LOUISVILLE, Ky. —Undefeated Lake Creek swept its newest playoff collection to stay atop the US TODAY Sports activities/NFCA Top College Tremendous 25 for an eleventh week.
The (39-0) Lions closed out their best-of-three collection with Santa Fe with a 7-2 victory ultimate Thursday and complicated to Friday’s Texas Magnificence 5A ultimate 4 matchup with Rock Hill. The winner will play both Aledo or Georgetown in Saturday’s state championship.
In the meantime, the remainder of the highest 8 remained unchanged. No. 2 Roncalli (30-0) performs Pendleton Heights on Saturday for a berth within the Indiana state 4A semis later that night time, whilst fourth-ranked Riverton (28-1) defeated West, 14-0 and 11-1, within the best-of-three championship collection to win its 2d directly Utah Magnificence 6A crown.
6th-ranked Lakewood Ranch (30-2) defeated Lake Brantley, who had dealt the Mustangs their handiest two losses of the season in March, 8-2, in ultimate Saturday’s Florida state 7A ultimate. In a while, the training group of workers had extra softball on their minds, as T.J. Goelz and spouse Liz hopped on a aircraft to Blacksburg, Va., to peer daughter Avery, a sophomore on the College of Florida, pass 2-for-2 with 3 RBI to lend a hand the Gators advance to the NCAA Ladies’s School Global Sequence. Any other daughter, Kinsey, is a redshirt senior for Florida.
New York’s Monroe-Woodbury (23-0) used to be this week’s giant mover, going from seventeenth to 9th at the power of a 12-0 state Magnificence AA subregional rout of North Rockland that prolonged the Crusaders’ highest season.
No. 14 Watkins Memorial (28-2) is the lone newcomer to the Tremendous 25. The Warriors play an Ohio Department I ultimate 4 recreation in opposition to Springfield later as of late for the proper to perhaps face No. 25 Lakota West (27-3) within the state ultimate.
State scores submitted by means of the 2022 NFCA Top College Guidance Committee are used to collect the US TODAY Sports activities/NFCA Top College Tremendous 25. Groups are selected in line with efficiency, roster high quality, power of time table, and energetic NFCA club.
USA TODAY Sports activities/NFCA Top College Tremendous 25 Ballot – June 2, 2022
1. Lake Creek (Texas)
Document: 39-0 | Earlier Rank: 1
2. Roncalli (Ind.)
Document: 30-0 | Earlier Rank: 2
3. Benton (Ark.)
Document: 32-0 | Earlier Rank: 3
4. Riverton (Utah)
Document: 28-1 | Earlier Rank: 4
5. Anthony Wayne (Ohio)
Document: 30-1 | Earlier Rank: 5
6. Lakewood Ranch (Fla.)
Document: 30-2 | Earlier Rank: 6
7. Donovan Catholic (N.J.)
Document: 28-0 | Earlier Rank: 7
8. Rockridge (In poor health.)
Document: 33-0 | Earlier Rank: 8
9. Monroe-Woodbury (N.Y.)
Document: 23-0 | Earlier Rank: 17
10. Oaks Christian (Calif.)
Document: 32-1 | Earlier Rank: 11
11. Neshoba Central (Leave out.)
Document: 31-3 | Earlier Rank: 9
12. Clovis North (Calif.)
Document: 21-3 | Earlier Rank: 10
13. North Augusta (S.C.)
Document: 33-2 | Earlier Rank: 13
14. Watkins Memorial (Ohio)
Document: 28-2 | Earlier Rank: NR
15. Jap Alamance (N.C.)
Document: 26-2 | Earlier Rank: 12
16. Patterson Mill (Md.)
Document: 21-1 | Earlier Rank: 14
17. Immaculate Middle Academy (N.J.)
Document: 27-2 | Earlier Rank: 16
18. Cohesion (N.H.)
Document: 24-1 | Earlier Rank: 18
19. Alexander Central (N.C.)
Document: 25-3 | Earlier Rank: 21
20. Rosemount (Minn.)
Document: 19-3 | Earlier Rank: 19
21. Lexington (S.C.)
Document: 27-4 | Earlier Rank: 20
22. New Palestine (Ind.)
Document: 23-4-1 | Earlier Rank: 22
23. John Curtis (Los angeles.)
Document: 29-3 | Earlier Rank: 23
24. Diamond (Mo.)
Document: 29-3 | Earlier Rank: 24
25. Lakota West (Ohio)
Document: 27-3 | Earlier Rank: 25
Dropped out:
Jackson (Wash.).
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