Jeff Linder

Girls’ basketball: Trailing midway through the third quarter, Mount Vernon dominates late and pounds Cedar Rapids Kennedy, 56-30, at Rivalry Saturday.

Women’s basketball: Caitlin Clark scores 29, Iowa women advance to the finals of the Phil Knight Legacy tournament in Portland. Hawkeyes earn a shot at Connecticut at noon Sunday on ABC.

Girls’ basketball: Xavier-Heelan rematch highlights Rivalry Saturday, which features 12 ranked teams and five newcomers.

Prep volleyball: Claude Howard steps down after leading Springville to eight state-tournament appearances; Tricia Carty resigns at Iowa City High.

Iowa women’s basketball: No. 9 Hawkeyes face Oregon State in the first round of the Phil Knight Legacy tournament Friday, and one of Lisa Bluder’s objectives is to ‘get Hannah Stuelke more minutes’

Girls’ basketball: Tayler Reaves scores a career-high 23 points, and Center Point-Urbana has the final push in a 47-42 win over Marion.

Here are the 2022 Iowa Print Sports Writers Association all-state high school football teams, as voted upon Sunday and released Tuesday.

Caitlin Clark played — and played extremely well — in fourth-ranked Iowa’s 73-62 non-conference women’s basketball win over Belmont on Sunday at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.

Iowa women’s basketball: Caitlin Clark is ‘day to day’ heading into Sunday’s game against Belmont.

Girls’ basketball: IGHSAU’s preseason rankings ... Waterloo West, Sioux City Heelan, Estherville ELC, Dike-New Hartford and Algona Garrigan are No. 1.

Women’s basketball: No. 4 Iowa suffers an 84-83 loss at Kansas State, Caitlin Clark suffers an apparent ‘twisted ankle’ on the final play.

Iowa women’s basketball signee Ava Jones is a story of both heartbreak and hope. Five months after an incident that severely injured her and her mother and killed her father, she begins surgery Monday with a long-term vision of playing for the Hawkeyes.

With prolific post Ayoka Lee sidelined for the year, Kansas State will present No. 4 Iowa women’s basketball a different challenge with its press.

Meet the 2022 IGCA all-state volleyball teams. Marion’s Avery Van Hook, Mount Vernon’s Madeleine Miller are the state players of the year in Class 4A and Class 3A, respectively. They are joined on the Elite team by Iowa City Liberty’s Cassidy Hartman and Western Dubuque’s Ella Meyer.

Cedar Rapids Xavier girls’ basketball coach Tom Lilly has five state championships, 598 wins and a few regrets