ALBURNETT - The Alburnett wrestling team has the firepower, so the Pirates took it upon themselves to promote it.Class 1A top-ranked Alburnett wanted to display it for fans, inviting members of the community to "Pack The Gym" for a "White Out" for one of its few ...

Matt Wempen, 113, So., Linn-Mar, Class 3A 106-pound state champion with 48-2 record.Hunter Washburn, 113, So., Alburnett, Class 1A 106-pound state champion, going 46-0.Max Thomsen, So., Union Community, Class 2A 113-pound state champion, posting 47-1 mark.Erik Lux, 170, Sr., South Tama, Class 2A 160-pound state champion ...

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 ...

Three more schools might be trying to flee the Tri-Rivers Conference.Representatives from East Buchanan, Maquoketa Valley and North Linn met with Upper Iowa Conference athletics directors Wednesday with hopes of possibly escaping a possible Tri-Rivers/Big East combination."The superintendents are the ones that would have to ...

(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 ...

 WINTHROP — One team. One family. One mission.The saying sprawled on the back of Alburnett wrestling sweatshirts provides a blunt message of the Pirates goal to be No. 1 in the state.Alburnett took its first step in trying to improve two straight third-place finishes in Des ...

It's a luxury. And it's a dilemma.Alburnett has a veteran all-state pitcher in Jacqueline Naeve. And a rising star in eighth-grader Cassidy Henle.Who gets the call when regionals begin?"I don't know," Pirates Coach Marv Porter said. "It's been weighing on my mind the last three ...

MUSCATINE - Neither rain nor gloom of day nor red cards could prevent Cedar Rapids Xavier from advancing to its next appointed round Thursday afternoon.The Saints began their march toward a girls' state soccer six-peat with a dominating 4-0 win over Independence/East Buchanan in a ...

BOYS EAST BUCHANAN: The Bucs reached the Class 1A state meet last year for the first since placing fourth in 2008. Three golfers from last year's state team were underclassmen. East Buch will try to win its sixth straight Tri-Rivers Conference title, according to the league's website, led TRC champ Curt ...

DES MOINES - East Buchanan's wrestling program has had its share of female wrestlers.The Bucs have had three female wrestlers the last 12 years, including Kendra Kehrli this season. the first was Emily Stiefel. Gender isn't an issue to Coach Dan Fox."We have Kendra in ...