Jeff Linder

A dozen of the top Gazette-area Iowa high school football games to watch in Week 6.

Dubuque Hempstead rallied to topple Class 5A ninth-ranked Linn-Mar in five sets. Hempstead pulled alongside the Lions atop the Valley Division.

Jeff Linder, Jeff Johnson, K.J. Pilcher and Nathan Ford share their midseasons honors and rainy-night playlists. The fearsome foursome highlight Week 5 standouts and comment on the season’s unpredictability.

Women’s basketball: Commitment of Aaliyah Guyton gives Iowa five recruits (four ranked in the top 100) in the 2024 class.

Here is how the top 24 teams in the Class 5A RPI stand through Week 5 determined by our unofficial calculations: Southeast Polk climbs to the top; Cedar Rapids Prairie, Cedar Rapids Kennedy jump to sixth and seventh.

The Gazette’s post-Week 5 Iowa high school football poll: No changes at the top of any class, which still features co-leaders in 4A.

Early in a scoreless game at Winthrop, lightning and rain interrupted play for three hours. Play resumed at 11:05 p.m., and at 12:54 a.m., it was over. Behind 232 rushing yards and five touchdowns from Tanner Thurn, East Buchanan rolled past North Linn, 41-14, further muddling the Class A District 4 race.

Explosive if not consistent offensively, Cedar Rapids Washington made enough big plays and toppled previously unbeaten Cedar Rapids Jefferson, 21-13, in an intracity football battle Friday night at Kingston Stadium.

The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union is likely to announce its volleyball regional pairings within the next two weeks. Here is The Gazette’s first draft of mock pairings ... all five classes, all 354 teams.

The Iowa high school football regular season is basically halfway over and still surprising us. This week’s Prep Football Huddle podcast includes reactions to eye-opening wins for Starmont, Solon West Delaware and more.

Cross country: Cedar Rapids Kennedy’s pack is more than enough at the Eastern Iowa Classic.

Women’s basketball: The 2023-24 schedule is complete for the Iowa Hawkeyes.

After 54 years, 1,323 wins and three state championships, Bob Bunting stepped down as softball coach at Lisbon High School.

Ten of the top 15 Class 3A Iowa high school volleyball teams are located east of Highway 63.

Iowa women’s basketball star Caitlin Clark was named the winner of the 93rd AAU James E. Sullivan Award on Tuesday, presented annually since 1930 to the most outstanding athlete at the collegiate or Olympic level in the United States.