Linn-Mar High School - Marion, Iowa

Xavier golfers nipped by IC West

IOWA CITY - The Iowa City West Trojans nipped the Xavier Saints, 156-157, in a Mississippi Valley Conference quadrangular golf meet Thursday at Finkbine Golf Course.

JD Goodfellow of Iowa City West took medalist honors with a 36.

Sam Martin, Matt Neumeyer and Mitch King shot 39's for Xavier. Jordan Bohannon carded a 39 for Linn-Mar.

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Metro teams jockey in volleyball poll

You could probably throw a blanket over the volleyball teams at Prairie, Kennedy and Linn-Mar and pick a different winner every day.

The new Class 5A rankings were released Thursday by the IGHSAU and it showed Prairie at No. 5, Kennedy at No. 6 and Linn-Mar at No. 7 heading into the final weeks of the regular season.

Marion continued to be ranked No. 2 in Class 4A.

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Linn-Mar takes Valley golf title

DUBUQUE - The Linn-Mar Lions rallied Monday and won the Valley Division golf title by one shot at The Meadows in Dubuque.

Linn-Mar trailed Dubuque Wahlert by four shots entering the final round of the 54-hole tournament, but the Lions moved ahead of the Golden Eagles Monday and captured the 2015 Valley Division championship by a count of 943 to 944.

J.D. Goodfellow of Iowa City West claimed medalist honors with a 54-hole tally of 220. Three Linn-Mar golfers finished in the top six with Jake Sevcik third at 233, Max Thrune fourth at 234 and Brent Larson tied for sixth at 238.

54-HOLE TEAM STANDINGS

1. Linn-Mar 943, 2. Dubuque Wahlert 944, 3. Dubuque Senior 966, 4. Cedar Falls 967, 5. Iowa City West 979, 6. Kennedy 990, 7. Jefferson 1074.

54-HOLE INDIVIDUAL STANDINGS
Top 6

1.  JD Goodfellow, IC West      72-69-79=220
2.  Alec Weber, Wahlert         79-73-76=228
3.  Jake Sevcik, Linn-Mar       77-78-78=233
4.  Max Thrune, Linn-Mar        79-79-76=234
5.  Ben Schmidt, Wahlert        73-85-78=236
6.  Brent Larson, Linn-Mar      75-78-85=238
Louis Psihoyos, Senior      77-82-79=238

LINN-MAR - Jake Sevcik 77-78-78=233, Max Thrune 79-79-76=234, Brent Larson 75-78-85=238, Jack Recker 73-78-92=243, Jordan Bohannon 90-82-89=261.

KENNEDY - Jordan Weiss 77-78-87=242, Cameron Stump 86-76-83=245, Parker Kalb 80-85-87=252, Jake Corkery 92-76-90=258, Jonah Beman 86-84-89=259, Aaron Daughetee 94-87-97=278.

JEFFERSON - Nile Happel 84-73-87=244, Adam Van Oort 95-83-83=261, Carter Schmitz 88-105-92=285, Lucas Brown 99-95-98=292, Austin Schmitz 117-98-114=329.

MONDAY'S TEAM STANDINGS

1. Linn-Mar 302, 2. Dubuque Wahlert 307, 3. Dubuque Senior 317, 4. Cedar Falls 322, 5. Kennedy 330, 6. Iowa City West 333, 7. Jefferson 365.

MONDAY'S CO-MEDALISTS

Max Thrune, Linn-Mar    76
Alec Weber, Wahlert     76

Linn-Mar wins title at Monticello

MONTICELLO - The Linn-Mar Lions won all five of their matches at the Monticello volleyball tournament Saturday and defeated West Delaware, 22-25, 25-17, 15-9 in the championship match.

West Delaware, which is ranked No. 1 in Class 4A, began the tournament with a perfect 25-0 record. Linn-Mar is ranked No. 7 in Class 5A with an 18-4 mark.

Amanda Ollinger collected 12 kills and 13 digs in the championship match against West Delaware. Ellie Anderson had eight kills and 29 assists in the finals. Megan Renner contributed eight kills and 12 digs. Emile McGowan had 11 digs.

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