Washington girls back in cross-country rankings

The big news from cross-country rankings was the Washington girls team is back in the top 20.

Lance Sobaski dropped his position at No. 6 in the Class 3A rankings by the Iowa Track and Field and Cross-Country Coaches. Sobaski went to No. 7 with Washington teammate Micah Rees at 24 in Class 3A. Mt. Pleasant’s Abby Blint at the No. 20 spot.

As a boys team, Washington moved from No. 20 to No. 19.

Mid-Prairie maintained its secure spot as the No. 1 girls team in 2A as did Danielle Hostetler in the individual rankings. Teammate Phoebe Shetler continued her steady climb in the rankings top 30, up to No. 14 spot behind Golden Hawk Sydney Yoder at 13. Jaden Yoder is 18 and Mitzi Evans 25.

Thaddeus Shetler is sixth and his Mid-Prairie Golden Hawks are fourth in the 2A boys team rankings.

For the third week, Freddy Vergara of Columbus (19) and Pekin’s Zack Wise (26) are ranked in 1A. The Columbus boys dropped a spot to 17.

Pekin’s girls, still No. 3 in 1A, have only Lauren Dershied ranked. She was at No. 15 for the second consecutive week.

Alexander Julian stayed at No. 7 and Ty Carr rose to No. 3 as Danville/New London stayed in its position as the top-ranked 2A boys team. Rylan Martin is maintaining at 23 and Seth Bailey at 25.

Class 4A Boys

RankTeam

1 Sioux City North

2 West Des Moines Dowling Catholic

3 Dubuque Hempstead

4 Iowa City City High

5 Johnston

6 Cedar Falls

7 Norwalk

8 Pleasant Valley

9 Urbandale

10 Waukee Northwest

11 Iowa City Liberty

12 Ankeny

13 Cedar Rapids Prairie

14 Iowa City West

15 Ankeny Centennial

16 Linn-Mar Marion

17 Cedar Rapids Kennedy

18 West Des Moines Valley, WDM

19 Indianola

20 North Scott

Class 4A Girls

RankTeam

1 Pleasant Valley

2 Des Moines Roosevelt

3 Dubuque Hempstead

4 Ames

5 West Des Moines Valley

6 Johnston

7 Dubuque Senior

8 Ankeny

9 Ankeny Centennial

10 West Des Moines Dowling Catholic

11 Waukee

12 Iowa City West

13 Cedar Rapids Prairie

14 Iowa City City High

15 North Scott

16 Iowa City Liberty

17 Linn-Mar

18 Southeast Polk

19 Urbandale

20 Bettendorf

Class 3A Boys

RankTeam

1 Dallas Center Grimes

2 Marion

3 North Polk

4 Western Dubuque

5 MOC Floyd Valley

6 Solon

7 Mount Vernon Lisbon

8 Pella

9 ADM Adel

10 Glenwood

11 Newton

12 Clear Creek Amana

13 Waverly-Shell Rock

14 Decorah

15 Carlisle

16 Sioux Center

17 Washington

18 Gilbert

19 South Tama

20 Center Point Urbana

Class 3A Girls

RankTeam

1 Solon

2 Western Dubuque, Epworth

3 Ballard

4 Spencer

5 Gilbert

6 Harlan

7 MOC-Floyd Valley

8 North Polk, Alleman

9 Marion

10 Mount Vernon-Lisbon

11 Wahlert, Dubuque

12 Glenwood

13 Pella

14 Dallas Center-Grimes

15 Bishop Heelan, Sioux City

16 Center Point-Urbana

17 Clear Creek-Amana

18 Carlisle

19 Assumption, Davenport

20 Washington

Class 2A Boys

PositionTeam

1 Danville/New London

2 Tipton

3 Williamsburg

4 Mid-Prairie

5 Des Moines Christian

6 GCGR

7 Western Christian

8 New Hampton

9 Unity Christian

10 Waukon

11 Clear Lake

12 Monticello

13 Oelwein

14 Okoboji

15 Davis County

16 Albia

17 Denver

18 Jesup

19 Anamosa

20 Forest City

Class 2A Girls

RankTeam

1 Mid-Prairie

2 Denver

3 Monticello

4 Tipton

5 Williamsburg

6 Unity Christian

7 Jesup

8 Sibley-Ocheyden

9 Cherokee

10 Clarinda

11 Beckman

12 Albia

13 Clear Lake

14 Van Meter

15 Roland Story

16 Des Moines Christian

17 Okoboji

18 Davis County

19 Union LaPorte

20 GLR-CL

20 Dike-New Hartford

Class 1A Boys

RankTeam

1 Earlham

2 ACGC (Guthrie Center)

3 Maquoketa Valley (Delhi)

4 Valley Lutheran (Cedar Falls)

5 Central Decatur (Leon)

6 Ogden

7 Bellevue

8 St. Albert (Council Bluffs)

9 Central Springs (Manly)

10 Hudson

11 Mason City Newman

12 Regina Iowa City

13 Missouri Valley

14 Woodbine

15 St. Edmond (Fort Dodge)

16 Pella Christian

17 Columbus

18 South Winneshiek (Calmar)

19 Clayton Ridge (Guttenberg)

20 Sioux Central (Sioux Rapids)

Class 1A Girls

RankTeam

1 Logan Magnolia

2 South Winneshiek (Calmar)

3 Pekin

4 Fort Dodge St. Edmond

5 Hudson

6 Iowa City Regina

7 Sumner Fredricksburg

8 Mason City Newman

9 North Linn

10 Central Elkader

11 ACGC Guthrie Center

12 Central Decatur

13 Kee High

14 Council Bluffs St. Albert

15 South Hamilton

16 Earlham

17 Montezuma

18 Tri Center

19 Manson Northwest Webster

20 Collins Maxwell