Jeff Linder

Girls’ basketball: Aaliyah Beier’s early shooting barrage stakes 4A No. 1 Cedar Rapids Xavier to an 18-point lead, then a late (and correct) shot-clock call clinches the Saints’ 56-50 win over Cedar Rapids Kennedy.

Prep volleyball: Iowa City Liberty’s Cassidy Hartman and Allie Kelly headline The Gazette’s 2022 all-area team.

Women’s basketball: Hawkeyes ‘disappointed’ after a ‘dull’ 94-81 loss to North Carolina State in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.

In the Iowa high school girls’ basketball notebook: Cascade rallied from an 18-point halftime deficit to shock West Liberty, 60-56. Plus, Mount Vernon went 3-0 against MVC teams.

Women’s basketball: No. 10 Iowa hosts No. 12 North Carolina State on Thursday in the final rendition of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.

Area girls’ basketball Super Ten (Nov. 30): Iowa City West, Cedar Rapids Xavier, North Linn remain 1-2-3; Center Point-Urbana, Clear Creek Amana leap into the top 5.

Lucy Wolf’s early outburst kept Iowa City West close, then Meena Tate took over at the end of the Iowa City West girls’ basketball team’s 61-47 win over Clear Creek Amana.

Women’s basketball: No. 3 Connecticut rallies from 11-point third-quarter deficit, escapes with 86-79 win over No. 9 Iowa to win the Phil Knight Legacy championship.

Girls’ basketball: 3A top-10 teams Center Point-Urbana and Benton Community play the lowest-scoring game in Rivalry Saturday history. Stormin’ Pointers win it, 27-22.

Girls’ basketball: 16-point lead melts to 2 in the final minutes, but North Linn holds off Vinton-Shellsburg, 63-56, at Rivalry Saturday.

Girls’ basketball: Cedar Rapids Xavier tops Sioux City Heelan in 4A 1-vs.-2 showdown, 62-54; Tom Lilly earns career win No. 600.

Girls’ basketball: Newell-Fonda pulls away late, defeats West Liberty at Rivalry Saturday, 79-57. Kelsey Joens scores 33 in her debut with the Comets.

Girls’ basketball: Slow start, 25-percent shooting cost Iowa City Liberty in a 46-35 loss to No. 3 Ankeny Centennial.

Girls’ basketball: Clear Creek Amana’s Ava Locklear flirts with a triple double (16 points, nine rebounds, nine assists) in a 59-26 romp over Williamsburg.

Girls’ basketball Delaney Scherf drives the baseline repeatedly in a 20-point effort; veteran Elkader Central tops Maquoketa Valley at Rivalry Saturday, 48-40.