Metro Sports Report

No. 6 Prairie tops Wash, City High

The sixth-ranked Prairie wrestling team cruised to a pair of victories over Washington and Iowa City High in a double-dual Thursday night at the Prairie gym.

Marcus England, Chase St. John and Casey Hogan won both of their matches for the Hawks. England and St. John collected a pin and major decision, while Hogan had a pin and regular decision.

Will Foreman won both of his matches at 126 pounds at Washington for a 9-0 record this season.

Rinderknecht leaving Prairie for college soccer

Seth Rinderknecht fell in love with soccer a long time ago and has dreamed about playing at the Division I level in college.

Now he's going to get an early start.

Rinderknecht plans to graduate from Cedar Rapids Prairie this month and enroll at Nebraska-Omaha in January to begin his freshman year in college and join their soccer program.

Rinderknecht made the decision to leave early during the summer and arranged his classes to fulfill all his academic requirements for graduation. In addition to his classes at Prairie, he's taking three college-level courses at Kirkwood to help meet Nebraska-Omaha's requirements as well.

Nebraska-Omaha offered Rinderknecht a scholarship last spring and suggested he think about enrolling early. Soccer is played during the fall in college, so this way he'll be further along than other new players.

"They said it's a really good way to adapt to the new style of college soccer," he explained. "You're going to adapt to school and meet new friends, you're going to get training in and everything during the spring.

Weiland sparks Mount Mercy women

Alisa Weiland popped in four 3-pointers and scored 22 points Thursday night as the Mount Mercy women's basketball team dunked Calumet, 72-43, at the Hennessey Recreation Center.

Ashley Dolan scored 15 points for the Mustangs (5-7). Makenzie Zeitler contributed eight rebounds, eight steals and five assists.

Brittni Kisul scored 16 points for Calumet (0-5).

CALUMET (43): Daniels 2 4-6 8, Moore 0 0-4 0, Epps-Jones 0 4-4 4, Sanders 2 0-0 4, Kisul 6 2-2 16, Ali 4 2-4 11. Totals 14 12-20 43.

MOUNT MERCY (72): Herb 4 0-0 9, Blowers 0 0-0 0, Weiland 0 0-0 22, Harmon 1 0-0 2, Zeitler 1 1-2 3, Goodman 0 0-0 0, Jordan 0 0-0 0, Sexton 2 0-0 5, Valadez 0 0-0 0, Keating 1 0-0 3, Lampe 1 0-0 2, Thompson 2 0-0 5, O'Donnell 1 0-0 2, Dolan 7 0-1 15, Lehman 2 0-0 4. Totals 31 1-3 72.

Halftime - Mount Mercy 38, Calumet 19. 3-point goals - Calumet 3 (Kisul 2, Ali 1), Mount Mercy 9 (Weiland 4, Herb 1, Sexton 1, Keating 1, Thompson 1, Dolan 1).

No. 8 Cougars pin Xavier Saints

The eighth-ranked Kennedy Cougars collected seven pins Thursday night and topped Xavier, 48-30, in a Mississippi Valley Conference dual wrestling meet at Kennedy.

Eli Benion (106), Austin McLeod (126), Nolan Hromidko (132), Logen Rodriguez (152), Ben Sarasin (160), Garrett Kubovec (182) and Sam Pape (195) had pins for the Cougars. McLeod, Hromidko, Rodriguez, Sarasin and Kubovec got their pins in less than 60 seconds.

Clint Lembeck (138), Josh Gerke (145) and Alex Francois (220) had pins for Xavier. Lembeck, who is ranked No. 1 at 138, posted his pin in 33 seconds.