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Sun-Times Super 25 preseason baseball rankings

By Staff Report

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Rankings provided by Prep Baseball Report

1. Joliet Catholic

2. Lincoln-Way North

3. Mount Carmel

4. St. Rita

5. Plainfield North

6. Lockport

7. Nazareth

8. St. Laurence

9. Prairie Ridge

10. St. Charles North

11. Providence

12. Lemont

13. Brother Rice

14. Homewood-Flossmoor

15. Minooka

16. Jacobs

17. Downers South

18. Cary-Grove

19. Lincoln-Way West

20. Lake Forest

21. Carmel

22. Oak Park-River Forest

23. Lyons

24. South Elgin

25. Benet

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