Wednesday's games at the girls state basketball tournament:CLASS 4A QUARTERFINALNo. 5 Cedar Rapids Xavier (14-9) vs. No. 7 Lewis Central (20-3)Time: 10 a.m.Tournament history: Xavier is a qualifier for the 10th time and won championships in 2003, 2005 and 2007. Lewis Central is making its ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — This is Georgetown-Villanova in 1985.If Cedar Rapids Jefferson somehow beats Iowa City West Tuesday night in a Class 4A substate final, it’d be bigger than Georgetown-Villanova. We’re talking one of the largest upsets in Iowa boys’ prep basketball history.That’s not ESPN hype, ...

 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 ...

 Capsules on area teams that have qualified for the girls state basketball tournament:BENTON COMMUNITY (Class 4A)Coach -- Laurie Donald (9th year, 160-54)Top players -- UNI signee Madison Weekly (5-7, sr.) leads the Bobcats in scoring (18.8 points per game), assists (3.3) and steals (4.6). She ...

IOWA CITY – Iowa City West opened the fourth quarter with an alley-oop dunk to begin the fourth. Junior guard Wyatt Lohaus stood on the right wing, outside the 3-point line, and telegraphed a lob to the left block where Jason Stewart threw it down.It ...

(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 ...

DES MOINES — Western Dubuque’s Dawson Nemmers knew Waverly-Shell Rock’s Spencer Derifield.So when the highly-ranked 152-pounders met up in Saturday’s Class 3A state wrestling tournament finals, there were no secrets.“I knew some of the stuff he was going to do,” said Nemmers, who lost to ...

IOWA CITY - The troubled senior season of Dondre Alexander has come to an end in a troubling way.The all-state guard said Friday he has quit the Iowa City West boys' basketball team after being asked to submit to a drug test by the school. ...

At 3A-126 pounds, Iowa City West's Chris Walters beat Prairie's Josh Wenger 8-1 to advance to the semifinals. Here's the decisive second and third rounds video: