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Jeff Linder
Passionate about prep sports and prep sports athletes, I have been with The Gazette sports team since 1995 covering high school sports for The Gazette. I am a proud, lifelong Iowan who grew up reading The Gazette.
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Latest Articles by Jeff Linder
Prep Baseball and Prep SoftballJun. 18, 2024 9:01 am85d ago
With Class 3A top-ranked Williamsburg trailing early in the nightcap of Monday’s Wamac twinbill with Center Point-Urbana, Curtin pitched six innings of one-hit, shutout ball, and the Raiders went on to pick up the sweep, 3-0 and 10-3, at Jim Turner Field.
Iowa BasketballJun. 7, 2024 7:10 pm96d ago
Catching up with six WNBA players with Iowa ties, through games played Thursday.
Iowa BasketballJun. 7, 2024 3:25 pm96d ago
Iowa women’s basketball announced that Ava Jones will medically retire. She will remain on a scholarship that will no longer count toward the program’s maximum of 15.
Prep Baseball and Prep SoftballJun. 7, 2024 9:49 am96d ago
Peyton Stineman’s seventh-inning home run extended the second game of Thursday’s softball doubleheader at Niemeyer Field, then Class 5A eighth-ranked Cedar Rapids Kennedy won it in the eighth, 8-6. That forged a split between the Cougars and Cedar Rapids Jefferson. The host J-Hawks won the first game (the one that counted in Mississippi Valley Conference standings), 10-5.
Prep Baseball and Prep SoftballJun. 6, 2024 10:51 am97d ago
Led by the Gookin sisters, Class 3A No. 4 Mount Vernon weathered some pregame distractions and swept Marion in a softball doubleheader.
Iowa BasketballJun. 6, 2024 6:20 am98d ago
New Iowa women’s basketball coach Jan Jensen sat for an hour-long one-on-one interview with The Gazette on Tuesday at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
Prep Baseball and Prep SoftballJun. 5, 2024 12:40 pm98d ago
Prep softball notes: Iowa City Liberty’s sweep of Dubuque Wahlert on Tuesday further tightens the anybody’s-race MVC Mississippi Division; all seven teams are within 1 1/2 games.
Prep Baseball and Prep SoftballJun. 5, 2024 10:12 am98d ago
Area softball Super Ten and standings (June 5): Western Dubuque holds onto the top spot; the Bobcats are 8-0 in MVC play.
Prep Baseball and Prep SoftballMay. 31, 2024 9:11 am103d ago
The Alburnett Pirates exude an aura. Call it a “their-year” vibe. The Class 2A third-ranked Pirates earned a Tri-Rivers Conference softball doubleheader sweep of Maquoketa Valley — 12-2 and 4-1 — Thursday at the Martin Sports Complex.
Prep Baseball and Prep SoftballMay. 30, 2024 9:57 am104d ago
When Class 3A top-ranked Williamsburg lost its first game of Wednesday’s Wamac Conference doubleheader to 3A No. 5 Benton Community — its third consecutive setback after a 5-0 start — it was met more with shrugs than shudders.
Prep Baseball and Prep SoftballMay. 29, 2024 11:02 am105d ago
Area softball Super Ten and standings (May 29): Western Dubuque climbs to the top spot; Cedar Rapids Kennedy and Cedar Rapids Jefferson make swift jumps.
Prep Baseball and Prep SoftballMay. 28, 2024 11:01 am106d ago
For the majority of the state’s softball teams, enough of a sample size was created last week to make some observations. Here are five Gazette area teams that won Week 1.
Prep Baseball and Prep SoftballMay. 24, 2024 9:42 am110d ago
After attending his sister’s visitation, Cedar Rapids Jefferson softball coach Mike Kuba returned to “where the magic happens,” coaching the J-Hawks to a doubleheader split with Western Dubuque.
Prep Baseball and Prep SoftballMay. 23, 2024 9:52 am111d ago
Cedar Rapids Xavier smashed four home runs, including three in one inning, in a softball sweep of Iowa City Liberty, 12-2 and 4-3.
Iowa BasketballMay. 22, 2024 12:37 pm112d ago
Another domino has fallen within the University of Iowa women’s basketball staff. Former assistant coach Jenni Fitzgerald — who has served the last four years as an advisor — announced her retirement Wednesday.