Girls’ basketball: Five early impressions from the first week of the season.
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Girls’ basketball: Five early impressions from the first week of the season.
The start of the boys’ high school wrestling competition this week means the wrestling season is firing on all cylinders. The Pinning Combination podcast with The Gazette's K.J. Pilcher and hall of fame coach Dick Briggs takes a look ahead at the upcoming events for Iowa, Iowa State and UNI. They also discuss girls’ wrestling teams off to a good start and previews the beginning of the boys’ season.
Girls’ basketball: Cedar Rapids Prairie rises to the top spot after opening with wins over Sioux City Heelan, Mount Vernon.
Marion’s boys’ basketball team, which has several new pieces, led the majority of it season opener Tuesday night against Waverly-Shell Rock, but the Go-Hawks rallied late, forced overtime and won, 63-60.
Girls’ basketball: Linn-Mar bounces back after two decisive losses, tops Marion 46-42 behind Dreya Kern’s career-high 28 points.
Lion senior rallies to win on Monday and has high hopes for final season, including a spot in the state finals
There are six freshmen on the Cedar Rapids Washington varsity boys’ basketball roster this season. Three of them start, as does a sophomore. Another frosh came off the bench Monday night in Wash’s 59-55 season-opening win over Mount Pleasant.
Photos from the Kennedy at Linn-Mar girls’ wrestling meet at Linn-Mar High School in Marion, Iowa on Monday, December 2, 2024.
Brad Smith spent a season in his second retirement. As a favor, he returned to the coaching ranks to temporarily fill in for Clear Creek Amana Coach Kyle Forness, who will miss this season due to obligations with the Army Reserves.
Here is a list of 20 wrestlers and nine teams to keep an eye on for the 2024-25 boys’ wrestling season.
Cedar Rapids Kennedy senior boys’ basketball guard Trey McKowen is a returning first-team all-stater. He plays for his father, Jon, who is Kennedy’s head coach. He’ll play college ball for his uncle, Brooks, at Upper Iowa. His grandpa, Marty, is a hall of fame coach who is about to begin his 42nd season at Wapsie Valley
Here is a quick synopsis of the conferences in the Gazette area and a prediction for each winner.
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