Photos from the 2023 edition of the Jerry Eckenrod Invitational wrestling tournament at Benton Community.
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Photos from the 2023 edition of the Jerry Eckenrod Invitational wrestling tournament at Benton Community.
With a couple of freshmen and a sophomore in the starting lineup, Cedar Rapids Prairie’s girls’ basketball team has dealt with a lot of ups and a lot of downs so far this season. Tuesday night was an ‘up,’ specifically a 58-46 win over Cedar Rapids Jefferson.
Cedar Rapids Prairie’s boys’ basketball team went into the holiday break with a 1-5 record, though it easily could have been 4-2, considering losses of one, two and three points. The Hawks found the perfect way not to lose a close game Tuesday night. It didn’t play one, blowing out Cedar Rapids Jefferson, 69-31.
The response to the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union’s first sanctioned season of wrestling has been deafening. Participation numbers have rapidly grown in the first half and many are excited about trajectory, even though officials work toward improvements.
Cedar Rapids Jefferson’s boys’ basketball team won its first two games this season, but it’s been a rougher go since then. The J-Hawks have lost three in a row, including decisively at the hands of Waterloo West on Tuesday night.
United World Wrestling World Cup was another entertaining event. We peruse a few results from the weekend in college and high school wrestling.
Girls’ basketball: Linn-Mar clicks in all areas in a 63-42 win over Cedar Rapids Jefferson. Lions rule the glass and distribute 19 assists.
Here are some Gazette area teams and bowlers to watch entering the 2022-23 Iowa high school bowling season.
For defending Class 3A state bowling champion Aiden Mitts, as enjoyable as winning last year’s individual crown was, he’d like to share the experience with his Cedar Rapids Jefferson teammates this go-around.
Grinnell’s Trista Thompson won the 2022 Iowa high school girls’ state diving championship.
Women’s basketball: After three games out with injury, Kylie Feuerbach returns, and her lockdown ability triggers a second-half comeback for No. 14 Iowa.
The Cyclones — who will be without Brown and Jackson for a while — simply couldn’t handle West Virginia’s always-tough pressure as they tumbled to their third straight loss, 83-70, Sunday before a crowd of 10,009 at Hilton Coliseum.
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