Articles Tagged: Brian Wheatley

Girls’ basketball: Kamryn Kurt hit 7 of 7 from long range and crossed the 1,000-point threshold. North Linn is 12-0 after a 72-52 win over Iowa City Regina.

Girls’ basketball season reset: North Linn looks like the area’s heaviest league-title favorite, and the race of highest intrigue, again, is the Wamac West.

Girls’ basketball: 16-point lead melts to 2 in the final minutes, but North Linn holds off Vinton-Shellsburg, 63-56, at Rivalry Saturday.

Girls state basketball: North Linn edges Springville, 58-56, in a Class 1A quarterfinal.

Springville and North Linn take their Tri-Rivers rivalry to Des Moines. Their tie-breaking game is a Class 1A girls’ state basketball quarterfinal Wednesday.

Macy Boge scored 26 points, and North Linn hit 60 percent from the floor in a 62-41 Class 1A girls’ basketball regional-final win over East Buchanan.

Denver made the plays late to beat North Linn 65-64 at Rivalry Saturday.

After a severe bout with ARFID, North Linn’s Meghan Wheatley is healthy again and back to running — fast. She’ll run in the state cross country meet this week.

The IHSAA and IGHSAU will announce Tuesday morning that they will implement a shot clock in basketball in 2022-23.