Welcome to my DC Area Prep Baseball Tourney coverage for 2018.<\/p>\n
Here’s the rough schedule of posting and what we’ll cover:<\/p>\n
Now that all DC, MD and VA public and private tournaments are complete, and as we wait for all the various local and national Player of the Year lists to publish, here’s a fun thought exercise.\u00a0 If the various champs could commit to a “Tournament of Champions,” what would it look like?<\/p>\n
Here’s\u00a0a bunch of fun theoretical tourneys, with my predictions on how they’d play out too for the fun of it.<\/p>\n
Possible Champions of Champions Baseball post-season tourney ideas<\/p>\n
The All-Virginia champions league<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n This takes the champions from the 6 public divisions plus the 3 Private divisions:<\/p>\n 6A: West Springfield <\/strong>(DC southern suburbs)<\/span><\/span> VISSA Division 1: St. Christopher’s<\/strong> (Western Richmond)<\/span><\/span> What if you seeded this 1-9 based on classifications and played a single elimination tourney?<\/p>\n 8\/9 play-in: 1A:\u00a0 versus VISSA Division 3: Riverheads vs Walsingham Academy<\/p>\n 1 vs 8\/9:\u00a06A vs play-in:\u00a0West Springfield versus Riverheads In years past I’d have seeded the public 6-A champ over the VISAA Division 1 champ; perhaps not this year though.\u00a0 I think your semis in this draw are West Springfield, St. Christopher’s, The Miller School and Prince George.\u00a0 West Springfield and St. Christopher’s advance to the final, St. Christopher’s wins.<\/p>\n Virginia Public Champions league tourney<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Just using the 6 public school champions from Virginia, you could play a mini weekend tournament with two brackets:<\/p>\n Bracket 1: Bracket 2: Play a double header round robin on Saturday intra-bracket, then the bracket winners play sunday.\u00a0 I’d guess the two big teams (West Springfield and Prince George) advance, with West Springfield coming out on top.\u00a0 In some prior years you could easily argue that the 4-A or 5-A champs despite being from smaller schools were better than the bigger 6-A champ … maybe not this year with all the 4A and 5A upsets we had.<\/p>\n DC\/MD\/VA showdown; a competition of local champions.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Thanks to redistricting, there’s now really two Class 6 and Class 5 regional winners in the area, adding to this fake tournament.<\/p>\n – Virginia Class 6 Region C champ: West Springfield<\/strong><\/span> You’d probably seed this as follows:<\/p>\n Riverdale Baptist So a tourney would go:<\/p>\n I’d guess this draw is Riverdale Baptist, St. Johns, Battlefield and West Springfield in the semis, Riverdale Baptist and Battlefield in the final and an easy Riverdale win in the final.<\/p>\n Maryland-Virginia State Champs Show Down<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Virginia Public champs Maryland Public Champs: Maybe you seed it 1-10 and have play-ins with the smallest teams.<\/p>\n 8-9: VA 2A:\u00a0 vs\u00a0 MD 1-A: Page County vs Boonsboro 1 VA 6A vs 8\/9 play-in: West Springfield vs Page County I’d give the top seeds the semis (West Springfield, Howard, Prince George, Thomas Johnson), West Springfield and Prince George in the final, West Springfield the winner.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Private School showdown<\/strong><\/p>\n VISSA Division 1: St. Christophers<\/strong><\/span> MIAA Class A: Archbishop Curley<\/strong><\/span> WCAC: St. Johns<\/strong><\/span> (DC) Maryland At-Large: Riverdale Baptist<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n I’d seed this:<\/p>\n 1. 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Here’s the rough schedule of posting and what we’ll cover: #1: DC\/MD\/VA District High School Tournament Report: post-season kickoff .\u00a0 Covers: MD regionals, VA district brackets, Private school tourney updates.\u00a0 Usually publishes the week before Memorial day tournament finals. #2: Maryland State Champs, Virginia […]<\/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-14784","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\/14784","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=14784"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15878,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14784\/revisions\/15878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n5A: Prince George\u00a0<\/strong>(south of Richmond near Petersburg)<\/span><\/span>
