Girls’ basketball: Best public-school team in Iowa City? After Liberty’s 56-51 triumph over City High, that’s still yet to be determined.
Girls’ basketball: Best public-school team in Iowa City? After Liberty’s 56-51 triumph over City High, that’s still yet to be determined.
North Linn senior guard Mason Bechen is second in the state in scoring average this season. He recently surpassed 1,500 points for his career and could wind up finishing second all-time at the school. He scored 54 points Tuesday night against Starmont to break NL’s record for points in a game, one he set earlier this season at 48.
Girls’ basketball: A quick analysis of area regional pairings in 3A, 2A and 1A.
Girls’ basketball: The Gazette’s final draft of mock brackets for 4A and 5A.
Call It Both Ways: High school basketball podcast with Gazette sportswriters Jeff Linder and Jeff Johnson talking area high school basketball.
Girls’ basketball: Regional pairings for Class 3A, 2A and 1A.
#10 Prairie routes City High 89-64 in MVC game at Prairie
City High Little Hawks clipped by Prairie Hawks 75-59, reclaims sole possession of MVC Valley Division lead
Area girls’ basketball Super Ten: Cedar Rapids Prairie stays at No. 1; the shuffle among the Iowa City teams continues.
Mason Matson hit a go-ahead 3-pointer with 1:01 left, as his Linn-Mar boys’ basketball team beat Cedar Rapids Kennedy, 67-65, Tuesday night at Kennedy. The Lions came in ranked fourth in Class 4A, and Kennedy third.
Girls’ basketball: Two toughies in two nights, and Cedar Rapids Prairie wins the first one 75-59 over Iowa City High behind 28 points from Emily Larsen.
The Iowa High School Athletic Association’s latest boys’ basketball rankings were released Monday. Four of the eight schools in the Metro are in the top 10 of their respective classes, including three in Class 4A.
Cedar Rapids Jefferson’s boys’ basketball team found itself down 21 points to Cedar Rapids Washington in the second half and 16 after three quarters. But a mammoth comeback in the fourth gave the J-Hawks a stunning 65-61 win Friday night at Wash.
Girls’ basketball: Down 16 in the second quarter, North Linn rallies past Maquoketa Valley 44-37, creating a likely Tri-Rivers West title share.
Girls’ basketball: The Gazette’s final draft of mock brackets for 1A, 2A and 3A.
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.