Solon slipped past DeWitt Central last night, 63-59, for its 31st straight road victory and clinched the overall WAMAC title in its first year in the conference.
Matt Morrison scored 24 points for Solon and hit six straight free throws in the closing minutes to help hold off DeWitt Central. Ben Bergman added 10 points for Class 2A top-ranked Solon (20-0), which has won 57 of its last 58 games.
Weston Ketelson had 21 points and Nate Keeney added 20 for DeWitt Central.
IOWA CITY HIGH 65, DUBUQUE WAHLERT 54 — Malcolm Moore …

Morgan Paige scored 23 points and Brittany Fish added 15 points to lead Marion to a 72-37 rout of Clear Creek Amana last night in a girls’ basketball game in Marion.
Marion made 10 3-pointers in the game with Fish making  five of them.
Sam Rinehart scored 10 points for the Indians, who improved to 18-1 overall, 13-0 in the Wamac West.
IOWA CITY REGINA 77, WILTON 56 — Iowa City Regina (17-4, 13-1) earned a share of the Cedar Valley Conference title with the win at Wilton.
Kylee Homewood had a double-double with …

MANCHESTER — The Independence wrestling team had one blemish on its record and that provided enough motivation to keep the Mustangs from passing up a chance for revenge.
No. 6 Independence revisited the site of its only loss but this time walked away with an impressive, 41-22, victory over fifth-ranked West Delaware in the Class 2A regional dual final last night at West Delaware High School. The Mustangs earned their second-straight state duals berth and some redemption.
The last visit and dual against the Wamac rivals ended in a 54-22 drubbing at …

By Jeff Dahn

The Gazette

MARION — Linn-Mar all-stater Zach Bohanon is starting to take over games and all that remains to be seen now is how far that will take the Lions.
Bohannon, a 6-foot-7 senior, scored a career high 40 points on the heels of a 35-point performance his last time out, and Class 4A second-ranked Linn-Mar fought off Cedar Rapids Jefferson, 62-56, in a not-always pretty Mississippi Valley Conference game last night at Linn-Mar.
The win assured the Lions (17-1, 13-0 MVC) of at least a share of the MVC Valley …

By Jeff Linder
The Gazette
CEDAR RAPIDS — Considering the circumstances, the Linn-Mar girls’ basketball team spent a long time in the locker room last night before exiting.
It was another textbook triumph, 71-47, at Cedar Rapids Jefferson for the unbeaten, Class 4A top-ranked Lions. But the focus now is the little things.
And March.
“We talked about a lot of things,” said Lions Coach Mike Brandt. “We can’t be satisfied. We want to do the right thing on each possession. We discussed the future and what we’re trying to accomplish.”
The Lions (20-0 overall, 15-0 …

The MVC Mississippi Division race is turning into a game of hot potato.
Nobody can gain a firm handle on it.
Cedar Rapids Xavier was the most recent frontrunner to stumble, dropping a 50-44 decision — at home — to Cedar Rapids Washington.
That cuts the cast of co-leaders to two — Cedar Rapids Kennedy (14-4 overall) and Dubuque Wahlert (14-5 overall) are 10-4 in the MVC. Both have stiff challenges tonight: Kennedy travels to surging Waterloo West while Wahlert hosts Iowa City High (14-5, 9-5), which still has title hopes if it …

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The Mississippi Valley Conference has released its All-Conference selections:
MVC MISSISSIPPI DIVISION
First team
103 – Jack Hathaway (I.C. West, fr.), 112 – Shane Williams (C.R. Kennedy, fr.), 119 – Nick Sand (Waterloo West, sr.), 125 – Gradey Gambrall (I.C. West, fr.), 130 – Garrett Hathway (I.C. West, fr.) and Stephen Blayer (Iowa City High, sr.), 135 – Austin Steil (C.R. Xavier, sr.), 140 – Justin Koethe (I.C. West, fr.), 145 – Dylan Carew (I.C. West, sr.), 152 – Nick Moore (I.C. West, sr.), 160 – Derek St. John (I.C. West, …

By John Campbell, TV9 Sports
By John Campbell

Story Created: Feb 10, 2009 at 6:11 PM CST
Story Updated: Feb 10, 2009 at 6:11 PM CST
West Liberty-Back in the early 1960’s new basketball uniforms arrived for the West Liberty girls basketball team, the Comettes.
There was, however, a problem. The uniforms said Belles. The coach at that time, unbeknownst to the principal, told the company to put that nickname on the uniforms.
There was much discussion and finally the student body voted to keep the Belles nickname for the girls’ teams.
Now, some 45 …

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I will be live-chatting during the Class 2A regional duals in Manchester tonight. The teams are No. 4 West Delaware, No. 7 Independence, No. 8 MFL MarMac and Monticello.
Make sure you log on to www.iowaprepsports.com for the link to join in. Feel free to join the discussion as well. Hope we have as strong a turn out as we did for Saturday’s Class 1A sectional blog.
      
Source: KJ Pilcher

Seventh-ranked Independence (24-1) wrestles Monticello (19- 8 in a Class 2A regional dual semifinal tonight at 6. The other semifinal features No. 4 West Delaware (14-2) and No. 8 MFL MarMac (18-1).
Semifinal winners will compete in regional finals immediately after the opening round. The winner advances to State Dual tournament Saturday, Feb. 28 at the U.S. Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids.
Class 2A Regional Wrestling Dual