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 ...

Game, set, rubber match.Iowa City Regina and Mid-Prairie were unable to determine girls' basketball superiority in the regular season, splitting their two games and sharing the Cedar Valley Conference championship.As far as tie-breakers go, Tuesday's Class 2A regional quarterfinal certainly will suffice."Every game is important, ...

MOUNT VERNON -- They played an uncommonly clean game.And they kept alive their hopes for a clean divisional sweep.The Mount Vernon Mustangs wrapped up their second straight Wamac Conference East Division girls' basketball championship Tuesday night, handing over only five turnovers in a 54-39 victory ...

MONTICELLO - This is Tim Lambert's 13th year at Monticello. His team's next win will be its 13th."Don't jinx us," Lambert said, probably only half kidding.You can't blame the coach for not wanting anything to screw up what has been a special season for his team. ...

 Admit it, you expected Mount Vernon to plummet in girls' basketball this season, didn't you?All that height from two straight state finalists: Gone. More than three-fourths of their scoring: Vanished.But as we head down the stretch of the regular season, the first area team to ...

 Life as a Class 2A football participant has been pretty sweet the last two years for Iowa City Regina.All the Regals have done is assemble a 28-game winning streak and capture the last two state championships. That's all.It's quite possible that Regina will be moving ...

MOUNT VERNON -- They ain’t big.In fact, Mount Vernon starts four guys who are 6-foot-1 or shorter. Three starters don’t even crack 6-foot.But there’s that thing about the fight in the dog and not the size of the dog in the fight. Or fight in ...

VINTON -- Seventeen on her 18th.Sarah Frisch celebrated her birthday with a match-high 17 kills, and fourth-ranked Grundy Center swept Mount Vernon, 25-17, 25-18, 25-16, in a Class 2A volleyball regional final Tuesday night at Garrison Fieldhouse.And thus officially ended Mount Vernon's two-year reign as state ...

They've got an all-new lineup and a brand-new coach.But they're still defending state champions. And they're still alive.The Mount Vernon Mustangs are in a familiar spot -- on the brink of the state volleyball tournament. They'll face fourth-ranked Grundy Center in a Class 2A regional ...