Ryan Murken

Your Prep Sports

A trio of Your Prep Sports area teams all held their spots in the most recent basketball rankings released on Monday by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union.

West High, Solon and West Branch all remained in the same spot at last week in their respective classes while City High slipped four spots in the Class 5A rankings.

West Branch (9-1) remained third in the Class 2A rankings trailing only top-ranked Maquoketa Valley and Dike-New Hartford.

Solon (12-4) is 11th in the Class 3A rankings for the second week in a row after posting wins over West Delaware and Solon to close out last week.

West High (7-3) remained sixth in the Class 5A rankings after pushing its winning streak to five in a row with wins over City High and Marion on Friday and Saturday of last week.

City High (7-4) dropped to 12th in the 5A rankings following losses to West High and and No. 10 West Des Moines Valley to end last week.

Top-ranked teams remained the same as Johnson (5A), Glenwood (4A), Cherokee (3A), Maquoketa Valley (2A) and Algona Garrigan (1A) all remained atop their respective classes.

IGHSAU Girls Basketball Rankings

Class 5A

1. Johnston

2. Waukee

3. Waterloo West

4. Southeast Polk

5. Ankeny Centennial

6. West High 

7. Cedar Rapids Washington

8. Cedar Falls

9. West Des Moines Dowling

10. West Des Moines Valley

11. Des Moines Roosevelt

12. City High

13. Ankeny

14. Davenport North

15. Indianola

Class 4A

1. Glenwood

2. Ballard

3. Dallas Center-Grimes

4. Gilbert

5. Central DeWitt

6. North Scott

7. Waverly-Shell Rock

8. Bondurant-Farrar

9. Creston

10. Denison-Schleswig

11. Harlan

12. Cedar Rapids Xavier

13. North Polk

14. Spencer

15. Boone

Class 3A

1. Cherokee

2. Des Moines Christian

3. Clear Lake

4. Unity Christian

5. Osage

6. West Lyon

7. West Liberty

8. West Burlington

9. Roland-Story

10. Estherville-Lincoln Central

11. Solon

12. Vinton-Shellsburg

13. Center Point-Urbana

14. Panorama

15. Waukon

Class 2A

1. Maquoketa Valley

2. Dike New-Hartford

3. West Branch

4. Nodaway Valley

5. North Linn

6. Bellevue

7. Grundy Center

8. Central Lyon

9. West Hancock

10. Treynor

11. Underwood

12. Denver

13. Cascade

14. Sibley-Ocheyedan

15. Van Buren

Class 1A

1. Algona Garrigan

2. Newell-Fonda

3. Kingsley-Pierson

4. Saint Ansgar

5. Exira-EHK

6. MMCRU

7. Collins-Maxwell

8. Montezuma

9. Springville

10. Winfield-Mount Union

11. Burlington Notre Dame

12. Lenox

13. North Mahaska

14. Westwood

15. Paton-Churdan

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