Ryan Murken

Your Prep Sports

City High started the season with back-to-back wins last week.

On Monday the Little Hawks found themselves in the top-five of the first Associated Press boys basketball poll of the season.

City High (2-0) is fifth in the initial Class 4A poll trailing top-ranked Johnson, Ames, West Des Moines Valley and Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln.

West High was among the teams receiving votes in the 4A poll.

Other top-ranked teams in the initial poll are Ballard (3A), Western Christian (2A) and North Linn (1A).

Associated Press Boys Basketball Poll 

Class 4A

1. Johnston

2. Ames

3. West Des Moines Valley

4. Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln

5. City High 

6. Cedar Rapids Jefferson

7. Cedar Falls

8. Sioux City East

9. Waukee Northwest

10. Waterloo West

10. Mason City

10. North Scott

Receiving votes: Pleasant Valley; West High; Dubuque Senior; Burlington; Cedar Rapids Prairie; Ankeny; Waukee; Urbandale; Cedar Rapids Kennedy; Des Moines Hoover; Dubuque Hempstead

Class 3A

1. Ballard

2. Pella

3. Dallas Center-Grimes

4. Carroll

5. Estherville Lincoln Central

6. Denison-Schleswig

6. Clear Lake

8. Glenwood

9. Clarke

10. Cedar Rapids Xavier

Receiving votes: Bondurant-Farrar; Fort Madison; Newton; Sioux Center; Harlan; Boone; Western Dubuque; Nevada; Marion; Grinnell; Hampton-Dumont; Humboldt; West Delaware; Davenport Assumption; Spencer

Class 2A

1. Western Christian

2. Aplington-Parkersburg

3. Denver

4. Dyersville Beckman

5. Anamosa

6. Des Moines Christian

7. Boyden-Hull

8. Cardinal

9. Van Meter

10. Northeast

Receiving votes: Pella Christian; Camanche; Unity Christian; Mediapolis; Central Lyon; Union; Monticello; Treynor; Rock Valley; Southwest Valley; Clarion-Goldfield; Albia; South Central Calhoun; West Burlington; Spirit Lake; Wilton; AC/GC; Ridge View

Class 1A

1. North Linn

2. Montezuma

3. Grandview Christian

4. Janesville

5. Easton Valley

6. LeMars Gehlen

7. Remsen St. Mary’s

8. Martsendale St. Marys

9. CAM

9. Keota

9. AHSTW

Receiving votes: Moville; Lake Mills; Mason City Newman; Tri-Center; New London; Belle Plaine; Gladbrook-Reinbeck; Springville; Winfield-Mount Union; South Winneshiek; MMC; West Harrison; South O’Brien; WACO; Nashua-Plainfield; Danville; Dunkerton; Mount Ayr

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