A fabulous 15. Here is The Gazette’s area boys’ basketball team for 2023. Colby Dolphin of Cedar Rapids Kennedy is our player of the year. Kennedy’s Jon McKowen the coach of the year.
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A fabulous 15. Here is The Gazette’s area boys’ basketball team for 2023. Colby Dolphin of Cedar Rapids Kennedy is our player of the year. Kennedy’s Jon McKowen the coach of the year.
A Gazette area watch list of top teams and individuals for the 2023 Iowa high school boys’ track and field season.
Sioux City Heelan beat Marion 68-59 in a Class 3A Iowa high school boys’ state basketball quarterfinal game Tuesday.
Sioux City Heelan used a 12-0 run in the fourth quarter to pull away and beat Marion, 68-59, in a Class 3A state basketball tournament quarterfinal Tuesday night. The Wolves were seeking the school’s first state tourney win since 1952, losing in last year’s quarterfinals in overtime.
The 2023 Iowa high school boys’ state basketball tournament continues Tuesday at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines with six more quarterfinal games. Stay up to date with scores, stats and more here throughout the day.
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Brayson Laube of Marion and Derek Weisskopf of Williamsburg have been named division boys’ basketball players of the year in the Wamac Conference.
Senior guard Brayson Laube played with a migraine headache through his Marion team’s 73-57 Class 3A substate final win Monday night over Charles City. He gave the Comets even bigger pains with a 37-point night that moves the Wolves back to the state tournament.
Cedar Rapids Xavier and Marion play in separate substate final boys’ basketball games Monday night.
WIth Decorah having the ball and threatening to take a lead in the final minute, Marion guard Payton Hodges stole a pass and turned it into a layup that gave his Wolves a 71-68 edge with 1:07 left. That ended up being the final score of this Class 3A substate semifinal boys’ basketball game.
The Cedar Rapids Xavier girls’ basketball team was scheduled to host Marion in a Class 4A regional semifinal, but a scoreboard issue moved the game to Marion. The change appeared to throw the Saints off early, but an early second-half surge led by senior Kyla Mason and sophomore Libby Fandel allowed the defending state champions to hold off the Wolves, 54-47.
The Cougars claimed 10 weights and defeated Iowa City Liberty, 54-21, in a boys wrestling dual Thursday night at Kennedy. Liberty won the girls’ dual, 62-18.
Women’s basketball: Iowa’s Emely Rodriguez is ‘suspended indefinitely due to a team violation of rules’
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