GRUNDY CENTER — The Grundy Center boys’ basketball team improved to 19-0 with Monday’s 81-56 romp over Wapsie Valley. The Class 2A No. 5 Spartans got a game-high 23 points from Tiernan Vokes, while four others scored at least seven points. Jalen Kirkpatrick tallied 18 points, Brayden ...

AMES — The Marshalltown boys’ swimming squad raced the clock — and won. The Bobcats qualified seven entrants for the upcoming IHSAA State Swimming Championships with Saturday’s fourth-place finish at the district meet at Ames High School, wowing their head coach in his last ...

DES MOINES — The Marshalltown girls’ basketball team was as healthy as it’s been all season, fielding a full lineup for Saturday’s 55-10 beatdown of Des Moines North. Sydney Kapayou returned to the Bobcat lineup and contributed seven points off the bench in a game in which nine ...

HAMPTON — The Marshalltown boys’ wrestling team went 3-1 to finish second to host Hampton-Dumont-CAL on Saturday at the Steve Deike Duals. The Bobcats fell to the Bulldogs in the opener, 42-33, before beating Central Springs (39-33), Forest City (43-33) and Iowa Falls-Alden (50-27) to ...

AMES — Curtis Jones scored 24 points and Milan Momcilovic returned from injury to add 14 as No. 8 Iowa State ended a three-game losing streak with an 82-52 win over TCU on Saturday. Dishon Jackson also scored 14 points, and Joshua Jefferson had a double-double with 13 points and 10 ...

IOWA CITY — John Tonje scored 22 points and John Blackwell added 19 to lead No. 21 Wisconsin to a 74-63 victory over Iowa on Saturday. Tonje scored 11 points in a game-closing 16-4 run by the Badgers (19-5, 9-4 Big Ten), who won their third straight. Tonje shot 5 for 11 from the field and ...