Prep golfers hit the course for Iowa High School Athletic Association championship meets today as 35 sectional meets in all three classes across the state.
Decorah senior Andrew Peter will look to defend his individual state title, and help lead the Vikings back to the Class 3A state meet. The Vikings, who placed fourth at state last season, travel to Charles City for a sectional with Clear Lake, Crestwood, Forest City, Hampton-Dumont, Iowa Falls-Alden and New Hampton. The top four individuals and top two teams advance to next week’s district play, joing a Manchest …

The Iowa High School Golf Coaches Association released its opening set of adjusted rankings on April 21. Reports appear to be spotty, meaning not all programs are represented. It does give you an idea of what some golfers are shooting from around the state. Since no course is the same, including differences in par and difficulty, the is an adjustment formula to calculate the rankings.
Western Dubuque’s Ali Daly is No. 1 in the Class 4A individual rankings and has the best adjusted score in all classes at 38.33. The Bobcats …

Marion’s Mike Manderscheid and Solon’s Brad Randall were conference coaches of the year in their respective divisions. Their teams shared the overall Wamac title.
Here are the complete teams:
2009-10 Wamac Boys Basketball

DYERSVILLE — The celebratory meals and the congratulatory pats on the back will have to wait, because the Denver-Tripoli wrestling team wasn’t wasting any time to get back to work.
The Titans had practice scheduled just hours after they powered their way to a team title in what was considered one of the tougher sectional fields.
Denver prevailed in fine fashion, advancing 10 to next week’s district meet and winning the Class 2A sectional wrestling tournament at Beckman High School. The Titans had eight champions and tallied 265½ points, 41 more than …

Dyersville Beckman’s Tony Naber became just the second Blazer to win a Wamac Conference title with a solid 7-1 victory over West Delaware’s P.C. McEnany in the 125-pound final Saturday at Benton Community in Van Horne.
Matt Heims won the 145-pound title in 2006 for Beckman.
Naber wasn’t seeded in the top three but advanced to the final when Western Dubuque’s Jim Gotto, ranked third in 3A, injury defaulted. Naber, the school record holder for wins in a season (37 in 2008-09) had a pin and major decision in the tournament while improving …

This is minus conference standings for the Big East. Not sure which games are conference games and which aren’t. As soon as we figure that out, we’ll update this.
These are through Wednesday
STANDINGS
MVC MISSISSIPPI DIVISION Conf. All
—- Cedar Rapids Kennedy 5-2 7-3
—- Dubuque Wahlert 5-3 8-4
—- Iowa City High 2-5 6-6
—- Waterloo West 3-5 5-5
—- Iowa City West 2-5 4-8
—- Cedar Rapids Xavier 2-5 4-7
—- Dubuque Hempstead 0-7 0-11
MVC VALLEY DIVISION Conf. All
—- Linn-Mar 7-0 11-1
—- Cedar Rapids Jefferson 6-1 10-1
—- Cedar Falls 6-1 8-1
—- Cedar Rapids Washington 5-2 7-4
—- Waterloo …

We’re four days away from the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union’s release of regional basketball pairings.
Here are our final mock brackets, statewide in Class 4A, Eastern Iowa only in the other three classes.
CLASS 4A
Region 1 (Final at Fort Dodge)
Sioux City East at Sioux City West
Sioux City North, bye
Fort Dodge at Mason City
Ames, bye
Region 2 (Final at Atlantic)
Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson at Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln
Lewis Central, bye
West Des Moines Valley at Urbandale
Waukee, bye
Region 3 (Final at West Des Moines Valley)
Des Moines Hoover at Johnston
West Des Moines Dowling, bye
Des Moines North …

The top six teams in the rankings have a number of wrestlers on the list. All of them have at least five wrestlers ranked. Defending state champion Ballard still leads the way with Denver-Tripoli and Davenport Assumption close behind. The state tournament could be very interesting depending upon the number of qualifiers each can take to Des Moines.
Top 10 State Tournament Teams (# of ranked wrestlers)
1. Ballard (6)
2. Denver-Tripoli (8)
3. Davenport Assumption (7)
4. Independence (6)
5. Forest City (5)
6. East Marshall (5)
7. Centerville (3)
8. Emmetsburg (4)
9. Dallas Center-Grimes (4)
10. Sgt. Bluff …

Here are the conference standings of the Wamac Conference. The dual standings reflect conference records only through Jan. 1 and were submitted by a league coach.
EAST DIVISION
DeWitt Central 2-0
Western Dubuque 2-0
West Delaware 1-0
Anamosa 1-1
Maquoketa 1-1
Solon 0-1
Mt. Vernon 0-2
Dyersville Beckman 0-2
WEST DIVISION
Benton Community 2-0
Independence 2-0
Williamsburg 1-0
Center Point-Urbana 1-1
Marion 1-1
Vinton-Shellsburg 0-1
Waterloo Columbus 0-2
Clear Creek Amana 0-2

CLASS 1A
Keota
—- Went 21-2 last season and returns top two scorers Cody Uphold and Joe Saresky and four of top five. Top four rebounders also are back. Should be a handful for South Iowa Cedar League foes … again.
Central City
—- We’ll add perennial power Iowa Mennonite to this list, too. But let’s talk about the Wildcats, who went 18-6 a season ago and return three of their top four scorers (John Rochford, Jeffrey Stevens and Mason Nielsen), as well as their top two rebounders.
CLASS 2A
Dyersville Beckman
—- The Blazers are usually …