SWVA Top 10 Baseball Rankings 4/9/25

[Stelley]

Big day in both SWD and M7 play as Abingdon-Battle and Leb-V High face off today

1. Abingdon- The Falcons have looked solid so far at the start of the season. Poised to make a run for the title behind Humphreys and co.

2. Lebanon- They are 2-2 with losses to Abingdon and TN High (with TN high’s best arm). Beat a much improved Sullivan East team and TN high without their best arm available. They seem to not be as bad off as I expected in trying to replace the production that Parker and Barton had last year. Phillips is off to quite the hot start on the mound and at the plate. Look for him to contend for district poty with teammate breeding and foy from V High

3. Battle- Putting them at 3 as of now due to them letting V High take one away from them. Other than that they have handled business well especially in run ruling Union and running Skeen off the mound early. Gobble is early front runner for region POTY

4. Virginia High-Beat Battle and whooped PH who appears to be the front runner for 1D. Can definitely tell that Foy is their best chance in winning some bigger games though.

5. Union- Definitely need to find the bats and get them rolling and clean up the errors. They are young and they are showing it as of now but I look for them to get it straightened out.

6. Central- This team is quite the dark horse so far. Despite them beating battle and falling to the hands of Lebanon in region championship everyone seems to never mention them. Close loss to abingdon and from the scores I have seen of theirs. They seem to light up the scoreboard. Foster has been impressive so far

7. Gate City- They have had some close losses but they have talent to potentially make some noise in region play.

8. Patrick Henry- they have a decent arm in Cannon and I expect them to take the region from chilhowie

9. Chilhowie- from the scores I have seen I’ve not been too impressed

10. Tazewell- just putting them here even though RR Honaker or eastside could go here but with eastside losing to RR and Honaker being inconsistent I don’t think I could. Even middle of the pack 2d teams are better than 1d

[Fairlawncat]

Fort Chiswell could have an argument for top 7 and if Auburn is SWVA, they are top 2 with Abingdon. The Class1D winner will have a tough time topping Auburn this year.

[Stelley]

6 hours ago, Fairlawncat said:

Fort Chiswell could have an argument for top 7 and if Auburn is SWVA, they are top 2 with Abingdon. The Class1D winner will have a tough time topping Auburn this year.

If they are in region c I don’t count them as far swva. Is auburn legit? Absolutely. You could only possibly put them at #5 but I still think that’s a stretch. They beat a young eastside team like 7-2 I think was the score and beat a pretty solid PH team 4-1 in the early season and I’m pretty sure I seen they played FC and beat them 10-1 and FC played Richlands and did beat them pretty handily but that’s the worst Richlands team post covid. There’s numerous examples of how cream of the crop 1a teams struggle against middle of the pack 2a.