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A season-high ten teams from the 580 Preps coverage area are ranked in the latest Kansas Volleyball Association Top 10 class rankings, published late Wednesday night.

Four Topeka teams remain ranked. Washburn Rural is down one spot to third in class 6A. Shawnee Heights and Seaman hang on to their rankings of sixth and eighth, respectively, in 5A. Hayden remains the second-ranked team in 4A.

New to the polls this week are Free State, tenth in 6A, and Holton, tenth in 4A.

Royal Valley and Wabaunsee remain the top-ranked teams in 3A and 2A, respectively. Silver Lake moved up three spots to fourth in 3A and Oskaloosa remains tenth in 2A.

The full rankings are below.

Class 6A
1. Blue Valley 20-5 (1)
2. Mill Valley 19-5 (6)
3. Washburn Rural 17-3 (2)
4. Blue Valley North 18-4 (3)
5. Garden City 19-3 (4)
6. Blue Valley Northwest 17-8 (5)
7. Gardner-Edgerton 17-7 (7)
8. Derby 21-6 (9)
9. Shawnee Mission Northwest 22-9 (NR)
10. Lawrence-Free State 17-9 (NR)

Class 5A
1. St. James Academy 23-1 (1)
2. Spring Hill 25-1 (2)
3. St. Thomas Aquinas 18-6 (3)
4. Lansing 17-4 (4)
5. Maize South 26-0 (5)
6. Shawnee Heights 15-2 (6)
7. Goddard 21-3 (7)
8. Topeka-Seaman 17-8 (8)
9. Bishop Carroll 16-4 (9)
10. Basehor-Linwood 20-4 (10)

Class 4A
1. Andale 25-1 (1)
2. Topeka-Hayden 16-9 (2)
3. Bishop Miege 8-11 (4)
4. Nickerson 20-7 (3)
5. Louisburg 17-10 (5)
6. Independence 21-2 (6)
7. Circle 16-5 (7)
8. Chapman 16-8 (8)
9. Atchison 17-7 (10)
10. Holton 17-10 (NR)

Class 3A
1. Royal Valley 23-1 (1)
2. Beloit 27-2 (2)
3. Wichita-Trinity Academy 20-3 (3)
4. Silver Lake 20-11 (7)
5. Hesston 14-4 (4)
6. Frontenac 23-3 (6)
7. Sabetha 20-5 (5)
8. Riverton 21-1 (8)
9. Thomas More Prep 25-5 (9)
10. Lyons 22-4 (10)

Class 2A
1. Wabaunsee 25-3 (1)
2. St. Mary’s-Colgan 26-2 (2)
3. Sedgwick 26-1 (4)
4. Garden Plain 18-1 (3)
5. Valley Heights 24-4 (5)
6. Smith Center 25-3 (6)
7. Belle Plaine 24-4 (7)
8. Ellinwood 22-4 (8)
9. Spearville 21-2 (9)
10. Oskaloosa 18-7 (10)

Class 1A
1. Rural Vista 25-3 (1)
2. Centralia 21-5 (2)
3. Flinthills 25-2 (4)
4. Thunder Ridge 21-2 (3)
5. Golden Plains 21-1 (6)
6. Attica 21-6 (5)
7. Beloit-St. John’s/Tipton 22-5 (7)
8. Little River 20-6 (9)
9. Chetopa 27-5 (8)
10. Lebo 19-4 (10)