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EHS Drops Out Of Top 10, Area Teams in Others Receiving Votes Category

Published on March 4 2021 12:33 pm
Last Updated on March 4 2021 12:33 pm
Written by Millie Lange

Effingham High School dropped out of the Top 10 in the Associated Press high school boys basketball poll this week.

The Hearts were ranked ninth in Class 3A and have since lost only one game by one point to Mahomet-Seymour. They are now in the other votes category with five votes.

Effingham St. Anthony and Altamont are still listed in the others receiving votes in Class 1A. Altamont has five votes and St. Anthony four.

Cumberland and South Central dropped out of the others recieving votes.

Dropping out of the polls were the Neoga and Teutopolis girls. Neoga was ninth in the Class 1A poll but dropped down into the others receiving votes with five.

Teutopolis dropped out of the others receiving votes category in Class 2A.

By AP Sports

Here are the boys prep basketball polls for March 2, 2021, with rank, team, first-place votes, record and total points.

Class 4A

School W-L Pts Prv

1. Simeon (6) 1-0 76 1

2. Whitney Young (2) 6-0 74 2

3. Mundelein 10-1 59 4

4. Evanston 9-1 53 3

5. Glenbard West 9-0 41 5

6. Glenbrook South 11-1 34 6

(tie) Belleville East 8-0 34 T7

8. Rolling Meadows 10-0 27 T7

9. Curie 10-1 26 9

10. DeKalb 13-0 12 10

Others receiving votes: Brother Rice 1. Hersey 1. Moline 1. Barrington 1.

Class 3A

School W-L Pts Prv

1. Niles Notre Dame (9) 11-1 90 1

2. DePaul College Prep 6-1 77 2

3. Hillcrest 8-0 71 3

4. Kankakee 6-0 63 7

5. Fenwick 8-2 51 5

6. Notre Dame 10-1 45 4

7. Kenwood 5-0 28 NR

8. Rock Island 9-2 19 NR

9. St. Patrick 6-2 15 10

10. Washington 11-1 6 NR

(tie) North Lawndale 0-1 6 NR

Others receiving votes: Oak Lawn Richards 5. Effingham 5. Mount Vernon 4. Peoria Manual 2. Springfield Lanphier 2. Lincoln 1. Galesburg 1. Ottawa 1. Burlington Central 1. Centralia 1. St. Rita 1.

Class 2A

School W-L Pts Prv

1. Rockford Lutheran (2) 12-0 78 3

2. Corliss (4) 7-0 66 NR

3. Sacred Heart-Griffin 7-2 48 4

4. Clark (1) 1-1 45 T1

5. Mt. Carmel (2) 6-1 44 T1

6. Elm.Timothy Christian 9-1 43 5

7. Nashville 7-0 41 T7

8. Breese Mater Dei (1) 7-0 34 NR

9. Fairfield 8-0 30 6

10. Macomb 6-0 27 10

Others receiving votes: Breese Central 20. Deer Creek-Mackinaw 17. Eureka 13. Fieldcrest 13. Massac County 8. Tuscola 5. Hillsboro 4. Chicago Christian 3. Pinckneyville 3. Princeton 2. Carterville 2. Quincy Notre Dame 2. Marshall 1. Sterling Newman 1.

Class 1A

School W-L Pts Prv

1. Yorkville Christian (9) 6-0 107 1

2. Indian Creek (1) 11-2 78 2

3. Cobden 10-0 69 T5

4. Roanoke-Benson 11-2 52 3

5. Wethersfield 12-1 44 9

(tie) Casey-Westfield (1) 6-1 44 4

(tie) LeRoy 11-0 44 NR

8. East Dubuque 11-1 31 T7

9. Fulton 9-0 29 NR

10. Monmouth United 12-1 22 T7

Others receiving votes: Concord Triopia 21. Macon Meridian 20. Winchester-West Central 13. Okawville 9. Newark 5. Altamont 5. Leo 4. Effingham St. Anthony 4. Gilman Iroquois West 3. Steeleville 1.

GIRLS RANKINGS

Here are the girls prep basketball polls for March 2, 2021, with rank, team, first-place votes, record and total points.

Class 4A

School W-L Pts Prv

1. Hersey (6) 10-0 69 1

2. Stevenson 11-0 55 5

3. Benet 8-0 48 6

4. Edwardsville (1) 10-0 43 T9

5. Marist 6-1 42 3

6. Fremd 10-1 41 2

7. Hononegah 9-0 37 7

8. Libertyville 10-2 12 NR

(tie) Loyola 12-2 12 4

10. York 6-0 11 8

Others receiving votes: Lincoln Way West 5. Maine South 4. Bolingbrook 3. Evanston Township 1. Naperville North 1. O'Fallon 1.

Class 3A

School W-L Pts Prv

1. Simeon (5) 3-0 68 1

2. Peoria High (2) 8-0 64 2

3. Kenwood 3-0 56 3

4. Spring. S.Heart-Griffin 10-0 50 4

5. Dunlap 10-1 37 8

6. B. Civic Memorial 1 0-1 30 9

7. Burlington Central 7-1 22 5

8. Geneseo 7-2 18 NR

9. Decatur MacArthur 5-1 9 10

10. St. Ignatius 8-1 8 NR

(tie) St. Viator 6-1 8 NR

Others receiving votes: Chicago Heights Marian 6. Rock Island 2. Dixon 2. Galesburg 2. Sycamore 2. Jerseyville Jersey 1.

Class 2A

School W-L Pts Prv

1. Riverdale (7) 7-0 97 1

2. Paris (3) 10-0 92 2

3. Carterville 8-1 77 3

4. Winnebago 9-2 66 4

5. Pleasant Plains 3-1 44 5

6. Sullivan 10-1 35 8

7. Eureka 11-0 33 NR

8. Tremont 11-0 20 NR

9. Tuscola 11-2 19 6

10. Seneca 10-1 13 9

(tie) Nashville 5-0 13 7

Others receiving votes: Benton 12. Sherrard 9. Petersburg PORTA 8. Quincy Notre Dame 3. Fieldcrest 3. Massac County 3. Breese Central 2. Monmouth-Roseville 1.

Class 1A

School W-L Pts Prv

1. Amboy (7) 8-1 88 1

2. Lanark Eastland 11-1 76 2

3. Brimfield (1) 12-0 68 4

4. Aurora Christian (1) 9-0 61 3

5. Jacksonville Routt 6-0 54 5

6. Shiloh 9-1 46 6

7. Catlin Salt Fork 10-0 38 8

8. Brown County 10-0 25 NR

9. Stockton 10-0 20 10

10. Abingdon-Avon 8-2 6 7