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Here’s a list of the top returning Gazette area Iowa high school girls’ tennis players and teams heading into the 2024 season. One goal remains for Cedar Rapids Washington’s Katelynn Kock: A state singles title.
Davis Kern of Linn-Mar and Jacob Williams of Dubuque Senior have been named boys’ basketball players of the year in their respective divisions of the Mississippi Valley Conference.
Full results from Thursday’s Class 3A Iowa high school boys’ state wrestling quarterfinals, where Iowa City Liberty's Vincenzo Lima scored a reversal with 32 seconds left to outlast Griffin Schultz and climbed into the stands to celebrate with friends and family.
The Iowa High School Athletic Association released brackets this week for the boys’ basketball postseason in Class 3A and 4A. Here’s an in-depth look at the substates containing schools from the Gazette area.
Cedar Rapids Prairie hosted a Class 3A Iowa high school boys’ wrestling state-qualifying tournament on Saturday
Girls’ basketball: Examining the regional brackets in 5A and 4A.
Libby Fandel scored a school-record 34 points and played a brilliant all-around floor game, and Cedar Rapids Xavier defeated Iowa City Liberty, 53-45, in a Mississippi Valley Conference girls’ basketball game Friday night at Ron Thillen Gymnasium.
Girls’ basketball notes: Three years after a 1-20 campaign, Mount Vernon has climbed to a No. 1 ranking in Class 3A, thanks to a come-from-behind win over archrival Solon on Tuesday.
The seven-game MVC-CIML Shootout boys’ basketball event went down Saturday at the Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids. In one of the marquee games of the inaugural event, defending Class 4A defending champion West Des Moines Valley used a fourth-quarter spurt to down Linn-Mar in a matchup of the second and fourth-ranked teams. Top-ranked Cedar Rapids Kennedy also beat No. 7 Waukee.
Here is The Gazette’s first 2023-24 installment of area high school boys’ wrestling individual rankings.
The Iowa Flyers club attracts top Cedar Rapids and Iowa City swimmers and works in harmony with high school programs, helping them reach new national and regional heights.
The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union is likely to announce its girls’ basketball regional pairings in mid- to late January. Here is The Gazette’s first version of mock pairings ... all five classes, all 346 teams.
The MVC-CIML Crossover Shootout event is January 6 at the Alliant Energy PowerHouse in Cedar Rapids. It features seven games, most of them pitting a school from the Central Iowa Metro League against one from either the Mississippi Valley Conference or Mississippi Athletic Conference
Floyd of Rosedale only needed to watch the first 19 minutes of this game’s 60 to see he was staying in Iowa City for another year.
The Cougars (8-0, 5-0 Big 12) trailed the Cyclones (5-3, 2-3), 24-10, with 1:52 left in the first half, but scored 31 of the game’s next 34 points to remain unbeaten. ISU, meanwhile, has now lost three games in a row for the first time since dropping five straight in the 2022 season.
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