\n4A: Salem\u00a0<\/strong>(just south of Roanoke in SW Virginia)<\/span><\/span>
\n3A: Spotsylvania\u00a0<\/strong>(near Fredericksburg)<\/span><\/span>
\n2A: Page County (<\/span><\/strong>near Harrisonburg)<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
\n1A: Riverheads <\/strong>(in Staunton, just south of Harrisonburg)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\nVISSA Division 2: The Miller School <\/strong>(Albemarle, near Charlottesville)<\/span><\/span>
\nVISSA Division 3: Walsingham Academy <\/strong>(Williamsburg)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\n2 vs 7: VISAA Div 1 vs 2A: St. Christopher’s vs Page County
\n3 vs 6: VISAA Div 2 vs 3A: The Miller School vs Spotsylvania
\n4 vs 5:\u00a04A vs 5A: Salem versus Prince George<\/p>\n
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\n6A:\u00a0West Springfield<\/strong><\/span>
\n3A:\u00a0Spotsylvania<\/strong><\/span>
\n2A: Page County<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\n5A:\u00a0Prince George<\/strong><\/span>
\n4A: Salem<\/strong><\/span>
\n1A:\u00a0Riverheads<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
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\n– Virginia Class 6 Region D champ: Battlefield<\/span><\/strong>
\n– Virginia Class 5 Region C champ:\u00a0Freedom-South Riding<\/strong><\/span>
\n– Virginia Class 5 Region D champ: Potomac<\/strong><\/span>
\n– DCIAA champ: Wilson<\/strong><\/span>
\n– DCSAA champ: Also Wilson … so maybe we pull in Gonzaga<\/strong><\/span>, since St. Albans is the IAC champ.
\n– WCAC champ: St. Johns<\/strong><\/span>
\n– IAC champ: St. Albans
\n<\/strong><\/span>– MAC Champ:\u00a0Potomac School
\n<\/span><\/strong>– PVAC Champ: (not sure they played baseball this season)
\n– Maryland At-Large: Riverdale Baptist<\/strong><\/span>
\n– Maryland 4A West champ: Bethesda-Chevy Chase<\/strong><\/span>
\n– Maryland 3A West champ: Thomas Johnson<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\nSt. Johns
\nBattlefield
\nWest Springfield
\nBethesda-Chevy Chase
\nPotomac
\nSt. Albans
\nGonzaga
\nThomas Johnson
\nFreedom-South Riding
\nWilson
\nPotomac School<\/p>\n\n
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\n6A:\u00a0West Springfield<\/strong><\/span>
\n5A:\u00a0Prince George<\/strong><\/span>
\n4A:\u00a0Salem<\/strong><\/span>
\n3A:\u00a0Spotsylvania<\/strong><\/span>
\n2A:\u00a0Page County<\/strong><\/span>
\n1A:\u00a0Riverheads<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\n4-A: Howard<\/strong><\/span>
\n3-A: Thomas Johnson<\/strong><\/span>
\n2-A: Century<\/strong><\/span>
\n1-A: Boonsboro<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\n7-10: MD 2-A:\u00a0 vs VA 1A: Century vs Riverheads<\/p>\n
\n2\u00a0MD 4-A vs 7\/10 play-in: Howard vs Century
\n3\u00a0 VA 5A vs #6 VA 3A: Prince George vs Spotsylvania
\n4\u00a0 MD 3-A\u00a0\u00a0vs #5 seed VA 4A: Thomas Johnson vs Salem<\/p>\n
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\nVISSA Division 2: The Miller School<\/strong><\/span>
\nVISSA Division 3: Walsingham Academy<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\nMIAA Class B: Boy’s Latin<\/strong><\/span>
\nMIAA Class C:\u00a0Indian Creek<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nIAC: St. Albans<\/strong><\/span>
\nMAC: Potomac School<\/strong><\/span>
\nPVAC: ?<\/p>\n
\n2. VISAA Division I
\n3. MIAA Class A
\n4. WCAC
\n5. VISAA Division II
\n6. IAC
\n7. MIAA Class B
\n8. MAC:
\n9. VISAA Division III
\n10. MIAA Class C
\n11. PVAC<\/p>\n