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Jacob Litterer (Bellevue Marquette basketball) — The senior scored 31 points on Saturday to lead the Iowa Class 1A top-ranked Defenders past Waterloo East, 79-69. He entered the game averaging 21.9 points, 6.3 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game while shooting 62.1% from the field.

The senior had a hand in three victories Saturday afternoon as the Mustangs finished a narrow second to Cedar Falls at the Mississippi Valley Conference Super Meet at Linn-Mar High School. Powers, the Valley Division swimmer of the year, won the 50-yard freestyle in 21.68 and went 47.99 to take second in the 100 freestyle.…

Behind a 20-point effort in last Thursday’s victory over Fennimore, Cuba City senior forward Ella Vosberg reached the 1,000-point plateau for her varsity career. Vosberg, who rejoined the Cubans after electing not to play last season, now has exactly 1,000 points in just three seasons at the varsity level. So far this year, Vosberg is…

On Saturday January 18th in Hempstead’s Boy’s swim meet vs Dubuque Senior. Leitzen finished with four 1st place medals. Leitzen won the 100 freestyle, the 200 freestyle and swam legs on the 200 freestyle relay and the 400 freestyle relay that both finished in 1st place. Leitzen is having an outstanding senior year and saved…

Colin reached the 1,000 career point milestone on Monday in Scales Mound, then Culbertson accomplished the feat two games later against Stockton on Friday. Culbertson became the third member of his family to score 1,000 points, joining his mother, Jaime, and his sister, Skylar.

Sierrah Orr (Dubuque Hempstead bowling) – The sophomore leads the Mustangs with a 175.80 scoring average and has helped her team win its first six dual meets of the season. On Friday, she rolled a two-game series of 363 as Hempstead edged Cedar Rapids Prairie, 2,490-2,478.

Caroline Freed (Dubuque Wahlert) — The Golden Eagles sophomore set a new school single-game record by corralling 22 rebounds during Wahlert’s 63-43 victory over city rival Hempstead last Monday. Freed broke Suzanne Schonoff’s previous single-game mark of 20 rebounds set in 1995. She finished a double-double performance by adding 10 points to her record-breaking rebound…

The junior scored 35 points, including the game-winning layup at the buzzer as Maquoketa beat Bellevue, 81-80, on Tuesday night. He scored 21 of those points in the second half. Ehlinger leads the Cardinals with 22.6 points per game and has added 3.9 assists and 2.9 rebounds per game.

The standout sophomore Jake Wegmann returned to his first full action with two games last week. He averaged 25 points a night leading the Blazers to a 1-1 mark. In a win against West Delaware he had 27 points, coming up just short against Northeast he paced the Blazers with 23. Doing all that shooting…

Carter Kerkenbush (Dubuque hockey) – Kerkenbush notched a hat trick on Friday night to lead the Saints to a 4-2 victory at Waterloo in Midwest High School Hockey League play. He leads the team in scoring with 22 goals and 29 points and has four power play goals and one shorthander. Dubuque is 12-5-4 for…