See photos from the 2024 J-Hawk Invitational boys’ wrestling tournament, held Monday at Cedar Rapids Jefferson.
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See photos from the 2024 J-Hawk Invitational boys’ wrestling tournament, held Monday at Cedar Rapids Jefferson.
The Call It Both Ways podcast is snowed in for the time being, but has a few topics to discuss despite the lack of games. Those include a look at the Cedar Rapids Washington girls, Lansing Kee boys and other teams on the rise, takeaways from last Saturday’s MVC-CIML Shootout and revisiting conference realignment possibilities.
Sophomore Samantha Becker registered 23 points, 12 rebounds and four steals, and her series of fourth-quarter free throws sent the Warriors past Class 4A No. 15 Western Dubuque, 58-48, in a matchup of two teams vastly improved from a year ago.
Here is The Gazette’s first 2023-24 installment of area high school boys’ wrestling individual rankings.
The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union is likely to announce its girls’ basketball regional pairings in mid- to late January. Here is The Gazette’s first version of mock pairings ... all five classes, all 346 teams.
A vote last November in the College Community School District will likely change the high school swimming landscape in Cedar Rapids very soon.
Maurice Blue has been part of the Cedar Rapids Washington football program for around three decades as a player and coach. He became the first Black head coach in Metro history in 2017. Wednesday he said he has resigned from the position.
Cedar Rapids Washington’s boys’ basketball program graduated virtually all of its top players from last season, with this season’s team filled with very inexperienced varsity players. But those guys have formed a 5-2 record so far, including a 56-51 overtime win Tuesday night at Cedar Rapids Xavier.
Cedar Rapids Xavier junior Jack Foster was so unsatisfied with how his first season of varsity went that he devoted more time to clubs and competing in the offseason. He’s reaping the rewards now. Foster won the 126-pound title Saturday at the North Linn Lynx Invitational.
A small group of Warriors are learning life lessons as well as skills on the mat, something to build on now and in the future.
Girls’ basketball: Cedar Rapids Prairie sprints away with a 23-2 third quarter, handles Cedar Rapids Washington, 59-31.
Marion’s boys’ basketball team lost its season opener earlier this week by 49 points, but the Wolves rebounded Saturday by beating Cedar Rapids Washington, 70-61. Both teams came into the season inexperienced.
There were open weights and double forfeits. But, there wasn’t a shortage of one thing during Tuesday’s girls’ wrestling quad at Cedar Rapids Jefferson — excitement. The J-Hawks were dominant in their own gym, going 3-0 during the quad.
Women’s basketball: Iowa’s Emely Rodriguez is ‘suspended indefinitely due to a team violation of rules’
The first of two Crossover Challenge boys basketball events is January 3 at the Alliant Energy PowerHouse in downtown Cedar Rapids. Pairings were set earlier this week for the event, which consists of 14 teams playing seven games.
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