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JUCO Top 25 Teams: March 12
Published: Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Grayson
County, Central Arizona Overcome
Sluggish
Starts to Return to Top of PG Poll
Central
Arizona and Grayson County (Texas) began the 2013 season as the top
two teams in Perfect Game’s ranking of the nation’s top junior
colleges. After stumbling out of the gate, the two schools, who have
won five Junior College World Series titles between them, have
returned to the top of the rankings—though in reverse order of
their pre-season placing.
No.
1 Grayson County (15-5), losers of its first three games of the
season to Paris (Texas) JC, has taken over the No. 1 spot by winning
15 of its last 17 games.
No.
2 Central Arizona (19-6), which dropped three of its first four
contests in Arizona Community College Athletic Conference play, has
also largely righted the ship with nine wins in its last 10 ACCAC
games.
South
Carolina’s Spartanburg Methodist (15-4), which began the season at
No. 4 only to move to the top spot as Grayson County and Central
Arizona struggled, has returned to its pre-season position.
Meanwhile,
there has been upheaval all through the junior-college ranks this
spring, with eight teams entering Perfect Game’s latest Top 25, but
the nation’s fastest-rising team is Texas’ Cisco College (22-1),
which jumped from 19 to No. 6 after being on the outside looking in
at the start of the 2013 season.
| RK |
Prev. |
Team |
State |
Record |
| 1 |
2 |
Grayson County |
TX |
15-5 |
| 2 |
3 |
Central Arizona |
AZ |
19-6 |
| 3 |
5 |
Miami-Dade |
FL |
21-4 |
| 4 |
1 |
Spartanburg Methodist |
SC |
15-4 |
| 5 |
11 |
Santa Ana |
CA |
14-3 |
| 6 |
19 |
Cisco |
TX |
22-1 |
| 7 |
9 |
LSU-Eunice |
LA |
18-3 |
| 8 |
10 |
Southern Nevada |
NV |
19-6 |
| 9 |
NR |
Tallahassee |
FL |
26-4 |
| 10 |
13 |
State College of Florida-Manatee |
FL |
21-7 |
| 11 |
NR |
Santa Rosa |
CA |
12-1 |
| 12 |
4 |
Polk State |
FL |
22-6 |
| 13 |
18 |
Chattahoochee Valley |
AL |
17-2 |
| 14 |
21 |
Walters State |
TN |
16-6 |
| 15 |
NR |
Western Oklahoma State |
OK |
16-2 |
| 16 |
NR |
Bakersfield |
CA |
15-3 |
| 17 |
24 |
Crowder |
MO |
12-3 |
| 18 |
25 |
Chipola |
FL |
19-9 |
| 19 |
NR |
Connors State |
OK |
14-1 |
| 20 |
8 |
Rio Hondo |
CA |
13-5 |
| 21 |
12 |
Seminole State |
OK |
10-7 |
| 22 |
NR |
Lamar |
CO |
15-3 |
| 23 |
NR |
Howard |
TX |
16-7 |
| 24 |
NR |
Darton State |
GA |
17-4 |
| 25 |
15 |
Middle Georgia |
GA |
12-5 |
Dropped out: No. 6 Santa Fe, Fla. (15-9); No. 7 Iowa Western (8-5); No. 14 Wabash Valley, Ill. (13-7); No. 16 Orange Coast, Calif. (14-6); No. 17 New Mexico (15-5); No. 22 Feather River, Calif. (10-7); No. 23 Salt Lake (13-9).
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