Preps: Sickles, Plant top first coaches' polls

The opening Hillsborough County Coaches' Poll has been released, with Sickles leading the way in the boy’s edition and Plant on top of the girls poll.

Sickles has opened the season 5-0-2, most recently defeating Clearwater and tying Palm Harbor and Countryside at the High School Challenge held in Clearwater last week.

Plant lost in a shootout to Poll No.2 Newsome in the Lady Wildcat Invitational in the first week of the season, but has been dominant since then, defeating Wharton 6-0 and Brandon 8-0 in its last two outings.

The poll is being coordinated by Wharton High coaches Scott Ware and Dens Vukorep, with each high school coach in Hillsborough County able to submit a top 10 list. Here are the complete top 10s

Boys

1. Sickles, 5-0-2
2. Tampa Prep, 3-0-0
3. Gaither, 4-0-0
4. East Bay, 5-0-0
5. Plant City 3-0-1
6. Berkeley Prep, 4-1-0
7. King, 3-2-0
8. Newsome, 2-1-2
9. Plant, 3-1-1
10. Steinbrenner, 3-0-0

Girls

1. Plant, 7-1-0
2. Newsome, 7-0-1
3. Tampa Prep, 7-2-1
4. Bloomingdale, 3-1-0
5. Berkeley Prep, 4-3-1
6. Freedom, 5-2-1
7. East Bay, 4-1-0
8. Steinbrenner, 3-0-1
9. Gaither, 1-2-1
10. Alonso, 3-4-1