Washington girls join boys in cross-country rankings

Washington cross-country fans appreciated Lance Sobaski’s jump in the rankings all the way to No. 5 when the individual rankings were updated Wednesday, but even more exciting was the boys team was ranked for the second consecutive week in Class 3A. A second Demon joined Sobaski in the individual Top 30 when Micah Rees was listed at No. 29. And that was still not the best news. The Washington girls team entered the rankings when the Iowa Association of Track and Field Coaches and Cross-Country Coaches released the second regular season team list Tuesday.

Washington head coach Stefanie Haworth, who placed 10th at state twice (in 1998 and 1999) running for the Demons has her alma mater’s program turning heads.

“We have never had both teams ranked at the same time before so we are pretty excited,” Haworth said. “It is still very early and we have a lot of work to do, but it is nice to see their hard work is paying off.”

The Demons won a meet last week over No. 3 (1A) Pekin and face a great test Thursday at Fairfield where Mt. Pleasant’s Abby Blint will run. Blint moved up to No. 13 from 26 in Class 3A rankings.

Danielle Hostetler continues to be the top-ranked 2A girl but there was a lot of movement behind her as teammates Mitzi Evan dropped to 12 from No. 6, Sydney Yoder is at No. 9 from 12, Jaden Yoder is 20 from 22 and Phoebe Shetler 21 from 23. The Golden Hawks are ranked first as a team, but longtime rival Williamsburg dropped to seventh from No. 2.

Danville-New London’s Ty Carr and the Bears as a team remained at No. 1 in 2A but teammates No. 3 Alexander Julian and No. 14 AJ Bonneson each dropped a spot. The girls team is ranked 16th for the second week in a row.

The Golden Hawk boys are ranked fifth in 2A. Mid-Prairie’s Thaddeus Shetler is 11th and Chandler Hershberger 29th.

Isaac Acosta of Columbus tumbled to 27 from 19 in 1A boys and the Wildcats fell to 19 from 14. In 1A girls, the Laurens of Pekin help bolster the No. 3 ranking for the Panthers team with Lauren Steigledger at 15 (13 last week) and Lauren Derscheid at 24 (28).

Sept 7 cross-country rankings

BOYS 4A

Rank Team

1 Sioux City, North

2 Dowling Catholic, WDM

3 Johnston

4 Iowa City, City High

5 Dubuque Hempstead

6 Waukee Northwest

7 Cedar Falls

8 Norwalk

9 Iowa City, West

10 Pleasant Valley

11 Urbandale

12 Iowa City, Liberty

13 Prairie, Cedar Rapids

14 Ankeny Centennial

15 Valley, WDM

16 Linn-Mar, Marion

17 Cedar Rapids Kennedy

18 Bettendorf

19 Southeast Polk

20 Ankeny

BOYS 3A

1 Dallas Center Grimes

2 North Polk

3 Marion

4 Pella

5 Glenwood

6 MOC Floyd Valley

7 Waverly-Shell Rock

8 Western Dubuque

9 Mount Vernon Lisbon

10 Carlisle

11 ADM Adel

12 Solon

13 Decorah

14 Sergeant Bluff-Luton

15 Clear Creek Amana

16 Charles City

17 Gilbert

18 Center Point Urbana

19 Washington

20 Newton

BOYS 2A

1 Danville/New London

2 Western Christian

3 Tipton

4 Williamsburg

5 Mid-Prairie

6 Des Moines Christian

7 Unity Christian

8 East Marshall

9 GCGR

10 Albia

11 Spirit Lake

12 Waukon

13 Jesup

14 Monticello

15 Davis County

16 Oelwein

17 Denver

18 Okoboji

19 New Hampton

20 GLR-CL

BOYS 1A

1 Earlham

2 ACGC (Guthrie Center)

3 Maquoketa Valley (Delhi)

4 Ogden

5 Bellevue

6 Central Decatur (Leon)

7 St. Edmond (Fort Dodge)

8 Newman (Mason City)

9 Regina (Iowa City)

10 South Winneshiek (Calmar)

11 Madrid

12 St. Albert (Council Bluffs)

13 Missouri Valley

14 Central Springs (Manly)

15 Northwest Webster (Manson)

16 Valley Lutheran (Cedar Falls)

17 Nodaway Valley (Greenfield)

18 Cascade

19 Columbus (Columbus Junction)

20 Wayne (Corydon)

GIRLS 4A

1 Dubuque Hempstead

2 Pleasant Valley

3 Valley, West Des Moines

4 Johnston

5 Ankeny

6 Ankeny Centennial

7 Des Moines Roosevelt

8 Ames

9 Southeast Polk

10 Dowling Catholic

11 Waukee

12 City High

13 Linn-Mar

14 Dubuque Senior

15 Urbandale

16 Iowa City West

17 Indianola

18 Cedar Falls

19 Waukee Northwest

20 Bettendorf

GIRLS 3A

1 Bishop Heelan

2 Solon

3 DCG

4 North Polk

5 Carlisle

6 Pella

7 Spencer

8 Western Dubuque, Epworth

9 Ballard

10 Dubuque Wahlert

11 Mount Vernon-Lisbon

12 Davenport Assumption

13 Glenwood

14 Center Point-Urbana

15 MOC-Floyd Valley

16 Harlan

17 Gilbert

18 Waverly-Shell Rock

19 Sergeant Bluff-Luton

20 Washington

GIRLS 2A

1 Mid-Prairie

2 Denver

3 Tipton

4 Jesup

5 Cherokee

6 Monticello

7 Williamsburg

8 Sibley

9 Unity Christian

10 Van Meter

11 Roland Story

12 Des Moines Christian

13 Davis County

14 Albia

15 Okoboji

16 Danville-New Lonmdon

17 Pocahontas

18 Dike-New Hartford

19 George LR-CL

20 WCKP

GIRLS 1A

1 South Winneshiek

2 Hudson

3 Pekin

4 Login Magnolia

5 Regina Iowa City

6 Newman Mason City

7 St. Edmond Fort Dodge

8 Earlham

9 North Linn

10 Sumner Fredricksburg

11 Central Elkader

12 Kee Lansing

13 Tri Center

14 Collins Maxwell

15 Marquette Bellevue

16 ACGC

17 Manson Northwest Webster

18 Baxter

19 Montezuma

20 Central Decatur