I have heard no one overly complimentary about halfway or Lakeland, but they have good records. Lakeland’s loss is to a decent, but not great Green Ridge team who is 7-3 with a loss to Stover which, if they had won, could have ended up playing Jamestown at the Stover Tournament. I see Green Ridge plays class 2 #1 Sacred Heart Next week too. Halfway’s 1 reported loss is to a sub .500 Hurley team.
Eminence beat Dora head to head and have a better record, that one is a straight up miss. No other way to explain that.
Pattonsburg has a great argument to be in the top 10, but I think Winston still has a greater chance of winning a district Title. If they beat North Andrew, no one will be doubting Pattonsburg anymore.
Jamestown should still be in the top 4. They are a really solid team and odds on to be in the final four.
I think the top 3 are where I would put them. I have heard Thomazin had 11 3’s in walnut grove’s last game. He isn’t slowing down any. And the kid is going to go be a division 1 pitcher. Crazy athlete.
I wish we could get another showdown between advance and Dora or eminence.
We potentially have a Worth County (district 14 favorite) or Jefferson (district 16 favorite) matchup against #2 North Andrew next week in the Stanberry tournament as well.
Greenfield would help themselves possibly by updating maxpreps just to market themselves a little more. I have not seen them, but have a feeling they are more worthy than the other two from down there (and maybe I’m way off). Although a .500 record is hard to rank unless you are the defending champion playing all c2’s-c4s.
I still think St. Elizabeth has a chance to make a run too among the not usually mentioned on here. Meadville is solid as always and will be a tough out.
Mercer is a potential sleeper in Disrict 14 as well. Chamois is my sleeper down in central Missouri. I also think we will have some surprises in the swmo districts based on records and no one really separating themselves.
It is also interesting this time of year teams are battling illness, injury from all the games, possible ineligibility..you never know if you will be full force any given night. Should be a fun stretch run though. I’ll be back with maxpreps poll tomorrow if someone else doesn’t beat me to it.