Mallard Creek, Charlotte Catholic top preseason statewide prep football poll

Two Mecklenburg County high school football teams are ranked No. 1 in their respective classes in the Carolina Gridiron preseason statewide poll.

Carolina Gridiron released preseason polls for all four classes.

Mallard Creek, the 2017 N.C. 4AA runner-up, begins No. 1 in the 4A class. Fifteen teams are ranked in each class.

Also ranked in the 4A preseason poll are No. 4 Hough, No. 5 Butler, No. 6 Vance, No. 7 Harding, No. 8 Myers Park and No. 14 Indian Trail Porter Ridge.

In 3A, Charlotte Catholic is No. 1. Area teams ranked include No. 6 Indian Trail Sun Valley, No. 7 Kings Mountain, No. 8 Boiling Springs Crest, No. 10 Weddington and No. 12 Kannapolis Brown.

In 2A, state champ Lenoir Hibriten starts No. 1. Belmont South Point is No. 3, Shelby is No. 4, Mount Pleasant is No. 7 and East Lincoln is No. 15.

Finally, in 1A, North Stanly is the highest ranking area team at No. 4, followed by No. 5 Bessemer City, No. 10 Mount Holly Mountain Island Charter, No. 11 Mooresboro Thomas Jefferson and No. 12 North Rowan.

Carolina Gridiron will update rankings each week on its website.

4A

1. Charlotte Mallard Creek
2. Wake Forest
3. Greensboro Page
4. Cornelius Hough
5. Matthews Butler
6. Charlotte Vance
7. Charlotte Harding
8. Charlotte Myers Park
9. Wilmington Hoggard
10. Garner
11. Scotland
12. Raleigh Cardinal Gibbons
13. East Forsyth
14. Indian Trail Porter Ridge
15. Fayetteville Seventy-First

3A

1. Charlotte Catholic
2. Havelock
3. Asheville Reynolds
4. New Hanover
5. Clayton
6. Monroe Sun Valley
7. Kings Mountain
8. Boiling Springs Crest
9. Jacksonville
10. Weddington
11. Southern Nash
12. Kannapolis Brown
13. Greensboro Dudley
14. Greenville Conley
15. Southeast Guilford

2A

1. Lenoir Hibriten
2. Wallace-Rose Hill
3. Belmont South Point
4. Shelby
5. Elizabeth Northeastern
6. North Davidson
7. Mount Pleasant
8. Reidsville
9. Burnsville Mountain Heritage
10. Randleman
11. South Columbus
12. Southwest Onslow
13. East Duplin
14. Hendersonville
15. East Lincoln

1A

1. Tarboro
2. Mount Airy
3. Edenton Holmes
4. North Stanly
5. Bessemer City
6. Mitchell
7. Murphy
8. Cherokee
9. Williamston Riverside
10. Mount Holly Mountain Island
11. Mooresboro Thomas Jefferson
12. North Rowan
13. East Surry
14. East Wilkes
15. Washington County

This story was originally published August 1, 2018 at 9:19 AM.