With only one winning season (24-21 in 2006) in the last five years, it’s been an unusually dry run for the Alaska League’s Anchorage Glacier Pilots—a team with an enviable 40-year track record. Over the years, the Pilots have won five National Baseball Congress World Series titles (second only to the Alaska Goldpanners, their arch-rivals), with their most recent championship coming in 2001.

It’s been a different story this year for the Glacier Pilots, however. With 11 wins in their last 12 games, they have surged to the top of the Alaska League standings with a 15-6 record (and 24-7 mark overall), and a No. 1 ranking in PG Crosschecker’s Summer 16—a weekly ranking of the nation’s summer college league teams.

The Pilots have relied primarily on a pitching staff that has posted a collective 2.28 ERA, and has gotten big summers from University of San Diego red-shirt freshman righthander Darrin Campbell (4-1, 2.59) and Ohio State junior lefthander Eric Best (0-0, 1.12, 9 SV). Miami freshman utilityman Joey Terdoslavich leads the Pilots with a .351 average and four home runs.

Anchorage replaces the Clark Griffith League’s Vienna Senators atop the PG Crosschecker rankings. The Senators held the top spot the last two weeks and were set to take on the Valley League’s top two teams, the Luray Wranglers and Waynesboro Generals, on Tuesday in a unique doubleheader between the two leagues that is about bragging rights and was stimulated, in part, by the lofty national ranking of the three Virginia teams involved.

With no team separating itself from the pack this summer, the prestigious Cape Cod League continues to be shut out of the top spot for the third week in a row. But Hyannis and Orleans, the teams with the two best pitching staffs on the Cape, remain right on the heels of Anchorage and Vienna.

Led by Anchorage, here are the latest PG Crosschecker Summer 16 rankings, with records through July 14 (last week’s ranking noted in parentheses):