Western Dubuque has won the last two Class 3A state titles. The Bobcats start the 2024 season atop the Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association preseason rankings.
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Western Dubuque has won the last two Class 3A state titles. The Bobcats start the 2024 season atop the Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association preseason rankings.
Monday was the first day of competition. The opening week includes a top-10 Class 4A meeting, a battle between defending state champion neighbors and a 3A Metro showdown.
Linn-Mar’s Morgan Rupp shot under par for the third and final round of Mississippi Valley Conference play, sweeping medalist honors for divisional play. Cedar Rapids Washington earned the team title, shooting 325 Monday at Finkbine Golf Course in Iowa City.
The Iowa high school baseball season opens competition Monday. Here are 16 Gazette area players to keep an eye on this season.
Warriors host winner of Indianola and Ankeny in semifinals Saturday
Here are five important storylines to watch in Thursday’s Iowa high school state-qualifying track and field meets concerning Gazette area teams. In each class, in each event, 24 entrants advance to next week’s state championships.
Track and field: Solon-Mount Vernon girls’ duel in the Wamac is the top area storyline as the area conference meets loom.
Drake Relays: After a three-hour delay Saturday, many of those that stuck around were rewarded.
Drake Relays (Friday boys): Cedar Rapids Prairie’s Jackson Johannes came from the inside rail to shock the field in the boys’ 400-meter dash.
Here are five things to watch in the high school portion of the Drake Relays, which runs Thursday through Saturday at Drake Stadium.
Moustafa Tiea opened the running portion of the Forwald-Coleman Relays with a record-setting relay anchor, and he closed it with an improbable comeback in the finale. He did plenty in between, too.
Iowa City High hosted its 51st annual Forwald-Coleman Relays track and field meet Thursday night at Bates Field/Raffensperger Track.
Cedar Rapids Prairie’s Kylie Wachtl posted her first hole-in-one on the No. 9 hole Wednesday at Twin Pines Golf Course in Cedar Rapids. She finished in a three-way tie for second, one shot back of Linn-Mar medalist Morgan Rupp at the CRANDIC golf meet.
Very young, inexperienced, undersized, all that combined to make Cedar Rapids Kennedy’s boys basketball team less than stellar in the early going this season. But the Cougars have figured things out despite three freshmen who are playing big roles and are on a five-game win streak after Monday night’s 72-68 win at Linn-Mar.
West Delaware has applied a team philosophy to an individual sport. The Hawks have thrived in duals and look to continue that success, hosting a Class 2A regional Tuesday in Manchester.
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