Dia Keahna was on a state-tournament team two years ago at South Tama.Now, she could be a part of a breakthrough season at Meskwaki Settlement School.Keahna is the leading scorer for the Warriors, who are off to their best season in their brief history at ...

Twelve area girls' basketball players to watch for the 2012-13 season:MADISON DELLAMUTH, 5-6, jr., Cedar Rapids Prairie. 10.8 ppg, 4.0 rpg, 5.1 apg, Class 4A 3rd-team all-stateALLY DISTERHOFT, 6-0, sr., Iowa City West. 16.4 ppg, 3.2 apg, .602 FG%, Class 4A 1st-team all-stateDANI FRANKLIN, 6-0, ...

RESULTSFORT DODGE -- Elkader Central had one of the younger small-school girls teams at the state cross country meet.One of the better teams, too.The Warriors placed third in the Class 1A field Saturday afternoon at Lakeside Golf Course.Led by individual champion Rebekah Topham, Griswold won ...

DES MOINES -- Dakotah Goodell threw well enough to set a personal record.But not quite far enough to repeat.Dubuque Wahlert's Katelyn Weimerskirch denied Goodell a second consecutive Drake Relays discus title Friday, unleashing a throw of 148 feet, 1 inch on her final try."I was ...

 (1A & 2A regional final scores ... HERE)TAMA -- No in-depth analysis necessary on this one. West Marshall simply made more shots.North Linn suffered through a 26-percent shooting output from the field and fell to the Trojans, 53-40, in a Class 2A girls' basketball regional final Monday night ...

Some of it was adrenalin. A lot of it was preparation.Brian Wheatley spent late Friday night (and early Saturday morning) in college-student mode, cramming for an exam.A regional-final exam."I was up until 2 in the morning," said Wheatley, girls' basketball coach at North Linn High School. "We're playing another ...

CEDAR RAPIDS -- Good bye, "downer."Hello, spoiler.Monticello erased an 11-point third-quarter deficit and edged Class 2A 15th-ranked North Linn, 45-42, in a Tri-Rivers Conference girls' basketball game at Rivalry Saturday at Washington High School."The last two games had been a real downer for us," said Jordan ...

TROY MILLS -- The North Linn Lynx have some sharp-looking warmup tops waiting for them in a box.And for now, that's where they'll stay."Coach (Brian Wheatley) is a pretty superstitous guy," said senior Amanda Aberle.The Lynx played from ahead all game and overcame 26 turnovers ...

A broken wrist hasn't broken the spirit of the Monticello Panthers.Class 2A sixth-ranked Monticello is without Brooke Stahlberg until late January, but the Panthers have persevered."It hasn't slowed us down," said Monticello Coach Donnie Kremer. "We've had some other girls step up. The team, as ...