Ryan Murken

Your Prep Sports

Regina will close 2021 with a 7-2 record and an unblemished mark in River Valley Conference play after a 53-37 win at Bellevue in its final game of the pre-holiday schedule.

Thanks to a strong start the Regals will open 2022 as a ranked team.

Regina made its season debut in the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union rankings on Thursday entering at No. 14 in Class 2A.

The Regals join West Liberty (No. 9 in 3A), West Branch (No. 9 in 2A) and Cascade (No. 10 in 2A) as top-10 ranked River Valley Conference teams.

West Branch (7-1) was ninth in the 2A rankings for the second consecutive week after breaking into the 2A rankings for the first time this season a week ago.

City High (7-0) held its spot at second in the Class 5A rankings while West High (6-1) dropped one spot to fifth in 5A.

Johnston (10-0) retained the top spot in the 5A rankings followed by City High, Waterloo West, West Des Moines Dowling and West High.

Other top-ranked teams this week include Glenwood (4A), Unity Christian (3A), Dike-New Hartford (2A) and Newell-Fonda (1A).

IGHSAU Girls Basketball Rankings

Class 5A

1. Johnston

2. City High 

3. Waterloo West

4. West Des Moines Dowling

5. West High 

6. Des Moines Roosevelt

7. Ankeny Centennial

8. Southeast Polk

9. Ankeny

10. West Des Moines Valley

11. Waukee Northwest

12. Cedar Falls

13. Pleasant Valley

14. Cedar Rapids Washington

15. Sioux City East

Class 4A

1. Glenwood

2. Sioux City Heelan

3. North Polk

4. Grinnell

5. Waverly-Shell Rock

6. Dallas Center-Grimes

7. Indianola

8. Cedar Rapids Xavier

9. Central DeWitt

10. Spencer

11. Pella

12. North Scott

13. Benton Community

14. Winterset

15. Bondurant-Farrar

Class 3A

1. Unity Christian

2. West Lyon

3. Ballard

4. Estherville-Lincoln Central

5. Sergeant Bluff-Luton

6. Center Point-Urbana

7. Clear Lake

8. Cherokee

9. West Liberty

10. Davenport Assumption

11. Roland-Story

12. Vinton-Shellsburg

13. West Marshall

14. West Burlington

15. Forest City

Class 2A

1. Dike New-Hartford

2. Denver

3. Central Lyon

4. Panorama

5. Grundy Center

6. Treynor

7. Sibley-Ocheyedan

8. West Hancock

9. West Branch

10. Cascade

11. Aplington-Parkersburg

12. South Central Calhoun

13. Mediapolis

14. Regina 

15. Jesup

Class 1A

1. Newell-Fonda

2. Algona Garrigan

3. Exira-EHK

4. Springville

5. North Linn

6. MMCRU

7. Burlington Notre Dame

8. North Mahaska

9. Storm Lake St. Mary’s

10. East Buchanan

11. Martensdale St. Marys

12. Stanton

13.Westwood

14. Montezuma

15. Woodbine

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