A dozen key area football games for Week 7:WILTON at IOWA CITY REGINATime and site: 7 p.m. Friday, at ReginaRecords and rankings: Wilton is 5-1 overall, 4-0 Class 1A District 6; No. 1 Regina is 6-0, 3-0.Notable: Wilton already has a playoff berth wrapped up, and ...

A dozen key area football games for Week 6:CEDAR RAPIDS XAVIER at CEDAR RAPIDS WASHINGTONTime and site: 7:15 p.m. Thursday, at Kingston StadiumTV: KCRG 9.2Records and rankings: Class 4A fourth-rated Xavier is 5-0 overall, 2-0 MVC Valley Division; Washington is 1-4, 0-3.Notable: Xavier continues to motor ...

Mid-Prairie 6th in 3AMid-Prairie stranded 11 runners, leaving the bases full in the fourth and fifth innings, and dropped a 3-0 decision to East Marshall in the Class 3A fifth-place game at the state softball tournament Wednesday at the Rogers Sports Complex.The Golden Hawks (31-13) ...

 FORT DODGE -- The Solon Spartans generally don't require much assistance.They got it Monday, though, and the result was predictably lopsided.The top-ranked Spartans were beneficiaries of six Waukon errors and handled the Indians, 8-2, in a Class 3A quarterfinal at the state softball tournament at ...

WAUKON -- More than seven years after her death, Chantel Snitker still has her sister's back.A white sign of memoriam, in the shape of a softball, is fastened to the center field fence of the Waukon High School diamond. Ironically, yet fittingly, Daneshia Snitker spends most of ...

  Capsules for area qualifying teams for the state softball tournament:CLEAR CREEK AMANARecord -- 41-1Ranking -- No. 1 in Class 4ACoach -- Jim White (18th year, 807-117)Tournament history -- 33rd appearance. Ten state championships, including six under White. First-round opponent -- Clippers face West Delaware (30-10) in a ...

This story was written by Jeff Linder and was published in The Gazette on June 28, 2005:WAUKON -- Chantel Snitker took a softball to her grave.It was signed by her teammates and placed in her casket at the funeral home. It carried a message:"Now we play ...

WAUKONRecord -- 14-17Ranking -- Unranked in Class 3ACoach -- Bob Wasson (1st year at Waukon, 14-17; 3rd year overall, 27-64)Tournament history -- 6th appearance, the first since 1996. State runner-up in 1977.First-round opponent -- Indians face No. 1 Solon (35-6) in a 3A quarterfinal at 7 ...

This is why Kevin Johnson came back."I said no for two months, and life went on for me (last year) without softball," Johnson said. "But I'd been close to a lot of these kids."I came back for them."Johnson, who coached Alburnett to state championships in ...

 CEDAR FALLS — There are no moral victories at this point. A loss is a loss, and it ends your season.That’s how the Waukon Indians felt Monday night after a 44-38 near miss against No. 2 Waverly-Shell Rock in a much-closer-than-expected Class 3A substate final ...