Articles Tagged: Pella High School

Photos from day one of the 2024 Iowa high school state cross country meet featuring Class 3A and 4A schools at Kennedy Park in Fort Dodge, Iowa on Friday, November 1, 2024.

State cross country, Class 3A: Western Dubuque’s Quentin Nauman set a 3A state-meet record and ran the second-fastest time, all-class, all-time. The Pella girls and Gilbert boys ran away with the team titles.

Twenty-two Iowa high school football playoff games Friday feature Gazette-area teams. Here is an overview of 12 contests and the full schedule.

Five Gazette-area state cross country storylines, including Noelle Steines’ pursuit of a fourth consecutive individual championship and both the Mid-Prairie boys and girls contending for titles.

Capsules for the Iowa high school state cross country meet Friday and Saturday at Lakeside Golf Course

Here’s how all 71 Iowa high school football teams ranked in this week’s Gazette poll fared in Week 9 games Friday night.

Iowa high school football rankings: Changes atop 5A and 4A; West Lyon, Grundy Center, West Hancock and Remsen St. Mary’s head into the 2A, 1A, A and 8-Player playoffs at No. 1.

Here’s how all 70 Iowa high school football teams ranked in this week’s Gazette poll fared in Week 8 games Friday night.

For the first time in 13 years, Class 4A 10th-ranked Cedar Rapids lost back-to-back regular-season games after No. 3 Pella visited Saints Field and triumphed, 21-19, in the final non-district game for both teams Friday night.

Class 4A third-ranked Pella beat No. 10 Cedar Rapids Xavier 21-19 in a high school football game Friday night at Saints Field.

A dozen of the top Gazette-area Iowa high school football games to watch in Week 4.

See photos from Saturday’s Prairie Invitational boys’ and girls’ cross country races in Cedar Rapids.

Pella’s Marissa Ferebee ran 17:23, then Western Dubuque’s Quentin Nauman (15:15) prevailed in a star-studded boys race as elite runners burned up the course at the Prairie Invitational cross country meet.

The Gazette’s preseason Iowa high school Class 4A football rankings: Return of all-state quarterback Brady Hetzel makes defending champion Lewis Central a logical choice at No. 1.

Sioux City Heelan senior right-hander Jaron Bleeker pitched a complete game and accounted for all three runs in a 3-1 victory over Pella in the Class 3A state baseball quarterfinals Monday night.