For No. 6 Central City, the harsh realities of football came to light in Friday night's game with No. 7 Gladbrook-Reinbeck. The Wildcats lost one of their most versatile players in last week's win over Lansing Kee when Matthew Klostermann went down with a knee injury. That was compounded by the loss of Christoper Greif and Braxton Davis during the team's 36-12 loss to the Rebels in a second-round game.
Follow The Gazette’s live blog for scores and updates from Iowa high school football Round of 16 playoff games Friday night, the first round for Class 5A, 4A and 3A and the second round for Class 2A, 1A, A and 8-Player.
All seven classes will compete in the Iowa high school football postseason Friday. Here are some of the Gazette-area’s Round of 16 games.
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.
The Gazette’s 2023 post-Week 6 Iowa high school football poll: Cedar Rapids Kennedy, MFL MarMac make big jumps after statement wins Friday.
The Gazette’s post-Week 5 Iowa high school football poll: No changes at the top of any class, which still features co-leaders in 4A.
The Gazette’s post-Week 3 Iowa high school football poll: North Scott (4A), Lynnville-Sully (Class A) are new No. 1 teams this week.
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.
Here is The Gazette’s Iowa high school football 8-Player poll ahead of the 2023 season. Gladbrook-Reinbeck starts at No. 1.
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.
The 2023 Iowa high school boys’ state basketball tournament begins Monday at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines with all four Class 1A quarterfinals and two quarterfinal games in Class 2A. Stay up to date with scores, stats and more here throughout the day.
Iowa high school boys’ state basketball 2023: Brackets, predictions, top players and more.
Ankeny Christian beat Gladbrook-Reinbeck to win the Class 1A state volleyball championship.
A state-tournament rookie team, seventh-ranked Ankeny Christian pulled off an improbable comeback to capture the Class 1A state volleyball championship in five sets over No. 4 Gladbrook-Reinbeck (21-25, 19-25, 28-26, 26-24, 15-10) in Thursday’s finale at Xtream Arena.
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