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Capsules for Thursday’s games involving area teams at the 2025 Iowa high school boys' state basketball tournament at Wells Fargo Arena.
Curt Ritchie has been a successful high school football coach for more than three decades, including the last 24 seasons at Williamsburg. He will now take over the Cornell College football program, which is coming off consecutive .500-record seasons.
North Linn’s boys’ basketball team had some good shots Wednesday morning in its Class 1A state basketball tournament quarterfinal. But not enough of them went in, and the Lynx fell to Gladbrook-Reinbeck, 61-55.
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LaPorte City Union Community boys’ basketball players were certain Gavin Rohrbach was watching them play their Class 2A state tournament quarterfinal Tuesday night. The Knights lost to West Lyon, but surely Rohrbach, who died in September in an automobile accident, is proud of the season his teammates put together.
The Jesup boys’ basketball team had to win four games to get to the state tournament because it was a ‘3’ seed in its district. it upset Cascade, MFL MarMac and North Fayette Valley along the way. All of which made a 69-38 Class 2A quarterfinal loss to top-ranked Western Christian sting a lot less.
Linn-Mar AD Tonya Moe will leave to become an assistant director for the Iowa Girls High School Athetic Union.
Cedar Rapids Xavier’s girls’ basketball team was an ‘8’ seed at last week’s state tournament but ended up winning a championship. Its boys’ basketball team is a ‘7’ this week, yet is on that title trajectory after a 52-37 win over unbeaten Knoxville in a Class 3A state tournament quarterfinal Tuesday.
Capsules for Wednesday’s games involving area teams at the 2025 Iowa high school boys' state basketball tournament at Wells Fargo Arena.
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