Class 3A No. 7 Solon beat top-ranked Williamsburg 21-14 in an Iowa high school football game Friday night.
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Class 3A No. 7 Solon beat top-ranked Williamsburg 21-14 in an Iowa high school football game Friday night.
Here’s a look at how all the teams ranked in The Gazette’s Iowa high school football poll fared in their Week 7 games.
Coleton Beasler-Weber returned a pair of punts for scores and added a third on a 24-yard run as No. 6 Xavier rolled to a 42-0 homecoming win over the Indians on a blustery night at Saints Field.
Multiple times the Solon defense hoisted the team on its shoulders Friday night, canceling out short fields and turnovers, limiting scores and putting up points of their own in the No. 7 Spartans’ 21-14 victory over top-ranked Williamsburg in a Class 3A District 5 battle at Spartan Stadium. Solon won its sixth straight game and took control of the district title race.
Class 5A 10th-ranked Cedar Rapids Prairie has played a meat grinder of a 2023 football season, but the Hawks have survived it and blew past Cedar Rapids Jefferson, 48-7, Friday night in the Kolache Bowl at Kingston Stadium.
Operating with one good eye and two strong legs, Lance McShane scored the winning touchdown on fourth down with 4:04 left to send Maquoketa Valley past North Linn, 22-15.
Following a difficult loss to a rival, Iowa City Regina was in need of a palette cleanser. The Regals wiped the slate clean and got back to their high-flying ways, dispatching Dyersville Beckman, 48-21, Friday night in prep football game at Regina.
Maquoketa Valley beat North Linn 22-15 in a Class A Iowa high school football game Friday night at Delhi.
Follow The Gazette’s live blog for scores and updates from Week 7 of the Iowa high school football season Friday night.
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Cedar Rapids Kennedy posted its second shutout of the season, Vicenzo Gianforte passed for four TDs and helped the offense amass 462 yards and the Cougars earned their fifth straight victory. Class 5A No. 3 Kennedy thumped Dubuque Hempstead, 44-0, Thursday night at Kingston Stadium.
Photos from Cedar Rapids Kenendy’s 44-0 win over Dubuque Hempstead at Kingston Stadium.
Wally Sheets spent almost three decades as head football coach at Cedar Rapids Washington, having one of the best careers in Metro history. He died Thursday in Florida after a long illness at the age of 88.
Iowa’s men’s basketball team played No. 4 Iowa State to the wire Thursday night before losing by four. As it did two weeks ago after a loss to nationally ranked Michigan State, the Hawkeyes were able to get an immediate bounce back, stomping Western Michigan, 91-51, Sunday afternoon at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
Those infusions of zest proved to be fleeting, however. The Cyclones trailed the Panthers (2-8) for more than five minutes in the first half before a Milan Momcilovic 3-pointer capped a 16-5 run that gave them a 44-28 edge at the break.
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