Mt. Ararat holds in Varsity Maine baseball poll as postseason nears

Mt. Ararat held at No. 6 in the June 2 Varsity Maine baseball poll, keeping the Eagles inside the state’s top tier as the regular season turned toward postseason seeding. For Sagadahoc County readers, that ranking matters because it keeps Topsham in the same conversation as the best programs in Maine at the exact moment when bracket position and first-round matchups start to take shape.

Gorham stayed No. 1, while South Portland, Oxford Hills, Cheverus and Bangor rounded out the five teams ahead of Mt. Ararat. Fryeburg Academy was right behind the Eagles at No. 7. The poll was based on games played through June 2, and the top seven had largely settled after a long spring, with six of those seven teams appearing in every poll this season. That kind of stability usually signals that the race for the top seeds is narrowing, even if the final bracket is still ahead.

Mt. Ararat and Fryeburg Academy had each spent four straight weeks in the top seven, a run that shows the Eagles have stayed in the same statewide tier even as some other teams moved around them. Scarborough returned to the rankings for the first time since May 5, and Ellsworth and Thornton Academy swapped places, but there was little disruption near the top. For Midcoast fans in Topsham, Bath and Brunswick, the message is clear: the strongest teams are starting to separate from the pack, and Mt. Ararat remains one of them.

That standing fits the way the Eagles finished May. On May 20, Mt. Ararat won its eighth straight game by mercy-ruling Hampden Academy in five innings, a result that helped lock in the sense that the program was peaking at the right time. In the postseason, that momentum can shape more than confidence. A higher seed can determine where a team opens the tournament and which opponents it is likely to see first, which matters for families weighing travel and for a program trying to protect a strong regular season.

The comparison point is still fresh. Last year, Mt. Ararat was the top seed in Class A North and advanced to the regional semifinals after a June 12 win over Brewer. With the 2026 postseason approaching, the Eagles have again put themselves in position to force the same kind of statewide attention, and Sagadahoc County will be watching where that path leads next.