2021 High School Baseball Rankings: Top 50 Teams In The Country
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Baseball America’s High School team rankings are selected through a poll of representatives from the National High School Baseball Coaches Association (NHSBCA). The country is split into eight different regions, with region chairs nominating teams from their geographic areas for consideration for the rankings nationwide.
Our final high school team rankings are here and for this edition we expand to the top 50 teams in the country.
Checking in at the top spot for the last ranking of the 2021 season is Madison (Miss.) Central High, which finished with a 32-2 record and won Mississippi’s highest classification (6A) state championship, topping Northwest Rankin High (Brandon, Miss.).
Madison Central’s state championship culminates a season where the team outscored its opponents 422 to 64 and went undefeated in league play.
The Southeast dominates the top of the final high school team rankings, with four of the top five teams coming from that region of the country, as well as six of the top 10.
Barbe High in Lake Charles, La., claims the No. 2 spot after winning its state championship, while Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Fla., checks in at No. 3 and also won its state championship.
State champions are signified with asterisks (*) in the chart below.
| Rank | High School | Coach | Record | Previous |
| 1 | *Madison (Miss.) Central HS | Patrick Robey | 34-2 | 1 |
| 2 | *Barbe HS, Lake Charles, La. | Glenn Gechini | 38-2 | 2 |
| 3 | *Stoneman Douglas HS, Parkland, Fla. | Todd Fitz-Gerald | 28-2 | 3 |
| 4 | *Jackson (Miss.) Prep | Brent Heavener | 35-3 | 5 |
| 5 | *St. Mary Prep, Orchard Lake, Mich. | Matt Petry | 43-1 | 6 |
| 6 | *Liberty HS, Peoria, Ariz. | Phil Knight, Chris Raymond | 21-3 | 7 |
| 7 | JSerra Catholic HS, San Juan Capistrano, Calif. | Brett Kay | 30-7 | 13 |
| 8 | *Auburn (Ala.) HS | Matt Cimo | 36-7 | 9 |
| 9 | *Madison HS, Vienna, Va. | Mark Gjormand | 18-1 | 10 |
| 10 | Buchanan HS, Clovis, Calif. | Brad Fontes | 29-3 | 4 |
| 11 | Bishop Gorman HS, Las Vegas | Gino DiMaria | 18-1 | 12 |
| 12 | *Blue Valley HS, Stilwell, Kan. | Tony Scardino | 19-3 | 11 |
| 13 | *Parkview HS, Lilburn, Ga. | Chan Brown | 30-10 | 15 |
| 14 | *Trinity HS, Louisville | Rick Arnold | 41-2 | 16 |
| 15 | Harvard-Westlake HS, Los Angeles | Jared Halpert | 27-4 | 23 |
| 16 | *Houston County HS, Warner Robins, Ga. | Matt Hopkins | 31-7 | 17 |
| 17 | Thousand Oaks (Calif.) HS | Jack Wilson | 29-1 | 18 |
| 18 | Keller (Texas) HS | Rob Stramp | 31-5 | NR |
| 19 | *Mosley HS, Lynn Haven, Fla. | Jon Hudson | 26-5 | 21 |
| 20 | Buford (Ga.) HS | Stuart Chester | 35-2 | 20 |
| 21 | *Barbers Hill HS, Mt. Belvieu, Texas | David Denny | 37-8 | NR |
| 22 | Alhambra HS, Phoenix | Shae Clark | 23-2 | NR |
| 23 | Ayala HS, Chino Hills, Calif. | Chris Vogt | 26-4 | 8 |
| 24 | Fort Zumwalt West HS, O’Fallon, Mo. | Eric Gough | 29-4 | 19 |
| 25 | Orange (Calif.) Lutheran HS | Eric Borba | 30-6 | 14 |
| 26 | Danville (Ky.) HS | Paul Morse | 40-4 | NR |
| 27 | Liberty (Mo.) HS | Kirk Bragg | 32-9 | NR |
| 28 | Smithson Valley HS, Spring Branch, Texas | Chad Koehl | 34-4 | NR |
| 29 | *Millard South HS, Omaha, Neb. | Greg Geary | 35-5 | NR |
| 30 | *St. Joseph HS, Montvale, N.J. | Mark Cieslack | 27-2 | NR |
| 31 | East Catholic HS, Manchester, Conn. | Martin Fiori | 25-0 | NR |
| 32 | *Roff (Okla.) HS | Rad Simon | 33-0 | NR |
| 33 | *Faith Academy, Mobile, Ala. | Matt Seymour | 34-6 | NR |
| 34 | Hamilton HS, Chandler, Ariz. | Mike Woods | 16-2 | NR |
| 35 | *Jasper (Ind.) HS | Terry Gobert | 31-2 | NR |
| 36 | *Starr’s Mill HS, Fayetteville, Ga. | Brent Moseley | 31-11 | NR |
| 37 | Bishop Eustace Prep, Pennsauken, N.J. | Sam Tropiano | 21-1 | NR |
| 38 | *Farmington (Minn.) HS | Jon Graff | 21-6 | NR |
| 39 | Magnolia Heights HS, Sentobia, Miss. | Chris McMinn | 30-3 | NR |
| 40 | Sun Prairie (Wisc.) HS | Rob Hamilton | 27-2 | NR |
| 41 | Tamalpais HS, Mill Valley, Calif. | Nathan Bernstein | 19-1 | NR |
| 42 | *Jenks (Okla.) HS | Danny Morgan | 27-6 | NR |
| 43 | *New Albany (Ohio) HS | Dave Starling | 29-5 | NR |
| 44 | *Rogers (Miss.) HS | Matt Melson | 19-7 | NR |
| 45 | Puyallup (Wash.) HS | Marc Wiese | 16-0 | NR |
| 46 | Rio Rancho HS, Albuquerque, N.M. | Ron Murphy | 21-1 | NR |
| 47 | *Bloomingdale HS, Valrico, Fla. | Kris Wilken | 24-6 | NR |
| 48 | *Van Buren (Ariz.) HS | David Loyd | 27-7 | NR |
| 50 | Eastlake HS, Chula Vista, Calif. | David Gallegos | 25-10 | NR |
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