Xavier is the only Metro team to appear in the initial Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union softball rankings that were released Wednesday.

The Saints are ranked No.7 in Class 4A.

Only one Mississippi Valley Conference school - Dubuque Senior - is ranked in the top 10 in Class 5A.

Xavier is the only other MVC school in the polls.

Pleasant Valley is ranked No.1 in 5A, Dallas Center-Grimes in 4A, Mid-Prairie in 3A, Treynor in 2A and Don Bosco in 1A.

Kennedy plays at Pleasant Valley on Saturday.

IGHSAU SOFTBALL RANKINGS
(Last year's record in parentheses)

CLASS 5A
1. Pleasant Valley (34-7), 2. Ottumwa (35-10), 3. Muscatine (34-6), 4. Ankeny (39-6), 5. Waukee (33-9), 6. WDM Dowling (27-16, 7. WDM Valley (30-8), 8. Dubuque Senior (34-7), 9. Johnston (23-14), 10. Bettendorf (28-9)

CLASS 4A
1. Dallas Center-Grimes (35-6), 2. Winterset (30-15), 3. Indianola (31-11), 4. Ballard (35-9), 5. Washington, Iowa (32-10), 6. LeMars (28-10), 7. CR Xavier (24-17), 8. West Delaware (31-11), 9. Solon (37-7), 10. Carlisle (34-9), 11. Clear Creek Amana (43-2), 12. North Scott (25-17), 13. Keokuk (25-15), 14. SC Heelan (31-9), 15. Harlan (31-10)

CLASS 3A
1. Mid-Prairie (31-13), 2. Bondurant-Farrar (37-8), 3. West Burlington Notre Dame (34-6), 4. East Marshall (32-6), 5. Davenport Assumption (24-22), 6. Sergeant Bluff-Luton (29-11), 7. Monticello (35-6), 8. Iowa Falls-Alden (26-8), 9. Center Point-Urbana (22-10), 10. Clarke (28-6), 11. Crestwood (21-8), 12. MOC-Floyd Valley (23-6), 13. Boyden-Hull/Rock Valley (23-9), 14. Interstate-35 (21-12), 15. Northeast (26-11)

CLASS 2A
1. Treynor (28-5), 2. Durant (33-6), 3. North Union (30-5), 4. Sumner-Fredericksburg (33-12), 5. Jesup (32-8), 6. Westwood (30-11), 7. Fort Dodge St. Edmond (23-10), 8. Woodbury Central (21-8), 9. Alburnett (29-13), 10. Iowa City Regina (16-21), 11. BCLUW (27-12), 12. Des Moines Christian (29-7), 13. AGWSR (26-9), 14. Emmetsburg (33-11), 15. George-Little Rock/Central Lyon (26-13)

CLASS 1A
1. Don Bosco (30-7), 2. Lisbon (28-12), 3. Newell-Fonda (35-9), 4. Martensdale-St. Marys (41-2), 5. Akron-Westfield (35-2), 6. Wayne (31-6), 7. Bellevue Marquette (22-17), 8. Twin Cedars (23-15), 9. Clarksville (19-10), 10. Charter Oak-Ute (28-14), 11. Remsen St. Mary's (26-9), 12. Janesville (21-11), 13. Sigourney (21-7), 14. Exira/Elk Horn-Kimballton (20-6), 15. New London (23-17)