Ryan Murken

Your Prep Sports

West High moved up one spot in the most recent girls basketball rankings released on Thursday by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union.

The Trojans won their season opener over Class 1A second-ranked Algona Garrigan on Saturday and moved up one spot to seventh in the Class 5A rankings released on Thursday.

City High remained fourth in the 5A rankings behind top-ranked Johnston, Waterloo West and Cedar Falls.

Solon (1-2) dropped three spots to No. 11 in the Class 4A rankings.

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. Waterloo West

3. Cedar Falls

4. City High 

5. Des Moines Roosevelt

6. West Des Moines Valley

7. West High 

8. Ankeny Centennial

9. Southeast Polk

10. Cedar Rapids Washington

11. West Des Moines Dowling

12. Waukee Northwest

13. Sioux City East

14. Pleasant Valley

15. Linn-Mar

Class 4A

1. Glenwood

2. Indianola

3. Central DeWitt

4. Cedar Rapids Xavier

5. Sioux City Heelan

6. North Scott

7. North Polk

8. Dallas Center-Grimes

9. Winterset

10. Grinnell

11. Solon 

12. Mason City

13. Spencer

14. Gilbert

15. Benton Community

Class 3A

1. Unity Christian

2. West Lyon

3. Ballard

4. Estherville-Lincoln Central

5. Center Point-Urbana

6. Cherokee

7. Sergeant Bluff-Luton

8. Clear Lake

9. West Liberty

10. West Marshall

11. Vinton-Shellsburg

12. Roland-Story

13. Harlan

14. Okoboji

15. Davenport Assumption

Class 2A

1. Dike New-Hartford

2. Grundy Center

3. Denver

4. Central Lyon

5. Panorama

6. Cascade

7. Nodaway Valley

8. Sibley-Ocheyedan

9. West Hancock

10. Jesup

11. South Central Calhoun

12. Treynor

13. North Union

14. Aplington-Parkersburg

15. Wilton

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. Montezuma

11. East Buchanan

12. Stanton

13. Central Elkader

14. CAM

15. Westwood

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