It has been a rainy spring season for local baseball teams, but the district tournament season is upon us.\u00a0 Here’s the first of four posts we’ll do covering the High School baseball tournaments in the DC\/MD\/VA area.\u00a0 Here’s the rough schedule of posting and what we’ll cover:<\/p>\n
Northern Virginia<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Virginal district tournaments get started last weekend and most are scheduled to finish this week.\u00a0 The VHSL site has some district brackets already published.<\/a>\u00a0 NovaBaseballMagazine<\/a> has done a great job keeping up conference results and has links to the conference tournaments under its “Standings” links.\u00a0 Here’s a preview of the district tournaments for local conferences with the leading contenders.<\/p>\n The top four teams from each district tourney form the 16-team regional brackets, to be published later on once all the divisions are finalized.<\/p>\n Previews: Its hard not to squint and predict a regional semi finals of Chantilly, Madison, West Springfield and Battlefield at this point; the question becomes when does Battlefield throw its unbeatable ace\u00a0Jake Agnos<\/strong>.\u00a0 If Battlefield can get to a regional final with Agnos on the hill, watch out.<\/p>\n In the 5-A division:<\/p>\n Previews: Marshall seems like the team to beat; perennial power Stone Bridge lost its coach<\/a>\u00a0Sam Plank<\/strong> and some of its stars to rival new school Riverside, which is currently in Division 3-A while it grows into a 5-A\/6-A size.<\/p>\n There are some DC-local teams in the 4th and smaller divisions (mostly in Loudoun County).\u00a0 We’ll go through them once their brackets are made available on VHSL.\u00a0 The best 4-A team out there is probably Loudoun Valley, currently in the WP top 10, and Kettle Run is also putting together a great season.<\/p>\n Maryland<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n At this point, the Maryland State tournament is underway, with the play-in\/round of 32 games played on 5\/14\/16. \u00a0 Brackets here at the MPSAA website<\/a> and direct links to the four State-wide brackets are linked directly below.\u00a0 Schedule: Regional quarters are on 5\/16, semis 5\/18 and regional finals 5\/20.\u00a0 State Semis are 5\/24 and the state finals are 5\/27.<\/p>\n We usually discount the quality of Maryland public school baseball teams versus their Virginia counter parts … but I can’t help if a team like Gaithersburg isn’t better than the likes of Madison or Chantilly this year.<\/p>\n DC Remember, there’s not usually much suspense in who is winning the DCIAA; Wilson has not lost to a DCIAA opponent in more than 20\u00a0 years.<\/p>\n Private Leagues: WCAC\/MAC\/IAC and VISAA\/Maryland Private<\/strong><\/p>\n My master list of links used to cover HS Baseball:<\/p>\n Local and National High School Baseball Ranking Lists<\/strong>:<\/p>\n These National rankings are dominated by teams in Texas, Florida and California, as you might expect.\u00a0 These teams can play nearly 40 games and usually have at least 15-20 under their belts before DC\/MD\/VA teams even get going.\u00a0 So its somewhat of an accomplishment just to have a local team get some recognition.\u00a0 In fact, any cold-weather state team appearing in these lists is pretty special.<\/p>\n Major Newspaper Links\/Resources<\/strong> for following prep baseball around the state<\/p>\n Local Newspaper Coverage<\/strong>, including links to many local papers covering smaller jurisdictions.<\/p>\n Non-newspaper Links for Local and National Prep Baseball Coverage<\/strong><\/p>\n Good Twitter accounts to follow<\/strong>:<\/p>\n It has been a rainy spring season for local baseball teams, but the district tournament season is upon us.\u00a0 Here’s the first of four posts we’ll do covering the High School baseball tournaments in the DC\/MD\/VA area.\u00a0 Here’s the rough schedule of posting and what we’ll cover: #1: DC\/MD\/VA District High School Tournament Report: post-season […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2411],"tags":[2788,2838,3150,1016],"class_list":["post-12205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-baseball","tag-jake-agnos","tag-joe-rizzo","tag-sam-plank","tag-todd-boss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12205"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13842,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12205\/revisions\/13842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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