National HS Rankings: May 5

Todd Gold

Jheremy Brown

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It was a relatively tranquil week in the National Top 50, with most of the top ranked teams taking care of business and maintaining a relative status quo. The biggest exception was a surprising loss in district tournament play by previous No. 4 Sarasota (Fla.) whose season comes to a disappointing end to their season. Other victims of surprise upsets in Florida district playoffs include former Nos. 26 and 34 West Orange and American Heritage. On the other side of the coin Hagerty pulled an impressive upset of their own by knocking off Sandalwood in 10 innings in a game where the opposing starting pitcher was first round MLB Draft candidate Sean Reid-Foley. Hagerty (Fla.) re-enters the rankings this week following the impressive feat at No. 32.

The most interesting non-movement in this week's update comes from the two-game series split between No. 27 Clovis (Calif.) and No. 36 Buchanan (Calif.) where each team won at home to keep both teams in the same spot this week. But the biggest story in Northern California comes from No. 19 Elk Grove, who capped off a 3-0 week by winning the second annual Boras Classic in decisive fashion, knocking off the south section champion Temecula Valley 6-1. To get to the title game Elk Grove gave new No. 3 St. Francis their only loss in the past month, a stretch which has seen the Lancers go 11-1.

Postseason play is underway in the state of Texas and so far the nationally ranked representatives have taken care of business. The team that came closest to an early exit was No. 35 Arlington Martin, who had to battle back to win the best of three series after dropping the opener. History tells us that there will be plenty of upsets as the postseason progresses and the subsequent updates should see heavy turnover in Texas over the coming weeks.

Puyallup (Wash.) finished off the regular season with a perfect 20-0 and moves up to No. 23 this week as they get set to begin postseason play.

Other new additions this week include: No. 48 Fountain Valley (Calif.), No. 49 Orangewood Christian (Fla.) and No. 50 Mosley (Fla.).

Ranking	Previous	Team	City	State
1	1	Barbe	Lake Charles	Louisiana
2	2	Archbishop McCarthy	Southwest Ranches	Florida
3	4	Mountain View St. Francis	Mountain View	California
4	5	Rancho Bernardo	San Diego	California
5	6	Coral Springs Christian Academy	Coral Springs	Florida
6	7	Cypress Ranch	Houston	Texas
7	8	Olympia HS	Orlando	Florida
8	10	Pearland	Pearland	Texas
9	11	The First Academy	Orlando	Florida
10	12	Flanagan	Pembroke Pines	Florida
11	13	Gainesville	Gainesville	Georgia
12	9	Harvard-Westlake	North Hollywood	California
13	14	Lake Travis	Austin	Texas
14	15	CC Moody	Corpus Christi	Texas
15	16	Venice	Venice	Florida
16	17	Cathedral Catholic	San Diego	California
17	18	Lambert	Suwanee	Georgia
18	19	Huntington Beach	Huntington Beach	California
19	20	Elk Grove	Elk Grove	California
20	21	Hamilton	Chandler	Arizona
21	22	Salisbury School	Salisbury	Connecticut
22	23	Loyola	Los Angeles	California
23	24	Puyallup	Puyallup	Washington
24	25	Junipero Serra	San Mateo	California
25	3	Sarasota	Sarasota	Florida
26	28	Greenway	Phoenix	Arizona
27	27	Clovis	Fresno	California
28	30	Langham Creek	Houston	Texas
29	29	Parkview	Lilburn	Georgia
30	31	Regis Jesuit	Aurora	Colorado
31	32	Horizon	Scottsdale	Arizona
32		Hagerty	Oviedo	Florida
33	35	Chino Hills	Chino Hills	California
34	37	Marist	Atlanta	Georgia
35	33	Arlington Martin	Arlington	Texas
36	36	Buchanan	Clovis	California
37	39	Fayetteville	Fayetteville	Arkansas
38	40	San Antonio O'Connor	San Antonio	Texas
39	41	Flora	Columbia	South Carolina
40	42	Milton	Milton	Georgia
41	43	St. Rita	Chicago	Illinois
42	44	Owasso	Owasso	Oklahoma
43	46	Western Branch	Chesapeake	Virginia
44	47	Klein Collins	Spring	Texas
45	38	DeSoto Central	Southaven	Mississippi
46	48	Brother Martin	Brother Martin	Louisiana
47	49	North Florida Christian	Tallahassee	Florida
48		Fountain Valley	Huntington Beach	California
49		Orangewood Christian	Maitland	Florida
50		Mosley	Lynn Haven	Florida