State News

Sites announced for state bowling qualifiers

Four Metro teams will be rolling at home when the qualifying meets for the state bowling tournaments are held Feb. 16.

Five Metro teams - Jefferson, Kennedy, Linn-Mar, Prairie and Washington - are competing in Class 2A. Xavier is in Class 1A.

Prairie will host a Class 2A meet at Lancer Lanes at 9 a.m. Others in the field are Linn-Mar, Iowa City High, Iowa City West and Muscatine.

Lancer Lanes also will be the site for a Class 1A meet at 1 p.m.  Participants are Marion, Xavier, Bellevue, Camanche, DeWitt Central and Maquoketa.

Kennedy and Linn-Mar have been assigned to the 2A meet at Waterloo West. Others in the meet are Cedar Falls, Waterloo East and West.

Jefferson is headed to Clinton where it will compete with the River Kings, Dubuque Senior and Dubuque Hempstead.

Boys and girls competitions will be held at the same sites and times.

The winners of each qualifying meet, plus the top two non-winning scores statewide, advance to the 10-team state meet. Also, the top individual in each qualifer, plus the top eight non-winning scores statewide, advance to the state tournament for a total of 16 competitors.

The Class 1A state tournament is Feb. 23 at Plaza Lanes in Des Moines. The Class 2A state tournament is Feb. 24 at the same site. Competition each date starts at 1 p.m.

Xavier junior Tara Trcka is the defending Class 1A girls state champion.

District football assignments announced

Marion and Cedar Valley Christian found out Tuesday their district football assignments for the next two years.

Marion will be in District 6 in Class 3A and Cedar Valley will be in District 4 in 8-player.

The Iowa High School Athletic Association released assignments for all teams, with the exception of the Class 4A Mississippi Valley and Mississippi Athletic conferences.

Classes 3A, 2A and 1A were reduced from 64 to 56 teams, with eight districts of seven teams apiece.

Marion is in the same district with Anamosa, Benton Community, Clear Creek Amana, DeWitt Central, Maquoketa and Solon. The Indians also learned their bye week opponent during the district portion of the schedule will be Washington, Iowa. The Indians will have two other non-district games to start the season.

Cedar Valley started its football program last season and played four games. The Huskies were not in a district. They are in a nine-team district that includes Central City, Elkader Central, Lansing Kee, Midland, Preston, Springville, Valley and West Central.

For the first time Class 4A will have district competition, with four six-team districts designated for the western half of the state. One of those districts, however, will compete with five teams in the upcoming season. It includes Ankeny Centennial, which is scheduled to open in 2013.

In an interesting twist, two defending champions have been dropped a class in the reorganization. Union won the 3A title but will now play in 2A. Iowa City Regina won the 2A crown but will now play in 1A.

Linn-Mar up to 3rd in boys poll

Linn-Mar continues its trek back up the Class 4A boys basketball poll, moving into the No. 3 spot in this week's Associated Press poll released Monday.

Jefferson moved up on spot to No. 9 in 4A.

Linn-Mar started the season ranked No. 1, but a pair of losses in December knocked the Lions down to No. 9. The Lions (8-2) have won six straight games.

Linn-Mar moved up two spots. The Lions replaced Dubuque Senior, which dropped into a tie for sixth after getting blown out by Class 3A Dubuque Wahlert, 61-33, last Friday night.

Iowa City West remains the top-ranked team in 4A and Waverly-Shell Rock is No. 1 in 3A.

AP BOYS BASKETBALL POLLS
(First-place votes in parentheses)

CLASS 4A
1 Iowa City West (12)    11-0    138      1
2 Ankeny (2)                 11-0    128      2
3 Linn-Mar                       8-2      96      5
4 WDM Valley                  9-2      94      4
5 Cedar Falls                    9-2      65      6
T6 Dubuque Senior          9-1      62      3
T6 SC East                    10-2      62      8
8 Waukee                      9-2      56      7
9 CR Jefferson                9-2      34     10
10 DM Roosevelt             8-3      13      9
Others receiving votes - Davenport Central 10, WDM Dowling 7, CR Kennedy 3, DM Hoover 2.

CLASS 3A
1 Waverly-Shell Rock (12)    12-0    138      1
2 MOC-Floyd Valley (2)        13-0    127      2
3 Mount Pleasant                11-1    113      3
4 Iowa Falls-Alden               11-1      79      5
5 Dav. Assumption                8-3      64      7
6 Webster City                     9-2      63      6
7 Western Dubuque              8-2      56      9
8 SC Heelan                          8-3      55      4
9 Carroll                                9-2      33    10
10 Atlantic                          10-2      18    NR
Others receiving votes - Dallas Center-Grimes 9, LeMars 7, ADM 2, Grinnell 2, Dubuque Wahlert 2, Maquoketa 1, Vinton-Shellsburg 1.

