Belle Plaine is in its first season of 8-Player football. Always a good program in the 11-player game, the Plainsmen are making a solid transition to a new game. Despite only having 14 players on its varsity roster.
If you like seeing top-five Iowa high school football teams challenged on the road, Week 6 is the week for you. Here’s who all 71 teams ranked in this week’s Gazette poll face.
A dozen of the top Gazette-area Iowa high school football games to watch in Week 6.
Jeff Linder, Jeff Johnson, K.J. Pilcher and Nathan Ford share their midseasons honors and rainy-night playlists. The fearsome foursome highlight Week 5 standouts and comment on the season’s unpredictability.
Here is how the top 24 teams in the Class 5A RPI stand through Week 5 determined by our unofficial calculations: Southeast Polk climbs to the top; Cedar Rapids Prairie, Cedar Rapids Kennedy jump to sixth and seventh.
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.
Early in a scoreless game at Winthrop, lightning and rain interrupted play for three hours. Play resumed at 11:05 p.m., and at 12:54 a.m., it was over. Behind 232 rushing yards and five touchdowns from Tanner Thurn, East Buchanan rolled past North Linn, 41-14, further muddling the Class A District 4 race.
Iowa City High has a quick-tempo, quick-strike type of offense. But Cedar Rapids Kennedy’s ground and pound, then ground and pound some more philosophy produced a 61-34 win Friday night in a prep football game at Bates Field.
See photos as Iowa City High hosted Cedar Rapids Kennedy in a high school football game Friday night.
Here’s our Week 5 roundup with Iowa high school football scores, stats and complete Gazette-area coverage.
Cedar Rapids bolted to a 21-0 lead, only to see turnovers and penalties take hold, especially in the second half. In the end, Prairie was able to come away with a 38-30 victory over Iowa City Liberty.
Propelled by running-back duo, Daniel Larmie and Caden Henkes, No. 8 Ankeny was the team to boost its playoff hopes, knocking off Iowa City West, 48-21.
Here’s a look at how all the teams ranked in The Gazette’s Iowa high school football poll fared in their Week 5 games.
Brent Yonkovic contributed scores on the first three drives and Sawyer Krogmann added a defensive touchdown, while extended weather delays led to a shortened 28-0 West Delaware victory over Maquoketa at Brown Field. The Hawks have won three straight games, moving to 3-2 this season.
Photos from Cedar Rapids Prairie’s 38-30 win over Iowa City Liberty in high school football.
Explosive if not consistent offensively, Cedar Rapids Washington made enough big plays and toppled previously unbeaten Cedar Rapids Jefferson, 21-13, in an intracity football battle Friday night at Kingston Stadium.
See photos from Cedar Rapids Washington’s 21-13 win over Cedar Rapids Jefferson in a high school football game at Kingston Stadium.
North Linn received two touchdown runs from Will Sommerfelt and thwarted host Maquoketa Valley’s offense in a 16-0 win Friday night at Delhi. Marion tops CPU, Vinton-Shellsburg snaps losing streak and Iowa City Liberty avenges loss to Southeast Polk.
High school volleyball: Examining a few of the big area winners of the season’s first week.
As college football programs from across the country covet the Chicago area, a variety of factors have helped the Hawkeyes maintain it as a recruiting pipeline.
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