Jeff Linder

State volleyball tournament: No. 1 Dike-New Hartford had a brief first-set hiccup, then recovered and rolled past Carroll Kuemper in a Class 2A quarterfinal.

Fourth-ranked Sioux Center delivered 10 aces and kept No. 5 West Liberty out of system most of the way in a Class 3A quarterfinal sweep (25-13, 25-13, 25-13) at the state volleyball tournament Tuesday afternoon at Xtream Arena.

State volleyball, 3A quarterfinal: Des Moines Christian earned its first state-tournament win in program history.

State volleyball, Class 4A quarterfinal: Western Dubuque claws past Indianola in 5, reaches its 4th straight semifinal.

State volleyball, Class 4A quarterfinal: No. 1 Cedar Rapids Xavier dominates all facets, sweeps Sioux City Heelan in 62 minutes.

State volleyball, Class 5A quarterfinal: The match featured 31 blocks, and Centennial’s Jaedan Pratt had the final two. The Jaguars scored the final four points, outlasting West Des Moines Dowling in five sets.

Error-plagued early, top-ranked Iowa City Liberty got it in gear in the final three sets and topped No. 11 Urbandale, 22-25, 25-20, 25-20, 25-17 in a Class 5A quarterfinal at the state volleyball tournament Monday afternoon at Xtream Arena.

Iowa women’s basketball: Ava Heiden will join the Hawkeyes in 2024. She’s a top-50 junior and will be the program’s first Oregonian.

State volleyball 2022: Brackets, top players, The Gazette’s predictions and more.

State volleyball tournament: Cassidy Hartman has done it all for Iowa City Liberty, and has done it all very well.

State cross country, Class 4A: Iowa City High’s Ford Washburn pushes Dowling’s Jackson Heidesch for more than 2 miles, then Heidesch finds another gear and wins in a record effort of 14:56.

State cross country: Marion’s Jedidiah Osgood, Solon’s Kayla Young are Class 3A runners-up. Ballard’s Paityn Noe runs an all-time Iowa best among Iowa girls, at 16:48.

State cross country, Class 2A: Mid-Prairie’s Danielle Hostetler won her third straight championship, and the seventh straight for her family.

State cross country, Class 1A: Iowa City Regina boys win their first championship since 2010.

Who got a promising draw? Who got the “Group of Death”? We break down the Iowa high school football playoffs Round of 16 pairings on this week’s Prep Football Huddle podcast.