IOWA CITY — Lisa Bluder’s 600th career coaching victory was met with a bit of reflection. But mostly, a shrug. “It’s just one more than 599,” Bluder said after her milestone win — a 62-46 conquest of 12th-ranked Purdue in a Big Ten women’s basketball game before a crowd of 8,576 Sunday afternoon at Carver-Hawkeye [...]
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IOWA CITY — If you want to call it a “trap game,” feel free. Iowa women’s basketball coach Lisa Bluder chose to avoid that ESPN-centric cliche, but classified Wednesday’s contest against Missouri State as “one of those games you have to be cautious about.” Look behind, and the Hawkeyes (8-3) see their three-game sweep of their [...]
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BOSTON – Boston Red Sox outfielder Ryan Sweeney of Cedar Rapids broke a finger punching a clubhouse door during Monday night’s game at Fenway Park against the Detroit Tigers and will miss eight weeks. Sweeney had surgery Tuesday to repair the knuckle on his left pinky finger. He punched the door in frustration after a groundout in [...]
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SOLON — In 1-vs.-1, Clear Creek Amana was the one. The Class 4A top-ranked Clippers scored the final nine runs, including six in a messy seventh inning, and ran past 3A No. 1 Solon, 11-4, in a Wamac Conference interdivisional softball showdown Wednesday night. “We knew we would click eventually as long as everybody relaxed and [...]
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Former Cedar Rapids Jefferson all-state golfer Megan Furnish helped Iowa to a first-place tie after the opening round of the 2012 Missouri Junior Girls Four State Championship at Sedalia (Mo.) Country Club. Furnish, who will play next year at Southwest Missouri State, carded a 6-over-par 76, and team Iowa posted a 300 to tie Nebraska after [...]
continue »CEDAR RAPIDS – Hayley Deutmeyer had a good feeling when she started her pre-game routine. The Cedar Rapids Xavier shortstop took cuts in the batting cage and envisioned a successful night, which ended up being true. Deutmeyer went 3-for-4, scoring the winning runs in two one-run games as the Saints earned a Mississippi Valley Conference double-header [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS – Cedar Rapids Jefferson continued its solid run through the Mississippi Valley Conference Tuesday night when it shut out visiting Iowa City High 12-0 and 11-0 in a doubleheader. The first game was stopped after four innings and game two was ended after six. The J-Hawks are 30-4 overall (21-1 in the MVC) [...]
continue »Here they are hot off the press from the Iowa High School Athletic Association. A link to all the pairings is below:
continue »Hot off the press from the Iowa High School Athletic Associatioo. Here is the link:
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Editor’s note: Here is your chance to tell your story about your team, your school or your favorite player. If you’d like to join The Gazette’s growing list of high school contributors, contact J.R. Ogden at jr.ogden@thegazette.com By Fritz Wagner, I.C. Regina senior IOWA CITY — It was a Saturday in 2009 when Iowa City Regina [...]
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