Dave Cantrall’s ratings: Mercer girls take top spot from Butler
Mercer County moved into the No. 1 spot in Dave Cantrall’s Rating the State for the first time this season.
Butler had held down the top spot for the first six weeks, but a 58-49 loss to Sacred Heart on Feb. 8, opened the door for the Titans.
Mercer County has won six of its last seven games. Only two of the Titans’ six losses this season have come to in-state schools — the first was to Butler, 80-55 on Jan. 7, and the second was to Male, 81-72 on Jan. 28.
Male, third in this week’s ratings, has won 13 of its last 14 games with the only loss coming to Butler, 85-57 on Jan. 28.
Franklin County, the 11th Region’s top team at seventh in the state, dropped one spot this week. The Flyers have won eight straight games.
Clark County moved up from 15th to 13th this week. Scott County is in a three-way tie for 14th.
GIRLS’ TOP 25
School | Rating | Last week |
1. Mercer County (20-6) | 87.7 | 2 |
2. Butler (25-2) | 87.2 | 1 |
3. Male (24-2) | 86.8 | 3 |
4. Sacred Heart (21-5) | 86.2 | 5 |
5. Murray (21-5) | 85.9 | 7 |
6. Elizabethtown (23-3) | 85.8 | 4 |
7. Franklin County (23-5) | 84.6 | 6 |
8. Simon Kenton (21-5) | 84.4 | 9 |
9. Manual (19-6) | 84.3 | 8 |
10. Bullitt East (23-6) | 84.2 | 10 |
11. Henderson County (23-3) | 83.1 | 13 |
12. Mercy (13-12) | 82.1 | 14 |
13. Clark County (22-4) | 81.0 | t15 |
14. Monroe County (25-2) | 80.8 | t15 |
14. Eastern (17-8) | 80.8 | 18 |
14. Scott County (16-9) | 80.8 | t15 |
17. Holmes (21-4) | 80.6 | 11 |
17. East Carter (19-7) | 80.6 | 21 |
19. Mason County (18-7) | 80.5 | 12 |
20. Conner (22-6) | 79.9 | 20 |
21. Highlands (19-7) | 79.2 | 25 |
22. Nelson County (24-2) | 78.6 | 23 |
23. Cooper (19-5) | 78.2 | 22 |
24. Boyd County (19-8) | 77.8 | NR |
25. Harlan County (24-2) | 77.7 | 19 |
GIRLS’ RATINGS BY REGION
1ST REGION | |
1. Murray | 85.9 |
2. Marshall County | 73.6 |
3. Graves County | 73.4 |
4. Calloway County | 66.1 |
5. Carlisle County | 55.2 |
6. McCracken County | 50.1 |
7. Mayfield | 43.5 |
8. Paducah Tilghman | 36.6 |
9. Fulton County | 33.9 |
10. Ballard Memorial | 33.7 |
11. St. Mary | 29.4 |
12. Fulton City | 25.7 |
13. Hickman County | 22.3 |
14. Community Christian | 0.3 |
2ND REGION | |
1. Henderson County | 83.1 |
2. Hopkinsville | 73.8 |
3. Webster County | 70.7 |
4. Christian County | 66.9 |
5. Madisonville | 64.2 |
6. Crittenden County | 57.4 |
7. Hopkins Central | 51.0 |
8. Lyon County | 47.6 |
9. Union County | 47.3 |
10. Caldwell County | 47.1 |
11. Livingston Central | 46.7 |
12. University Heights | 44.3 |
13. Dawson Springs | 30.6 |
14. Trigg County | 26.6 |
15. Fort Campbell | 20.7 |
3RD REGION | |
1. Apollo | 71.0 |
2. Grayson County | 70.6 |
3. Owensboro Catholic | 68.5 |
4. Breckinridge County | 66.2 |
5. Edmonson County | 66.1 |
6. Muhlenberg County | 64.4 |
7. Daviess County | 62.6 |
8. Meade County | 59.9 |
9. McLean County | 57.0 |
10. Butler County | 48.3 |
11. Owensboro | 47.9 |
12. Hancock County | 41.1 |
