Take a peek at this week’s Iowa high school football schedule and you might think the postseason has already started. It’s a stacked slate across the state. Here’s who all 73 teams ranked in this week’s Gazette poll face.
Plenty of teams impressed in Week 1 of the 2023 Iowa high school football season. Who stood out? We discuss our top takeaways and look ahead to Week 2 on the Prep Football Huddle podcast.
Jeff Linder, Jeff Johnson, K.J. Pilcher and Nathan Ford kick off a season of high school football questions. Read our takes on Week 1 heroes, Week 2 contests and reasonable expectations of a first-year program.
Prep football: A dozen of the top Gazette-area games to watch in Week 1.
Mount Vernon and Williamsburg are the favorites of their 3A football districts, with Independence and DeWitt Central locked in a battle in another one.
State softball tournament: Williamsburg scores four early runs,
Williamsburg beat Davenport Assumption 4-0 Friday at Rogers Sports Complex in Fort Dodge to win the 2023 Iowa high school Class 3A state softball championship.
The next 10 days will include conference battles and late tune-ups against non-conference foes in another class. Here are five notable Gazette-area Iowa high school baseball games this week.
Week 5 of the Iowa high school baseball season includes rivalries, non-conference battles and a strong field at Williamsburg’s Terry Curtis Classic. Here is a look ahead to some noteworthy contests this week.
The 2023 Iowa high school boys’ state soccer tournament kicks off Tuesday in Des Moines. To get ready for the week, let’s run through a few superlatives in each of the classes.
There are four classifications in Iowa high school boys’ soccer for the first time this season, meaning an additional eight state tournament qualifiers for a total of 32. Tuesday, the substate brackets to determine those 32 qualifiers were released by the IHSAA.
Five area Iowa high school girls’ basketball games to watch Wednesday in Class 3A regional semifinals and 5A/4A quarterfinals.
Boys’ wrestling regional duals: Mount Vernon wins the last five bouts, including a pivotal 195, and tops Davenport Assumption, 42-21, to advance to state.
Davenport Assumption swept Sioux Center to win the Class 3A state volleyball championship.
The all-tournament captain, Ava Schubert smacked 17 kills as second-ranked Davenport Assumption captured its first state volleyball championship Thursday afternoon at Xtream Arena. The Knights (33-7) swept No. 4 Sioux Center, 25-23, 25-16, 25-21.
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