Prairie High School - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Rima hurt as Prairie falls to City High

Jalen Rima leaned on his crutches and shook hands with all of his teammates Friday night after the Prairie Hawks gave Iowa City High a good battle in a 28-21 setback at John Wall Field.

Rima suffered a knee injury in the second quarter after catching a short pass and the Hawks never got over the hump in the Class 4A district game with their star player out of action.

Rima was diagnosed with a strained ligament on the outside of his left knee -- a strained LCL -- but there's a chance he could play again this season after missing two or three weeks.

"It sucks," Rima said. "It's my senior year. I'd rather not sit out for two or three weeks, but it's nothing I can really control."

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Young Prairie runners win race

EPWORTH - The Cedar Rapids Prairie cross country team rested most of its top runners Thursday and still captured top honors at the Western Dubuque Invitational with a young squad.

The Hawks nipped Monticello, 56-60, for the title in the 17-team field.

Colton LaGrange finished third in 16:37 to lead Prairie. Elijah Vlasek finished sixth and Robert Laue was eighth.

The Prairie girls placed fourth in their race. Alissa Neubauer led the Hawks in 13th place.

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Kennedy wins MVC triangular meet

Jordan Weiss claimed medalist honors with a 4-over-par 40 Thursday to help the Kennedy Cougars win a Mississippi Valley Conference triangular golf meet at Ellis Park.

Ian Johnston of Prairie, Cameron Stump of Kennedy and Jonah Beman of Kennedy tied for second with 41's.

Team standings

1. Kennedy 165, 2. Prairie 169, 3. Iowa City High 181.

Kennedy - Jordan Weiss 40, Jonah Beman 41, Cameron Stump 41, Luke Martin 43, Parker Kalb 47, Bill Wilding 47.

Prairie - Ian Johnston 41, Cal Clark 42, Matt Lorenz 43, Sam Lockhart 43, Cooper Reittinger 48, Griffen Clark 48.

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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