GBB RANKINGS: D1 Reynoldsburg, D2 Carroll, D3 Anna, D4 Ottoville lead

By E. Shawn Aylsworth
Managing Editor

The Associated Press has released its third of seven sets of weekly AP polls for the 2011-12 Ohio high school girls basketball season. Pacing the polls are the same schools that started off the season at the top: Division I Reynoldsburg, D2 Dayton Carroll, D3 Anna, and D4 Ottoville.

The rankings from Jan. 24 (listed by rank followed by school, number of first-place votes (if applicable), record, vote total, and ranking from the last poll:

DIVISION I
1. Reynoldsburg (20) 15-0 257 1
2. Uniontown Lake (4) 14-0 219 3
3. Pickerington North 14-1 195 2
4. Middleburg Heights Midpark 12-1 126 10
5. Twinsburg (2) 11-3 124 4
6. Cincinnati Princeton 12-2 116 8
7. Lewis Center Olentangy Orange 14-1 111 9
8. Springboro 12-1 93 6
9. Canton McKinley (1) 10-3 75 5
10. Kettering Fairmont 12-3 42 NR

Others receiving 12 or more points (5): Zanesville, Sylvania Northview, Toledo Notre Dame Academy, Lewis Center Olentangy, Warren Howland

DIVISION II
1. Dayton Carroll (25) 14-0 269 1
2. Akron Manchester (2) 14-0 205 T-2
3. Clyde 14-1 176 T-2
4. Ravenna 12-0 170 4
5. Akron Archbishop Hoban 13-1 144 5
6. Shelby 12-0 129 T-7
7. Dayton Chaminade Julienne 12-2 117 6
8. Shaker Heights Hathaway Brown (1) 10-3 115 T-7
9. Lima Bath 12-2 56 10
10. Toledo Rogers 11-3 33 9

Others receiving 12 or more points (4): Beloit West Branch, Alliance Marlington, Clarksville Clinton-Massie, Plain City Jonathan Alder

DIVISION III
1. Anna (19) 15-0 265 1
2. Findlay Liberty-Benton (4) 13-0 236 2
3. Archbold (1) 15-0 194 4
4. Oak Hill 12-1 175 3
5. Middletown Madison 15-1 142 5
6. Smithville (2) 13-0 140 6
7. Georgetown 13-0 115 7
8. Columbus Africentric Early College 12-3 70 8
9. Beverly Fort Frye 12-2 62 9
10. Richwood North Union (1) 14-2 22 NR

Others receiving 12 or more points (2): Orrville, Casstown Miami East

DIVISION IV
1. Ottoville (23) 13-0 273 1
2. New Riegel (2) 12-0 223 3
3. North Lewisburg Triad (2) 13-0 193 4
4. Arcadia (1) 13-0 160 6
5. Newark Catholic 13-1 147 2
6. Waterford 12-2 112 7
7. Zanesville Bishop Rosecrans 10-2 79 10
8. Cortland Maplewood 11-2 63 5
9. Fort Recovery 10-3 44 8
10. Arlington 11-1 43 NR

Others receiving 12 or more points (7): Maria Stein Marion Local, Berlin Hiland, North Ridgeville Lake Ridge, Mansfield St. Peter's, New Knoxville, Minster, New Madison Tri-Village