Welcome to my Prep Baseball Tourney coverage for 2017. \u00a0We’re a bit late to get started thanks to my out-of-town trip, and I’ve done little in the way of coverage this year since the local landscape of high-end players hasn’t been as interesting. \u00a0But here we go; its tournament time so might as well get started.<\/p>\n
Here’s the rough schedule of posting and what we’ll cover:<\/p>\n
Northern Virginia<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Virginal district tournaments get started last weekend and most are scheduled to finish this week.\u00a0 The VHSL site has some district brackets already published.<\/a>\u00a0 NovaBaseballMagazine<\/a> has done a great job keeping up conference results and has links to the conference tournaments under its “Standings” links.\u00a0 Here’s a preview of the district tournaments for local conferences with the leading contenders.<\/p>\n The top four teams from each district tourney form the 16-team regional brackets, to be published later on once all the divisions are finalized.<\/p>\n Regional Preview: The four expected #1 seeds advanced easily; Oakton, Madison, West Springfield and Patriot. \u00a0Unfortunately the two best teams (Oakton and Madison) are on the same side of the bracket. \u00a0I’m predicting a Madison-Patriot regional final and a Madison victory in a down year for the region.<\/p>\n In the 5-A division:<\/p>\n Regional Preview:\u00a0(5-a Regional bracket<\/a>): I’m predicting a Potomac-Marshall regional final with Potomac taking the title. \u00a0We’ll see how good Halifax is soon enough; they face off against perennial power Stone Bridge in the regional quarters. \u00a0Prep Report thinks Halifax is the best 5-A team in the state… but Stone Bridge just handled Stafford easily enough, who they thought were #2.<\/p>\n There are some DC-local teams in the 4th and smaller divisions (mostly in Loudoun County).\u00a0 We’ll go through them once their brackets are made available on VHSL.\u00a0 The best 4-A team out there is probably Kettle Run, #1 in Nova Baseball Magazine’s rankings.<\/p>\n Maryland<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n At this point, the Maryland State tournament is nearly complete; the state finals are this weekend. \u00a0Brackets here at the MPSAA website<\/a> and direct links to the four State-wide brackets are linked directly below.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n DC <\/p>\n Private Leagues: WCAC\/MAC\/IAC and VISAA\/Maryland Private<\/strong><\/p>\n State-level Private School tourneys:<\/p>\n DC-area Private School Leagues<\/p>\n Local and National High School Baseball Ranking Lists<\/strong>:<\/p>\n These National rankings are dominated by teams in Texas, Florida and California, as you might expect.\u00a0 These teams can play nearly 40 games and usually have at least 15-20 under their belts before DC\/MD\/VA teams even get going.\u00a0 So its somewhat of an accomplishment just to have a local team get some recognition.\u00a0 In fact, any cold-weather state team appearing in these lists is pretty special.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Major Newspaper Links\/Resources<\/strong> for following prep baseball around the state<\/p>\n Local Newspaper Coverage<\/strong>, including links to many local papers covering smaller jurisdictions.<\/p>\n Non-newspaper Links for Local and National Prep Baseball Coverage<\/strong><\/p>\n Good Twitter accounts to follow<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Welcome to my Prep Baseball Tourney coverage for 2017. \u00a0We’re a bit late to get started thanks to my out-of-town trip, and I’ve done little in the way of coverage this year since the local landscape of high-end players hasn’t been as interesting. \u00a0But here we go; its tournament time so might as well get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4558,2411],"tags":[1016],"class_list":["post-13843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school","category-local-baseball","tag-todd-boss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13843"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13851,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13843\/revisions\/13851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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