NJCAA Division 1 Baseball Week 9 Poll

CHARLOTTE, NC - Unbeaten weeks for the top team in each Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference baseball division have allowed all three ranked teams from the conference to maintain their ranking from the previous week as the latest NJCAA Division 1 Baseball Top 25 poll has been released on Monday, April 20th.

In a week that saw no changes occur to the top seven of the poll, the KJCCC did its part as the three ranked teams from the league went a combined 9-2 last week to keep their spots within both the conference standings and national rankings.

For the fifth consecutive week, Johnson County remained as the top-ranked team in the NJCAA Division 1 poll following a dominant four-game sweep over Kansas City Kansas Community College in a battle of the top two teams in the East Division by outscoring the Blue Devils 57-21 in the series. Also putting together an unbeaten week last week was Cloud County as the T-Birds picked up two wins over Coffeyville in a neutral-site doubleheader to run their winning streak to seven straight games before seeing a road doubleheader at Indian Hills Community College get canceled due to weather. CCCC remains ranked number five in the rankings and is 39-4 overall this season with a 21-3 mark in KJCCC West Division play. Hutchinson is the other ranked team this week from the KJCCC, maintaining their number 20 ranking by bouncing back from losses to Southeast Community College and Seward County by taking the final three games of a four-game series from the Saints to improve to 37-11 overall and 19-5 in the KJCCC.

Both Coffeyville and Cloud County will kick off the week’s action with non-conference road games against JV opponents from the Sunflower State on Monday before seeing six other KJCCC schools in action on Tuesday, highlighted by a non-conference matchup between Neosho County and Butler in El Dorado. No games are scheduled for Wednesday, ahead of a busy Thursday that is slated to have eight conference doubleheaders take place throughout the state, which include Johnson County heading to Cowley for two games, while Hutchinson will host Pratt, and Cloud County will host Barton. A cross-division doubleheader between Colby and Kansas City Kansas will be the lone action set to take place Friday before seeing the week conclude with 18 games on Saturday as all eight doubleheaders from Thursday will take place again to close out four-game series between teams, along with another doubleheader between Colby and KCKCC.