The Trumbull, Staples and Fairfield Warde baseball teams and the Fairfield Ludlowe, St. Joseph and Trumbull softball teams are the FCIAC teams ranked in the Top 10 of their respective GameTimeCT state polls.
Trumbull, Staples, and Fairfield Warde are ranked 3-5 behind top-ranked Xavier and No. 2 Windsor in the GameTimeCT Top 10 Baseball Poll which was released April 18.
Xavier (6-0) and Windsor (5-0) were unbeaten when the poll voting occurred, but there was decent balance among the upper half of the Top 10 as all top five teams were recipients of first-place votes.
Xavier received five first-place votes and 358 polling points from the 13 voting media members. Windsor, the champion of last year’s CIAC Class L Baseball Tournament, got three first-place votes and was just eight points behind Xavier with 350 points.
Trumbull (5-1) got a pair of first-place votes and 328 points, Staples (5-1) received one first-place vote and 306 points, while defending FCIAC and state Class LL champion Fairfield Warde (4-3) got two first-place votes and 298 points.
The high school baseball teams ranked 6-10, in order, are Woodland (8-0), Southington (4-2), eighth-ranked Newington (5-1), Hamden (5-1), and Glastonbury (5-1).
Points are tabulated on a 30-28-26-24-22-20-18-16-14-12-11-10-9-8-7 basis for both the baseball and softball state polls.
Southington and Masuk are ranked 1-2, and Fairfield Ludlowe is No. 3 as the highest-ranked FCIAC team in the GameTimeCT Top 10 Softball Poll which was released April 17.
Defending state Class LL champion Southington (4-0) was the unanimous choice for No. 1 as the recipient of 13 first-place votes from the voting group which consists of coaches and media members. Southington received 390 polling points, having earned 30 points for each first-place vote, and No. 2 Masuk got 314 points. Masuk is the defending state Class L champion.
Defending FCIAC champion Fairfield Ludlowe (5-1) got the No. 3 ranking with 304 points, just 10 behind Masuk.
A trio of undefeated teams – defending state Class M champion Woodland (6-0), Newtown (6-0), and Bristol Central (5-0) – are ranked 4-6.
St. Joseph (4-2) is No. 7 and followed by Jonathan Law (5-1), ninth-ranked Trumbull (5-1), and North Branford (6-0).