Linn-Mar High School - Marion, Iowa

4 Metro teams make baseball rankings

Cedar Rapids Prairie jumped into the prep baseball rankings Monday by the Iowa Baseball Coaches Association, putting four Metro teams in the Class 4A rankings for the first time this season.

The Jefferson J-Hawks are ranked No. 4, Linn-Mar is No. 7, Prairie is No. 8 and Kennedy has fallen to No. 10 after beginning the year in the No. 1 spot in the poll.

Three Central Iowa teams top the Class 4A charts with Johnston, Waukee and Southeast Polk ranked 1-2-3.

The Xavier Saints dropped out of the Class 3A rankings.

CLASS 4A

1. Johnston, 2. Waukee, 3. Southeast Polk, 4. Jefferson, 5. Dowling, 6. Sioux City East, 7. Linn-Mar, 8. Prairie, 9. Iowa City West, 10. Kennedy.

CLASS 3A

1. Davenport Assumption, 2. Pella, 3. West Delaware, 4. Sioux City Heelan, 5. Harlan, 6. Knoxville, 7. Gilbert, 8. Waverly-Shell Rock, 9. Fairfield, 10. Williamsburg.

Olivia Garcia wins Metro Spotlight Award

Olivia Garcia of Linn-Mar is the winner of the Metro Spotlight Award for high school girls this week, the Metro Sports Report announced Sunday night.

Garcia, a senior, has been one of the top soccer players in the state during her entire four-year career with the Lions.

Garcia helped Linn-Mar reach the quarterfinals of the Class 4A state tournament this year. The Lions lost to West Des Moines Valley, 2-1, with 32 seconds left in the second half for a heartbreaking defeat.

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Unlucky Lions fall with 32 seconds left

DES MOINES - Linn-Mar's trip to the state soccer tournaments ended on a stroke of bad luck Thursday night.

West Des Moines Valley's Sami Pick's sent a header into the right corner of the net with 32 seconds remaining to give her team a 2-1 victory in a Class 3A state quarterfinal match at the Cownie Soccer Complex.

The 80th-minute goal came off of a Tiger corner kick that was deflected off a Linn-Mar player's arm prior to Pick's header, and could have been called a hand ball.

"I was on the post and one of my players actually hit it with their arm," said defender Jenna Ajram, who scored the lone Linn-Mar goal in the first half.

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No.9 Lions stroll past Clinton

The ninth-ranked Linn-Mar Lions scored eight runs in the first two innings Wednesday night and dropped Clinton, 10-1, in a prep baseball game at the Linn-Mar field.

Adam Bradley had a big night for the Lions with five RBIs. Adam Stolley went 2-for-3 and scored two runs. Andrew Gassmann scored four times.

Andrew Kraus pitched a complete game for the victory. He allowed one unearned run on three hits, with two strikeouts and one walk.

Linn-Mar raised its record to 10-4.

Clinton     000 100 0 - 1 3 2
Linn-Mar    440 101 x - 10 6 1

W - Kraus. L - Sullivan.