SOLON — You walk 14 guys, commit five errors, blow a five-run lead, and you get to go to state. What a deal for the West Branch Bears.What a Class 2A substate baseball game West Branch had Tuesday night, scoring a run in the top ...

 The weight of expectations can be a burden, but only if you let it.The Solon Spartans haven't let it."We don't talk about it," said Spartans Coach Ben Sorden. "We talk about controlling the controllable."Solon (32-6) has been the wire-to-wire No. 1 team in Class 3A ...

These were just released from Marion Activities Director Corby Laube. First-round sites are Marion and Linn-Mar. The tournament begins May 21.

 DES MOINES — A basketball team that slogged, stuttered and stumbled its way through nearly three full quarters Friday night suddenly, stunningly flipped a switch. And gets a state championship because it did.Mount Vernon rallied from a 15-point deficit in the third quarter to win ...

 DES MOINES -- Jake Timm wasn't afraid to lift his jersey top Thursday afternoon and show you the scars below and around his belly button. They're tiny, especially compared to the ultimate importance of his laparoscopic appendectomy.It's weird to say, but the Mount Vernon point ...

 DES MOINES — As he ran onto the court for pregame warm-ups with the rest of his team, Will Teubel tripped and did a face plant on the Wells Fargo Arena floor. It turned out to be the only misstep the Mount Vernon Mustangs had ...

MOUNT VERNON — Dirty 30.Drive east along Highway 30 just outside Cedar Rapids, and you’ll find a string of communities represented in the boys’ state basketball tournament Monday.It starts in Mount Vernon and continues to neighboring Lisbon. Motor another seven miles, and you’ll hit Mechanicsville. ...

This story is by Matt Levins of the Burlington Hawk Eye (www.thehawkeye.com)MOUNT PLEASANT -- Mediapolis High School boys basketball coach Greg Worrall knew his team would have to have all the stars align if his team was to give sixth-ranked Mount Vernon a run for ...

 From the Iowa High School Athletic Association. Quarterfinal opponents Mount Vernon and North Cedar played early in the regular season, with Mount Vernon winning, 59-50.

Robin Brand has been recommended as the new varsity softball coach at Mount Vernon High School.If hired by the school board, Brand will succeed Gary Stamp, who died of lung cancer in October.Brand served as Stamp's assistant last year, and is the school's sophomore volleyball ...