By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
Silver Lake's girls basketball team moved up to the No. 1 spot in the Class 3A state rankings, pacing six Shawnee County basketball teams in the latest rankings released Tuesday by the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association.
Silver Lake, 12-1 on the season, moved up from the No. 2 spot to take over the top ranking in 3A.
Topeka West, which has won 12 straight games to improve to 13-1, remained No. 2 in the 5A boys rankings while Highland Park (12-2) is No. 4.
Topeka High's girls moved up to No. 2 in 6A while Washburn Rural moved up to No. 3 spot after earning wins over last week's No. 3 team, Derby, and then-No. 1 Shawnee Mission West.
Topeka High is 13-0 while Rural is 12-1.
Seaman moved up to the No. 9 spot in the 5A girls rankings.
KANSAS BASKETBALL COACHES ASSOCIATION STATE RANKINGS
GIRLS
Class 6A
1. Olathe North; 2. Topeka High; 3. Washburn Rural; 4. Shawnee Mission West; 5. Blue Valley; 6. Derby; 7. Shawnee Mission Northwest; 8. Dodge City; 9. Liberal; 10. Blue Valley Northwest.
Class 5A
1. Salina Central; 2. St. Thomas Aquinas; 3. Emporia; 4. Andover Central; 5. Goddard; 6. Bishop Carroll; 7. Lansing; 8. Spring Hill; 9. Seaman; 10. Mill Valley.
Class 4A
1. Wellington; 2. Bishop Miege; 3. Eudora; 4. Wamego; 5. Labette County; 6. Rock Creek; 7. Andale; 8. McPherson; 9. Clearwater; 10. Fort Scott.
Class 3A
1. Silver Lake; 2. Hugoton; 3. Cheney; 4.Nickerson; 5. Eureka; 6. Hiawatha; 7. Goodland; 8. Southeast-Saline; 9. TMP-Marian; 10. Smoky Valley.
Class 2A
1. Sterling; 2. Valley Heights; 3. St. Mary's Colgan; 4. Berean Academy; 5. Elkhart; 6. Jackson Heights; 7. Smith Center; 8. Garden Plain; 9. Uniontown; 10. Ell-Saline.
Class 1A-Division I
1. Hodgeman County; 2. Centralia; 3. St. Paul; 4. Little River; 5. Norwich; 6. Osborne; 7. Pretty Prairie; 8. Burlingqme; 9. South Central; 10. Doniphan West.
Class 1A-Division II
1. Central Plains; 2. Lebo; 3. Golden Plains; 4. Hanover; 5. Central Christian; 6. South Haven; 7. Attica; 8. Ashland; 9. St. John's-Tipton; 10. Wheatland-Grinnell.
BOYS
Class 6A
1. Free State; 2. Blue Valley Northwest; 3. Wichita Heights; 4. Dodge City; 5. Blue Valley West; 6. Shawnee Mission South; 7. Shawnee Mission Northwest; 8. Wichita Northwest; 9. Lawrence; 10. Junction City.
Class 5A
1.Kapaun Mt. Carmel; 2. Topeka West; 3. Hays; 4. Highland Park; 5. Andover Central; 6. Andover; 7. Basehor-Linwood; 8. De Soto; 9. St. James Academy; 10. Blue Valley Southwest.
Class 4A
1. Bishop Miege; 2. Eudora; 3. Buhler; 4. McPherson; 5. Paola; 6. Andale; 7. Abilene; 8. Pratt; 9. Circle; 10. Tonganoxie.
Class 3A
1. Royal Valley; 2. Cheney; 3. Hesston; 4. Galena and Nemaha Central; 6. Wichita Collegiate; 7. Holcomb; 8. Osage City; 9. Frontenac; 10. Hugoton.
Class 2A
1. Hillsboro; 2. St. Marys; 3. Valley Falls; 4. Wabaunsee; 5. Lyndon; 6. Ellinwood; 7. Inman; 8. Trego Community; 9. Moundridge; 10. Erie.
Class 1A-Division I
1. Olpe; 2. South Gray; 3. Norwich; 4. Osborne; 5. Solomon; 6. Macksville; 7. Hodgeman County; 8. Wichita Classical; 9. Centralia; 10. Burlingame.
Class 1A-Division II
1. Hanover; 2. Northern Valley; 3. Elyria Chriistian; 4. Greeley County; 5. Bucklin; 6. Dighton; 7. Lebo; 8. Waverly; 9. Wheatland-Grinnell; 10. Logan-Palco.
