Washington High School - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Prairie baseball team sweeps Wash

The Cedar Rapids Prairie baseball team swept a Mississippi Valley Conference twinbill from Washington Monday night at Prairie, 3-1 and 10-1.

The twin-killing lifted the Hawks to 5-1 overall and 2-0 in the league.

Cal Clark went 3-for-3 for Prairie in the first game. Tyler Nunemaker had two RBIs. Drew Yanecek was the winning pitcher with nine strikeouts. Jared Street picked up a save.

Nunemaker and Street had two hits in the 10-1 victory. Corbin Day had a triple and three RBIs. Nunemaker was the winning pitcher. The Hawks scored all 10 of their runs in the first inning.

GAME 1

Washington    000 000 1 - 1 4 0
Prairie       001 011 x - 3 5 0

W - Yanecek. L - Dostal. S - Street

GAME 2

Washington    100 000 0 - 1 2 4
Prairie       (10)00 000 x - 10 8 1

W - Nunemaker. L - Nimmers.

Johnson lifts Lions by Wash in 2 OT

Linn-Mar's Ben Johnson was bloodied to be sure.

But he was far from deterred by a cut over his left eye suffered in the first half of Saturday's Class 3A boys soccer substate final with Washington at Linn-Mar Stadium.

The senior forward came back after having his wound repaired, his head wrapped by a bandage. Johnson and his Lion teammates were stymied through regulation time and the first overtime by a stingy Warrior defense.

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Lions take 2nd at state doubles

Denied of their long-time dream of winning a state doubles championship together, Linn-Mar seniors Tim Paulson and Trevor McCann are down but far from out.

Losing the Class 2A tournament final in three sets Saturday after winning the first set over the No. 1 seeded duo from Fort Dodge was tough, Paulson admitted.

“But we’ve got bigger and better things ahead of us,” he said following the 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 loss to Dodgers Brian Murman and Jon Bowser. “We want to win the state team title in Ankeny on Tuesday. That’s more important than winning this one.”

With an unblemished 17-0 record and the unanimous top team in the Class 2A polls, the Lions will be the favorite in the four-team field.

“Our goal from day one has been to win the team championship,” said Linn-Mar Coach Chris Wundrum. “But it was hard for them to lose today. They played really well, the best match they played in the tournament. But they fell a little bit short.”

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Paulson, McCann eye state doubles title

Tim Paulson and Trevor McCann met when they were eight years old at Bowman Woods Elementary School and have been tennis buddies ever since.

Now the Linn-Mar High School seniors hope to finish their prep careers by capturing the Class 2A state doubles title at the Veterans Memorial Tennis Center.

Paulson and McCann won both of their matches Friday in convincing style and will face Jackson Hoyt and Oliver Hammond of Cedar Rapids Washington in the semifinals at 10 a.m. Saturday.

"This is it. The last hurrah, I guess," McCann said Friday.

Paulson and McCann, the No. 2 seeds, clipped Tyler Kruzan and Sandeep Yeturu of Waukee in the first round, 6-2, 6-1, and they cruised past Cole Schneider and Ryan Smith of Iowa City West in the quarterfinals, 6-1, 6-0.

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