Jeff Linder

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.

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’