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 ...

MOUNT VERNON -- It took Arika Wooldridge some time to learn her role with the Center Point-Urbana girls' basketball team."They want me to score, and if I'm not open, they want me to pass it out," she said.Heroism, that's gravy.Wooldridge grabbed an offensive rebound and ...

MOUNT VERNON -- Adelida Oberman scored 19 points as Northeast earned a share of the Big East Conference girls' basketball lead with a 49-34 victory over Bellevue on Saturday at the Small Multi-Sport Center.Northeast (8-2 overall, 6-1 Big East) joined Bellevue Marquette atop the league ...

MOUNT VERNON -- Defense turned Mid-Prairie's lone blemish into a non-issue.The Class 3A eighth-ranked Golden Hawks froze No. 4 Mediapolis in the first half and held on for a 40-31 non-conference girls' basketball victory Saturday at the Small Multi-Sports Central on the Cornell College campus."As ...

MOUNT VERNON -- A cold start (OK, a very cold start) didn't stop Cassie Aldis.Aldis scored 10 of her game-high 15 points in the fourth quarter, including the tying basket with 25 seconds left in regulation, and Preston edged Springville 39-37 in overtime in a non-conference ...

MOUNT VERNON -- No fat lips. No lost teeth.Tara Walls left with her face intact and a victory under her belt.Clear Creek Amana made 18 of 21 free throws in the fourth quarter, including two by Walls after taking an elbow to the face, and ...

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 ...

They've held serve. They've hit shots.As a result, the Regina Regals are in a familiar place -- first place in the Cedar Valley Conference.The state's most accurate shooting team from the field (52.2 percent) and from 3-point range (53.5 percent), Iowa City Regina is 6-0.And ...

Cedar Rapids Kennedy played its first girls basketball game of the Tony Vis era with heavy hearts.And big hearts.The Cougars rallied from a seven-point halftime deficit to defeat Cedar Falls, 51-35, in their opener Tuesday. To beat a quality Mississippi Valley Conference on the road ...

CEDAR RAPIDS -- A one-girl show? Hardly.The so-called supporting cast kept Class 3A top-ranked Benton Community in the game before Madison Weekly warmed up, then Weekly carried the Bobcats home in a 47-46 Wamac Conference West Division girls' basketball win over Williamsburg at Rivalry Saturday at ...