By Brandon Jones
Running Sports Coordinator
Heading into this weekend's four semistates, there are still many small and medium schools that are alive and well with hopes of advancing to the ultimate prize in high school sports...a berth in the IHSAA State Finals.
Here are the FINAL rankings of Indiana's premier small and medium school programs.
A special thank you goes out to Bob Swank of South Knox for organizing and compiling these polls all season long.
Small School Girls
1 Hebron 60 (6)
2 Carroll (Flora) 54
3 Wapahani 45
4 Eastern Hancock 39
5 Perry Central 32
6 Southern Wells 23
7 Northfield 18
8 Northeastern 16
9 Pioneer 14
10 Tri 13
Others Receiving Votes: West Central 11, Fort Wayne Canterbury 5
Five small school girls teams are still alive to run again at this weekend's semistates. Four of the five will run at New Prairie. Those four are: Hebron, Northfield, Pioneer and Carroll (Flora). The other team, Wapahani will run at New Haven
Medium School Girls
1 West Lafayette 60 (6)
2 Indianapolis Chatard 50
3 Culver Academy 49
4 West Noble 37
5 Mishawaka Marian 33
6 Concordia 32
7 Frankton 21
8 Fairfield 15
9 Crawford County 14
10 New Prairie 8
Others Receiving Votes: Union County 6, Heritage Hills 3, Gibson Southern 2
Twenty medium school girls teams are still runing this weekend. Medium schools taking sectional titles were: Culver Academy, West Lafayette, and Frankton. Four medium schools took seconds as Western, Crawford County, West Noble, and Gibson Southern were runners-up. Third place team finishes went to Southmont, Evansville Memorial, Heritage Hills, and Salem. In fourth were: New Prairie, Tell City,
Indianapolis Chatard, Andrean, Concordia, Pike Central and Brownstown. Union County and Forest Park had fifth place finishes.