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UPPER IOWA CONFERENCE
At Fayette
(Upper Iowa University)

Teams — 1.  MFL MarMac 218.50, 2. North Fayette 140.50, 3. South Winneshiek 132.50, 4. Valley 132, 5. Sumner-Fredericksburg 125, 6. Elkader Central 81, 7. Postville 72, 8. Clayton Ridge 58, 9. Turkey Valley 49.

103 pounds — Mitch Funk (Elkader Central) dec. Aaron Dibble (Postville), 8-2; 112 — Lincoln Monroe (Valley) pinned Devin Rausch (Sum/Fred); 119 — Jed Siegwarth (Elkader Central) pinned Cameron Bronson (MFL MarMac); 125 — Nick Winter (Elkader Central) pinned Easton Kuboushek (South Winn); 130 — Billy Valentine (MFL MarMac) …

By Jeff Dahn

The players and coaches at Linn-Mar and Cedar Rapids Kennedy can’t afford to look ahead to their much anticipated meeting at Kennedy on Feb. 17, but we can. That’s why we’re high school basketball fans.
There are numerous big games to be played in the MVC in the two-plus weeks before that showdown – Linn-Mar at Iowa City High Tuesday night comes to mind – but the buzz around the Metro is already centering on the 17th.
Through Friday night’s games, Kennedy is 14-0 (10-0 MVC Mississippi) and Linn-Mar is …

By Jeff Linder
The Gazette
jeff.linder@gazettecommunications.com

(Liz Martin/The Gazette)
Cedar Rapids Kennedy’s Jacob Heffernen (left), Alex Coleman and Max Martino (right) guard Cedar Rapids Jefferson’s Cole Kramer (middle) as he shoots during the first period last night at Kennedy.

CEDAR RAPIDS — Who’d have thought?
Not even Bob Fontana.
“If you’d have said before the season that we’d be 14-0 right now, I’d have said no way,” said Fontana, the boys’ basketball coach at Cedar Rapids Kennedy.
Believe it, Coach.
The Class 4A second-ranked Cougars clamped down again defensively, blew the game open in the second quarter and ripped …

By Jeff Dahn
The Gazette
jeff.dahn@gazettecommunications.com

Shay Gutman 16 points

CEDAR RAPIDS — The first time around, they needed three sessions of overtime to get the job done. This time they simply needed the full 32 minutes of regulation.
Cedar Rapids Washington watched a 17-point third quarter lead all but disappear, but held on to knock off Class 4A 10th-ranked Iowa City High, 60-55, in Mississippi Valley Conference play last night at Washington.
Washington beat City High, 89-86, in a triple-overtime cliffhanger on Jan. 9, which snapped a 24-game Little Hawk winning streak. The Warriors’ Josh …

By Jeff Linder
The Gazette
jeff.linder@gazettecommunications.com

(Liz Martin/The Gazette)
Cedar Rapids Jefferson’s Alex Jacobson (from left), Cedar Rapids Kennedy’s Mariah Duke, Jefferson’s Katelynn Jourdan and Kennedy’s Kristen Hahn fight for the ball during the second period last night at Kennedy. The Cougars won, 53-30.

CEDAR RAPIDS — It began as a scouting tool.
It became something much more. It became a lethal defensive weapon.
Class 4A fifth-ranked Cedar Rapids Kennedy unveiled a trapping 2-1-2 zone that stymied No. 15 Cedar Rapids Jefferson at every turn in a 53-30 Mississippi Valley Conference girls’ basketball rout last night at …

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SPRINGVILLE — This time, Goliath took the slingshot and snapped it across his knee.
Class 4A fifth-ranked Cedar Rapids Kennedy owned the boards, dominated the second half and ended 1A No. 1 Springville’s 30-game winning streak, 61-43, in a girls’ basketball game last night at Springville High School.
“This was a huge game for us,” said Kennedy’s Jade Rogers, who scorched the Orioles for 22 points, 12 rebounds and six steals. “We were aware of their streak, and it was an intense atmosphere.”
Kennedy has an enrollment of 1,376 students in …

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MARION — The expectations are so high for the Iowa City West wrestling program that Saturday’s performance was meet with mixed reactions.
Sure, the Trojans won defended their Mississippi Valley Conference team title and placed all 14 wrestlers. Don’t forget the six champions of seven finalists. Somehow that all fell a little short of what they were expecting from themselves.
Class 3A second-ranked West was still impressive, tallying 266½ points to win its sixth straight conference tournament team title Saturday at Linn-Mar High School.
The Trojans outscored runner-up Cedar Rapids Prairie …

Essex’s Joscelyn Coleman set an Iowa five-on-five girls’ basketball record with 45 rebounds in her team’s 101-24 win over Clarinda Academy on Thursday.
The 5-foot-11 junior scored 25 points. Eighteen of her rebounds were on the offensive end. Coleman leads the state in rebounding, at 18.1 boards per game.
The 45 boards ranks fourth all-time nationally. The national record is 54, by Andrea Keehne of LaVerne (Calif.) Calvary Baptist in 1995.
For more on Coleman’s record night, take the following link to the Omaha World-Herald web site:
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=3928&u_sid=10551816

In terms of enrollment, this is David vs. Goliath.
Hickory vs. South Bend Central.
Class 1A top-ranked Springville hosts 4A No. 5 Cedar Rapids Kennedy in a girls’ basketball game of immense interest tonight at 6:30. The Orioles (17-0) are defending small-school state champions and boast a 30-game winning streak. In the other corner, Kennedy (13-3) has won 11 of 12 and has a Division-I commitment in junior Jade Rogers.
Kennedy’s enrollment in grades 10-12 is  1,376. Springville’s is 118. Fortunately for the Orioles, it’s just 5 vs. 5 on the court at a time.
Four area girls’ …

Below is a paraphrased report from former Marion state champion Aaron Conway who submitted updates from Maquoketa:
 
Big matches throughout the tournament. Western Dubuque’s Jim Gotto handled Zeb Light, who had beaten Gotto twice this year, in the 119-pound final. Mount Vernon had a champ at 125 when Eyasu Russell countered a late takedown attempt by Marion’s Austin Weisinger to break a 4-4 tie and win 6-4.
West Delaware’s Nathan Vaske won by fall over Maquoketa’s Tim O’Connell at 130. Vaske reached a big milestone, becaoming a four-time Wamac conference champ (I believe …