Manchester Garners Votes in Latest Baseball Poll

MANCHESTER, CT — The seemingly never-ending winter has wreaked havoc with the baseball schedule for Manchester High School, but the Indians did manage to turn out a pair of shutout victories last week.

After outscoring opponents by a combined 30-0 to open the season, Manchester collected some support from voters in the latest weekly poll of media members. The Indians have tough games on tap this week against East Catholic and Simsbury.

Staples (1-0) was the unanimous top choice of voters this week, placing first on all 12 ballots.

Here are the top 15, plus all other schools receiving votes, with records through April 8:

1. Staples (1-0)
2. Waterford (1-0)
3. Cheshire (2-0)
4. Fairfield Prep (3-0)
5. St. Joseph (2-0)
6. Amity Regional (1-1)
7. Holy Cross (1-0)
8. Daniel Hand (2-0)
9. Notre Dame-West Haven (2-1)
10. Ridgefield(2-1)
11. Westhill (1-1)
12. Newtown (2-1)
13. New Milford (2-0)
14. Branford (1-1)
15. Fitch (3-0)

Also receiving votes: North Haven (2-1), East Lyme (1-1), Haddam-Killingworth (3-0), Brien McMahon (3-0), Tolland (0-0), Wilton (1-0), Darien (3-1), Thomaston (3-0), Manchester (2-0), Wethersfield (0-0), Bunnell (1-0), Simsbury (0-1), Greenwich (2-1), South Windsor (0-0), Wolcott (2-0), Berlin (2-0), Shelton (2-0), Lewis Mills (0-0), Naugatuck (2-0).

Voters: Ryan Lacey, Danbury News-Times, Mike DiMauro, The Day of New London; Dave Ruden, The Ruden Report; David Heuschkel, The Valley Press; Bill Bloxsom, HAN; Mike Madera, Walter Camp Foundation/New Haven Register; Dave Phillips, Shoreline Newspapers; Michael Suppe, HAN; Noah Finz, Frontier Cable/Vantage Sports Network; Scott Ericson Stamford Advocate; Jesse Mayfield-Sheehan, Norwich Bulletin; Tim Jensen, Patch Media Corp.

File photo credit: Tim Jensen