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Frenship boys, No. 1 Sands girls among South Plains teams in TABC basketball preseason poll

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Sands celebrates their win against Robert Lee in the UIL State girls basketball Class 1A state championship, Saturday, March 5, 2022, at the Alamodome. Sands won, 60-33.
Sands celebrates their win against Robert Lee in the UIL State girls basketball Class 1A state championship, Saturday, March 5, 2022, at the Alamodome. Sands won, 60-33.

The Texas Association of Basketball Coaches released its preseason rankings Monday, and plenty of South Plains teams are represented.

Reigning state champion Sands is No. 1 in the Class 1A girls poll. There are four others ranked second — Lorenzo, Trinity Christian and Kingdom Prep on the boys' side and the Idalou, New Home and Trinity girls.

The two-time reigning TAPPS 4A state champion Lubbock Christian girls, who dropped to 3A, are ranked third.

BOYS

CLASS 6A — 1. Duncanville; 2. San Antonio Brennan; 3. Allen; 4. Richardson Lake Highlands; 5. Alvin Shadow Creek; 6. Dickinson; 7. Arlington Martin; 8. Austin Westlake; 9. Beaumont United; 10. Cy Falls; 11. Richardson; 12. Humble Atascocita; 13. SA Reagan; 14. Mansfield Legacy; 15. Laredo United; 16. Fort Bend Elkins; 17. San Marcos; 18. Cy Creek; 19. The Woodlands College Park; 20. North Crowley; 21. SA Warren; 22. DeSoto; 23. South Grand Prairie; 24. Pearland Dawson; 25. Frenship.

CLASS 5A — 1. Dallas Kimball; 2. FB Marshall; 3. Birdville; 4. Lancaster; 5. Killeen Ellison; 6. Boerne Champion; 7. Laredo Nixon; 8. Frisco Memorial; 9. Mansfield Summit; 10. Manvel; 11. SA Wagner; 12. Amarillo High; 13. Dallas South Oak Cliff; 14. Fort Worth Wyatt; 15. College Station A&M Consolidated; 16. Corpus Christi Flour Bluff; 17. Mansfield Timberview; 18. Lucas Lovejoy; 19. Crosby; 20. Liberty Hill; 21. Lufkin; 22. Colleyville Heritage; 23. Midlothian; 24. Leander Rouse; 25. Barbers Hill.

CLASS 4A — 1. Dallas Carter; 2. Oak Cliff Faith Family; 3. Silsbee; 4. Wichita Falls Hirschi; 5. Houston Washington; 6. Boerne; 7. Waco Connally; 8. Stafford; 9. Canyon Randall; 10. Sulphur Springs; 11. Canyon; 12. Pleasanton; 13. Jacksonville; 14. Dallas Lincoln; 15. Houston Furr; 16. Houston Yates; 17. Decatur; 18. Van Alstyne; 19. LaMarque; 20. Somerset; 21. Hereford; 22. Wilmer Hutchins; 23. Hamshire-Fannett; 24. Estacado; 25. Hardin-Jefferson.

CLASS 3A — 1. Dallas Madison; 2. Hitchcock; 3. SA Cole; 4. Brock; 5. CC London; 6. Shallowater; 7. Peaster; 8. Lorena; 9. WF City View; 10. Tatum; 11. Diboll; 12. Ponder; 13. Crockett; 14. Crystal City; 15. Mount Pleasant Chapel Hill; 16. Winnie East Chambers; 17. Mineola; 18. Franklin; 19. Holliday; 20. Lytle; 21. Nacogdoches Central Heights; 22. Hooks; 23. Childress; 24. Poth; 25. Orangefield.

CLASS 2A — 1. Clarendon; 2. Lipan; 3. La Rue La Poynor; 4. Flatonia; 5. New Home; 6. Timpson; 7. New Deal; 8. Big Sandy; 9. Martin's Mill; 10. Tolar; 11. Douglass; 12. Stockdale; 13. Hearne; 14. Beckville; 15. Seymour; 16. Frankston; 17. Sulphur Springs North Hopkins; 18. Big Lake Reagan County; 19. Port Aransas; 20. Mumford; 21. Christoval; 22. Thorndale; 23. Nocona; 24. Tenaha; 25. Wolfe City.

