Prairie High School - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Prairie baseball team edges PV

BETTENDORF - The Cedar Rapids Prairie baseball team rallied for three runs in the top of the seventh inning Friday night and trimmed Pleasant Valley, 3-2, in a non-conference game in Bettendorf.

Trey Beckman tied the game, 2-2, with a two-out hit in the seventh inning and Cal Clark scored the winning run on an overthrow.

Beckman and Tyler Nunemaker had two hits for Prairie (3-1). Jared Street pitched the last two innings and got the victory.

Prairie              000 000 3 - 3 4 0

Pleasant Valley 100 010 0 - 2 5 1

Paulson tops all-Metro tennis team

Linn-Mar senior Tim Paulson has been named the Athlete of the Year on the 2015 All-Metro Tennis Team, it was announced Friday.

Chris Wundram of Linn-Mar was named the Metro Coach of the Year. The Lions are undefeated this season and ranked No. 1 in the state.

Jackson Hoyt of Washington, Trevor McCann of Linn-Mar, Ben Curley of Xavier, Rami Hemaiden of Kennedy and Caleb Scott of Marion joined Paulson on the first team.

SECOND TEAM

Parker Muller (Washington), Oliver Hammond (Washington), Ben Myers (Linn-Mar), Jon Lansing (Xavier), Alex Tvedte (Jefferson), Evan Gaskill (Prairie).

HONORABLE MENTION

PRAIRIE: Jason Niccolls, Jake Crumbo

XAVIER: Charlie Esker, Jack VanKampen

KENNEDY: Corey Duncan, Kyle Butler

WASHINGTON: Dane Van Antwerp, Will Rizer

LINN-MAR: Kyle Brendes, Shane Skvor

JEFFERSON: Chris Weisbein, Kellen Brown

MARION: Nate Meister, Peter Ward

Prairie girls drop twinbill to IC West

IOWA CITY - The Cedar Rapids Prairie softball team lost a Mississippi Valley Conference doubleheader at Iowa City West Thursday, 4-1 and 8-1.

Morgan Lewis, Anne Cervany and Carsyn Waller led the offense for Prairie in the first game. Natalie Halverson pitched a complete game for the Hawks, allowing only one earned run.

Neila Bell, Taylor Moenk, Halverson and Kristin Wahlert led the offense for the Hawks in the nightcap.

Warriors nip Hawks, reach state semis

Washington sophomores Kelly King and Hannah Sherman were way late for their soccer team’s match at Iowa City West Wednesday night. Once again.

They figure they’ve missed the start of about half of the Warriors’ games this year, but always with a good excuse.

Rare two-sport athletes in the same season, King and Sherman spent four hours on tennis courts in Cedar Rapids Wednesday afternoon and into the evening.

Both were key players in Washington’s hard-fought 5-3 win over a tough Prairie squad in the quarterfinals of the Class 2A state team tennis tournament played at both Jefferson High School and the Veterans Memorial Tennis Center.

Each of them won her singles match handily.

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