Indianola senior basketball athlete Drew Kingery has been selected to play in the Iowa Basketball Coaches Association Pizza Ranch All-Star Game later this month, playing for the Southwest Iowa Boys Team.
Today’s Indianola Radio Sports Page Spotlight Athlete features Cooper Nailor, former Indianola High School Basketball player.
The Iowa Basketball Coaches Association has released its All-Substate boys selections for the 2022-2023 season, recognizing two players each from Norwalk and Indianola squads that combined to win 39 games.
Multiple local athletes were named to the Little Hawkeye Conference All-Conference teams as announced earlier this week.
The Indianola boys basketball team will lose nearly everyone from their squad in the 2022-23 season, losing all but one of their varsity rotation in Drew Kingery, Charlie Wilmott, Casey Glascock, Brayden Drea, Dakota Heimbaugh, Brady Blake, Bennett Brueck, and Jackson Overton to graduation.
The Indianola boys mounted a huge second half comeback Friday evening against Linn-Mar in the substate semifinal round, but couldn’t hold on to a double-digit fourth quarter lead as they fell to the Lions 65-64 as heard live on 94.3 KNIA.
The roller-coaster game was fitting for the wild ride Indianola has been on this season. The ride, however, came to a shrieking halt as Linn-Mar came into Indianola and ended the 19-win Indianola season with a 65-64 upset. Jackson Severson hit two free throws with 10 seconds remaining to take the lead as the 10-13 Linn-Mar Lions advanced to face Ames in the Class 4A Region 6 final this week.
The Indianola boys basketball team begins their postseason journey tonight, hosting the Lions of Linn-Mar. The Indians are ranked #5 in class 4A, and will have home court advantage if they keep winning on the path to Wells Fargo Arena, and will attempt to get further than last year’s finish in the same round as tonight.
The Indianola boys basketball team has one step in front of them before the substate final round, and will have to go through the Lions of Linn-Mar to get there.
As they enter postseason play on Friday, the Indianola basketball team will look to maintain their efficient shooting statistics from the regular season.
Indianola is rolling into the postseason following a 94-64 win over Des Moines East on Feb. 14. It was all roses for Indianola from the start as they raced out to a 29-13 lead after the first and never slowed down on the way to its highest-scoring game of the season.
The Indianola boys basketball team faces one of their toughest tests of the season tonight as they match up with undefeated class 3A #1 rival Bondurant-Farrar in a non-conference matchup.
Today’s Indianola Radio Sports Page Spotlight Athlete features senior Bennett Brueck with the Indianola boys basketball team.
The Indianola boys made two trips to Pella this week but only needed the first to secure the Little Hawkeye conference title. They won both games anyway.
Indianola pays a visit to Pella as the last week of Little Hawkeye Conference basketball action tips off tonight.
The #6 Indianola boys basketball team guaranteed themselves at least a portion of a Little Hawkeye Conference title with a 62-39 blowout win over Dallas Center-Grimes on Friday, while the shorthanded #13 girls competed hard but couldn’t overcome the #1 Mustangs 42-36 as heard live on 94.3 KNIA.
The last Little Hawkeye Conference home doubleheader is tonight for the Indianola basketball teams as they host the Mustangs of Dallas Center Grimes. The #6 Indians boys can clinch at least a share of the conference title tonight with a win, and they will try to match their hard-fought win on the road earlier this year where they defeated the Mustangs 46-45 on a game-winner at the buzzer.
The Indianola boys basketball team held Grinnell to just five first quarter points as they dominated the Tigers Tuesday night at home winning 76-45, while the girls couldn’t keep up with the high flying Tigers falling 64-45 on senior night for both squads.
The Indianola basketball teams are back home tonight after four straight road games, hosting the Tigers of Grinnell. The Indians boys dropped their first conference game of the season last Friday at Norwalk, but will try to replicate their dominant second-half performance against the Tigers earlier this year where they held Grinnell to just sixteen points and scored 36.
Defensive pressure and an early fourth-quarter run sparked by two Jack Brown three-pointers gave Norwalk a big Little Hawkeye conference win on Friday night, Jan. 27 in Norwalk, 59-49. The Warriors pulled away late after a back-and-forth game featuring the fewest points scored by Indianola since Jan 6 and the second-lowest total of the season for Indianola.