CLEVELAND, Ohio – Berea-Midpark recorded three wins including one against Magnifcat to climb ahead in the girls basketball cleveland.com Top 25 this week.
In the same week, a handful of ranked teams dropped a pair of games each such as Mentor, Magnifcat and Westlake.
See what other teams moved in this week’s Top 25. Check back on Tuesdays unless otherwise stated for the weekly rankings.
Records as of Feb. 6 at 8 a.m. The next edition will have updates from Monday games.
1, Solon (16-2)
Last week: Ranked No. 1, beat then-No. 24 Shaker Heights 73-49 and Brunswick 64-38
This week: Wednesday vs. Magnificat, Saturday at Strongsville
2, Gilmour (15-4)
Last week: Ranked No. 2, beat then-No. 15 Laurel 73-42
This week: Wednesday at No. 13 Hathaway Brown, Saturday vs. John Hay
3, Stow (17-2)
Last week: Ranked No. 3, beat then-No. 7 Mentor 43-36, Cuyahoga Falls 51-35 and Kent Roosevelt 54-33
This week: Wednesday vs. Brecksville, Saturday at St. Vincent St. Mary
4, Twinsburg (14-5)
Last week: Ranked No. 4, beat Hudson 67-30 and St. Vincent-St. Mary 60-49
This week: Monday vs. Shaker Heights, Wednesday at Nordonia
5, St. Joseph Academy (15-3)
Last week: Ranked No. 5, beat North Royalton 53-49
This week: Wednesday vs. No. 20 Padua, Friday vs. East Tech, Monday at Avon
6, Berea-Midpark (18-1)
Last week: Ranked No. 9, beat then-No. 12 Amherst 69-60, then-No. 6 Magnificat 61-49 and Midview 78-30.
This week: Wednesday at Olmsted Falls, Saturday vs. Avon Lake
7, Magnificat (9-10)
Last week: Ranked No. 6, lost to then-No. 9 Berea-Midpark 61-49 and Villa Maria (Pa.) 50-32
This week: Wednesday at No. 1 Solon, Saturday at Whitmer
8, Elyria Catholic (17-2)
Last week: Ranked No. 8, beat St. Vincent-St. Mary 69-66 OT and Rocky River 36-28
This week: Wednesday at No. 18 Bay, Saturday at Massillon, Monday vs. Valley Forge
9, Mentor (13-6)
Last week: Ranked No. 7, lost to then-No. 3 Stow 43-36, Euclid 41-40, and beat then-No. 25 Strongsville 56-51
This week: Tuesday at No. 16 Chardon, Saturday at Elyria
10, Brush (18-3)
Last week: Ranked No. 10, lost to Maple Heights 50-46, then-No. 17 Eastlake North 66-48
This week: Wednesday vs. Madison
Rest of the Top 25: 11. Archbishop Hoban (13-7), 12. Amherst (15-4), 13. Hathaway Brown (11-9), 14. Wadsworth (9-10), 15. Laurel (17-3), 16. Chardon (14-4), 17. Eastlake North (16-3), 18. Bay (15-5), 19. Southeast (15-3), 20. Padua (15-3), 21. Garrettsville Garfield (16-4), 22. Revere (12-6), 23. Euclid (10-7), 24. Perry (18-1), 25. Maple Heights (15-5)
Dropped out: Westlake, Shaker Heights and Strongsville
On the bubble: Medina (7-12), Westlake (11-9), Shaker Heights (9-9), Strongsville (10-9), Lake Ridge (11-7), Lakewood (13-7), Norton (15-4), Brunswick (5-15), East Tech (14-6), John Hay (14-2).
Closing: Berea-Midpark moves up three spots after three wins last week against Magnificat, and conference opponents Midview and Amherst. The move pushes down Magnificat and Mentor after their share of losses.
In other notable moves, Brush remains at No. 10 despite two losses in the past week to Maple Heights and Western Reserve Conference opponent Eastlake North.
Maple Heights, who also beat Eastlake North and strung together some key wins in late January, jumps off the bubble to the No. 25 spot. As for Eastlake North, the Rangers still trail Brush in the conference standings and gave up a game to Chardon last week.
Hathaway Brown jumped ahead of Wadsworth after erasing the Grizzlies’ nine-point lead on Saturday and Revere drops a spot after a 47-28 road loss to non-ranked Nordonia.
View on YouTubeEuclid and Perry join the rankings after the fall of Westlake, Shaker Heights, and Strongsville. The Euclid Panthers defeated Medina and (44-36) and Mentor (41-40) to climb ahead of Strongsville and Shaker Heights in the conference rankings.
Last week ended with Westlake dropping its fifth straight game followed by Strongsville with its third and second for Shaker Heights.
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TEAM CONFERENCE OVERALL Solon 13-0 16-2 Mentor 9-3 13-6 Euclid 7-5 10-7 Shaker Heights 6-6 9-10 Strongsville 5-7 10-9 Medina 5-7 7-12 Brunswick 3-10 5-15 Elyria 1-12 3-17Our editors found this article on this site using Google and regenerated it for our readers.
