Fifth-ranked Cedar Rapids Xavier beat Washington (Iowa) 4-0 in a Class 3A Iowa high school boys’ soccer substate final at Xavier High School in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday. The Saints advance to next week’s state tournament in Des Moines.
Dyersville Beckman and senior Luke Harwick finished the first round of the Class 2A boys’ state golf tournament with the lead. When storms wiped out Tuesday’s second round, Beckman swept the team and individual titles at Coldwater Golf Links in Ames.
A good portion of Willliamsburg’s nucleus is back from its 2023 state softball championship team, and the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union took note. Williamsburg is the top-ranked team in the 3A preseason rankings, released Monday afternoon.
There are four classifications in Iowa high school boys’ soccer in 2024, meaning a total of 32 state tournament qualifiers. Here’s a breakdown of the substate brackets with a look at how Gazette-area teams are set up.
The state golf tournaments for all three classes will be held May 20-21 in Ames. The Class 3A state tournament will be at Veenker Memorial Golf Course, 2A will be at Coldwater Links and 1A will be at Ames Golf and Country Club.
It’s time for the postseason in Iowa high school soccer. The Park the Bus podcast previews every substate and region involving Gazette area teams and makes state-qualifier predictions.
The Lightning won the season-opening quadrangular and followed it with a runner-up finish behind highly-regarded Cedar Rapids Washington on Tuesday. Liberty’s Isabella Pettersen has claimed medalist honors in both meets this season.
A list of Gazette area golfers and teams to watch for the 2024 Iowa high school boys’ spring golf season.
Here is The Gazette’s first 2023-24 installment of area high school boys’ wrestling individual rankings.
State cross country (Class 3A): Washington’s Micah Rees hangs with the front pack for nearly 2 miles, finishes 4th. Mount Vernon-Lisbon girls are runners-up.
Class 2A and 3A cross country teams raced at Kennedy Park in Fort Dodge on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023.
Results from Wednesday’s Class 4A and Class 3A Iowa high school state-qualifying cross country meets that included area teams.
Here’s who all 70 teams ranked in this week’s Gazette poll face in Week 8.
Prep cross country: Rested and refueled, North Linn’s Meghan Wheatley is at her best ever. She and Washington’s Micah Rees are individual champions at the North Linn Invitational.
This week, a handful of teams that have climbed into The Gazette’s rankings during the regular season get to test themselves against more-established top-10 teams. Here’s who all 72 teams ranked in this week’s Gazette poll face in Week 7.
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