CEDAR RAPIDS — Iowa Mennonite claimed a berth in the Class 1A boys state basketball tournament next week in Des Moines with a 59-51 victory over Clinton Prince of Peace at Cedar Rapids Prairie.
Iowa Mennonite will take a 24-1 record into the first round.
The field won’t be set until the 1A substates are wrapped up Monday night.
Prince of Peace ended the season at 19-6.

DES MOINES — Ottumwa and Keokuk captured team titles Saturday in the girls’ state bowling tournament at Plaza Lanes.
Stephanie Martin of Keokuk and Jessica Cordrey of Muscatine rolled their way to the individual titles.
In Class 2A, Ottumwa topped the team competition with a pin count of 2,959. Dubuque Senior was second (2,714), Cedar Rapids Prairie third (2,711) and Cedar Rapids Jefferson fourth (2,698). Lynn Schmidt paced Prairie’s effort with a two-game total of 428. Lauren Noah was Jefferson’s top scorer with 386.
Cordrey rolled a three-game series of 728 in the …

By Jason Brummond
News correspondent
MARION — Apparently a good offense beats a good defense three out of three times. At least if you have the potent inside-outside attack of top-ranked Solon.
The Spartans built a big first-quarter lead and breezed past Dyersville Beckman in a 76-42 rout last night in a Class 2A boys’ basketball substate final. Solon’s one-two punch of Matt Morrison and Tucker Wentzien combined for 45 points, topping the total output from the Blazers in the third matchup between the schools this season.
“We were on a mission tonight,” Solon …

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CEDAR RAPIDS – Heart and fight became priceless as the value of paper plummeted and settled pennies above worthless last night.
Waverly-Shell Rock appeared to be the underdog entering its final match against top-ranked Iowa City West, but battled to claim its second straight title in the Class 3A State Dual wrestling tournament at the U.S. Cellular Center. The second-ranked Go-Hawks overcame a 19-point deficit by winning the last six matches and beat the Trojans, 32-31, receiving a point on criteria for most matches won.
Waverly-Shell Rock Coach Rick Caldwell …

By: John Sears, TV 9 Sports
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Story Created: Feb 28, 2009 at 9:38 PM CST
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CEDAR RAPIDS, IA – Waverly-Shell Rock fell behind 31-12 to top seed Iowa City West but the Go-Hawks never lost their composure winning 5 straight matches and winning the 3A title 32-31.
Luke Pint needed a win at 130 for W-SR and he defeated Garrett Hathaway 7-0. That actually tied it at 31, but the G0-Hawks had 8 wins the Trojans just …

By Jeff Johnson
The Gazette
CEDAR RAPIDS  - At last weekend’s traditional state wrestling tournament, Trent Weatherman told someone in the media that by the time the season was over, he hoped people would be able to recognize the Ballard team as the best in the history of Iowa.
After doing the expected and rolling through the Class 2A field at Saturday’s State Duals Tournament at the U.S. Cellular Center, Weatherman was asked if he felt the Bombers were indeed number one all time.
“I don’t know,” said the two-time individual state champ and Iowa …

By Jeff Johnson
The Gazette
CEDAR RAPIDS – Eight for eight. Yes, that’s great.
“You can’t top what they did,” Don Bosco Coach Tom Kettman said after his Dons outlasted Nashua-Plainfield, 37-25, in the Class 1A championship dual of Saturday’s state dual wrestling tournament.
What this Don Bosco senior class did was win four traditional state team championships and four dual titles. Four-time individual gold medalist Bart Reiter gets most of the attention, but let’s give it up for the rest of those special 12th-graders, too.
They would be Jason Mangrich, Vance Ortner, Luke Breuer, …

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Fans of Iowa football and men’s basketball in Cedar Rapids will get a glimpse of the future tonight, as basketball recruit Eric May and football recruits Jordan Cotton and Drew Clark play in a Class 3A boys’ basketball substate final double-header tonight at the U.S. Cellular Center.
Dubuque Wahlert (17-6) plays Mount Vernon (16-7) in the first game at 6:30. May, a 6-foot-4 forward, averages 24.3 points per game for the Golden Eagles, who won last year’s 3A title on a 40-foot shot at the buzzer from May.  He’s a good athlete, …

Monday’s state basketball feature deals with the relationship of Springville High School point guard Carly Martin and her late brother Chase, who died of heart failure at age 17.
Carly, a senior, was kind enough and open enough to speak about her family’s loss.  And she was gracious enough to send me copy of the many poems and letters she has written in the past 3 1/2 years. All of the copy is as she wrote it.
 
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They say time still heals everything. I have to disagree though. Time does
help heal, but there will …

By: John Sears, TV9 Sports
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Story Created: Feb 28, 2009 at 5:41 PM CST
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CEDAR RAPIDS, IA – Iowa City West and Waverly-Shell Rock cruised in to the 3A finals. The Trojans beat WDM Valley 56-13, the Go-Hawks disposed of Southeast Polk 47-25.
In Class 2A Denver/Tripoli upset Clear Lake 37-31. D-T will take on Top ranked Ballard in the finals.
In class 1A #1 Don Bosco looks to be the cream of the crop, they crushed Logan-Magnolia …