Girls’ basketball: Springville scores the first 10 points and the final 15 in a 39-28 win over Turkey Valley.
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Girls’ basketball: Springville scores the first 10 points and the final 15 in a 39-28 win over Turkey Valley.
Girls’ basketball: ‘Bomber’ Burbridge’s active hands, Grace Richter’s footwork help Wildcats lead from start to finish.
See photos as the Hawks hosted the Saints for an Iowa girls’ high school basketball game.
The North Linn boys’ basketball program has qualified for the state basketball tournament nine straight years. It made a state championship game seven consecutive years, a streak ended last season. 69.3 points per game graduated, meaning this year is a whole new team ... and a new coach, hired in early November.
Girls’ basketball: Cedar Rapids Xavier crashes the boards (plus-25), limits Cedar Rapids Prairie to 21-percent shooting and closes fast in a 51-37 MVC triumph.
Girls’ basketball notes: Who conquered the first week of the new season? Keota, for one.
Girls’ basketball: Iowa City Liberty moves to the top of the area Super Ten after wins over Southeast Polk, Maquoketa.
Clear Creek Amana lost almost all of its key players from last season’s Wamac Conference West Division championship team to graduation. But the Clippers newcomers performed well enough to topple Iowa City West, in a similar situation with a ton of newbies, 58-53, in a boys’ basketball opener Tuesday night at west.
See photos as the Iowa City West Trojans hosted the Clear Creek-Amana Clippers for an Iowa boys’ high school basketball game.
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Girls’ basketball: Kendyl Aarhus’ hot stretch (14 points in less than three minutes in the third quarter) helps push Marion past Linn-Mar, 51-43.
Cael LaFrentz was a first-team all-state boys’ basketball player last season for the Decorah Vikings. The 6-foot-10 senior center averaged nearly 30 points per game. The son of area legend and 10-year NBA player Raef LaFrentz is still growing into his body and game, which makes the future for him enticing. Not to mention this season.
Here are 15 players who should make an impact this boys’ basketball season from the Gazette area. The list includes nine guys who were all-staters last season by the Iowa Professional Sports Writers Association.
Here is a list of five boys’ basketball teams from the Gazette area that could be handfuls this season. We predict winners in each area conference as well.
Girls’ basketball: Williamsburg dominates the boards, rallies from an early 11-point deficit and surges past Cedar Rapids Xavier, 49-36.
See photos as Williamsburg hosted Xavier for an Iowa girls’ high school basketball game.
Girls basketball: Rowan Jacobi posts 44 points, 16 rebounds in her home-court finale, a 63-37 Class 1A regional-semifinal win over Lone Tree.
These wounds matter. These nicks, cuts and abrasions are fully earned. And all Mount Vernon’s top-ranked and unbeaten 157-pound senior needed to do to reveal their deeper meaning was calmly raise his forefinger to indicate there’s merely one more match to win to finally join two of his older brothers as a state champion.
Seventh-ranked Linn-Mar fell to No. 1 Waukee Northwest , 3-2, in the Class 3A girls’ state soccer championship at the Cyclone Sports Complex in Ames, Iowa Saturday, June 7, 2025.
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