CLASS 2A
1 West Marshall (9)        14-0      131      1
2 West Fork (5)             12-0     129      2
3 Denver                       12-1      75      3
4 Mount Vernon               9-2      74      4
5 DM Christian                11-1      70      5
6 FD St. Edmond            10-2      65      6
7 Ogden                       14-0      61      7
8 North Cedar                 9-2      49      8
9 Monticello                  12-0      40    NR
10 Carroll Kuemper        12-3      12    NR
Others receiving votes - Monroe PCM 11, Clarinda 10, Dyersville Beckman 10, Western Christian 9, Forest City 8, MFL MarMac 8, Roland-Story 3, Sheldon 2, Sioux Center 2, IKM-Manning 1.

CLASS 1A
T1 Danville                        13-0    132      1
T1 Storm Lake St. Mary's    12-0    132      2
3 NE Hamilton                   13-0    102      3
4 Boyden-Hull                    11-1      91      4
5 Treynor                         12-0      78      5
6 Harris-Lake Park              12-0      70      6
7 Keota                           13-0      50      7
8 North Linn                     12-1      30    NR
9 Lone Tree                     11-1      24      9
10 LeMars Gehlen             12-1      20    NR
Others receiving votes - Nodaway Valley 17, North Iowa 12, Iowa Mennonite 3, Lawton-Bronson 3, Lynnville-Sully 3, Kingsley-Pierson 2, Algona Garrigan 1.

Washington, Prairie move up in girls poll

Cedar Rapids Washington and Prairie moved up, and Cedar Rapids Xavier and Marion moved down in the latest girls basketball rankings released Thursday by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union.

Washington moved up two spots to No. 7 in the Class 4A poll and Prairie moved up one spot to No. 9. Xavier, meanwhile, dropped three spots to No. 8 in 4A and Marion fell one spot to No. 12 in Class 3A.

Xavier (11-3) plays at Prairie (9-3) Friday night at 7:30.

Iowa City West remained the No. 1 ranked team in Class 4A. Benton Community moved up to the No. 1 spot in Class 3A.

IGHSAU BASKETBALL RANKINGS

CLASS 4A
1. Iowa City West       12-0     1
2. Ankeny                  11-1    4
3. SE Polk                  11-1    2
4. Ames                    10-1    3
5. Waukee                 9-3     6
6. Mason City             11-1    7
7. CR Washington       6-3     9
8. CR Xavier              11-3    5
9. CR Prairie               9-3    10
10. Iowa City High    10-3     8
11. WDM Valley         8-4    11
12. Lewis Central       8-1    13
13. Waterloo West    9-4    14
14. WDM Dowling      7-5    NR
15. Cedar Falls           8-5    15

CLASS 3A
1. Benton                         12-0    2
2. Davenport Assumption    10-1    3
3. MOC-Floyd Valley            13-0    4
4. Glenwood                     11-0    5
5. SC Heelan                      9-0     6
6. South Tama                  11-1    1
7. Dubuque Wahlert           9-4     7
8. Bondurant-Farrar           12-0     9
9. Union                          10-1    10
10. Sergeant Bluff-Luton    8-3      8
11. Williamsburg               12-2    12
12. Marion                        8-3    11
13. Washington                9-2    13
14. Spirit Lake                  9-3    NR
15. Denison-Schleswig       8-4    NR

CLASS 2A
1. OA-BCIG                     15-0    1
2. Estherville-LC               12-1    2
3. IKM-Manning               11-1    3
4. West Hancock             12-0    4
5. FD St. Edmond            12-0    5
6. Mediapolis                   13-0    6
7. Gilbert                        13-0    7
8. Western Christian        10-1    8
9. Carroll Kuemper          10-3    9
10. Lawton-Bronson        9-3    10
11. Pella Christian            8-1    11
12. Panorama               11-1    12
13. Maquoketa Valley    13-0    NR
14. Van Buren             11-1    15
15. North Linn             13-1    13

CLASS 1A
1. North Mahaska       12-0    1
2. Bedford                12-0    2
3. Ar-We-Va               9-0    3
4. North Butler          10-1    4
5. West Sioux          10-0    6
6. LeMars Gehlen      11-1    5
7. Lynnville-Sully        13-1    7
8. Central Lyon         12-1    8
9. Newell-Fonda         8-4    9
10. Villisca                10-1   10
11. Exira/EHK           11-1    11
12. North Tama        11-2    12
13. Adair-Casey         12-1    13
14. Burlington ND      8-3    14
15. Boyden-Hull         8-3    NR