Girls’ basketball 2024-25: Preseason area Super Ten teams to watch. Mount Vernon, Clear Creek Amana, Cedar Rapids Prairie look like three of the area’s best.
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Girls’ basketball 2024-25: Preseason area Super Ten teams to watch. Mount Vernon, Clear Creek Amana, Cedar Rapids Prairie look like three of the area’s best.
For the first time since 1977, there are no Gazette-area teams in the Iowa high school state football championships. But the Prep Football Huddle is making picks for all seven of this week’s games anyway.
Southeast Polk scored 24 points in the second half and edged Iowa City Liberty, 38-35, in a thrilling Class 5A state football playoff semifinal Friday night at the UNI-Dome
Sutton Koller and Dallas Miller are perfect examples of why this Iowa City Liberty football team has had a great season that includes playing in Friday night’s Class 5A state playoff semifinal against three-time defending champion Southeast Polk. Already offensive stalwarts, they were asked to play defense this season, too.
We discuss last week’s Iowa high school football state quarterfinal results, preview some noteworthy semifinal matchups and pick the champions in all seven classes on this episode of the Prep Football Huddle.
Prep football state semifinals: Iowa City Liberty faces Southeast Polk on Friday; Mount Vernon meets Humboldt on Saturday.
Head football coaches in Class 5A, District 6 selected Iowa City West senior quarterback Jack Wallace as the district’s Most Valuable Player. Scott Chandler and his assistants at Iowa City Liberty is the Coaching Staff of the Year.
Fifth-ranked Iowa City Liberty beat No. 8 Ankeny 21-13 in a Class 5A Iowa high school football state quarterfinal game Friday night in North Liberty.
n just its seventh season as a varsity football program, Liberty advanced to the state semifinals for the first time after dispatching traditional playoff heavyweight Ankeny, 21-13, in a Class 5A state quarterfinal game Friday night.
A closer look at Friday’s Gazette-area Iowa high school football state quarterfinal games.
With Iowa high school football teams one win away from the UNI-Dome, The Gazette’s Prep Football Huddle podcast reviews last week’s playoff games and takes a class-by-class look at this week’s quarterfinals.
The Iowa high school football playoff field is down to 56 teams, eight in each of the seven classes. The Iowa High School Athletic Association released the quarterfinal host sites Friday night.
A play-making quarterback and a clutch defense has Iowa City Liberty moving on in Class 5A with a 31-14 win over Waukee.
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