Center Point-Urbana goal keeper Kaylee Weems defends against a shot by Assumption's Maddie Irmen (5) during their quarterfinal game at the 2012 Iowa Girls High School State Soccer Championships Thursday, June 7, 2012 at the Muscatine Soccer Complex in Muscatine. Assumption won the game 5-0 ...

CENTER POINT — Rich Plante and Todd Mitchell finally got their wish seven years ago after quite a bit of lobbying. That’s when Center Point-Urbana High School decided to create a girls’ soccer program, and those two are the coaches.“We’d been begging for years to ...

CEDAR RAPIDS -- Through 14 winters, they've occasionally battled for divisional titles. And they've always squabbled for 42nd Street superiority.But until now, Cedar Rapids Xavier and Cedar Rapids Kennedy have never fought for girls' basketball postseason survival.The time has come.Fifth-ranked Xavier (16-5) hosts No. 12 ...

CEDAR RAPIDS -- Center Point-Urbana almost lost the game at the free throw line in regulation.The Stormin' Pointers won it there in overtime.CPU drained 8 of its first 9 free throws in the extra session and upended Class 3A 12th-ranked Marion, 57-51, in a Wamac ...

 Admit it, you expected Mount Vernon to plummet in girls' basketball this season, didn't you?All that height from two straight state finalists: Gone. More than three-fourths of their scoring: Vanished.But as we head down the stretch of the regular season, the first area team to ...

 Life as a Class 2A football participant has been pretty sweet the last two years for Iowa City Regina.All the Regals have done is assemble a 28-game winning streak and capture the last two state championships. That's all.It's quite possible that Regina will be moving ...

The area's top dozen football games for the first round of the playoffs Wednesday:CEDAR RAPIDS KENNEDY at IOWA CITY HIGH (4A)Time & site: 7 p.m., at Bates FieldRecords & rankings: Kennedy is 5-4; No. 9 City High is 7-2.Notable: City High picked up a 34-13 ...

A dozen area football games with playoff ramifications:IOWA CITY WEST at CEDAR FALLSTime and site: 7:45 p.m. Friday, at Cedar Falls (UNI-Dome)Records and rankings: West is 6-2 overall, 5-0 MVC Valley Division; Class 4A No. 2 Cedar Falls is 8-0, 6-0.Why this game really matters: ...

The schedule has backed off, a little. The Stormin' Pointers have come on, a lot."It took us some time to jell, but we've gotten on a bit of a roll," said Center Point-Urbana football coach Dan Burke.As a result, CPU (3-5 overall, 3-3 Class 3A ...

The top 12 area games (and a couple more) for Week 6 (complete schedule):CEDAR RAPIDS WASHINGTON at IOWA CITY HIGHTime and site: 7:15 p.m. Friday, at Bates FieldRecords and rankings: Washington is 3-2 overall, 1-2 MVC Mississippi Division; Class 4A second-rated City High is 5-0, 3-0.Notable: ...