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For the First Time in program history the West Branch soccer team is ranked.

The Bears made their season debut in the Iowa High School Soccer Coaches Association rankings on Tuesday coming in at No. 14 in Class 1A in the final rankings of the season.

In the second varsity season in program history West Branch enters the postseason 10-1 coming off a 2-1 win over No. 15 Mid-Prairie.

All seven Your Prep Sports area teams are at least receiving votes in the final rankings of the season and six area teams are in the top 16 in their respective classes.

City High climbed one spot to eighth in the final 3A rankings of the season while West High held its spot at third.

Liberty High received votes in the Class 3A rankings.

Clear Creek Amana held its spot at No.13 in the Class 2A rankings while Regina remained third in 1A and Solon held firm at fourth.

Top-ranked teams in the final rankings were Waukee (3A), Cedar Rapids Xavier (2A) and Burlington Notre Dame (1A).

Iowa High School Soccer Coaches Association Rankings

Class 3A

1. Waukee

2. Cedar Rapids Prairie

3. West High 

4. West Des Moines Valley

5. Pleasant Valley

6. Ankeny Centennial

7. Johnston

8. City High 

9. Bettendorf

10. Cedar Falls

11. Sioux City West

12. Muscatine

13. Ankeny

14. West Des Moines Dowling

15. Waterloo West

16. Des Moines Roosevelt

Receiving votes: Dubuque Senior; North Scott; Marshalltown; Urbandale; Liberty High; Sioux City North

Class 2A

1. Cedar Rapids Xavier

2. Vinton-Shellsburg

3. Dallas Center-Grimes

4. Pella

5. Spencer

6. Bondurant-Farrar

7. Storm Lake

8. Nevada

9. Fort Madison

10. ADM

11. Sergeant Bluff-Luton

12. Humboldt

13. Clear Creek Amana

14. Dubuque Wahlert

15. Davenport Assumption

16. Denison-Schleswig

Receiving votes: Fairfield; Benton Community; Newton; Waverly-Shell Rock; Washington

Class 1A

1. Burlington Notre Dame

2. Dyersville Beckman

3. Regina

4. Solon 

5. West Liberty

6. Council Bluffs St. Albert

7. Waterloo Columbus

8. Albia

9. Treynor

10. Western Christian

11. Denver

12. Greene County

12. North Fayette Valley

14. West Branch 

15. Mid-Prairie

16. Des Moines Christian

Receiving votes: Postville; Williamsburg

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