By BAKER ELLIS / Sports Editor

Teams across Shelby County went a combined 5-11 in week three, and the AHSAA and AISA schools went a combined 4-10, including the Spain Park win over Thompson. The only two previously ranked teams, Oak Mountain and Calera, both were among the teams to fall. The Eagles fell to Vestavia while Calera lost to Demopolis, leaving no ranked teams across the county in the Week 3 poll.

Only three teams in the county remain undefeated after three weeks of play; Helena, Montevallo and Chelsea. Of those three, only Chelsea received a vote from the ASWA in the Week 3 poll, garnering a single vote after laying the wood on Southside-Gadsden. Oak Mountain, despite having lost its first two games of the season, still brought in five votes while Spain Park also landed one. Thompson did not receive any votes after losing to Spain Park by one point in its third game of the season.

Calera fell from eighth in the Week 2 poll to unranked after falling to a previously unranked Demopolis team. Demopolis is a talented team that hopped up to the No. 6 spot in this week’s poll after knocking off the Eagles. Calera still pulled in seven votes this week, good enough for 13^th in the state, making the Eagles the highest ranked team in the county this week. Calera’s schedule lightens up now, and the Eagles likely have not dropped out of the top 10 rankings for good this season.

Montevallo, a week after receiving votes, did not garner any this week, falling off completely although the Bulldogs pummeled a hapless Oak Grove team for their third consecutive victory to start the season.

In games played against teams outside of the county, the 11 in-county AHSAA teams are a combined 9-10 through three weeks. Cornerstone, Coosa Valley and Kingwood are a combined 0-6 to start the year for the three AISA schools.