CEDAR RAPIDS -- In a little more than a year, three area conferences will become two.The Iowa Department of Education rendered its decision Tuesday on an ongoing dilemma with athletics affiliation.In a nutshell, the IDOE decided to dissolve the Big East Conference and expand the Tri-Rivers ...

Here is how several area conferences look now, and how they'll look in the fall of 2013:BIG EAST CONFERENCE2011-12 (9 schools): Bellevue, Bellevue Marquette, Calamus-Wheatland, Camanche, Clinton Prince of Peace, Lisbon, Midland, Northeast, Preston.2013-14 (0 schools): Disbanded.CEDAR VALLEY CONFERENCE2011-12 (8 schools): Durant, Iowa City Regina, ...

DES MOINES -- The Iowa Department of Education will take the full 60 days in rendering a decision that will determine the conference affiliation of a good share of the area small schools.IDOE legal counsel Carol Greta said Friday that she was working on a ...

Don't expect a decision from the Iowa Department of Education on the ongoing area small-school conference mystery this week.Or probably this month.Legal counsel Carol Greta said it will probably be May before a ruling is made."I don't have a clue, to be honest," she said ...

(Here's how Jeff Linder from The Gazette-KCRG would complete the ongoing conference realignment issue for small schools throughout Eastern Iowa)Thank you all for attending this meeting. Please grab a doughnut and some coffee on your way to your seat. Make yourselves comfortable; this shouldn't take ...

Conference reshuffling remains a likelihood in Eastern Iowa. But it won't involve Anamosa.Iowa Department of Education general counsel Carol Greta overturned a committee's recommendation to take Anamosa out of the Wamac Conference and place it into a new conference."Our mediation team did as it was ...

Final 2011-12 area girls' basketball standingsx-clinched league title; y-clinched tie for league titleMVC MISSISSIPPI DIVISION Conf. Allx-Dubuque Wahlert 12-4 20-5Cedar Rapids Washington 11-5 14-8Iowa City High 10-6 17-7Cedar Rapids Kennedy 9-7 13-10Waterloo West 7-9 13-10Linn-Mar 6-10 10-12Dubuque Senior 5-11 10-13MVC VALLEY DIVISION Conf. Allx-Iowa City West 16-0 25-1Cedar Rapids Xavier 11-5 18-6Cedar Falls 10-6 13-10Cedar Rapids Prairie 8-8 12-10Dubuque Hempstead 4-12 8-14Cedar Rapids Jefferson 3-13 9-14Waterloo East 0-16 0-22WAMAC EAST DIVISION Div. Allx-Mount Vernon 14-0 17-5Western Dubuque 11-3 13-9DeWitt Central 7-7 12-11Solon 7-7 10-12Dyersville Beckman 6-8 8-15West Delaware 6-8 8-15Maquoketa 3-11 5-17Anamosa 2-12 4-19WAMAC WEST DIVISION Div. Allx-Benton ...

MONTICELLO -- The Big East Conference will disappear. A new, yet-to-be-named conference will form.The Cedar Valley and Wamac conference will get a little smaller. The Tri-Rivers Conference will get a lot bigger.And Cedar Valley Christian School will have a home.Those are the likelihoods disclosed from ...

Area boys' basketball standings, through Sunday.MVC MISSISSIPPI DIVISION Conf. AllLinn-Mar 13-3 17-4Dubuque Senior 11-5 16-5Cedar Rapids Kennedy 10-6 15-6Dubuque Wahlert 9-7 10-11Waterloo West 7-9 11-10Iowa City High 4-12 8-14Cedar Rapids Washington 0-16 0-21MVC VALLEY DIVISION Conf. AllIowa City West 16-0 21-0Cedar Falls 14-2 19-2Cedar Rapids Jefferson 9-7 13-8Cedar Rapids Xavier 8-8 10-12Cedar Rapids Prairie 5-11 9-13Waterloo East 4-12 6-16Dubuque Hempstead 3-13 4-18WAMAC EAST DIVISION Div. AllWestern Dubuque 12-2 20-2Mount Vernon 12-2 18-4Maquoketa 11-3 16-6Dyersville Beckman 8-6 15-7Solon 6-8 13-9Anamosa 4-10 9-14DeWitt Central 2-12 6-17West Delaware 1-13 6-16WAMAC WEST DIVISION Div. AllVinton-Shellsburg 12-2 18-4Williamsburg 9-5 13-9Center Point-Urbana 8-6 13-9Benton Community 8-6 10-12Marion 8-6 9-13Clear Creek-Amana 7-7 10-12Waterloo Columbus 4-10 5-18Independence 0-14 0-22CEDAR VALLEY Conf. AllNorth Cedar 13-1 19-4West ...

One area girls' basketball conference race has been decided. Several more could follow as soon as Tuesday.North Tama became the first area team to clinch an outright league title Friday when it defeated Waterloo Christian to lay sole claim to the Iowa Star Conference.Five area schools ...