CEDAR RAPIDS -- Mike Morrissey's chin trembled and his voice cracked as he addressed his team postgame."When you walk off this field, you hold your heads high," he commanded. "You hang your heads for nobody."Cedar Rapids Prairie's breakout football season came to an end with ...

Key area football games for the playoff quarterfinals Friday:CEDAR RAPIDS PRAIRIE at CEDAR RAPIDS XAVIER (Class 4A)Time and site: 7 p.m., Saints FieldRecords and rankings: Prairie is 8-3; No. 3 Xavier is 11-0Notable: The Hawks are soaring into the quarterfinals, looking for its third straight win over ...

They're in.Forty years after the Iowa High School Athletic Association instituted playoffs to determine its state football championships, the Springville Orioles have arrived at the postseason feast."We couldn't be happier," Orioles senior Jake Hulett said Saturday morning, a few hours after Springville routed West Central, ...

IOWA CITY -- One was for the divisional lead. The other was for playoff survival.The results were strikingly similar."Scarily similar, in a lot of ways," said Iowa City Coach Dan Sabers.Andrew McNulty rushed for three touchdowns and passed for another -- a 56-yard back-breaker to ...

CEDAR RAPIDS -- Turns out, Tim Lewis was right.It really is a different team.Trevor Heitland scored on a 4-yard touchdown run with 1:11 remaining, and Cedar Rapids Kennedy collected six takeaways in an 11-7 upset of No. 8 Cedar Rapids Xavier in a Class 4A ...

MARION -- When was the turning point?Was it the day Bob Forsyth was hired? The rainy night in which the losing streak ended?Last year's memorable with over Cedar Rapids Kennedy? Or Cedar Rapids Xavier? Or Cedar Rapids Washington?Was it the day ground was broken on ...

Andre Dawson reportedly practiced without a limp at Cedar Rapids Washington's football practice and appears likely to play in the Warriors' Class 4A first-round playoff game against Cedar Rapids Kennedy on Monday.Dawson injured a knee -- AD Paul James called it a slight meniscus tear ...