13. Whitesville Trinity | 33.7 |
14. Ohio County | 28.5 |
15. Cloverport | 14.4 |
4TH REGION | |
1. Monroe County | 80.8 |
2. South Warren | 76.3 |
3. Bowling Green | 74.6 |
4. Russell County | 73.0 |
5. Glasgow | 66.5 |
6. Barren County | 65.4 |
7. Greenwood | 63.6 |
8. Allen County | 62.7 |
9. Metcalfe County | 58.6 |
10. Franklin-Simpson | 57.3 |
11. Warren Central | 54.6 |
12. Logan County | 48.3 |
13. Cumberland County | 44.1 |
14. Clinton County | 43.8 |
15. Warren East | 41.6 |
16. Russellville | 36.9 |
17. Todd Central | 36.2 |
5TH REGION | |
1. Elizabethtown | 85.8 |
2. Nelson County | 78.6 |
3. John Hardin | 75.3 |
4. Green County | 71.5 |
5. Bardstown | 64.5 |
6. Marion County | 63.3 |
7. LaRue County | 55.0 |
8. Central Hardin | 53.5 |
9. Taylor County | 53.2 |
10. North Hardin | 51.5 |
11. Campbellsville | 48.7 |
12. Hart County | 45.3 |
13. Thomas Nelson | 44.6 |
14. Bethlehem | 42.6 |
15. Adair County | 42.2 |
16. Caverna | 38.2 |
17. Washington County | 26.4 |
18. Fort Knox | 7.0 |
6TH REGION | |
1. Butler | 87.2 |
2. Bullitt East | 84.2 |
3. Mercy | 82.1 |
4. North Bullitt | 71.0 |
5. Fern Creek | 60.9 |
6. Lou. Holy Cross | 54.4 |
7. Pleasure Ridge Park | 52.7 |
8. Fairdale | 49.2 |
9. Moore | 47.7 |
10. Doss | 38.2 |
11. Bullitt Central | 36.0 |
12. Valley | 33.8 |
13. Western | 29.5 |
14. Jeffersontown | 28.5 |
15. Southern | 28.1 |
16. Whitefield Academy | 22.1 |
17. Beth Haven | 5.7 |
18. Iroquois | 0.1 |
7TH REGION | |
1. Male | 86.8 |
2. Sacred Heart | 86.2 |
3. Manual | 84.3 |
4. Eastern | 80.8 |
5. Louisville Christian | 73.3 |
6. Assumption | 63.4 |
7. Central | 59.1 |
8. Presentation | 57.6 |
9. Ballard | 47.2 |
10. Shawnee | 44.2 |
11. Atherton | 34.0 |
11. Brown | 34.0 |
13. Country Day | 26.2 |
14. Waggener | 24.6 |
15. Seneca | 22.3 |
16. Collegiate | 17.9 |
17. St. Francis | 16.7 |
18. Portland Christian | 0.1 |
8TH REGION | |
1. Simon Kenton | 84.4 |
2. Anderson County | 77.4 |
3. Trimble County | 68.7 |
4. Collins | 63.5 |
5. Walton-Verona | 60.7 |
6. Owen County | 59.9 |
7. Spencer County | 59.4 |
8. Grant County | 59.0 |
9. South Oldham | 58.7 |
10. Shelby County | 58.1 |
11. Oldham County | 55.5 |
12. Williamstown | 48.4 |
13. Gallatin County | 45.2 |
14. Carroll County | 45.1 |
15. North Oldham | 37.8 |
16. Henry County | 30.3 |
17. Eminence | 28.9 |
9TH REGION | |
1. Holmes | 80.6 |
2. Conner | 79.9 |
3. Highlands | 79.2 |
4. Cooper | 78.2 |
5. Ryle | 75.8 |
6. Cov. Holy Cross | 70.1 |
7. St. Henry | 67.1 |
8. Dixie Heights | 66.7 |
9. Boone County | 62.7 |
9. Notre Dame | 62.7 |
11. Newport Catholic | 61.7 |
12. Lloyd | 53.8 |
13. Beechwood | 53.1 |
14. Dayton | 49.4 |
15. Ludlow | 44.2 |
16. Newport | 41.6 |
17. Bellevue | 38.4 |
18. Villa Madonna | 22.5 |
19. Latin | 13.4 |
10TH REGION | |
1. Clark County | 81.0 |
2. Mason County | 80.5 |
3. Campbell County | 76.7 |
3. Scott | 76.7 |
5. Nicholas County | 64.2 |
6. Bourbon County | 56.1 |
7. Bishop Brossart | 55.5 |
8. Bracken County | 48.9 |
