Mid-Prairie tops cross-country rankings

The Mid-Prairie High School boys and girls cross-coutry teams maintained the No. 7 and No. 1 spots respectivelty in the latest Class 2A cross-coutry rankings by the Iowa Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches poll released Tuesday.

The Mt. Pleasant girls stayed steady at No. 13 in Class 3A behind Abby Ryon, who moved up in the individual rankings to No. 4.

The Pekin boys team fell two spots to No. 9 and the girls maintained their position at No. 7.

The Mid-Prairie girls are keeping their eye on the Williamsburg team which is rated No. 2. The two teams ran Monday at Solon and Williamsburg finished 19 points behind the Golden Hawks. Bettendorf, which is ranked 11th in Class 4A, won the meet.

Mid-Prairie's Mitzi Evans and Abbagail Evans are both in the individual rankings at 13 and 16 respectively.

Williamsburg has four girls ranked between 10 and 19.

Mid-Prairie's Chandler Herschberger, who placed 18th at the Solon meet among all larger schools, was ranked 27th.

Mid-Prairie finished 16 points behind Williamsburg in the boys race at Solon, but were without one of their top runners.

'It's our first time racing against Williamsburg this season,” Hershberger said. 'Most likely, we will go there for district. We definitely need to step up without him because we don't have a lot of depth.”

In 1A Pekin's Colten Glosser is No. 8 and teammate Brady Millikin is No. 16.

BOYS

Class 4A

1. Dubuque Hempstead, 2. West Des Dowling, 3. Johnston, 4. Cedar Falls, 5. Sioux City North, 6. Pleasant Valley, 7. Cedar Rapids Prairie, 8. Urbandale, 9. Iowa City West, 10. Iowa City High, 11. Ames, 12. Waukee, 13. Epworth Western Dubuque, 14. Linn-Mar, 15. Ankeny Centennial

Teams to Watch: Cedar Rapids Kennedy, Cedar Rapids Washington, Iowa City Liberty, West Des Moines Valley, Southeast Polk

Class 3A

1. Carlisle, 2. Norwalk, 3. Clear Creek-Amana, 4. Gilbert, 5. Dallas Center-Grimes, 6. Pella, 7. Decorah, 8. Marion, 9. Dubuque Wahlert, 10. North Polk

11. Humboldt, 12. Atlantic, 13. Center Point-Urbana, 14. Waverly-Shell Rock, 15. Mount Vernon-Lisbon

Teams to Watch: Bondurant-Farrar, Grinnell, LeMars, MOC-Floyd Valley, Sergeant Bluff Luton

Class 2A

1. Tipton, 2. Monticello, 3. South Hardin, 4. Williamsburg, 5. Albia, 6. Des Moines Christian, 7. Mid-Prairie, 8. Danville-New London, 9. Grundy Center/Gladbrook-Reinbeck, 10. Okoboji, 11. Western Christian, 12. Central Decatur, 13. Davis County, 14. Camanche, 15. North Fayette Valley

Teams to Watch: George-Little Rock/Central Lyon, Jesup, Northeast, Red Oak, Unity Christian

Class 1A

1. Earlham, 2. Nodaway Valley, 3. Madrid, 4. Maquoketa Valley, 5. West Fork, 6. South Winneshiek, 7. Gehlan Catholic, 8. Denver, 9. Pekin, 10. Tri-Center, 11. Ogden, 12. Saint Albert, 13. Saint Ansgar, 14. IKM, 15. St. Albert

Teams to Watch: Calamus-Wheatland, Hudson, Newman, Sioux Central, Siouxland Christian

GIRLS

Class 4A

1. Johnston, 2. Dubuque Senior, 3. Waukee, 4. Linn-Mar, 5. Southeast Polk, 6. Dubuque Hempstead, 7. Iowa City High, 8. Ankeny Centennial, 9. Cedar Rapids Prairie, 10. Des Moines Roosevelt, 11. Bettendorf, 12. West Des Moines Dowling Catholic, 13. Ottumwa, 14. Iowa City West, 15. Iowa City Liberty

Teams to Watch: Indianola, Pleasant Valley, Sioux City East, Urbandale, West Des Moines Valley

Class 3A

1. Dallas Center-Grimes, 2. Ballard, 3. Dubuque Wahlert, 4. Harlan, 5. Spencer, 6. Norwalk. 7. Sioux City Heelan, 8. Grinnell, 9. North Polk, 10. Atlantic, 11. Solon, 12. Decorah, 13. Mt. Pleasant, 14. Glenwood, 15. Center Point-Urbana

Teams to Watch: Davenport Assumption, Charles City, Marion, Mount Vernon-Lisbon, Pella

Class 2A

1. Mid-Prairie, 2. Williamsburg, 3. Monticello, 4. Panorama, 5. WC-KP, 6. Jesup, 7. Starmont, 8. ACGC, 9. Cresco, 10. Waukon, 11. Davis County, 12. Sibley Ocheydan, 13. Unity Christian, 14. Emmetsburg, 15. Okoboji

Teams to Watch: Chariton, Cherokee, Dike-New Hartford, Springville–CC, Western Christian

Class 1A

1. Logan Magnolia, 2. Aplington-Parkersburg, 3. Hudson, 4. Regina Iowa City, 5. Denver, 6. Kee Lansing, 7. Pekin, 8. Central Elkader, 9. AHSTW, 10. Tri-Center, 11. Newman, 12. St. Edmond, 13. Nashua Plainfield, 14. South Winneshiek, 15. North Linn

Teams to Watch: Cascade, Collins Maxwell, Earlham, Marquette, Nodaway Valley