Articles Tagged: Central City High School

Jayden Hanson’s first three interceptions of the season highlighted a seven-takeaway performance, and sixth-ranked Central City recovered from a sluggish first half to push past Lansing Kee, 52-28, in an 8-Player first-round playoff football game Friday night at the Alex Evans Athletic Complex.

Follow The Gazette’s live blog for scores and updates from Week 9 of the Iowa high school football season Friday night, the final week of the regular season for Class 5A, 4A and 3A and the first round of the playoffs for Class 2A, 1A, A and 8-Player.

It’s playoff time in Iowa high school football, at least for Class 2A, 1A, A and 8-Player. This episode of the Prep Football Huddle podcast previews the Round of 32 in those classes and looks at what’s at stake in the final week of the regular season for 5A, 4A and 3A teams.

Here are five of Wednesday’s best area Iowa high school volleyball regional-quarterfinal matches. Archrivals West Branch and Iowa City Regina collide in Class 2A, and Central City will try to move one step closer to Coralville.

The Iowa high school football postseason begins for teams in Classes 2A, 1A, A and 8-Player. The Gazette’s Jeff Linder, Jeff Johnson, K.J. Pilcher and Nathan Ford share their thoughts on teams bound for the UNI-Dome, upset-minded No. 4 seeds and the benefits of a Week 9 game for non-playoff programs.

Central City swept Springville in a Class 1A Iowa high school volleyball regional first-round match Monday night.

Prep volleyball: Five Gazette-area 1A and 2A first-round matches to watch Monday.

Here’s a look at how all the teams ranked in The Gazette’s Iowa high school football poll fared in their Week 8 games.

Sixth-ranked Central City enjoyed a coronation night, slipping and sliding in the rain, dispatching Midland, 66-18, Friday night in an 8-Player high school football game.

Here’s who all 70 teams ranked in this week’s Gazette poll face in Week 8.

Here is a primer of area playoff races as the Iowa high school football season heads into its final week in Class 2A, 1A, A and 8-Player.

This week, a handful of teams that have climbed into The Gazette’s rankings during the regular season get to test themselves against more-established top-10 teams. Here’s who all 72 teams ranked in this week’s Gazette poll face in Week 7.

A dozen of the top Gazette-area Iowa high school football games to watch in Week 7.

The Gazette’s 2023 post-Week 6 Iowa high school football poll: Cedar Rapids Kennedy, MFL MarMac make big jumps after statement wins Friday.

Iowa high school volleyball notes: There’s new blood atop the Tri-Rivers West, and Central City hosts Ed-Co on Thursday with first place at stake.