And we start this week’s Top 10 with a phrase that we usually use at the end of the year: “Well, there goes the neighborhood.”
A number of cataclysmic results have shaken up the Top 10 and has to shake the confidence of the nation’s finest teams in the run-up to what was supposed to have been the clash of the absolute best teams in the nation this Saturday at Tierney Field in Sparks-Glencoe, Md. But Brooklandville St. Paul’s (Md.) is not even in the top two of its own league as the words are being typed, and the Wave have not one, but two stiff tests in the span of six days.
1. Darien (Conn.) 3-0
Wave have a rough week with Garden City (N.Y.) yesterday and St. Paul’s SG on Saturday in what should be the game of the year
2. Glenelg (Md.) Country School 6-0
Dragons play a troublesome Severn Archbishop Spalding (Md.) team today
3. New Canaan (Conn.) 1-0
Rams have an interstate matchup this Saturday against Rye (N.Y.)
4. Northport (N.Y.) 2-0
Tigers have Mastic Beach William Floyd (N.Y.) today
5. Charlottesville St. Anne’s-Belfield (Va.) 10-1
An athletic, physical team, the Saints had a 2-0 weekend at Spring Fling and have a pair of tough games this week with Richmond Collegiate (Va.) and Richmond Trinity Episcopal (Va.)
6. Rosemont Agnes Irwin (Pa.) 5-0
Team takes on Fort Washington Germantown Academy (Pa.) this afternoon
7. Washington Georgetown Visitation (D.C.) 5-1
The Cubs have a week’s break before hosting Alexandria St. Stephen’s/St. Agnes (Va.) April 18th
8. Wantaugh (N.Y.) 5-0
True tests next week with Garden City (N.Y.) and Cold Spring Harbor (N.Y.)
9. Owings Mills McDonogh (Md.) 8-1
The Eagles take on Glenelg (Md.) on Saturday then have Glenelg (Md.) Country School next Tuesday
10. Eldersburg Liberty (Md.) 5-1
Lions, the smallest of the MPSSAA defending champions, won the 4 Causes 4 Champions tournament last weekend
Who’s out: Sykesville Century (Md.) loss to Annapolis Broadneck (Md.), Brooklandville St. Paul’s (Md.) loss to Owings Mills McDonogh (Md.), Westwood (Mass.) loss to Canandaigua (N.Y.) Academy, Victor (N.Y.) loss to Cicero-North Syracuse (N.Y.)
And bear in mind: Denver Colorado Academy (Colo.) 7-0, Greenwich (Conn.) Academy 2-0, Delray American Heritage (Fla.) 15-1, Glenelg (Md.) 5-1, Brooklandville St. Paul’s (Md.) 9-1, Brooklandville Maryville Prep (Md.) 7-2, Annapolis Broadneck (Md.) 4-2, Summit (N.J.) 2-1, Cicero-North Syracuse (N.Y.) 4-0, Baldwinsville (N.Y.) 2-0, Canandaigua (N.Y.) Academy 3-1, South Huntington St. Anthony (N.Y.) 3-1, East Setauket Ward Melville (N.Y.) 5-0, Raleigh Cardinal Gibbons (N.C.) 10-1, Pottstown Owen J. Roberts (Pa.) 8-0