CLASS 1A — 1. Graford; 2. Lorenzo; 3. Mertzon Irion County; 4. Calvert; 5. Jayton; 6. Tilden McMullen County; 7. Dodd City; 8. Nazareth; 9. Slidell; 10. Clyde Eula; 11. Martinsville; 12. Texline; 13. Abbott; 14. Whitharral; 15. Perrin-Whitt; 16. San Perlita; 17. Munday; 18. Huckabay; 19. Laneville; 20. Garden City; 21. Lenorah Grady; 22. Lingleville; 23. Neches; 24. Waelder; 25. Electra.

TAPPS 6A/SPC 4A — 1. Plano Prestonwood Christian Academy; 2. Plano John Paul II; 3. Houston Christian; 4. Tomball Concordia Lutheran; 5. San Antonio Antonian Prep; 6. Houston St. Thomas Catholic; 7. Addison Trinity Christian Academy; 8. Houston St. John’s; 9. Dallas Bishop Lynch; 10. Episcopal School of Dallas.

TAPPS 5A/SPC 3A — 1. Houston Second Baptist; 2. San Antonio TMI Episcopal; 3. Austin St. Michael’s Catholic; 4. The Woodlands Christian Academy; 5. Argyle Liberty Christian; 6. Austin St. Andrew’s Episcopal; 7. Fort Worth Christian; 8. Midland Christian; 9. Grapevine Faith Christian; 10. Houston Lutheran South Academy.

TAPPS 4A — 1. Arlington Grace Prep; 2. Trinity Christian; 3. Schertz John Paul II; 4. Colleyville Covenant Christian Academy; 5. Bullard Brook Hill School; 6. Houston St. Thomas Episcopal School; 7. Austin Brentwood Christian School; 8. McKinney Christian School; 9. Austin Hill Country Christian School; 10. Fort Worth Lake Country Christian School.

TAPPS 3A — 1. Houston Westbury Christian School; 2. Houston Lutheran North; 3. Dallas Akiba Yavneh Academy; 4. Richardson North Dallas Adventist Academy; 5. Lubbock Christian; 6. Houston St. Francis Episcopal School; 7. Marble Falls Faith Academy; 8. Plano Corem Deo Academy; 9. Huntsville Alpha Omega; 10. Tomball Rosehill Christian School.

TAPPS 2A — 1. Houston Grace Christian; 2. Kingdom Prep; 3. Longview Christian; 4. Galveston O’Connell; 5. Red Oak Ovilla Christian; 6. Beaumont Legacy Christian; 7. Austin Juan Diego Catholic; 8. All Saints; 9. Bulverde Bracken Christian; 10. Garland Christian Academy.

TAPPS 1A — 1. DeSoto Canterbury Kingdom Collegiate; 2. Wichita Falls Christ Academy; 3. Irving Faustina; 4. Kingwood Covenant; 5. Cypress Covenant; 6. Fredericksburg Heritage; 7. San Angelo Cornerstone; 8. Houston Beren Academy; 9. Sherman Texoma Christian; 10. Conroe Calvary Baptist.

GIRLS

CLASS 6A — 1. DeSoto; 2. South Grand Prairie; 3. SA Clark; 4. Duncanville; 5. Humble Summer Creek; 6. Cibolo Steele; 7. Denton Braswell; 8. Houston Memorial; 9. SA Brennan; 10. SA Harlan; 11. Cedar Hill; 12. Coppell; 13. Austin High; 14. Pearland; 15. FW Boswell; 16. Alvin Shadow Creek; 17. Converse Judson; 18. Mesquite Horn; 19. Katy Seven Lakes; 20. Plano East; 21. Southlake Carroll; 22. Katy Tompkins; 23. Tomball Memorial; 24. Friendswood Clear Brook; 25. Royse City.

CLASS 5A — 1. Cedar Park; 2. Frisco Memorial; 3. McKinney North; 4. College Station; 5. Argyle; 6. Amarillo High; 7. Frisco Liberty; 8. SA Wagner; 9. Lubbock-Cooper; 10. Mansfield Timberview; 11. Pflugerville Hendrickson; 12. Monterey; 13. Frisco Lone Star; 14. CC Veterans Memorial; 15. Lake Dallas; 16. Manvel; 17. Georgetown; 18. Pflugerville; 19. El Paso Chapin; 20. Red Oak; 21. Houston Sterling; 22. Brownsville Veterans Memorial; 23. Midlothian Heritage; 24. Castroville Medina Valley; 25. New Braunfels Canyon.

