Liberty High Climbs To Ninth in Latest IGHSAU Softball Rankings
Ryan Murken
Your Prep Sports
Liberty High has won four of its last five games including three straight over top-10 ranked opponents.
The recent hot streak has the Lightning climbing in the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union softball rankings.
Liberty High moved up four spots to ninth in the most recent Class 5A rankings released by the IGHSAU on Wednesday following a doubleheader sweep of previously 3A top-ranked and unbeaten Dubuque Wahlert on Tuesday.
The Lightning are 6-5 on the season after winning four of their last five games and join Solon and Regina as Your Prep Sports area teams ranked in the most recent rankings.
Solon (6-4) is 10th in the latest Class 3A rankings while Regina (5-3) is sixth in the Class 2A rankings.
Top-ranked teams this week include Waukee Northwest in Class 5A, Norwalk in Class 4A, Williamsburg in Class 3A, Van Meter in 2A and Martensdale-St. Marys in Class 1A.
IGHSAU Softball Rankings
Class 5A
1. Waukee Northwest (11-1)
2. Pleasant Valley (10-1)
3. Johnston (8-4)
4. Ankeny Centennial (6-3)
5. Muscatine (8-2)
6. West Des Moines Valley (4-3)
7. Ankeny (5-5)
8. Cedar Rapids Kennedy (9-2)
9. Liberty High (6-5)
10. Sioux City North (12-0)
11. Dubuque Senior (6-3)
12. Ames (7-2)
13. Southeast Polk (5-6)
14. Bettendorf (5-4)
15. Waukee (5-6)
Class 4A
1. Norwalk (11-0)
2. North Polk (12-2)
3. Fort Dodge (9-1)
4. Western Dubuque (10-1)
5. Carlisle (10-3)
6. North Scott (7-1)
7. Cedar Rapids Xavier (9-3)
8. Winterset (6-6)
9. Dallas Center-Grimes (6-3)
10. ADM (6-4)
11. Burlington (6-0)
12. Bondurant-Farrar (10-2)
12. Sergeant Bluff-Luton (9-3)
14. Webster City (5-1)
15. Indianola (6-6)
Class 3A
1. Williamsburg (8-3)
2. Benton Community (7-2)
3. Dubuque Wahlert (5-2)
4. Mount Vernon (12-2)
5. Estherville-Lincoln Central (13-2)
6. Sumner-Fredricksburg (12-2)
7. Davenport Assumption (3-6)
8. Washington (9-3)
9. Clarinda (10-2)
10. Solon (6-4)
11. West Lyon (6-1)
12. PCM (7-1)
13. Atlantic (11-5)
14. West Burlington Notre Dame (8-0)
15. West Marshall (8-1)
Class 2A
1. Van Meter (13-1)
2. Northeast (9-0)
3. Alburnett (11-1)
4. West Monona (9-2)
5. Missouri Valley (10-2)
6. Regina (5-3)
7. Lisbon (8-3)
8. Interstate 35 (5-4)
9. Central Springs (6-1)
10. Cardinal (7-2)
11. East Marshall (8-2)
12. South Hardin (7-6)
13. Durant (8-5)
14. Jesup (8-2)
15. Cascade (4-3)
Class 1A
1. Martensdale-St. Marys (6-1)
2. Sigourney (6-3)
3. Wayne (7-2)
4. North Linn (12-3)
5. Remsen St. Mary’s (5-0)
6. Fort Dodge St. Edmond (5-0)
7. Newell-Fonda (8-2)
8. Mason City Newman (9-0)
9. Southeast Warren (9-0)
10. Earlham (9-6)
11. Collins-Maxwell (6-1)
12. Griswold (9-1)
13. Clarksville (6-3)
14. Don Bosco (9-2)
15. Edgewood-Colesburg (9-3)
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