Prep football state semifinals: Iowa City Liberty faces Southeast Polk on Friday; Mount Vernon meets Humboldt on Saturday.
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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.
Photos from day one of the 2024 Iowa high school state cross country meet featuring Class 3A and 4A schools at Kennedy Park in Fort Dodge, Iowa on Friday, November 1, 2024.
State cross country, Class 4A: Iowa City Liberty’s Keegan Decker and Cedar Rapids Kennedy’s Slader Buckheister finished third and fourth, and both will return next year. The Pleasant Valley girls and Cedar Falls boys won the team titles.
Twenty-two Iowa high school football playoff games Friday feature Gazette-area teams. Here is an overview of 12 contests and the full schedule.
Five Gazette-area state cross country storylines, including Noelle Steines’ pursuit of a fourth consecutive individual championship and both the Mid-Prairie boys and girls contending for titles.
Capsules for the Iowa high school state cross country meet Friday and Saturday at Lakeside Golf Course
High school softball: Nikki Gahring steps down as coach at Cedar Rapids Xavier after 21 years, 14 as head coach.
Class 2A No. 6 Alburnett won the first eight matches, including seven with bonus points, and rolled to a 51-21 dual victory over No. 12 Mount Vernon Thursday night at home.
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