The Vinton-Shellsburg boys’ basketball team went 1-21 last season. It won just three games each thre two seasons before that. But despite having no seniors on the roster, these Vikings are off to a 4-0 start.
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The Vinton-Shellsburg boys’ basketball team went 1-21 last season. It won just three games each thre two seasons before that. But despite having no seniors on the roster, these Vikings are off to a 4-0 start.
Girls’ basketball notes: Heading into Friday’s Liberty-City High showdown, the three Iowa City public-school teams are 11-4, and Regina has the look of a Class 2A state-championship contender.
Area girls’ basketball Super Ten: Cedar Rapids Prairie strengthens its hold on No. 1; Williamsburg moves into the list at No. 9.
It’s believed that North Linn’s boys’ basketball team hasn’t lost a home game since 2014, a streak that was in jeopardy throughout Tuesday night’s game against Alburnett. But the Lynx rallied from 13 points back and pulled out a 54-50 victory.
The North Linn boys’ basketball team defeated Alburnett at North Linn High School in Troy Mills, Iowa on Tuesday, December 10, 2024.
Girls basketball: Ava Hocker ignites Williamsburg’s final surge in 57-54 win over West Delaware in a 3A top-10 battle. Raiders improve to 4-0.
This Linn-Mar boys’ basketball team should be one of the best teams in the Mississippi Valley Conference this season. The Lions notched a solid early season non-conference victory Saturday afternoon over Waukee, 68-60.
The Linn-Mar Lions hosted the Waukee Warriors in an Iowa high school boys’ basketball game Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024.
Cedar Rapids Jefferson head boys’ basketball coach Wes Burns has a deteriorating back issue. He’s supposed to take it easy, but he didn’t on the sideline Friday night. Jeff lost a home game to Davenport North, 68-50.
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Prairie defeated Xavier 65-51 at Xavier High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Friday, December 6, 2024.
Girls’ basketball: Keanna Worley posts 17 points, six rebounds, seven assists and four steals, and Cedar Rapids Prairie very nearly put all five starters into double figures in a 65-51 win at Cedar Rapids Xavier.
Cedar Rapids Xavier’s boys’ basketball team didn’t have its season opener until Thursday night. Most teams in the state got theirs in either Monday or Tuesday. But the late start made no matter, as the Saints beat Iowa City High, 62-49.
Girls’ basketball: Five early impressions from the first week of the season.
Girls’ basketball: Cedar Rapids Prairie rises to the top spot after opening with wins over Sioux City Heelan, Mount Vernon.
Photos from the Class 1A, 2A and 3A semifinals during the 2026 IHSAA boys’ state wrestling tournament at the Casey’s Center in Des Moines, Iowa on Friday, February 20, 2026.
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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