MARION -- It was the bloopiest of bloop singles."I hit it and I thought, 'Oh crap, it's just another pop-up,' " said Marion leadoff hitter Lauren Rausch. "Then it started to look like it might hit a hole."Rausch's bloop landed in no-man's land in the ...

IOWA CITY -- Former Iowa City West basketball player Dondre Alexander will play next season at State Fair Community College in Sedalia, Mo.Alexander has previously signed with Southern Mississippi.A 6-foot-4 guard, Alexander averaged 10 points per game last season, but quit the team toward the ...

ALBURNETT — A sea of orange filled the stands and field Wednesday night when Alburnett and North Linn decided to play their double header in honor of something more than a win or a loss.An “Orange Out” was held Wednesday in honor of 3-year-old Gavin ...

CEDAR RAPIDS -- It's been his field for more than three decades.Now, a sign beyond the fence in right-center field makes it official.The Jefferson Softball Complex was renamed Larry Niemeyer Field during a ceremony between games of Wednesday's Mississippi Valley Conference double-header -- Class 5A eighth-ranked Cedar ...

CEDAR RAPIDS -- She watched. She studied.Then Alyssa Olson went out and won a must-win game.Olson matched a career-high with 12 strikeouts in a two-hit shutout as Class 5A eighth-ranked Cedar Rapids Jefferson earned a Mississippi Valley Conference softball split, 8-0, Tuesday night at the ...

Prairie scored three runs in a big third inning and beat Kennedy in baseball Tuesday, 7-3.The Hawks (7-4) swept the Monday/Tuesday home-and-home between the teams, winning 5-2 on Monday night.Kennedy (2-6) hosts Hempstead Friday.KCRG-TV9's Scott Saville has highlights in the video below.

CEDAR RAPIDS - Sometimes all it takes is one.For more than 70 minutes under the Kingston Stadium lights on Monday night, the No. 8 Iowa City West girls’ soccer team hung on for dear life as No. 10 Cedar Rapids Kennedy pelted them with shots ...

MARION — Through all of the cold and wet matches Linn-Mar has experienced this season, one thing was on their mind. Earning a trip back to the state tournament was the ultimate goal.The Lions did just that Monday night when they defeated Cedar Falls, 5-2 ...

CEDAR RAPIDS – Last season, there was only one goal and one focus for the Cedar Rapids Xavier girls’ soccer team: a record seventh state championship. They accomplished that goal, but immense pressure and a lack of one key element rode shotgun on the trip ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Even though a state championship eluded Iowa City High sophomore Eve Small and Cedar Rapids Washington sophomore Lilly Hartman and sophomore Rina Moore on Friday, there are plenty of positives to be found.In the final match of Friday’s event, No. 2 ...