Jeff Linder

Braden Bickford ran the opening kickoff back 90 yards for a touchdown, and West Liberty handled Tipton, 30-7, in a non-district football game Friday night at Memorial Field.

Iowa high school football 2025: Gazette-area Week 2 games to watch. Iowa City Liberty plays at four-time defending state champion Southeast Polk in a Class 5A top-five showdown.

High school football: Who the ranked teams in The Gazette’s poll play in Week 2. Four top-10 matchups this week in Class 5A, including No. 1 West Des Moines Valley at No. 2 Waukee Northwest.

Results from week 1 and a look at week 2 matchups in Iowa High School Football -Triple Option Podcast

High school volleyball: Examining a few of the big area winners of the season’s first week.

High school volleyball: Area Super Ten. Mid-Prairie moves to the No. 1 spot after an 8-0 start.

High school volleyball: Resurgent Iowa City Liberty opens MVC divisional play with a sweep of Cedar Rapids Xavier.

The Gazette’s Iowa high school football staff and Gazette contributor Scott Unash tackles high school football questions. See how much Jeff Linder, Jeff Johnson, K.J. Pilcher and Unash can gain in 4 Downs:

High school football: The Gazette’s post Week-1 poll.

Girls’ basketball: Clear Creek Amana’s Averie Lower commits to play at Arizona State. “The energy, the atmosphere ... it was insane.”

High school cross country: Western Dubuque’s Quentin Nauman blazes to a 15:12 clocking at the Prairie Invitational, winning by 25 seconds. Monticello freshman Mary Grace Lyons makes an early impression.

High school football 2025: How the ranked teams from The Gazette’s preseason poll fared in Week 1.

High school football: Pivotal fourth-quarter stop on fourth-and-inches helps Alburnett top Center Point-Urbana, 14-0, in the teams’ first encounter since 1995.

High school volleyball: 13-18 last year, Iowa City West is a whole new animal this fall. The Trojans win two of three at the MVC-MAC Challenge.

Women’s basketball: Hawkeyes will face Baylor, Miami and UConn in neutral-site games, and the Cy-Hawk game is Dec. 10 in Ames.