Western Dubuque doesn’t have its intended quarterback so far this season, but Tanner Anderson has stepped in and led the Bobcats to back-to-back comfortable victories to begin. Running back Grant Glausser and a good offensive line also have been key for Class 4A’s No. 6 team.
Here’s a look at how all the teams ranked in The Gazette’s poll fared in their Week 2 games.
Cedar Rapids Prairie beat 5A No. 3 Cedar Falls 20-17 in a Week 1 Iowa high school football game.
Quarterback Will Phillips connected with Apollo Payne for two touchdowns, including a 26-yard strike with a little more than five minutes left, and Cedar Rapids Prairie knocked off Class 5A No. 3 Cedar Falls, 20-17, in a prep football contest Friday night at John Wall Field.
Prep football: A dozen of the top Gazette-area games to watch in Week 1.
Here is The Gazette’s Iowa high school football Class 5A poll ahead of the 2023 season. Southeast Polk starts at No. 1.
Cedar Falls starting pitcher Shae Buskohl used curveball after curveball after curveball to stymie Cedar Rapids Kennedy’s offense Wednesday night in a Class 4A substate baseball final at Kennedy. Buskohl threw a two-hitter and struck out 12 in a 2-0 victory that sends his team to next week’s state tournament.
Reece Reints pitched six innings of one-run, two-hit ball out of the bullben as No. 10-ranked Cedar Falls posted a 5-3 victory over Linn-Mar in a Class 4A substate baseball semifinal game.
A record-setting rookie season in the NBA hasn’t changed AJ Green. The Cedar Falls native and former two-time Missouri Valley Conference player of the year at Northern Iowa remains as tirelessly committed to his craft and as plain spoken as he was when he was living in his hometown and playing for the Panthers.
Cedar Rapids Washington’s Kathryn Zylstra and Katelynn Kock were down from the start and could never get back into Saturday’s Class 2A state doubles final against the Cedar Falls duo of Maya Mallavarapu and Madison Sagers, falling 6-1, 7-6.
Track and field: MVC, Wamac, River Valley and Tri-Rivers will hold their track and field championships Thursday.
Jack Campbell was the best player available on the Detroit Lions’ draft board by a “good margin” when they selected him with the 18th pick.
Iowa football’s 2024 recruiting class, once in the top five after an early wave of in-state commitments, remains in the top 25 of major recruiting sites’ rankings.
The 2023 Mississippi Valley Conference girls’ track and field indoor meet was Friday at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.
Cedar Rapids Prairie hosted the Prairie Title Tournament featuring Mississippi Valley Conference girls’ wrestling teams on Saturday.
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