Jeff Linder

Girls’ basketball: Iowa City Regina tops Mount Vernon in a 2A/3A top-10 encounter, 48-44.

Prep football: How free and reduced lunch would have altered classification in 2021 and 2022.

Girls’ basketball notes: Clear Creek Amana shares the ball, and shoots the ball, remarkably well on its way to a 5-1 start.

Area girls’ basketball Super Ten (Dec. 14): This week’s climbers are North Linn, Iowa City Liberty, Linn-Mar and Cascade.

Girls’ basketball: Cascade shifts into old, reliable 2-3 zone, tops Monticello 45-41 for sole possession of River Valley Conference North Division lead.

Women’s basketball: After Saturday’s injury to a shin, Kate Martin is “day-to-day,” and could be active in time for Sunday’s game vs. UNI.

Women’s basketball: An injury to Kate Martin’s shin casts a large shadow over No. 16 Iowa’s 87-64 rout of Minnesota.

Girls’ basketball: Meena Tate leads pivotal fourth-quarter surge in Iowa City West’s 42-40 win over Iowa City Liberty.

Women’s basketball: No. 16 Iowa hosts Minnesota -- and its four freshman starters -- at 8 p.m. Saturday.

Women’s basketball: After a cold first half, Caitlin Clark ended with a balanced stat line (19 points, 8 rebounds, 8 assists, 5 steals) ... and some postgame one-liners (“It’s Opposite Day,” for one) in Iowa’s 70-57 win over Iowa State on Wednesday.

Girls’ basketball notes: Alburnett races away in the 4th quarter, earns first win over Maquoketa Valley in nearly 16 years.

Women’s basketball: Trailing at halftime, 16th-ranked Iowa blitzes No. 10 Iowa State in the third quarter, reclaims Cy-Hawk superiority, 70-57.

Area girls’ basketball Super Ten (Dec. 7): Iowa City West, Cedar Rapids Xavier, North Linn remain 1-2-3; Decorah jumps into the top 5; Solon and Cascade make their first appearance of the season.

Girls’ basketball: Linn-Mar clicks in all areas in a 63-42 win over Cedar Rapids Jefferson. Lions rule the glass and distribute 19 assists.

Prep football: IHSAA approves socioeconomic factor to be instituted for football classification. First developed in Minnesota, the factor is free and reduced lunches. If member schools and Iowa Board of Education pass the amendment, it will go into effect next fall.