D.C. Beltway Area: Top 10 Baseball

Baseball Top 10
Rankings and records as of April 20

1. Westfield (11-1)
Won fourth in a row with pivotal 3-0 win at No. 10 Chantilly on Friday.

2. Osbourn Park (9-1)
Trounced Battlefield 9-2 on Friday to run current winning streak to three games.

3. DeMatha (11-4)
Lost to Malvern Prep 10-0 on Saturday, but still is unbeaten in WCAC competition. Key matchup with Saint John’s awaits on Wednesday.

4. Damascus (8-0)
Kept record spotless by roughing up Seneca Valley, Gaithersburg and Wheaton on successive days. Hornets won the three games by a combined 45-9 score.

5. West Springfield (9-4)
Finished the week on a high note, defeating South County 4-3 in walk-off fashion.

6. Osbourn (10-2)
Continued to pile on the runs with 14-3 rout of Liberty on Friday, the seventh time the Eagles have scored in double digits this season.

7. Thomas Stone (8-1)
After getting past Northern 9-5 for an eighth straight win, Cougars suffered first defeat, by an 8-2 count, to Chopticon on Saturday.

8. Lake Braddock (9-3)
Defeated Hayfield and Lee by a combined 26-1 score last week. Have key matchups in the coming week — Wednesday at West Springfield and Friday against South County.

9. Calvert (10-2)
Drilled Westlake 19-0 on Thursday and followed up with an 8-2 win over Leonardtown on Friday. A key SMAC matchup against No 7. Thomas Stone awaits this coming Friday.

10. Chantilly (10-3)
Lost to No. 1 Westfield 3-0 on Friday. It was the the team’s first action since a win over Mount Vernon on April 8.

Also Receiving Votes
Bishop Ireton (10-4)
Bowie (7-1)
Chopticon (9-3)
Huntingtown (6-1-1)
North Point (8-2)
Potomac Falls (8-3)
Saint John’s (9-3)
South County (9-3)
Quince Orchard (9-1)

**Rankings include teams from Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax County, Loudoun County, Montgomery County, Prince George’s County, Prince William County, the Southern Maryland Athletic Conference and the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference.

E-mail Andy States at astates@digitalsports.com.