Prairie High School - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Kennedy wins meet at Gardner

Kennedy's Siedrra Hargens shot a 5-over par 41 to take medalist honors and lead the Cougars to a narrow two-shot victory over Washington in a five-team meet Thursday at Gardner.

Prairie was a close third with a 197. The Hawks' Emily Machula took second with a 43.

Kandis O'Donnell and Grace Claassen each shot 47s to lead the way for Washington.

TEAM SCORING: Kennedy 194, Washington 196, Prairie 197, Linn-Mar 216, Marion 238.

KENNEDY: Sierra Hargens 41, Val Davidson 48, Nicole DeCoste 51, Avery Haefner 54, Annette Marsalli 55, Abbie Haller 57.

LINN-MAR: Kristen Harding 50, Alexa Mindrup 52, Hannah Westfall 57, Danielle Gerlach 57, Allie Cahill 62, Megan Murphy 63.

MARION: Carly Eichelberger 54, Skylar Dede 54, Anna Martinson 64, Erin Thomason 66, Isabelle Webber 71.

PRAIRIE: Emily Machula 43, Hannah Stebral 49, Peyton Staab 51, Lexi Poundstone 54, Amanda Happel 57, Milayla Winter 57.

WASHINGTON: Kandis O'Donnell 47, Grace Claassen 47, Mady Goodwin 49, Brett Visser 53, Devon O'Donnell 55, Riley DeWolf 55, Anna Rhode 57.

Caro, doubles team to state for Hawks

ELDRIDGE - Prairie's Vale Caro won the Class 2A regional singles title Thursday at North Scott, downing Dubuque Hempstead's Morgan Streff, 6-0, 6-0, in the final match.

Both players advanced to state. Prairie's doubles team of Karleigh Schilling and Anna Postnikov lost a 4-6, 6-1, 7-6 (7) to Clinton's Samantha Brisch and Riley Hubbert. The Hawks duo advanced to state as the runner-up.

Metro track athletes have golden chance

Metro athletes might need to hire a Brink's truck to haul all their gold medals back home from the state track meet in Des Moines this week.

Metro girls are favored to win seven events at the Class 4A meet at Drake Stadium and Metro boys are ranked No. 1 in three events. In addition, numerous Metro individuals and relay teams are ranked No. 2 or No. 3 and are quite capable of moving into the victory circle.

The Linn-Mar girls, featuring distance star Stephanie Jenks and freshman phenom Payton Wensel, could have enough firepower to claim the 4A team championship if a few things break their way.

The state meet will be held Thursday, Friday and Saturday with all seven Metro schools in the running for high honors (Cedar Valley Christian does not have a varsity track program).

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Kousheh helps Prairie boot Xavier

Hannah Kousheh scored two goals Tuesday night as Cedar Rapids Prairie blanked Xavier, 4-0, in a Mississippi Valley Conference soccer match at John Wall Field.

Kousheh collected one of her goals on a penalty kick. MaKenzie Serbousek and Paige Pritts also scored for the Hawks. There were no assists.

Prairie raised its overall record to 9-3.