DES MOINES - Mount Vernon’s Lauren Wilch and Emma Cochrane celebrated a repeat win in the 3,200 relay. Both played key roles in last year’s 3A triumph in the event when the Mustangs ran in a combined program with Lisbon. That partnership spanned 25 years ...

Mount Vernon athletics director Joe Wallace said in an e-mail Friday that the school will hire Wes Bruns as its next head boys' basketball coach, pending school board approval in early May.Bruns has been Mount Vernon's head sophomore coach. The 1986 Cedar Rapids Prairie graduate ...

DES MOINES -- Josh Evans suffered through a bout of insomnia in a Des Moines hotel Thursday night."I couldn't sleep," he said. "I kept thinking back to that (3,200-meter) race."That one got away. This one didn't.Evans closed with a 1:55.9 anchor and outkicked the pack ...

LISBON -- For 25 spring seasons, girls track athletes from Mount Vernon and Lisbon came together.They coined unique nicknames and they assembled quality teams. Sometimes, championship teams.A new day has dawned, though: Lisbon has claimed independence and is going solo.No more Zebras, T-Rexes, Mermaids or ...

DES MOINES – The message was simple, yet so true.“You are a state champion,” was voiced by a member of the Monticello coaching staff to senior Logan McQuillen after he claimed the 160-pound title Saturday night during the Iowa High School Athletic Association Class 2A ...

MOUNT VERNON — Still state champions.“We’re champs until the next person wins,” said Mount Vernon center Calvin Kragenbrink, after his team’s 61-30 district boys’ basketball stroll past Alburnett Monday night. “That’s how you’ve got to play.”Let’s not get too carried away here. It’d be absolutely ...

TIFFIN - James Wenzel gave his best impression of a caged jaguar.The Mount Vernon senior paced back and forth, anxiously awaiting his turn to take the mat. He turned that nervous energy into a little revenge and a district berth.Wenzel avenged an earlier loss to Clear ...

MOUNT VERNON -- That's one way to kill a rally.Class 3A 12th ranked Mount Vernon held 2A No. 13 Iowa City Regina scoreless for the first seven-plus minutes of the fourth quarter and won, 41-32, in the Rivalry Saturday girls' basketball finale Saturday night at ...

Rivalry Saturday is taking a one-year leave from Cedar Rapids.Renovation to the U.S. Cellular Center has pushed the ninth installment of the six-game girls' basketball event out of the arena for the second straight year.Cornell College is the temporary host; it was at Cedar Rapids ...