Jeff Linder

State softball: West Lyon trails Cascade 4-0 and 8-6, but rallies twice to win a back-and-forth Class 2A quarterfinal, 10-8.

State softball: Williamsburg pulls away late from Washington, advances to its sixth straight 3A semifinal.

State softball: Center Point-Urbana goes the distance against No. 1 Dubuque Wahlert, but Golden Eagles pitcher Julia Roth makes a single fifth-inning tally stick in a 1-0 dandy.

State softball: Linn-Mar strikes for five late runs, tops Pleasant Valley, 5-1. Lions reach the state semifinals for the first time since 2007.

State softball: Trailing 7-3 in the seventh inning, North Polk rallies, then outlasts Western Dubuque in nine innings.

State softball: Emma Eekhoff keeps Cedar Rapids Xavier off balance (no-hitter through 6 innings), and Pella stuns the top-ranked Saints, 5-1, in a Class 4A first-rounder.

State softball: Words aren’t easy to get from Linn-Mar pitcher Emily Koranda. Runs, even more difficult.

Capsules on the nine Gazette area teams that have qualified for the Iowa high school state softball tournament, plus predictions for each class.

Girls’ basketball: The 21st rendition of Rivalry Saturday will include its first interstate matchup in event history -- 5A power Johnston vs. Madison (Wis.) Edgewood.

High school softball: Mike Kuba steps down as Cedar Rapids Jefferson head coach after seven years.

State softball: The 2025 tournament schedule, at the Rogers Sports Complex, Fort Dodge.

High school softball: Braylen Conlon strikes out 11 in a one-hitter, and No. 1 Cedar Rapids Xavier manufactures two runs in the sixth inning for a 2-0 Class 4A regional-final win over Bondurant-Farrar.

A look at Tuesday’s 5A, 4A and 3A Iowa high school softball area regional finals. Twelve games contain area teams.

High school softball: Cascade avenges three regular-season losses to Beckman, rolls in a four-inning Class 2A regional-final rout.

High school softball: 2025 area all-conference portal. Received so far: MVC Mississippi and Valley divisions, Wamac East and West divisions, River Valley North and South Divisions, Tri-Rivers East and West divisions, Northeast Iowa, South Iowa Cedar, Upper Iowa.