The eighth-ranked North Linn boys’ basketball team got 24 points from Mason Bechen and 14 from Cole Griffith as it beat Hillcrest Academy, 65-43, in a Class 1A district final Tuesday night. The Lynx play Burlington Notre Dame in a Friday night substate final in search of a 9th straight trip to the state tournament.
Girls’ basketball: Cedar Rapids Prairie holds Iowa City West’s prolific shooters to two 3-pointers and advance to state, 61-40. It’s the Hawks’ first state appearance since 2020, and the 13th for first-year coach Bruce Dall.
Prairie Hawks defeat Iowa City West’s Women of Troy 61-40 to advance to the state tournament
Girls’ basketball: Perennial winning programs all, the Tri-Rivers trio of North Linn, Maquoketa Valley and Springville take aim at state berths Wednesday.
Mustangs advanced with first-round win over the Trojans 66-57
Senior center Josef Briesemeister and junior forward Kellen Haverback have led Mount Vernon’s boys’ basketball team offensively all season. They were just as effective in their team’s 66-57 win Monday night over Fairfield in a Class 3A substate opener
The Iowa High School Athletic Association released its final rankings Monday afternoon for Class 3A and 4A. Cedar Falls and Clear Lake are the final No. 1s.
Girls’ basketball: Metro/Iowa City is guaranteed two 5A/4A state berths, could get as many as three more. West-Prairie and City-Liberty matchups highlight Tuesday’s big-school regional finals.
The Tri-Rivers Conference has released its all-conference teams for boys’ basketball. Mason Bechen of North Linn is the West Division Player of the Year, Hakeal Powell of Clinton Prince of Peace the East Division Player of the Year.
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The Clear Creek Amana boys’ basketball team takes an 11-game win streak into its Class 3A substate opener Monday night. The Clippers have won 17 of 18 and have an 18-4 record, with three of those losses coming to good Class 4A teams. Yet they are a ‘2’ seed in their substate.
Girls’ basketball: No. 1 Mount Vernon handles Benton Community, 68-22, in a 3A regional final, returns to the state tournament as the team to beat.
University of Kansas signee Libby Fandel surpassed her own school record with 41 points Saturday night as Cedar Rapids Xavier’s girls’ basketball team beat Decorah, 86-35, in a Class 4A regional semifinal.
Girls’ basketball: Benton Community has one big upset under its belt; now No. 1 Mount Vernon awaits in a Class 3A regional final.
Girls’ basketball: Second-ranked Iowa City Regina pulls away late from Cascade in a Class 2A regional semifinal, avenge last year’s postseason loss. ‘We wanted this matchup a lot; everybody knows why.’
Cascade’s Jackson Lieurance and Iowa City Regina’s Will Litton are Players of the Year in their respective divisions of the River Valley Conference, it has been announed. Cascade’s Nate McMullen and Regina’s Paul Rundquist are division Coaches of the Year.
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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