PrepsNow top 25 area rankings: baseball
Fuquay-Varina baseball finished the season atop the final PrepsNow 20-county area rankings.
The 4A champion Bengals were also No. 1 in the final 2013 rankings.
This year’s Bengals are joined in the top five by No. 2 Apex (4A East runner-up), No. 3 Holly Springs (last year’s No. 1 that won the conference title ahead of fellow top 25 teams Fuquay-Varina, Apex, Garner and Middle Creek), No. 4 Chapel Hill (reached third round of 3A playoffs before falling to eventual state champ New Hanover) and No. 5 Garner (fell to Apex in fourth round of 4A playoffs).
That’s four South Wake Athletic Conference teams in the top five. The league went an incredible 12-1 against other conferences in the postseason, the only loss coming in Fuquay’s Game 1 defeat to Charlotte’s Ardrey Kell in the title series.
Just 13 teams from last year’s final top 25 baseball rankings made a return in this season’s.
The only school to make the final PrepsNow baseball rankings in each of the last six years is Green Hope.
PrepsNow Area Top 25
School | Rec. | LW |
1. Fuquay-Varina | 22-12 | 1 |
2. Apex | 18-10 | 2 |
3. Holly Springs | 18-5 | 3 |
4. Chapel Hill | 24-4 | 4 |
5. Garner | 19-8 | 5 |
6. North Lenoir | 20-7 | 6 |
7. Fike | 21-5 | 7 |
8. Pinecrest | 22-5 | 8 |
9. Sanderson | 14-12 | 9 |
10. Jordan | 18-8 | 10 |
11. Green Hope | 17-7 | 11 |
12. South Granville | 21-6 | 12 |
13. Middle Creek | 15-11 | 13 |
14. D.H. Conley | 21-6 | 14 |
15. J.H. Rose | 18-7 | 15 |
16. Cardinal Gibbons | 19-7 | 16 |
17. Wake Forest | 16-7 | 17 |
18. Union Pines | 18-10 | 18 |
19. Southern Lee | 20-7 | 19 |
20. C.B. Aycock | 18-7 | 20 |
21. Cedar Ridge | 18-6 | 21 |
22. Nash Central | 18-9 | 22 |
23. Bunn | 18-5 | 23 |
24. Leesville Road | 13-9 | 24 |
25. Millbrook | 15-10 | 25 |
Falling out: none.
Eligible counties: Chatham, Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin, Granville, Greene, Harnett, Johnston, Lee, Lenoir, Moore, Nash, Orange, Person, Pitt, Vance, Wake, Warren, Wayne and Wilson.
This story was originally published June 5, 2018 at 2:15 PM with the headline "PrepsNow top 25 area rankings: baseball."