DES MOINES -- Iowa City West's championship reign ended in an avalanche of 3-pointers.Third-ranked Mason City set a state-tournament record with 14 triples, and the Mohawks downed No. 10 West, 72-53, in a Class 5A quarterfinal Wednesday night at Wells Fargo Arena."I knew we were ...

 DES MOINES -- The 2004-05 women's basketball poster for the Iowa Hawkeyes featured a little girl in a long, blonde ponytail, facing away from the camera.The theme: DREAM BIG.The little girl? A 9-year old named Ally Disterhoft."I knew the coaches and they were looking for somebody about ...

(TUESDAY SCORES)CEDAR RAPIDS -- Ally Disterhoft believed. Well, up to a point."You always expect to win," she said. "But there were times I thought, 'Wow, is this real life?'"It almost went too perfectly for us."Disterhoft scored 29 points as 10th-ranked Iowa City West upset No. ...

Well, hello there, stranger.Despite their close proximity -- just 4 miles separate the schools -- it has been five years since Iowa City High and Iowa City West were placed in the same girls' basketball regional.The last time the Little Hawks and the Women of Troy ...

IOWA CITY -- Bill McTaggart issued a halftime challenge to Kiera Washpun.She took it to heart. And she took it to the court.Washpun ignited a third-quarter surge as Class 5A seventh-ranked Iowa City High downed Iowa City West, 65-52, in a non-conference girls' basketball game Friday ...

IOWA CITY -- They didn't stop Ally Disterhoft, and didn't really slow her.They didn't need to.The Washington Warriors had energy and muscle on their side early, the clock in their favor late and were able to hold off Class 5A No. 8 Iowa City West, ...

IOWA CITY -- B.J. Mayer sat in visiting locker room Tuesday night, alone with his thoughts."It was one of the worst feelings ever," he said. "I could hear noise from the gym, but didn't know what was going on."The girls basketball coach at Iowa City ...

 IOWA CITY -- You'd never know it now, but there was a day in which competition turned the tummy of a young Shelly Stumpff."Her first softball tournament -- she was about 9 years old -- she was complaining of stomachaches," recalled her father, Charlie Stumpff. ...

 IOWA CITY -- The text message came late Monday night."Hey, it's Ally. Just wanted to let you know that I'm going to be a Hawkeye!"A few hours and a brief night of sleep later, Ally Disterhoft classified her decision as "a dream come true."A junior ...

 CEDAR RAPIDS -- Tom Lilly is a middle-aged man in what he calls "a young person's game.""I think some people are under the impression that you have to be young and energetic to coach," Lilly said Wednesday in the wake of the news that Dennis ...