Rivalry Saturday: Clear Creek Amana squanders 17-point lead, then gets a late bucket from Ava Locklear and one last stop to edge North Linn, 45-44.
Rivalry Saturday: Clear Creek Amana squanders 17-point lead, then gets a late bucket from Ava Locklear and one last stop to edge North Linn, 45-44.
Rivalry Saturday: Solon edges three-time defending 2A champion Dike-New Hartford, 49-48.
Photos from Mount Vernon’s 64-59 Rivalry Saturday girls’ basketball win over Mount Vernon at Johnson Hall in Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
Photos from Marion’s 44-33 Rivalry Saturday girls’ basketball win over Linn-Mar at Johnson Hall in Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
Rivalry Saturday: Mount Vernon outlasts Maquoketa, 64-59, despite a record-tying six 3-pointers by the Cardinals’ Kendall Kuhlman.
Rivalry Saturday: Mila Van Weelden’s 4th quarter burst helps send Marion past Linn-Mar, 44-33.
Rivalry Saturday: Western Dubuque hangs close for a half, but Haylee Stokes and 3A No. 1 Estherville-Lincoln Central pull away, 52-33.
Rivalry Saturday: Double-double by Jayden Kuper helps Monticello rally past Maquoketa Valley.
Rivalry Saturday: Molly Roling’s 20 points push Cascade past Springville, 61-32.
The 19th rendition of Rivalry Saturday is, well, Saturday at Johnson Hall on the campus of Kirkwood Community College. Here are thumbnails on the eight games.
Girls’ basketball: Cedar Rapids Xavier allows nine second-half points and pulls away from Davenport Assumption in Tuesday’s season opener, 55-31.
Marion beat Dyersville Beckman 49-31 in a girls’ basketball game Monday night at Marion High School.
Cedar Rapids Jefferson shot 20 percent from the floor and committed 21 first-half turnovers, but took a fourth-quarter lead before bowing to Ames in girls’ basketball, 30-26.
Iowa high school girls’ basketball 2023-24 rankings: Johnston, Dallas Center-Grimes, Estherville ELC, Dike-New Hartford and North Linn are the IGHSAU’s preseason No. 1 teams.
Girls’ basketball 2023-24: All five starters return for speedy and experienced Solon, which reached the Class 3A state semifinals last year.
And then, fittingly, there were two still standing in 2A: Alburnett’s top-seeded Eaghan Fleshman and Solon’s second-seeded Lucas Feuerbach — until Fleshman stuck a takedown in overtime to mine gold, 4-1, Saturday night at the Iowa High School Athletic Association state wrestling meet at the Casey’s Center.
Photos from the Class 1A, 2A and 3A championship matches during the 2026 IHSAA boys’ state wrestling tournament at the Casey’s Center in Des Moines, Iowa on Saturday, February 21, 2026.
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.