MIAA releases its latest baseball power rankings. See where Taunton area teams stand

TAUNTON— The MIAA released its first baseball power rankings of the season on Friday.

The rankings only include scores entered into Arbiter, verified by MIAA and schools as of April 28 at 4 a.m. The top 32 teams qualify, while Teams 33 and below qualify for a play-in game with a .500 or better record.

As of Friday morning, two Greater Taunton area teams are heading in the right direction for a tournament seeding berth.

Here's a look at the latest power rankings of the season for Greater Taunton area baseball teams:

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Division I

1. Franklin

2. Bridgewater-Raynham

3. Taunton

4. Central Catholic

5. Saint John's

6. Westford Academy

7. Natick

8. Milford

9. Shrewsbury

10. Saint Paul Diocesan

11. Wachusett

12. Boston College High

13. Weymouth

14. Andover

15. Lincoln-Sudbury

16. Chelmsford

17. Xaverian

18. St. John's Prep

19. Barnstable

20. Boston Latin

21. Attleboro

22. Waltham

23. Bishop Feehan

24. Marshfield

25. Algonquin

26. Doherty Memorial

27. Walpole

28. Needham

29. Springfield Central

30. Newton North

31. Beverly

32. Lexington

Outside: None

Division II

1. Milton

2. Leominster

3. Whitman-Hanson

4. King Philip

5. Hopkinton

6. Westwood

7. Duxbury

8. Somerset Berkley

9. Plymouth North

10. Holliston

11. Masconomet

12. Plymouth South

13. Westborough

14. North Attleborough

15. Pope Francis

16. Mansfield

17. Dartmouth

18. Canton

19. Nashoba

20. Wakefield

21. North Quincy

22. Norwood

23. Billerica

24. St. Mary's

25 Marlborough

26. Oliver Ames

27. Silver Lake

28. Minnechaug

29. Grafton

30. Woburn

31. Salem

32. Burlington

Outside: None

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Division III

1. Tantasqua

2. Oakmont

3. Foxborough

4. Bishop Stang

5. Ashland

6. Taconic

7. Fairhaven

8. Hudson

9. Weston

10. Hanover

11. Medfield

12. Sandwich

13. Lynnfield

14. Nipmuc

15. Pittsfield

16. Dedham

17. Medway

18. Bishop Fenwick

19. Newburyport

20. Groton-Dunstable

21. Dover-Sherborn

22. Archbishop Williams

23. Auburn

24. Greater New Bedford

25. Triton

26. Stoneham

27. Fitchburg

28. Pembroke

29. East Bridgewater

30. Southeastern

31. Arlington Catholic

32. Belchertown

Outside: Bristol-Plymouth (41), Dighton-Rehoboth 44

Division IV

1. Bellingham

2. English High

3. Northbridge

4. Blackstone Valley

5. Bay Path

6. Seekonk

7. Uxbridge

8. Millbury

9. Hamilton-Wenham

10. Leicester

11. Shawsheen Valley

12. Clinton

13. Abington

14. Advanced Math & Science

15. Monument Mountain

16. Lunenburg

17. Tyngsborough

18. Lowell Catholic

19. Mashpee

20. Littleton

21. Whittier

22. Assabet Valley

23. Southwick

24. Hampshire

25. Rockland

26. Wahconah

27. Winthrop

28. Cohasset

29. Amesbury

30. South Hadley

31. Ipswich

32. Bartlett

Outside: None

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Division V

1. Oxford

2. Hopedale

3. Bourne

4. Georgetown

5. Bromfield School

6. Westport

7. Douglas

8. Upper Cape Cod

9. Mystic Valley

10. Smith Vo-Tech

11. Hopkins Academy

12. Quaboag

13. Ayer Shirley

14. Sutton

15. South Shore

16. Pioneer Valley

17. Millis

18. Tahanto

19. Drury

20. Maynard

21. Boston Collegiate Charter

22. Frontier

23. McCann Tech

24. Ware

25 Old Colony

26. Lenox

27. Blue Hills

28 West Boylston

29 Mount Everett

30 Carver

31 Atlantis Charter

32 Boston International

Outside: None

Taunton Daily Gazette sports reporter Cameron Merritt can be reached at cmerritt@tauntongazette.com. You can follow him on Twitter at @CamMerritt_News. Support local journalism by purchasing a digital or print subscription to the Taunton Daily Gazette today.

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