Sportswriter Jeff Linder will provide live coverage of tonight’s Class 3A state championship game between Solon (25-2) and Hull Western Christian (24-3).
Tipoff is scheduled for 8:05 p.m. Follow the live coverage below.
Solon vs. Hull Western Christian: Class 3A basketball final

Sportswriter Jeff Linder will provide live coverage of today’s Class 4A semifinal basketball game between Linn-Mar (23-1) and Southeast Polk (20-3). The game begins at 3:15 p.m.
Linn-Mar vs. Southeast Polk: Class 4A basketball semifinal

Spring sports have produced athletes, who have participated in more than one sport during the season.
We’ve seen athletes in the past play soccer and golf, and some have played track and golf. Do you know of any athletes planning on playing two high school varsity sports this spring? Let us know.

Linn-Mar junior Kiah Stokes has been selected as the 2010 Gatorade Iowa Girls’ Basketball Player of the Year.
The 6-foot-3 post led Linn-Mar to a 26-0 record and the Class 4A state championship. She averaged 19.5 points, 12.8 rebounds and 5.1 blocks per game. She clicked for 20 points, 18 rebounds and six blocks in the Lions’ 38-35 win over Des Moines East in the state final.
“I didn’t know I was going to get this,” she said. “I thought it was an award only for seniors. I was very surprised. I …

DES MOINES — Maybe this will turn out to be another Willis Reed deal.
For those of you not initiated with the legendary NBA tale, Reed spurred the New York Knicks to victory in Game 7 of the 1970 finals despite a torn muscle in his thigh that kept him out of Game 6.
It’s a back injury, specifically a stress fracture of the fifth lumbar vertebrae, that has afflicted Western Christian leading scorer Tyler Wolterstorff at the worst possible time. The Wolves play Solon in tonight’s Class 2A state tournament championship …

DES MOINES — Their top six players from last season graduated. So did 90 percent of their scoring.
But these are the Solon Spartans, and all they do in most sports is win, baby.
“There were a lot of doubters who thought we’d only finish about halfway up our conference,” Tanner Wentzien said after his team out-defensed IKM-Manning, 42-34, in a Class 2A state tournament semifinal Thursday afternoon at Wells Fargo Arena. “But we won our conference, and now we’re playing for a state title.”
The Spartans (25-2) go for two 2A titles …

John Sears, Jeff Linder and myself talk a little boys and girls basketball. Thank you John for relating one of the questions to wrestling for me.

KCRG-TV’s John Sears and The Gazette’s K.J. Pilcher and Jeff Linder talk about the basketball tournament.

Sportswriter Jeff Johnson will provide live coverage of today’s Class 2A semifinal game between Solon (24-2) and IKM-Manning (25-0).
Tipoff is set for 3:45 p.m. Check out the live blog below.
Solon vs. IKM-Manning — Class 2A semifinal