CEDAR RAPIDS - Cedar Rapids Prairie was attempting to make lightning strike twice, but Cedar Rapids Xavier weathered the storm.The third-ranked Saints that will be able to take shelter in the UNI-Dome with a 28-7 win over Prairie in an Iowa High School Athletic Association ...

Tickets for Cedar Rapids Prairie's second-round Class 4A playoff football game at Iowa City West are on sale at Prairie's school store, 8 a.m.-3 p.m., each day through Monday.Marion High School will be pre-selling tickets for its Class 3A ssecond-round game against DeWitt Central. Tickets ...

MUSCATINE -- They did the Hokey Pokey and they turned themselves around.Boy, have they turned themselves around.Cedar Rapids Kennedy continued its late-season awakening Wednesday night, holding off Muscatine, 20-17, in a Class 4A first-round football playoff game at Muscatine Community Stadium.The victory literally wasn't secure until ...

A dozen key area football games for the first round of the playoffs Wednesday:CEDAR RAPIDS PRAIRIE at DUBUQUE SENIOR (Class 4A)Time and site: 7 p.m., at DubuqueRecords and rankings: Prairie is 6-3; Senior is 7-2.Notable: The two most improved teams in the Mississippi Valley Conference collide in ...

Two weeks remain in the prep football season. Here is a primer on where things stand in the area as Week 8 approaches:MISSISSIPPI VALLEY CONFERENCEFour teams have clinched playoff berths: Iowa City West (7-0, 4-0) and Dubuque Senior (6-1, 3-1) in the Mississippi Division, and ...

 CEDAR FALLS -- Another Regina blowout had suddenly become a white-knuckler, and Marv Cook wasn't about to punt the ball to a hot offense."We had a chance to win the game right there ... let's go win it," Cook said.Joe McCaffery picked up three yards on ...

Capsules for Monday's second-round area games of the football playoffs:CEDAR RAPIDS WASHINGTON at LINN-MAR (4A)Time & site -- 7 p.m., at Linn-Mar StadiumRecords & rankings -- Washington is 7-3; No. 2 Linn-Mar is 10-0.Notable -- Washington survived in one of 4A's best first-round games Wednesday, ...

The schedule has backed off, a little. The Stormin' Pointers have come on, a lot."It took us some time to jell, but we've gotten on a bit of a roll," said Center Point-Urbana football coach Dan Burke.As a result, CPU (3-5 overall, 3-3 Class 3A ...

 Fifteen down, one to go.Only one spot in the Class 4A east-side playoffs derby remains unclaimed.Clinton (3-5) has the inside track. The River Kings are playoff-bound if they defeat Pleasant Valley in the final week of the regular season Friday.Should Clinton fall (and Pleasant Valley ...

As the high school football regular season heads into the final week, here is how area district races shape up:CLASS 3A DISTRICT 4All four of the berths have been settled, and so has the championship. West Delaware (7-1, 6-0) has run the table so far ...