First-year head coach Mike Tangen has led Decorah’s football team to a 4-0 start, including a 21-14 win Friday night over Class 3A sixth-ranked Independence. The sixth-ranked Vikings begin Class 4A district play this coming week at Mason City.
Pleasant Valley runs a unique double-wing offense and it bamboozled Cedar Rapids Prairie’s defense Friday night at John Wall Field. The Class 5A eight-ranked Spartans scored points on all six possessions to beat No. 10 Prairie, 38-21.
The Gazette’s Week 4 Iowa high school football roundup with Friday night’s statewide scores and complete coverage of area games.
Class 3A top-ranked Solon beat No. 3 Mount Vernon 7-6 in an Iowa high school football game Friday night at Solon.
Cedar Rapids Kennedy came away with a hard-fought, 28-14, win over Cedar Rapids Washington on Friday night. After losses to West Des Moines Dowling, Pleasant Valley and Linn-Mar, Kennedy found itself in another tussle with the Warriors.
For the fourth straight season, The Boot is staying in Iowa City High’s possession. The Little Hawks beat Iowa City West 40-39 on a two-point conversion from quarterback Bobby Bacon to Jack Lampe with 22 seconds remaining.
Iowa City High beat Iowa City West 40-39 in the annual Battle for the Boot high school football game Friday night at Trojan Field.
Iowa City Liberty beat Class 5A seventh-ranked Cedar Falls 49-42 in an Iowa high school football game Friday night in North Liberty.
Iowa City Liberty’s Reece Rettig scored the go-ahead touchdown on a 7-yard run with 20 seconds left, and the Lightning outscored Class 5A seventh-ranked Cedar Falls in an offensive showcase, 49-42, Friday night at Liberty High School.
Here’s a look at how all 72 Iowa high school football teams ranked in this week’s Gazette poll fared in their Week 4 games Friday night.
For the first time in 13 years, Class 4A 10th-ranked Cedar Rapids lost back-to-back regular-season games after No. 3 Pella visited Saints Field and triumphed, 21-19, in the final non-district game for both teams Friday night.
It was the hard-fought battle everyone expected. Top-ranked Solon edged No. 3 Mount Vernon, 7-6, in a Class 3A non-district prep football clash.
Class 4A third-ranked Pella beat No. 10 Cedar Rapids Xavier 21-19 in a high school football game Friday night at Saints Field.
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