CLASS 4A — 1. Brownsboro; 2. Hardin-Jefferson; 3. Fredricksburg; 4. Dallas Lincoln; 5. Boerne; 6. Canyon; 7. Levelland; 8. Sunnyvale; 9. Beeville Jones; 10. Waco La Vega; 11. Sanger; 12. Decatur; 13. Kennedale; 14. Palestine; 15. Glen Rose; 16. Stephenville; 17. Devine; 18. La Vernia; 19. Seminole; 20. La Grange; 21. Bishop; 22. Rockport-Fulton; 23. Giddings; 24. Canton; 25. Geronimo Navarro.

CLASS 3A — 1. Fairfield; 2. Idalou; 3. Winnsboro; 4. Peaster; 5. Holliday; 6. Tuscola Jim Ned; 7. Canadian; 8. Pottsboro; 9. Brock; 10. Lyford; 11. Wall; 12. Central Heights; 13. Little River Academy; 14. Lorena; 15. Shallowater; 16. Edgewood; 17. Bushland; 18. Woodville; 19. Aransas Pass; 20. Maypearl; 21. SA Cole; 22. Mount Vernon; 23. Columbus; 24. Crystal City; 25. Waskom.

CLASS 2A — 1. Gruver; 2. New Home; 3. Lipan; 4. Panhandle; 5. Martin's Mill; 6. Nocona; 7. San Saba; 8. Farwell; 9. Sudan; 10. Sundown; 11. Lovelady; 12. Stamford; 13. Mason; 14. Douglass; 15. Windthorst; 16. Weimar; 17. La Rue La Poynor; 18. Woden; 19. Harper; 20. Tenaha; 21. Schlenburg; 22. Evadale; 23. Muenster; 24. Alvord; 25. Chireno.

CLASS 1A — 1. Sands; 2. Huckabay; 3. Nazareth; 4. Neches; 5. Hermleigh; 6. Borden County; 7. Slidell; 8. Robert Lee; 9. Dodd City; 10. Moulton; 11. Roscoe Highland; 12. Jayton; 13. Veribest; 14. Westbrook; 15. Tilden McMullen County; 16. Saltillo; 17. Wells; 18. Richland Springs; 19. Lingleville; 20. Priddy; 21. Mertzon Irion County; 22. Whiteface; 23. Spur; 24. Eden; 25. D’Hanis.

TAPPS 6A/SPC 4A — 1. Houston Christian; 2. Dallas Bishop Lynch; 3. Plano John Paul 2; 4. San Antonio Antonian Prep; 5. Argyle Liberty Christian; 6. Bellaire Episcopal; 7. Prestonwood Christian; 8. Dallas Parish Episcopal; 9. Houston The Village School; 10. Houston St. Agnes Academy.

TAPPS 5A/SPC 3A — 1. Houston Second Baptist; 2. Liberty Christian Argyle; 3. Southwest Christian Fort Worth; 4. Corpus Christi IWA; 5. Tyler Grace Community; 6. Grapevine Faith Christian School; 7. Austin Hyde Park; 8. Geneva School of Boerne; 9. Midland Christian High School; 10. Houston Lutheran South.

TAPPS 4A — 1. Dallas Christian Mesquite; 2. Trinity Christian; 3. Legacy Prep The Woodlands; 4. St. Thomas Episcopal; 5. Lake County Christian Ft Worth; 6. Arlington Pantego; 7. Geneva School of Boerne; 8. Arlington Grace Prep; 9. Cypress Christian; 10. Bay Area Christian League City.

TAPPS 3A — 1. Lutheran North Houston; 2. Rosehill Tomball; 3. Lubbock Christian; 4. Denton Calvary; 5. Lutheran San Antonio; 6. Weatherford Christian; 7. Cornerstone McKinney; 8. Legacy Beaumont; 9. Castle Hills San Antonio; 10. Amarillo San Jacinto.

TAPPS 2A — 1. Shiner St. Paul; 2. Fort Worth Bethesda; 3. Halletsville Sacred Heart; 4. Kingdom Prep; 5. Red Oak Ovilla; 6. Dallas First Baptist; 7. Southcrest; 8. All Saints; 9. Bryan Allen Academy; 10. Houston Grace Christian.

TAPPS 1A — 1. San Angelo Cornerstone; 2. Edinburg Harvest Christian; 3. Cypress Covenant; 4. Wichita Falls Christ Academy; 5. Granbury Cornerstone Christian; 6. Sherman Texoma Christian; 7. Weatherford Victory Baptist; 8. Wichita Christian; 9. Conroe Calvary Baptist; 10. Athens Christian Prep.

This article originally appeared on Corpus Christi Caller Times: Texas Association of Basketball Coaches Preseason Rankings