Articles Tagged: Marion High School

The Gazette is proud to announce the third annual Excellence in the Arts event recognizing outstanding student achievement in grades 9-12 throughout Eastern Iowa.

Girls’ basketball: Metro/Iowa City is guaranteed two 5A/4A state berths, could get as many as three more. West-Prairie and City-Liberty matchups highlight Tuesday’s big-school regional finals.

The Iowa High School Athletic Association dropped its weekly boys’ basketball rankings Monday, as well as all postseason brackets for Class 3A and 4A. Top substate seeds belong to Decorah in 3A and Linn-Mar and Cedar Rapids Kennedy in 4A. Linn-Mar moved up to No. 2 in this week’s 4A poll.

Wolves rally from 16 points down to 19-point margin to win 65-46 over Mustangs

Mustangs defeated the Wolves, 67-58 for Wamac East: 5-0.

The Marion boys’ basketball team trailed Mount Vernon by 16 points late in the first half Tuesday night. Then the Wolves completely turned everything around, eventually going on to a 65-46 win.

Girls’ basketball: The Wamac East is ‘one of the most competitive leagues in the state, and the records prove it.’ All six teams are above .500 overall.

Senior has won 2 Wamac title and earned 2 trips to state, but she wants more in her final season

Girls’ wrestling: Sophomore loves role as leader for the Wolves and went 2-0 in duals at Manchester earlier this week

The Gazette’s 2024 all-area volleyball team: Mount Vernon’s Chloe Meester repeats as player of the year; Mustangs Coach Maggie Willems is coach of the year.

Marion’s boys’ basketball team, which has several new pieces, led the majority of it season opener Tuesday night against Waverly-Shell Rock, but the Go-Hawks rallied late, forced overtime and won, 63-60.

Girls’ basketball: Linn-Mar bounces back after two decisive losses, tops Marion 46-42 behind Dreya Kern’s career-high 28 points.

Gazette-area teams and bowlers to watch for the 2024-25 Iowa high school bowling season.

IGCA all-state volleyball: Mount Vernon’s Chloe Meester is the state volleyball player of the year.