If there was a project that needed a little help, a program that needed a boost or a person in need, Bill Quinby was the person to contact. Quinby died in his sleep Saturday morning at the age of 92.
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If there was a project that needed a little help, a program that needed a boost or a person in need, Bill Quinby was the person to contact. Quinby died in his sleep Saturday morning at the age of 92.
Cedar Rapids Xavier hosted Cedar Rapids Washington in an Iowa high school girls’ tennis match on Saturday.
It’s been a bit of a yo-yo season for the Linn-Mar boys’ soccer team. The Lions finally broke the .500 plane with a 4-1 home victory Thursday against Class 3A No. 9-ranked Cedar Rapids Xavier. The win came just five days after a 1-0 blanking of 4A No. 5 Waukee Northwest.
Here is the first 2024 edition of Eastern Iowans in Professional Baseball. This is a list of guys from Eastern Iowa or the University of Iowa playing in the major leagues or affiliated minor league baseball. There are four big leaguers right now in pitchers Mitch Keller (Pirates), Keaton Winn (Giants), Colin Rea (Brewers) and A.J. Puk (Marlins).
First-year Linn-Mar girls’ soccer coach Hannah Clark wants a state championship for the Lions, who are ranked No. 5 in Class 3A after a 5-2 start. Their only losses came by a goal to the state’s top two teams.
Prep track and field: Drake Relays 2024 form chart, including unofficial area qualifiers.
Moustafa Tiea opened the running portion of the Forwald-Coleman Relays with a record-setting relay anchor, and he closed it with an improbable comeback in the finale. He did plenty in between, too.
Iowa City High hosted its 51st annual Forwald-Coleman Relays track and field meet Thursday night at Bates Field/Raffensperger Track.
The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union and Iowa State University announced Wednesday the girls’ state soccer tournament will be held in Ames, beginning in 2025. Eastern Iowa coaches are happy the tournament will remain on grass fields.
Marcus Morgan was a four-sport athlete at Iowa City West High School. He could have played Division I in basketball, football or baseball. But Iowa baseball coach Rick Heller ultimately won the multi-sport recruiting war, and Morgan is coming off his best starting pitching performance of the season last weekend at Ohio State.
Instrumental in the state’s rapid growth of girls’ high school wrestling, Erin Gerlich was announced Thursday as the next executive director of the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union.
Hall of Fame boys’ wrestling coach Brad Smith will come out of retirement again, leading Clear Creek Amana as interim head coach. He will fill in for CCA Coach Kyle Forness, who will miss next season as he fulfills his obligation with Army reserves.
Cedar Rapids Prairie’s Kylie Wachtl posted her first hole-in-one on the No. 9 hole Wednesday at Twin Pines Golf Course in Cedar Rapids. She finished in a three-way tie for second, one shot back of Linn-Mar medalist Morgan Rupp at the CRANDIC golf meet.
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