CarolinaPreps.com Top 25 - Week 12

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By Chris Hughes
CarolinaPreps.com

SANFORD - Here are the results for the Week 12 CarolinaPreps.com Top-25 Media Poll.  Thanks again as always for voting.

Once again the top six spots remain the same. Butler received 17 of the 22 first-place votes to stay in first place in front of arch-rival Independence. The  two rivals will play each other this Friday at Independence High School in Charlotte.

Moving up into the top 10 is Dudley after defeating rival Page last Friday. The Panthers have been on a steady climb thorough the rankings after an early non-conference loss to the third place team Ragsdale.

Two other teams on the move come from the Triangle region. Both Harnett Central and Wake Forest-Rolesville are 10-0 and have locked up conference championships.  Harnett Central defeated Southeast Raleigh, a previous top-10 team 36-22, while Wake Forest-Rolesville defeated Raleigh Millbrook 48-0.

Two teams that dropped in the rankings were Greensboro Page and West Forsyth. Page was previously ranked 11^th but dropped to 20^th after losing to Dudley 18-15 while West Forsyth dropped to 22^nd after a 14-9 loss to 10^th ranked R.J. Reynolds.

The rankings did have two additions with Newton-Conover and Kannapolis Brown joining the rankings. Both teams are 9-1 and both look to return to the state finals once again this year. 

Falling from the rankings is Fayetteville Westover and Southern Pines Pinecrest. 

Several other teams keep moving up in the votes received category and are just on the outside looking in.  Monroe and Belmont South Point both missed the top-25 by six points and Apex Middle Creek, South Rowan, and South Johnston were also very close to breaking through into the rankings for the first time.

1. Matthews Butler (9-0) (17) 545
2. Charlotte Independence (10-0) (5) 533
3. Jamestown Ragsdale (10-0) 502
4. Richmond County (9-1) 462
5. Fayetteville Britt (10-0) 455
6. West Rowan (10-0) 421
7. Reidsville (10-0) 401
8. Greensboro Dudley (9-1) 385
9. Mallard Creek (9-1) 369
10. Winston-Salem Reynolds (10-0) 358
11. Harnett Central (10-0) 330
12. Wake Forest-Rolesville (10-0) 294
13. Hertford County (10-0) 267
14. Northern Guilford (9-1) 244
15. SW Edgecombe (11-0) 202
16. Asheville (8-0-1) 185
17. Lenoir Hibriten (10-0) 166
18. Southern Durham (10-1) 145
19. Alexander Central (10-0) 125
20. Greensboro Page (8-2) 114
21. Tarboro (9-1) 96
22. West Forsyth (9-1) 77
23. Newton-Conover (9-1) 62
24. Kannapolis Brown (9-1) 51
25. Eastern Alamance (9-1) 40

Others Receiving Votes:

Belmont South Point 34, Monroe 34, Apex Middle Creek 30, South Rowan 28, South Johnston 27, Waynesville Tuscola 23, SW Onslow 23, Fayetteville Terry Sanford 22, East Bladen 20, Hope Mills Gray's Creek 20, Albemarle 15, Mt. Airy 12, Charlotte Providence 8, East Duplin 8, Kinston 5, Charlotte Olympic 3, Shelby 2, Havelock 2, Marshville Forest Hills 2, Fayetteville Westover 1, Fayetteville Byrd 1