My Baseball Top 5 (for the NUIC area)

Eastland
Other than Milledgeville/Polo, aside from their two losses to Dakota, Eastland has quietly been the best baseball team in our area. A matchup, which was postponed earlier this year between Milledgeville/Polo and Eastland would really clear things up, but as it stands, the Cougars are tops.

Dakota
You can beat an opponent once and just be lucky. But twice? With Lizer pitching, Dakota is probably 1a to Eastland’s No. 1 ranking. The head-to-head matchup is in favor of the Cougars, despite the late comeback with the Indians’ starters coming in after three innings.

Mville/Polo
Yes, they’ve only lost two games all year. But with both losses to Dakota by four runs apiece, the Missiles fall to No. 3

Lena-Winslow
A win against Dakota last Saturday puts the Panthers in high regard. The 22-6 win against War/Stock put Le-Win in even higher regard and are the second-best team in the NUIC-West.

River Ridge/Scales Mound (subject to change if O’ville beats M’ville)
With War/Stock, Orangeville and River Ridge/Scales Mound losing in unimpressive fashion, this was more of a toss-up. Jeff Steele is just enough to push RR/SM ahead of the pack.
As it stands now, though, there's barely five top teams in the area period.

Orangeville losing to Aquin really doesn't make their case for the Top 5. RR/SM doesn't win any give-me points either by losing to Pearl City, but if their best pitchers meet, I'm taking RR/SM over Orangeville.