NJCAA Division 1 Baseball Week 7 Poll

CHARLOTTE, NC – For the first time in three weeks, the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference had a new team appear as part of the latest NJCAA Division 1 Baseball Top 25 poll as Kansas City Kansas Community College is receiving votes to join ranked teams Johnson County, Cloud County, and Hutchinson in the week 7 poll.

The poll marks the third time in the seven regular season polls released this season that the KJCCC has had four teams appear as either ranked or receiving votes, with the Blue Devils making their first appearance this season by winning each of their last 13 games to improve to 26-11 overall 18-2 in the KJCCC East Division.

In addition to KCKCC receiving votes, Johnson County remained atop the NJCAA Division 1 poll as the Cavaliers earned another four-game series sweep over KJCCC East Division opponent Allen to improve to 38-2 overall and 20-0 in the KJCCC East Division as JCCC is now 19-1 at home and 19-1 in road games this season. Taking three of four games this weekend to assert themselves atop the KJCCC West Division standings, Cloud County slipped one spot down to fifth after winning each of the first three games against previously number 12 ranked Hutchinson before dropping the series finale by a score of 4-3 in 11 innings. The series victory allowed CCCC to improve to 32-4 overall and 17-3 in the KJCCC West Division, with every other KJCCC West Division team at least five games back in the win column through five weeks of conference action. Hutchinson, meanwhile, saw the series loss to Cloud County result in a seven-spot drop in the latest rankings to fall to number 19 in the latest rankings while holding a 39-9 overall record and 12-4 mark in the KJCCC West Division.

Baseball action resumes for KJCCC schools on Tuesday as nine different conference schools will be in action across nine games. Included in Tuesday’s action are non-conference battles between Butler and Kansas City Kansas in Kansas City as well as Cowley making the trip north to Concordia to take on Cloud County in a 2 PM matchup.  Wednesday is currently scheduled to be an off day for all conference teams before seeing the start of four-game conference series for 16 of the 18 league teams on Thursday as part of 17-game day. Friday will have a non-conference doubleheader for Garden City on the road before seeing 19 games set to take place on Saturday and two games on Sunday to finish out a week that has 49 games currently scheduled to take place.