The Mount Vernon Mustangs beat the Benton Community Bobcats 53-45 in a girls’ basketball game at Mount Vernon High School in Mount Vernon on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023.
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The Mount Vernon Mustangs beat the Benton Community Bobcats 53-45 in a girls’ basketball game at Mount Vernon High School in Mount Vernon on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023.
In track and field, Kylie Shoop qualified for the state meet for North Linn. And, on the wrestling mat, she punched her ticket to the inaugural Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union’s state tournament with West Delaware.
Williamsburg High School hosted the Williamsburg girls’ wrestling invitational at Williamsburg High School in Williamsburg, Iowa on Dec. 4, 2023.
Iowa State claimed its first Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational team title since 1996, receiving a title from heavyweight Yonger Bastida. UNI’s Parker Keckeisen won the 184 title there. Iowa dropped Penn and the Dan Gable Donnybrook highlight high school meets. This is the Wrestling Weekend That Was.
Meet the 2023 Gazette all-area volleybal team. Mount Vernon’s Chloe Meester and Clear Creek Amana’s Jackie Clubb are selected as player and coach of the year.
Each of his first two seasons, Alburnett’s Preston Klostermannwas forced to settle for second the opening weekend of the season. Not this time. Klostermann tallied four pins in the two-day competition, including a third-period fall over Clear Creek Amana’s Ryker Jones, to claim the 144-pound title Saturday at the Cliff Keen Independence Invitational.
Marion’s boys’ basketball team lost its season opener earlier this week by 49 points, but the Wolves rebounded Saturday by beating Cedar Rapids Washington, 70-61. Both teams came into the season inexperienced.
Naomi and Anastasia Simon are sisters. They attend Decorah High School together. They share a bedroom together. And, on Friday night, they were wrestling in the finals of the Dan Gable Donnybrook wrestling tournament together.
Independence hosted the 2023 Cliff Keen Independence Invitational wrestling tournament Saturday at Independence High School.
Class 4A No. 11 Cedar Rapids Xavier beat Cedar Rapids Kennedy 56-43 in a girls’ basketball game Friday night at Xavier.
Class 4A 11th-ranked Cedar Rapids Xavier built an 11-1 lead before Libby Fandel dented the scoring column and went on to defeat Cedar Rapids Kennedy, 56-43, in a Mississippi Valley Conference girls’ basketball game Friday night at Ron Thillen Gymnasium.
NXTPRO, founded in 2021, is one of the nation’s largest basketball grassroots platforms and shoe circuits, operating more than 35 tournaments throughout the year. It’s a circuit the Iowa Barnstormers, a Corridor-based AAU basketball program, will compete in again this spring, this time under Puma’s administration.
Linn-Mar’s Grant Kress has dedicated his time to wrestling, working on his own skills and improving by helping with the program’s youth club. The Lions’ second-ranked 157-pounder opened the season with a pin, but No. 13 Dubuque Hempstead topped No. 5 Linn-Mar, 37-36, on tiebreak criteria.
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