Ryan Murken

Your Prep Sports

A week after returning to the Iowa High Baseball Coaches Association Rankings Liberty High continued to climb this week.

Liberty High (24-6) climbed four spots to fourth in the most recent edition of the IHSBCA Class 4A rankings released on Monday.

The Lightning have won nine straight games and are coming off a 6-0 week that featured doubleheader sweeps of Dubuque Hempstead, Ottumwa and Dubuque Senior.

City High (21-7) is sixth in the latest Class 4A rankings that are led by top-ranked Pleasant Valley and second-ranked Sioux City East.

Regina (19-4) moved up one spot to eighth in the Class 2A rankings this week.

Other top-ranked teams this week are Dubuque Wahlert in Class 3A, Underwood in Class 2A and Remsen St. Mary’s in Class 1A.

IHSBCA Baseball Rankings

Class 4A (Record) 

1. Pleasant Valley (23-4)

2. Sioux City East (31-4)

3. Waukee Northwest (23-7)

4. Liberty High (24-6) 

5. Johnston (17-9)

6. City High (21-7) 

7. Cedar Rapids Prairie (24-7)

8. Waukee (20-8)

9. Ankeny Centennial (18-9)

10. Indianola (25-4)

Others: Ames (22-10); Cedar Rapids Kennedy (21-10); Fort Dodge (21-10); Sioux City North (22-8); West Des Moines Valley (16-11)

Class 3A

1. Dubuque Wahlert (26-5)

2. Pella (19-5)

3. Marion (18-5)

4. Ballard (20-6)

5. Sioux City Heelan (22-7)

6. Benton Community (20-5)

7. Carlisle (17-7)

8. Saydel (20-6)

9. MOC-Floyd Valley (20-4)

10. Sergeant Bluff-Luton (22-11)

Others: Algona (18-6); Davenport Assumption (19-10); Boone (14-7); Western Dubuque (13-12); Cedar Rapids Xavier (14-13)

Class 2A

1. Underwood (19-1)

2. Pleasantville (23-1)

3. Van Meter (18-7)

4. Unity Christian (19-9)

5. Mediapolis (22-1)

6. Chariton (19-5)

7. West Lyon (14-4)

8. Regina (19-4)

9. Grundy Center (17-3)

10. Sumner-Fredericksburg (15-3)

Others: Forest City (14-4); Bellevue Marquette (20-4); New Hampton (21-7); Spirit Lake (16-4); West Marshall (18-8)

Class 1A

1. Remsen St. Mary’s (17-1)

2. Sigourney (19-1)

3. Lynnville-Sully (19-2)

4. Coon Rapids-Bayard (21-3)

5. North Linn (21-2)

6. Saint Ansgar (15-5)

7. Martensdale-St. Marys (23-5)

8. Don Bosco (20-5)

9. Kee (24-10)

10. Mason City Newman (18-7)

Others: Bedford (19-5); East Buchanan (13-6); Logan-Magnolia (15-5); MMCRU (14-3); Moravia (18-3)

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