Jeff Linder

Your guide to Week 9 of the Iowa high school football season: The regular season concludes for big schools and the playoffs begin for 2A on down.

Edgewood-Colesburg outlasted North Linn in a five-set Class 1A regional quarterfinal.

Cedar Rapids Prairie’s boys and girls advanced to the state cross country meet.

Benton faces CCA and Iowa City West hosts Bettendorf in Thursday spotlight regional volleyball semifinals.

A scouting report on Thursday’s Gazette area 2A and 1A Iowa high school cross country state-qualifying meets.

HEY! We’re sharing here. Pay attention as Jeff Linder, Jeff Johnson, K.J. Pilcher and Nathan Ford give their prep football takes on Week 9 and small-school playoffs.

All eyes will be on Ed-Co’s Kelsey Hansel and North Linn’s Chloe Van Etten in Wednesday’s 1A regional volleyball quarterfinal.

A scouting report on Wednesday’s area 4A and 3A state-qualifying meets in cross country.

Iowa is ranked No. 9, Iowa State 12th in the Associated Press preseason women’s basketball poll.

Gazette area all-conference teams for the 2021 volleyball season

A run to the Westside Invitational finals helps send West Liberty back to the top 5 in this week’s Gazette-area volleyball Super 10.

West Marshall (2A), Van Meter (1A), West Hancock (A), Anita CAM (8-Player) are No. 1 in The Gazette’s final 2021 Iowa high school football poll.

Mount Vernon, West Delaware, West Liberty are Class 3A favorites to reach the state volleyball tournament.

Class 1A third-ranked Springville topped No. 4 Lisbon for the Tri-Rivers volleyball tournament title.

Top-ranked Cedar Rapids Kennedy trailed at halftime, but QB Carson Blietz engineered a masterful second half to beat Johnston, 24-10.