Top Baseball Towns in Rockingham County, NH
Ranked on championships won since 2000 — high school state titles and Little League district, section and state titles counted together, with recent wins weighted more heavily. 10 towns have won something.
Portsmouth leads Rockingham County, NH, scoring 9.73 almost entirely on high school titles, though Londonderry is close behind on 8.06. 10 towns have won something since 2000.
The top ten in Rockingham County, NH are Portsmouth, Londonderry, Exeter, Newmarket, Derry, Rye, Windham, Salem, Hampton and Northwood.
Size is doing a lot of work here. Northwood is in the top ten on a population of 4,702, while Derry has 34,062 to draw on — roughly 7 times as many people. That is why the tables below are also split into population bands: a town should be measured against places its own size before it is measured against a city.
Two towns in the top ten got there by opposite routes. Hampton scores purely on high school championships — 1 of them — with no Little League title counted at all. Rye is the mirror image: 6 youth titles and no high school championship in the window.
Recency matters in this table — a title's weight halves every 12 years, so the standings drift on their own every season. Exeter has won something in the last two seasons, which is why it sits where it does.
One caveat worth reading before you argue with the order. The youth half of this score is Little League only, because Little League is the only organisation that publishes a championship archive — every district, section and state champion back to the 1950s. Cal Ripken and Babe Ruth publish nothing below the World Series. 5 towns in Rockingham County, NH run Cal Ripken or Babe Ruth ball with no Little League program at all, and they score zero youth points here no matter how much they win. Towns that run both lose the Cal Ripken half the same way. If your league has a record we're missing, tell us and we'll add it.
| # | Town | Score | Population | HS titles | LL state | LL district | Won by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portsmouth NH Rockingham County | 9.73 | 22,938 | 7 | — | — | Portsmouth High School |
| 2 | Londonderry NH Rockingham County | 8.06 | 27,101 | 5 | — | — | Londonderry Senior High School |
| 3 | Exeter NH Rockingham County | 7.92 | 16,205 | 4 | — | — | Exeter High School |
| 4 | Newmarket NH Rockingham County | 7.48 | 9,528 | 4 | — | — | Newmarket Jr.-Sr. High School |
| 5 | Derry NH Rockingham County | 5.05 | 34,062 | 2 | — | — | Pinkerton Academy |
| 6 | Rye NH Rockingham County | 3.77 | 5,663 | — | 2 | 4 | Rye NH Little League |
| 7 | Windham NH Rockingham County | 1.99 | 16,208 | 1 | — | 1 | Windham High School · Windham Baseball and Softball League (WBSL) |
| 8 | Salem NH Rockingham County | 0.79 | 31,673 | 1 | — | — | Salem High School |
| 9 | Hampton NH Rockingham County | 0.75 | 16,448 | 1 | — | — | Winnacunnet High School |
| 10 | Northwood NH Rockingham County | 0.75 | 4,702 | 1 | — | — | Coe-Brown Northwood Academy |
By town size
A championship out of a town of 6,000 is a different achievement from the same title in a city of 600,000. Same scoring, ranked against places of the same size.
10,000–25,000
- 1PortsmouthNH9.73 · 23k
- 2ExeterNH7.92 · 16k
- 3WindhamNH1.99 · 16k
- 4HamptonNH0.75 · 16k
25,000–75,000
- 1LondonderryNH8.06 · 27k
- 2DerryNH5.05 · 34k
- 3SalemNH0.79 · 32k
How this is scored
- High school state championship — 3 points
- Little League state title — 3 points
- Little League sectional title — 2 points
- Little League district title — 1 point
Only titles since 2000 count, each one's weight halves every 12 years, private-school titles count for 0.75 of a public one, and a regional school's championship is split between the towns it serves.
Full method, sources and what the rankings can't see →By county in New Hampshire
Counties with enough towns on the board to rank. Smaller counties are folded into their state list rather than given a page of three rows.