As is often the case, the road to the NYSAISAA baseball title will go through Bay Ridge.
Poly Prep, the Ivy Prep League champion ranked first in New York City by The Post, was named the top seed in the upcoming private school state tournament, followed by ACIS/PSAA Alliance regular-season champion Berkeley Carroll and fellow Ivy schools Riverdale, Fieldston and Horace Mann.
Rye Country Day is the sixth seed and Long Island Lutheran, also of the ACIS/PSAA Alliance, is seventh while Dalton (No. 8) and Columbia Prep (No. 9) will face one another in the play-in game Friday on Randall’s Island.
Below are the quarterfinals matchups, set for Saturday at 11 a.m. at the higher seed:
No. 1 Poly Prep vs. No. 8 Dalton/No. 9 Columbia Prep
No. 2 Berkeley Carroll vs. No. 7 Long Island Lutheran
No. 3 Riverdale vs. No. 6 Rye Country Day
No. 4 Fieldston vs. No. 5 Horace Mann
The semifinals will be held Sunday, at 11 a.m. also at the higher seed. The final is set for Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. at Manhattanville College
The Ivy Prep League also announced its all-league team. The honorees are as follows: Joe Calabrese, Andrew Zapata, Marcus Hernandez, Marley Randazzo and Philip Maldari of Poly Prep; Adam Dunn and Josh Jacobvitz of Dalton; Armando Perez, Shane Gear, Nat Irving and Cole Dreyfuss of Riverdale; Elias Wacht and Harrison Bader of Horace Mann; Doug Gleicher and James Linfield of Collegiate; Kevin Fitch, Tom Savage and Tom McCarthy of Fieldston; Connor McDermott of Hackley; and James Usher of Trinity.
