Week 4 girls basketball rankings

A new No. 1 graces the top of the Class AAAAAA poll in Archer (4-0). Norcross (5-2) slips to No. 1 after dropping 70-67 in overtime to an unranked Mays team trying to find consistency. No. 5 McEachern (1-1) picked up its first win of the season in an 80-62 beat down of rival Hillgrove. No. 8 Tucker (5-3) falls one spot after a hard fought 67-56 loss to AA No. 2 Wesleyan.

No. 4 Southwest DeKalb (5-0) goes from unranked to top five in AAAAA after a start that cant be ignored. Early wins over Osborne (77-33), Mountain View (60-56) and 6A No. 5 McEachern (74-69) set up for an already impressive resume. Add in their latest victory over defending state champion No. 7 Stephenson (4-3) 60-52 and you have enough for a top five spot. Loganville (3-3) was ranked No. 1 two weeks ago, No. 5 last week and now unranked after falling to Gainesville (3-2), 46-44.

Another new face at No. 1 sees Griffin (6-0) take over for No. 2 Buford (3-1) in Class AAAA. Buford suffered a rare loss to Morgan County 53-46, who is red hot in AAA and will have their ranking revealed below. Veterans (4-2) drops from No. 3 all the way to No. 9 in the competitive 4A field after losing 45-44 to Warner Robins. No. 8 Gilmer (6-0) picked up a win over Northwest Whitfield (4-2), who falls out of the rankings, 42-39 and No. 10 Jonesboro (4-2) re-enters the poll after a 0-3 start for Mary Persons.

Talk about a shakeup. Morgan County (5-3) has hopped all over the rankings in both boys and girls, but their latest string of games has them leaping from unranked to No. 1 in AAA. The Lady Bulldogs were looking down the barrel of a five-game losing streak, dropping three straight including losses to AA No. 2 Wesleyan and two teams from Ohio. They returned home with a daunting schedule: At former No. 1 Laney (4-1) and home against former 4A No. 1 Buford. A potential 3-5 start turned into a 5-3 record as Morgan County upset both, beating Laney 78-69 and following up with a 53-46 win over Buford. Add those two wins to a resume of beating Miller Grove by 15 and Hillgrove by nine and its more than enough to warrant the No. 1 ranking.

No. 1 Holy Innocents (6-0) and No. 2 Wesleyan (6-0) remain neck-and-neck in AA. The Golden Bears picked up wins of 62-29 over No. 10 Darlington (5-3) and 59-33 against No. 8 GAC (3-3).

In 1A-Private, No. 2 Calvary Day (5-0) made a statement by drilling former No. 4 and current No. 9 ranked Savannah Christian Day (5-3) by the score of 57-31. No. 3 Tattnall Square Academy (4-0) jumps three spots after impressive wins over No. 5 Mt. Paran (2-1), 30-28 and No. 7 ELCA (2-2), 54-51.

Major movement occurs in 1A-Public with Taylor County (3-1) losing 47-46 to Greenville. The Vikings slip to No. 3 and Greenville (3-0) goes from unranked to No. 2. No. 7 Quitman County is also off to a hot start at 5-0. They defeated No. 6 Randolph-Clay (4-1), 54-50. No. 1 Turner County (3-0) holds onto the top spot in the topsy-turvy classification.



Class AAAAAA

1. Archer

2. Norcross

3. Harrison

4. South Forsyth

5. McEachern

6. Parkview

7. Woodstock

8. Tucker

9. West Forsyth

10. Douglas County



Class AAAAA

1. Brunswick

2. Sequoyah

3. Flowery Branch

4. Southwest DeKalb

5. South Effingham

6. Grovetown

7. Stephenson

8. Cross Creek

9. Woodland-Stockbridge

10. Columbus



Class AAAA

1. Griffin

2. Buford

3. Marist

4. Americus-Sumter

5. Carrollton

6. Redan

7. Monroe

8. Gilmer

9. Veterans

10. Jonesboro



Class AAA

1. Morgan County

2. Laney

3. Dawson County

4. South Atlanta

5. Kendrick

6. Washington County

7. Peach County

8. Jackson-Atlanta

9. Ringgold

10. Beach



Class AA

1. Holy Innocents

2. Wesleyan

3. Model

4. Lovett

5. Pelham

6. Putnam County

7. Jeff Davis

8. GAC

9. Vidalia

10. Darlington



Class A-Private

1. St. Francis

2. Calvary Day

3. Tattnall Square Academy

4. Paideia

5. Mt. Paran

6. Greenforest

7. ELCA

8. Stratford Academy

9. Savannah Country Day

10. Our Lady of Mercy



Class A-Public

1. Turner County

2. Greenville

3. Taylor County

4. Dooly County

5. Terrell County

6. Randolph-Clay

7. Quitman County

8. Commerce

9. Mitchell County

10. Treutlen