The Xavier Saints climbed one spot from No.3 to No.2 in the Class 4A girls basketball rankings, the IGHSAU announced Thursday.

The Kennedy Cougars climbed two notches from No.9 to No.7 in Class 5A.

Xavier hosts Dubuque Hempstead Friday night. Kennedy visits third-ranked Waterloo West Friday night.

The top-ranked teams this week are Dowling Catholic in 5A, Harlan in 4A, MOC-Floyd Valley in 3A, Western Christian in 2A and Newell-Fonda in 1A.

CLASS 5A
1. Dowling Catholic (3-0), 2. Iowa City High (6-0), 3. Waterloo West (5-0), 4. West Des Moines Valley (4-0), 5. Des Moines East (4-1), 6. Ankeny Centennial (3-0), 7. Kennedy (5-0), 8. Ames (5-0), 9. Waukee (3-0), 10. Southeast Polk (3-2).

CLASS 4A
1. Harlan (2-0), 2. Xavier (4-1), 3. Sioux City Heelan (2-0), 4. Perry (4-0), 5. Lewis Central (4-1), 6. Ballard (5-1), 7. Western Dubuque (4-0), 8. Dallas Center-Grimes (3-1), 9. Davenport Assumption (1-3), 10. North Scott (2-2), 11. Mount Pleasant (2-2), 12. Waverly-Shell Rock (2-1), 13. Boone (4-1), 14. Winterset (3-1), 15. Pella (3-0).

CLASS 3A
1. MOC-Floyd Valley (4-0), 2. Bondurant-Farrar (5-0), 3. Red Oak (2-0), 4. Williamsburg (6-0), 5. Mediapolis (4-0), 6. Nevada (4-1), 7. Clear Lake (3-1), 8. Unity Christian (3-0), 9. Mount Vernon (3-2), 10. Center Point-Urbana (2-2), 11. Carroll Kuemper (4-0), 12. North Polk (4-1), 13. Crestwood (4-1), 14. Oelwein (4-0), 15. Spirit Lake (2-1).

CLASS 2A
1. Western Christian (4-0), 2. Iowa City Regina (4-0), 3. Manson-NW Webster (4-0), 4. Cascade (3-0), 5. Hudson (5-0), 6. Fort Dodge St. Edmond (3-0), 7. Hinton (5-0), 8. North Linn (4-0), 9. Dike-New Hartford (4-0), 10. North Butler (3-0), 11. South Central Calhoun (4-0), 12. Iowa Valley (4-0), 13. West Fork (4-0), 14. Maple Valley-Anthon-Oto (4-0), 15. Des Moines Christian (4-2).

CLASS 1A
1. Newell-Fonda (3-0), 2. Burlington Notre Dame (5-0), 3. Colo-Nesco (5-0), 4. Lynnville-Sully (5-0), 5. Murray (4-0), 6. Stanton (5-0), 7. Dunkerton (5-0), 8. Janesville (2-1), 9. Paton-Churdan (3-0), 10. Exira-Elk Horn/Kimballton (3-1), 11. Ar-We-Va (2-1), 12. Northwood-Kensett (4-1), 13. English Valleys (3-2), 14. LeMars Gehlen Catholic (3-0), 15. Midland (4-0).