The Ballard High School baseball team has taken the No. 1 spot in the Kentucky High School Baseball Coaches Association’s Top 20.

The Bruins are 4-3 and will return to action at 6 p.m. Thursday, hosting South Oldham.

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Here is the complete Top 20 (first-place votes in parentheses):

1. Ballard (4)
2. McCracken County (2)
3. West Jessamine (4)
4. St. Xavier
5. Lexington Catholic (3)
6. Greenup County (2)
7. Elizabethtown
8. South Warren
9. Meade County
10. Trinity (1)
11. Central Hardin
12. Pleasure Ridge Park
13. Beechwood
14. Bowling Green (1)
15. Daviess County
16. Lafayette
17. Mercer County
18. Madison Central
19. Paul Dunbar (1)
20. Southwestern