Jeff Johnson

The Iowa High School Athletic Association revealed district and substate brackets Monday for Class 1A and 2A.

The Iowa Heartlanders lost their first 20 ECHL games this season away from Xtream Arena. That streak came to a halt this past weekend, with the club winning back-to-back games Wheeling.

Cedar Rapids Kennedy remains No. 1 in Class 4A in the latest boys’ basketball rankings, released by the Iowa High School Athletic Association. The Cougars have a huge three-game week: Tuesday night against Iowa City West, Thursday night against Iowa City High and Saturday at No. 4 West Des Moines Valley.

The Cedar Rapids RoughRiders lost three games in three days this weekend, including a ... rough ... 3-2 overtime loss Sunday to Green Bay at ImOn Ice.

North Linn outscored Dunkerton in the fourth quarter to rally past Dunkerton, 60-46, in a battle of top-10 teams in Class 1A. North Linn is second, Dunkerton sixth.

This week’s episode of the Prep Basketball Podcast begins with a look at the Iowa high school girls’ basketball regional brackets in 3A, 2A and 1A. Who are the favorites to advance to state?

Six-foot-8 sophomore forward Davis Kern is third in the Mississippi Valley Conference in scoring at 19 points per game. He already has scholarship offers from Northern Iowa and South Dakota State, the latest in a long line of kids from Linn-Mar who will play Division I college basketball.

Mount Vernon High School grad Austin Ash walked on to the Iowa Hawkeyes basketball team his freshman year. He didn’t play much in his five-year Iowa career, but had the desire to see if he could be an important player somewhere. That somewhere turned out to be The Citadel in Charleston, S.C.

There’s a reason Cedar Rapids Kennedy is the top-ranked boys’ basketball team in Class 4A. The Cougars have a pair of all-state guards, some size, some athleticism, a deep bench ... and Jace Scott on Tuesday night. He scored 10 big points in an 89-46 win over No. 7 Waterloo West.

The home field at Veterans Memorial Stadium will change from Perfect Game Field to PG Cares Field for the 2023 season, it was announced Tuesday. Perfect Game scouting service was created in Cedar Rapids as a baseball club and has provided naming rights at Memorial Stadium since 2009.

If you know anything about Mark Carlson and his approach to the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders junior hockey program he has built over 23 seasons here, you know there wasn’t much of a celebration of his 750th career coaching victory this past Saturday night.

There was a bit of an upheaval at the top in Class 2A this week in the Iowa High School Athletic Association’s official boys’ basketball rankings. Western Christian moved up from to the top spot after losses by previous No. 1 Central Lyon and No. 2 Aplington-Parkersburg. Cedar Rapids Kennedy, Bondurant-Farrar and Grand View Christian remained atop their respective classes.

Mark Carlson has been the only coach the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders have had since their inception into the United States Hockey League in the 1999-2000 season. Carlson won his 750th career game Saturday night as his Riders beat Muskegon .

This week’s episode of the Prep Basketball Podcast begins with a discussion about the controversy surrounding Monday night’s Iowa City High-Fairfield game.

Senior guard Brayson Laube recently broke Marion High School’s record for career scoring, a mark that had been stood since 1952. Laube was a first-team all-stater last year who hopes to lead the Wolves back to the state tournament.