter	GA	16-2
28	48	South Mountain	AZ	12-4-1
29	NR	Palm Beach State	FL	16-5
30	NR	Galveston	TX	12-2
31	NR	Seminole State	OK	9-1
32	NR	Arizona Western	AZ	13-5
33	13	San Jacinto	TX	11-9
34	NR	Sierra	CA	7-3
35	NR	Tallahassee	FL	13-5
36	NR	Barton	KS	12-1
37	23	Northwest Florida State	FL	11-8
38	42	Gulf Coast	FL	11-5
39	2	Chipola	FL	11-10
40	34	San Joaquin Delta	CA	5-3
41	NR	Southern Nevada	NV	13-3
42	40	Diablo Valley	CA	8-4
43	43	Lamar	CO	10-3
44	NR	Fort Scott	KS	10-1
45	NR	Bakersfield	CA	9-2
46	NR	Central Alabama	AL	12-4
47	NR	Chattanooga State	TN	12-4
48	NR	Pensacola State	FL	13-7
49	NR	Cuesta	CA	10-3
50	NR	Midland	TX	10-4

Dropped out: Palomar, Riverside, Western Oklahoma State, Shelton State, Seward County, Blinn, John A. Logan, Yavapai, Cowley County, Pitt, Weatherford, Edmonds, Meridian, Chattahoochee Valley, Mt. Hood

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