St. Xavier headlines latest KHSBCA top 25 poll

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The Kentucky High School Baseball Coaches Association has released its first in-season top 25 rankings. Check out the top 25 below (Note the ties for No. 11, 20 and 22):

1) St. Xavier High School
2) Harrison County High School
3) Male High School
4) Apollo High School
5) Lexington Catholic High School
6) Eastern High School
7) Pleasure Ridge Park High School
8 ) Central Hardin High School
9) Paul Laurence Dunbar High School
10) Lawrence County High School
11) Madison Central High School
11) Trinity High School
13) Ballard High School
14) West Jessamine High School
15) Lafayette High School
16) Daviess County High School
17) Clay County High School
18) Henderson County High School
19) Lexington Christian Academy
20) Beechwood High School
20) Tates Creek High School
22) Christian County High School
22) Somerset High School
24) Russell County High School
25) Pikeville High School

You can see the top 25 with the “others receiving votes” here.

Kentucky High School Poll (May 8)

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The Kentucky High School Baseball Coaches Association released its latest top 25 poll on May 6. Lexington Catholic is holding steady in the No. 1 spot as the regular season winds down but several teams can challenge the Nights. Check out the most rankings below with each team’s total points listed and number of first place votes in parentheses:

1.   Lexington Catholic — 218 — (16)
2.   Eastern — 200 — (4)
3.   Lexington Christian — 194
4.   St. Xavier — 159
5.   West Jessamine — 156 — (2)
6.   Apollo — 155
7.   Pleasure Ridge Park — 150
8.   Tates Creek — 144
9.   Harrison County — 122
10.   Male — 114
11.   Trinity — 108
12.   Western Hills — 105
13.   Elizabethtown — 97
14.   DeSales — 96
15.   Henderson County — 93
16.   Lafayette — 88
17.   DuPont Manual — 85
18.   Central Hardin — 73
19.   Franklin County — 70
20.   Madison Central — 64
21.   Russell County — 63
22.   George Rogers Clark — 55
23.   Mercer County — 50 — (1)
24.   Butler — 44
25.   Glasgow — 43

Ky. High School Record Book: Stolen Bases

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raceland A commenter on one of the BluGrass Baseball record book posts asked about high school records for stolen bases. KHSAA keeps the entire Kentucky high school baseball record book online here, but I like the idea of highlighting some of the records here, especially as baseball news grows a little thinner during the offseason. So to start this series we’ll look at the original question regarding stolen bases.

Career Stolen Base Leaders

Thomas Tolliver — Raceland — 2003-2006 — 164
Noah Welte — St. Patrick — 1997-2000 — 139
Jeff Taylor — Barbourville — 1988-1991 — 137
Brock Wright — Heath — 2002-2005 — 130
Jeff Gumm — Green Co. — 1977-1980 — 127

Single-Season Stolen Base Leaders

Mark Dingledine — Madisonville-North Hopkins — 1970 — 92
Noah Welte — St. Patrick — 2000 — 71
Steve Greene — Henderson Co. — 1988 — 63
David French — East Carter — 1992 — 60
Patrick Donahue — Union Co. — 1999 — 59

NOTE: The original comment also asked about records since 2000. The career leaders since 2000: Tolliver (03-06, 164), Wright (02-05, 130), Kurt Riley (Livingston Central, 03-06, 123), Hank Gabbard (Hazard, 00-04, 115), Nick Bobrowski (Green Co., 00-03, 114)…The single-season leaders since 2000: Welte (2000, 71), Chris Coffey (Russell Co, 2006, 54), Josh Lemmings (Russell, 2006, 50), Wright (Heath, 2005, 50)