Girls state basketball: Newell-Fonda forces Springville into 36 turnovers in a 60-32 Class 1A quarterfinal.
Girls state basketball: Newell-Fonda forces Springville into 36 turnovers in a 60-32 Class 1A quarterfinal.
Girls state basketball: North Linn posts its lowest point total in a game since 2016, but the Lynx out-grind Gladbrook-Reinbeck, 33-29. The defending 1A champions move into Friday’s semifinals.
Girls state basketball: Algona Garrigan silences Montezuma’s perimeter game in a Class 1A quarterfinal. Golden Bears roll 69-31 to set up a rematch with Council Bluffs St. Albert.
Girls state basketball: One-and-done in 2022 and 2023, Iowa City Regina will make this stay an extended one. Regals battle past Maquoketa Valley, 53-47, in a Class 2A quarterfinal.
Capsules for Wednesday’s games involving area teams at the 2025 Iowa high school girls' state basketball tournament at Wells Fargo Arena.
Linn Mar Lions rally to beat West Des Moines Dowling 62-50. Lions qualify for state tournament for first time since 2012
The fifth-ranked Cougars put the clamps and pulled away from Davenport North in the second quarter, rolling to a 62-34 victory for the Class 4A Substate 6 championship Tuesday night at Kennedy. It is the Cougars fourth straight state berth.
The drought is over for the Linn-Mar boys’ basketball team. The Lions beat West Des Moines Dowling, 62-50, Tuesday night in a Class 4A substate final basketball game, qualifying for next week’s state tournament in Des Moines. Linn-Mar hasn’t been there since 2012.
Girls state basketball: Maquoketa rallies from a 16-point deficit, but Dallas Center-Grimes gets it done at the end, 49-44.
Girls state basketball: Libby Fandel’s record performance (37 points, 25 rebounds) carries Cedar Rapids Xavier past No. 1 Sioux City Heelan, 71-57, in a Class 4A quarterfinal.
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.