9. Harrison County | 44.1 |
10. Paris | 39.7 |
11. Montgomery County | 34.9 |
12. Pendleton County | 28.9 |
13. Robertson County | 28.6 |
14. Augusta | 21.7 |
15. Calvary Christian | 21.1 |
16. St. Patrick | 16.0 |
17. Silver Grove | 0.1 |
11TH REGION | |
1. Franklin County | 84.6 |
2. Scott County | 80.8 |
3. Lafayette | 73.4 |
4. Madison Central | 73.2 |
5. Paul Dunbar | 71.7 |
6. Henry Clay | 67.9 |
7. Bryan Station | 63.5 |
8. Lexington Catholic | 55.5 |
9. Sayre | 54.3 |
10. Western Hills | 51.7 |
11. Madison Southern | 50.3 |
12. Woodford County | 49.9 |
13. Lexington Christian | 43.1 |
14. Frankfort | 42.2 |
15. Berea | 41.7 |
16. Tates Creek | 41.2 |
17. Model | 39.4 |
12TH REGION | |
1. Mercer County | 87.7 |
2. Lincoln County | 73.8 |
3. Southwestern | 72.8 |
4. Pulaski County | 70.4 |
5. Danville | 70.2 |
6. Boyle County | 67.5 |
7. Casey County | 65.8 |
8. Wayne County | 65.4 |
9. Rockcastle County | 64.1 |
10. Garrard County | 63.7 |
11. Somerset | 60.3 |
12. West Jessamine | 56.1 |
13. McCreary Central | 36.8 |
14. East Jessamine | 35.1 |
15. Burgin | 1.2 |
16. Ky. School for Deaf | 0.1 |
13TH REGION | |
1. Harlan County | 77.7 |
2. Harlan | 68.6 |
3. South Laurel | 68.5 |
4. Clay County | 63.5 |
5. North Laurel | 62.4 |
6. Whitley County | 58.0 |
7. Corbin | 57.0 |
8. Pineville | 48.3 |
9. Knox Central | 47.7 |
10. Bell County | 46.9 |
11. Lynn Camp | 46.8 |
12. Williamsburg | 46.5 |
13. Jackson County | 41.0 |
14. Barbourville | 37.9 |
15. Middlesboro | 35.3 |
16. Oneida Baptist | 22.0 |
17. Red Bird | 10.1 |
14TH REGION | |
1. Leslie County | 68.2 |
2. Knott Central | 67.4 |
3. Perry Central | 66.0 |
4. Hazard | 57.0 |
5. Letcher Central | 56.4 |
6. Lee County | 55.8 |
7. Estill County | 52.3 |
8. Breathitt County | 49.2 |
9. Powell County | 45.6 |
10. Owsley County | 43.1 |
11. Wolfe County | 39.8 |
12. Jenkins | 29.6 |
13. Jackson City | 28.4 |
14. Buckhorn | 27.1 |
15. June Buchanan | 19.4 |
16. Riverside Christian | 14.6 |
17. Cordia | 1.1 |
15TH REGION | |
1. Paintsville | 70.9 |
2. Johnson Central | 70.7 |
3. Shelby Valley | 69.9 |
4. Pikeville | 64.1 |
5. Pike Central | 56.3 |
6. South Floyd | 53.9 |
7. Belfry | 53.6 |
8. East Ridge | 50.3 |
9. Sheldon Clark | 47.2 |
10. Magoffin County | 46.9 |
11. Prestonsburg | 45.4 |
12. Betsy Layne | 39.9 |
13. Lawrence County | 38.4 |
14. Phelps | 29.8 |
15. Allen Central | 21.5 |
16. Piarist | 2.2 |
16TH REGION | |
1. East Carter | 80.6 |
2. Boyd County | 77.8 |
3. Russell | 74.3 |
4. Fleming County | 59.6 |
5. Ashland Blazer | 59.1 |
6. Lewis County | 59.0 |
7. Menifee County | 55.7 |
8. Rowan County | 54.2 |
9. West Carter | 53.4 |
10. Greenup County | 50.0 |
11. Morgan County | 42.2 |
12. Bath County | 39.4 |
13. Raceland | 35.1 |
14. Fairview | 31.8 |
15. Elliott County | 28.1 |
16. Rose Hill Christian | 7.5 |
This story was originally published February 12, 2017 at 6:39 PM with the headline "Dave Cantrall’s ratings: Mercer girls take top spot from Butler."