With Friday’s football schedule release by the Iowa High School Athletic Association, The Gazette is offering a one-time, 10-game, nine-week tour of the best games in our circulation area, with no stadium visited more than once.
Sixteen boys’ basketball teams, most of them from the Mississippi Valley Conference and Central Iowa Metro League, will participate in the inaugural MVC-CIML Showdown. It’s a two-date event in January, with teams playing at an undetermined site in the Des Moines area and a full day of games at the Alliant Energy PowerHouse in Cedar Rapids.
Donovan Slick-Driscoll, Tre Duffie, Dawson Dougherty and Anthony Franklin churned out the state’s second-fastest boys’ 400-meter relay thus far this season, circling the Kingston Stadium oval in 43.05 seconds Saturday at the Draxton-Stiers/Wilkinson Invitational track and field meet.
Photos from Kennedy’s annual Draxton-Stiers/Wilkinson Invitational track meet.
Here are some of the top Gazette area players and teams to watch entering the 2023 Iowa high school boys’ soccer season.
Here are some of the top Gazette area players and teams to watch entering the 2023 Iowa high school girls’ soccer season.
A fabulous 15. Here is The Gazette’s area boys’ basketball team for 2023. Colby Dolphin of Cedar Rapids Kennedy is our player of the year. Kennedy’s Jon McKowen the coach of the year.
A Gazette area watch list of top teams and individuals for the 2023 Iowa high school girls’ track and field season.
Five guards from the Metro are first-team picks on the 2023 Iowa Print Sports Writers Association all-state boys’ basketball teams. The teams were released Tuesday.
Top-ranked Cedar Rapids Kennedy lost to Pleasant Valley in a Class 4A boys’ state basketball tournament quarterfinal, 57-45.
Pleasant Valley upset No. 1 Cedar Rapids Kennedy 57-45 in a Class 4A Iowa high school boys’ state basketball quarterfinal game.
The 2023 Iowa high school boys’ state basketball tournament continues Wednesday at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines as the quarterfinals wrap up with Class 4A and the semifinals begin with Class 1A. Stay up to date with scores, stats and more here throughout the day.
Iowa boys’ state basketball tournament: A closer look at Wednesday’s games, including the Class 4A quarterfinals and Class 1A semifinals.
Hawkeyes haven’t lost to the Illini at home since 2007.
Girls basketball: 2A and 1A regional finals are Wednesday, and Iowa City Regina has
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