Gazette sports writer K.J. Pilcher talks with Dick Briggs about the Iowa Hawkeyes vs. Iowa State match, the upcoming 2025-2026 season for Iowa, Iowa State and UNI as well as the upcoming 2025-2026 Iowa High School girls’ and boys wrestling season.
It was a night and experience in the making — giving Knipper and Walz a chance to wrestle at Ed-Co, where they go to school, while competing with East Buchanan through a girls’ wrestling co-op agreement.
Girls’ basketball: Iowa City Liberty moves to the top of the area Super Ten after wins over Southeast Polk, Maquoketa.
Clear Creek Amana lost almost all of its key players from last season’s Wamac Conference West Division championship team to graduation. But the Clippers newcomers performed well enough to topple Iowa City West, in a similar situation with a ton of newbies, 58-53, in a boys’ basketball opener Tuesday night at west.
See photos as the Iowa City West Trojans hosted the Clear Creek-Amana Clippers for an Iowa boys’ high school basketball game.
Girls’ basketball: Kendyl Aarhus’ hot stretch (14 points in less than three minutes in the third quarter) helps push Marion past Linn-Mar, 51-43.
Starmont’s Keaton Moeller won the Class 1A 150-pound state title in 2024, but a torn ACL sidelined him last season. He has recovered and is ready for his senior campaign.
Here is a list of 20 wrestlers and seven teams to keep an eye on for the 2025-26 boys’ wrestling season.
Cael LaFrentz was a first-team all-state boys’ basketball player last season for the Decorah Vikings. The 6-foot-10 senior center averaged nearly 30 points per game. The son of area legend and 10-year NBA player Raef LaFrentz is still growing into his body and game, which makes the future for him enticing. Not to mention this season.
Here are 15 players who should make an impact this boys’ basketball season from the Gazette area. The list includes nine guys who were all-staters last season by the Iowa Professional Sports Writers Association.
Here is a list of five boys’ basketball teams from the Gazette area that could be handfuls this season. We predict winners in each area conference as well.
Ogden column: Sunday is my last day as sports editor at The Gazette
Coe advanced to the second round of the NCAA Division III playoffs for the first time since 2016 and return to Bethel for the second straight year. Wartburg opened with a bye and hosts Wheaton. Drake gets rematch with South Dakota in the FCS playoffs and more. Here are five small college football storylines.
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