Texas high school baseball poll
The Associated Press
The Texas high school baseball poll for March 20, as compiled by the Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association and insideprepbaseball.com:

Class 5A

1. Round Rock 17-1,
2. Houston Langham Creek 17-1,
3. Flower Mound 14-0-2,
4. Katy 17-3,
5. Klein Collins 16-3,
6. San Antonio Reagan 19-0-1,
7. Houston Bellaire 16-0,
8. Clear Lake 16-0,
9. Midland Lee 12-2,
10. Wylie 16-2.

Class 4A

1. Corpus Christi Calallen 16-3,
2. Corpus Christi Moody 18-2,
3. New Braunfels 13-3,
4. Mesquite Poteet 16-2,
5. New Braunfels Canyon 15-1,
6. Barbers Hill 12-3-1,
7. Corsicana 11-3,
8. Longview Pine Tree 11-2,
9. Midlothian 10-3,
10. Vidor 13-2.

Class 3A

1. Carthage 14-0,
2. Bridge City 11-1-1,
3. Abilene Wylie 14-1,
4. Hutto 12-2,
5. Sinton 10-4-1,
6. Jasper 12-3,
7. Falfurrias 11-4,
8. Gilmer 12-0-1,
9. Argyle 15-1,
10. Mineola 13-1.

Class 2A

1. Rogers 12-1,
2. Harleton 13-1,
3. Trinity 12-2,
4. Weimar 11-2,
5. Brock 11-3,
6. Holiday 5-2-1,
7. Gunter 13-5,
8. Grand Saline 12-4,
9. Palmer 15-4,
10. Geronimo Navarro 10-2-1.

Class 1A

1. Archer City 14-0,
2. Shiner 9-1,
3. Thorndale 5-2,
4. Dawson 11-3,
5. Price Carlisle 10-3,
6. Hamlin 10-2,
7. Celeste 10-2,
8. Trenton 11-4,
9. Big Sandy Dallardsville 8-0,
10. New Deal 6-3.

Wylie at #10 in 5A. Thats pretty good for a first year 5A team. Glad they are out of our district

Great coach at Wylie... I'm not surprised at all.

the Biggest suprise is 3A Decater in not in the top 10 ??? Due to injuries they have been without there two best pitchers until last week, (also there two biggest bats) look for them to go deep in the playoffs again this year.

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Originally posted by Dtiger:
Great coach at Wylie... I'm not surprised at all.

any bias to that coach Dtiger?

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Originally posted by John G.:
the Biggest suprise is 3A Decater in not in the top 10 ??? Due to injuries they have been without there two best pitchers until last week, (also there two biggest bats) look for them to go deep in the playoffs again this year.

I heard Decatur has outlawed Rugby (the cause of one of the injuries)

The only parts of the 5A part of this poll that makes sense is Flower Mound and Wylie. Wylie isn't even listed in the DMN Poll but should be next week after beating Allen. A saw a lot of the central Texas talent 2 weeks ago and they are weak at best. Austin WestWood looked good and had a coach that looked like he knew what to do in order to win a game but other the westwood there didn't seem to be a lot to be concerned with.

This poll is weighted to much to the south.

On a personal note, Coppell did nothing to be dropped from this poll. Wylie might give Coppell a game but most likely still end up with the L.

Overall, this poll has gone from Ok to not close to accurate.

Flower Mound spanked Klein Collins so how are they 3 and 4? If any team needed drop from the top 10....it would be KC.

this poll is a poll of JUST coaches, right?
do all coaches take part in this poll or just the ones that are intersted

centex talent is at best weak? interesting. westwood is good. Round rock beat westwood. Kilcrease no hitted them. I'm not saying that the northern teams are not talented by any means, but how can you bash centex teams?

I dislike these rankings so early in the season...especially without Coppell in that mix. Sure, there are some deserving teams right there. But, this early in the season it always seems like a glorified ranking based by record a lot of the times. Just a view from a player's perspective.

blackhawk, thats a good point of view. you kind of opened my third eye.

Polls mean nothing. The only thing they are good for is giving you guys something to talk about. We don't need polls, that's why we have playoffs.

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Originally posted by helecop:
We don't need polls, that's why we have playoffs.

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Originally posted by DragonPitcher:
centex talent is at best weak? interesting. westwood is good. Round rock beat westwood. Kilcrease no hitted them. I'm not saying that the northern teams are not talented by any means, but how can you bash centex teams?

No real offense meant, I based most of my opinion on talking to a 5A HS coach - centex based. In his opinion most teams he will face have a good 1 and that is it. I didn't see anything that would lead me to beleive other than what he said. He felt the teams coming out of Region 4 wouldn't match-up well against the Region 1 or 2 teams. Also the centex teams in Region 1, mostly District 14, I think, would hold there own but still face the pitching challenge. The point he was making was the Region 1 centex team were much better than the Region 2 ro Region 4 centex teams. What I got out of his long comments were other than District 14, centex wasn't as strong as most people think. That guy gets paid for his opinion plus I added some of my own observation to get to my earlier post. I am always looking around the state for good baseball. Please point out some teams with two or three quality pitchers/starters in centex for me to follow, post their results and I will pay attention. That is what I like about this board.

meatsdad, no offense taken. I dont mean to brag about the Rock but if you want to see a good pitching team, Check out RR. Through 17 games we have a combined team ERA of 0.58
We have seven quality pitchers. If our offense upholds then we have a good chance this year. Westwood is good, and Georgetown has a very good outfielder, Runey Davis (Texas Bound).

DragonPitcher
I have heard a lot of good stuff about RR. It's good to see a 5A school on top thats NOT in the Houston area.

Gilmer #8 in 3A. GJ Kinney must be playing baseball too

Who did Rogers lose 2?? In 2A

What's wrong with Klein Collins' ranking? Yeah, Flower Mound beat them...but notice that Flower Mound is ranked above them. The only south team I don't agree with is Bellaire. The DFW area wouldn't know this but Bellaire's preseason and district schedule is a CAKEWALK. There is no competition whatsoever. But KC has every right to be there. We took them to extra innings before they ended up beating us. I got the chance to pitch against them and every player they have is a threat to lay down a bunt or drop a bomb.

Oh and watch out for Katy. It might sound weird but I think a #4 ranking just might be underrated. Those guys are good

How about those Gunter Tigers ranked #7 in 2A.. FR, Pitcher Brandon Pierce(Frozen Ropes) is doing a heck of a job! Good job "B"!!