Tyler Hilton has improved so much since a year ago. The 6-foot-8 Linn-Mar senior boys’ basketball player is averaging 25 points in his team’s first three games this season and had a mammoth 26-point, 23-rebound game Friday night as his Lions beat Cedar Rapids Prairie, 67-59, at Linn-Mar.
Girls’ basketball: Savanna Wright scores all seven in overtime for Mount Vernon, and the Mustangs rally past Williamsburg, 40-38.
After a successful 17-year stint as Center Point-Urbana girls’ basketball coach, Philip Klett has taken over the school’s boys’ basketball program. The Stormin’ Pointers are off to a 3-0 start.
Girls’ basketball notes: With some basketball-first youngsters, Independence is off to a 3-0 start and appears ready to compete in the Wamac Conference East Division.
Girls’ basketball: Another change at the top ... Clear Creek Amana and Williamsburg are 1 and 2.
Cedar Falls forced back-to-back turnovers in the final 40 seconds to lock down a 69-65 win over Linn-Mar in a wonderful boys’ basketball game Monday night at Linn-Mar.
Photos from Rivalry Saturday XXI girls’ basketball Mount Vernon vs. Iowa City West Saturday, December 6, 2025
Girls’ basketball: Grace Fincham reaches the 1,000-point mark for her career, and Iowa City West sets a Rivalry Saturday record with 12 3-pointers in a 48-37 win over Mount Vernon.
Photos from Williamsburg vs. Iowa City Liberty girls’ basketball during Rivalry Saturday XXI Saturday, December 6, 2025
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Girls’ basketball: Zoe Allen’s basket with 11 seconds left proves to be the game-winner, and Williamsburg outlasts Iowa City Liberty, 43-41.
Cedar Rapids Washington’s boys’ basketball team starts four sophomores and a junior. Four freshmen were starters most of last season. The Warriors say they are older, better and more cohesive overall, proof coming Saturday with a 68-54 win over Iowa City West.
Girls’ basketball: Notre Dame signee Jenica Lewis scores 19; Johnston pushes win streak to 56.
See photos from the 21st edition of Iowa girls’ basketball Rivalry Saturday.
Girls’ basketball: Ellah Wagenbach’s sixth 3-pointer, a banker with 1:12 left, puts the Bullettes ahead for good.
See photos from the 21st edition of Iowa girls’ basketball Rivalry Saturday.
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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