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DUBUQUE - Reagan Gorman of Cedar Rapids Washington finished second at the Mississippi Division cross country meet Thursday at the Dubuque Soccer Complex.
Mary Arch of Iowa City High won the 5K race in 18 minutes, 27.3 seconds. She edged Gorman, a freshman, by 1.5 seconds.
Jenny Dickes of Xavier finished sixth in 19:25.7.
Iowa City High won the team championship.
The Kennedy Cougars and Xavier Saints have enjoyed perfect seasons in football so far. Both of them are undefeated, both are ranked high in the polls and both are racing toward No. 1 seeds in the playoffs.
It's just a shame they won't meet on the field this year.
Kennedy is a Class 4A school and Xavier is 3A, so they won't meet in the playoffs. And when the new districts were adopted two years ago, the Cougars and all the other local 4A schools said they did not want to play a 3A opponent.
So here we have Kennedy and Xavier, located 2.5 miles apart in northeast Cedar Rapids along 42nd Street, passing each on the street each day but not meeting in a game.
For the record, Xavier wanted to continue playing Kennedy, Washington, Jefferson, Linn-Mar and Prairie when they did away with football competition in the Mississippi Valley Conference and went to districts last season. However, some people who wanted to preserve the MVC viewed Xavier as one of the instigators for district football and may have held a grudge when it came time to scheduling non-district games.
They held the 2015 boys state golf tournament at Elmcrest Country Club this year and the golf course won.
The best high school golfers in Iowa struggled with the winds, fast greens, narrow fairways and abundant trees at Elmcrest and nobody was able to break par for the 36-hole event.
Ben Epperly of West Des Moines Valley fired a 2-under-par 68 Saturday and won the championship at 2-over 142. Two golfers from Waukee tied for second at 8-over 148 and everybody else finished at least 10 shots over par.
Elmcrest is a tough course and the windy conditions made it even tougher, but nobody seemed to think the course was too tough for a high school meet.
"No, I don't think the course was too tough. I think it was just right," said Washington sophomore Alex Slattery, who had the best round among Metro golfers Saturday with a 74.
The Dubuque Wahlert football team was in big trouble Friday night the moment it stepped off the bus with only 23 players for a Class 3A football game against the powerful Xavier Saints.
It was like firing a water pistol against a bunch of guys with super-soakers. Sure enough, the Golden Eagles got soaked.
The fourth-ranked Saints roared to a 38-0 lead at halftime and whipped their Catholic cousins from Dubuque, 41-6, in a mismatch at Saints Field.
Dubuque Wahlert brought two big buses to the game, but one of those Tri-State Travel vehicles would have been enough to carry all the varsity guys and their equipment. Heck, a couple of school vans might have done the job.
The Golden Eagles played hard, but they had no chance of winning.
Last Updated on Friday, 09 October 2015 22:46
The Linn-Mar Lions will be aiming to win the boys state golf title Saturday at Elmcrest Country Club with Hall of Fame coach Steve Kahler by their side.
The Lions found themselves tied for third place Friday after the first round of the 36-hole tournament, just six strokes behind Waukee heading into the final round.
Kahler, who coached the Linn-Mar boys golf team from 1985 through 2012 before retiring as a teacher and coach, is back at the helm of the Lions as one of their acting head coaches in place of Bill Hoefle, who apparently was relieved of his duties a few weeks ago.
Linn-Mar Athletic Director Scott Mahmens declined comment Friday on why Hoefle is no longer coaching the team. Hoefle did not answer his cell phone Friday afternoon.
Max Thrune fired a 4-over-par 74 to lead the Lions and Jake Sevcik was right behind with a 75.
Last Updated on Friday, 09 October 2015 19:13
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