Articles Tagged: West Branch High School

The River Valley Conference is home to the top three teams in this week’s IHSAA Class 1A rankings — No. 1 Iowa City Regina, No. 2 West Branch and No. 3 West Liberty.

Iowa City Regina is the new No. 1 team in the Class 1A Iowa high school boys’ soccer rankings, but the Regals weren’t the only team that moved up. The Park the Bus podcast details the Gazette-area boys’ and girls’ teams on the move on this week’s episode.

A list of Gazette area golfers and teams to watch for the 2024 Iowa high school girls’ golf season.

Here’s a look at Gazette area players and teams to watch during the 2024 Iowa high school boys’ soccer season.

Meet The Gazette’s 2023-24 all-area high school boys’ basketball team. Decorah’s Jonathan Carlson is the Coach of the Year. Linn-Mar’s Davis Kern is the Player of the Year.

The Iowa Print Sports Writers Association has announced its all-state boys’ basketball teams. First-teamers include two players from North Linn and one each from Linn-Mar, Cedar Rapids Kennedy, Williamsburg, Decorah, West Branch, Monticello and Maquoketa Valley.

Meet The Gazette’s 2024 all-area high school girls’ wrestling team: Linn-Mar’s Kane Naaktgeboren is the Wrestler of the Year and Alburnett’s Clayton Rush is the Coach of the Year.

Full results from Friday’s Class 1A Iowa high school boys’ state wrestling semifinals, where Cascade’s Brock Morris put the disappointment of missing out on last year’s state tournament behind him and advanced to Saturday night’s state finals.

Preston Ries of Monticello and Holden Arnaman of West Branch are the boys’ basketball players of the year in their respective divisions of the River Valley Conference.

Here is a class-by-class breakdown of the 2024 Iowa high school boys’ state wrestling tournament, which begins Wednesday and runs through Saturday at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.

Five area Iowa high school girls’ basketball games to watch Saturday in Class 3A quarterfinals and Class 2A regional first-round games.

Holden Arnaman scored 27 points, and Reese Trepanier hit a huge go-ahead 3-pointer in the final two minutes as West Branch knocked off Class 2A No. 10 Iowa City Regina, 55-49, Friday night at Regina. The win tied the teams atop the River Valley Conference South Division and ended Regina’s 13-game win streak.

Cascade’s Jackson Lieurance scored 47 points in a game last week, breaking a school record set by Creighton head coach Greg McDermott. He also set the school record for 3-pointers in a game. A few days later, West Branch’s Holden Arnaman scored a school-record 48 points.

Alburnett has climbed to the top of the Class 1A boys’ wrestling dual rankings. The Pirates were fourth at the 2023 state duals and will host regional duals again this season. The Wamac Conference has seven teams in the field with No. 2 Mount Vernon, West Delaware and Indpendence hosting 2A regional duals. Linn-Mar is the lone Gazette-area host in 3A.

Here is The Gazette’s first 2023-24 installment of area high school boys’ wrestling individual rankings.