Iowa prep boys? basketball state champions crowned

Class 4A? Iowa City West 57, West Des Moines Valley 45

DES MOINES (AP) ? Wyatt Lohaus and three teammates each scored 13 points and Iowa City West beat West Des Moines Valley 57-45 Saturday night to win its third straight Class 4A state championship.

Fourth-ranked West (23-3) held unranked Valley to single digits in each of the first three quarters, becoming the sixth school to three-peat? and the first to do it in 4A since the class was created in 1992-93.

It was the sixth title overall for West and the fifth for coach Steve Bergman, putting him behind only Davenport?s Paul Moon and Western Christian?s Jim Eekhoff on the state?s career list.

Eekhoff won his seventh championship Friday night to match Moon.

Nick Gallagher, David DiLeo and Chike Ukah also scored 13 for West and Ukah grabbed 13 rebounds.

Valley had upset top-ranked Dubuque Senior and No. 2 Bettendorf to reach the championship game. But the Tigers couldn?t overcome their miserable shooting against the Trojans.

They had just eight field goals to show for three quarters of play and didn?t put together any offense until garbage time in the fourth quarter, when Valley?s 25 points were five more than it had in the first 24 minutes.

Lohaus, the son of former Iowa and NBA player Brad Lohaus, converted a three-point play to give West a 14-5 lead after one quarter and the Trojans controlled the game from then on.

When freshman Connor McCaffrey, the son of Iowa basketball coach Fran McCaffrey, found Ukah alone under the basket for a layup, the lead grew to 28-17.

McCaffrey finished with seven assists and three points.

Lohaus, who?ll play at Northern Iowa next season, started on all three state championship teams and helped the Trojans to a 75-3 record in that span ? including a 60-game winning streak that ended earlier this season.

Class 3A? Dubuque Wahlert Catholic 67, Central Clinton 57

Cordell Pemsl scored 23 points, Josh Carter added 14 and top-ranked Dubuque Wahlert Catholic rallied to beat Central Clinton 67-57 Saturday night and win the Class 3A state championship.

Wahlert (23-4) overcame an eight-point deficit to grab the lead late in the third quarter and held the fourth-ranked Sabers (23-4) without a field goal for 8 minutes en route to its fourth state title.

Pemsl, a 6-foot-7 sophomore, scored twice on layups and came up with a big offensive rebound during a game-turning 14-3 run.

Central Clinton led 42-39 after Christian Wright?s 3-pointer with 2:42 left in the third quarter. But it did not make another basket until Marty Green?s layup with 2:44 remaining.

Kyle Bauer led Central Clinton with 17 points.

It was Wahlert?s first championship since 2008.

Central Clinton went 5 for 5 from 3-point range in the first quarter in building a 19-14 lead. It led 26-18 after Trevor Green hit a 3 midway through the second quarter.

Despite the dominance of the athletic Pemsl and the 6-foot-5 Carter inside, Central Clinton stayed ahead until Wahlert picked up its defensive pressure. That, coupled with the Golden Eagles? ability to score in the paint, was too much for the Sabers.

Carter converted a three-point play on a drive, the ball rolling twice around the rim before dropping in. Pemsl followed with a layup and Tyler Potts knocked down a 3, making it 47-42.

Central Clinton drew to 61-57 on Wright?s 3 with 54 seconds left. But Wahlert easily broke the Sabers? press to get a layup for Pemsl and the Golden Eagles soon began celebrating their championship.

Nolan Timp finished with 12 points for Wahlert, which outrebounded Central Clinton 33-21 and owned an overwhelming 36-18 edge in points in the lane.

Class 2A? Western Christian 48, West Fork 38

Western Christian?s inside duo of Taylor Feenstra and Josh VanLingen combined for 32 points and 24 rebounds Friday night, leading the top-ranked Wolfpack past No. 3 West Fork 48-38 for the Class 2A state championship.

Feenstra, a 6-foot-7 senior, put up 20 points on 9-for-16 shooting. He also grabbed 13 rebounds as part of a dominating performance in the paint that produced the seventh state championship for Western Christian (27-0) and coach Jim Eekhoff, who tied Davenport?s Paul Moon for the most titles by a coach.

VanLingen, a soft-handed 6-6 sophomore, added 12 points and 11 rebounds to help Western Christian cap the school?s first unbeaten season and avenge its only loss in a state championship game.

West Fork (25-2), which beat Western Christian in overtime for the 2011 title, got 12 points and 10 rebounds from Sam Amsbaugh.

The Wolfpack?s title in the boys tournament came a week after the school?s girls team won its third consecutive championship, making Western the fifth school to accomplish that double.

Winfield-Mount Union (1995), Iowa City High (2008), Sioux City Bishop Heelan (2010) and Iowa City West (2012) were the others.

Class 1A? West Lyon 60, Dunkerton 32

Brandon Snyder scored 23 points and handed out nine assists and unranked West Lyon rolled past No. 4 Dunkerton 60-32 Friday night to win the Class 1A state championship.

Snyder quarterbacked West Lyon to the Class A football title last fall. He ran the show again as the Wildcats (23-5), seeded eighth in the eight-team field, won the basketball crown in their first trip to the state tournament.

The Wildcats did it convincingly, winning their three games at state by an average of 21.3 points and postingthe widest margin ever in a 1A championship game.

Kaleb Heyer added 10 points, 16 rebounds and five steals for West Lyon, while Nick Anderson led Dunkerton (27-2) with 11 points.

West Lyon had overwhelmed BGM 49-7 in the football finals last November, and the Wildcats were just as dominant in this one. All five basketball starters played on the football team and it showed.