Metro Sports Report

VanDraska wins top prize at Muscatine

MUSCATINE - Tysen VanDraska claimed first place at the Muscatine Invitational cross country meet Tuesday and nearly led Cedar Rapids Prairie to the title.

Pleasant Valley and Prairie both finished with 40 points for their top-five runners, but Pleasant Valley won the tiebreaker on the basis of its sixth-place finisher.

VanDraska won the 5K race in 15 minutes, 56.5 seconds. Karson Sommer of Pleasant Valley placed second in 16:02.

Prairie had four runners in the top seven. Jake Moore was fifth, Cam Steffens sixth and Chris Oehlert seventh.

Reagan Gorman of Cedar Rapids Washington finished fourth in the girls race in 18:59.2. Maddie Bach of Marion placed fifth in 19:14.2.

Havertape, Harris help Wash sink Jeff

Lauren Havertape and Alyssa Harris were triple-winners Tuesday night as the Washington Warriors dunked Jefferson, 125-61, in a Mississippi Valley Conference swim meet at Washington.

Havertape won the 200 IM and swam on two triumphant relays. Harris took the 500 free and swam on two winning relays.

Emily Nelson, Delaney Thoma and Jenny Hughes were double-winners for the Warriors.

Jefferson got victories from Mika McChesney (50 free), Josie Thompson (100 fly) and Taylor Langel (100 free).

No. 3 Prairie sweeps Little Hawks

IOWA CITY - Kate Busswitz and Kenzie Soeken led a balanced attack with 10 kills Tuesday night as the third-ranked Prairie Hawks swept No. 14 Iowa City High, 25-23, 25-15, 25-23, in a Mississippi Valley Conference match in Iowa City.

Kendra Gaskill finished with 30 assists and two aces for Prairie. Megan Oldenburger had eight kills. Busswitz collected six blocks.

Kristin Wahlert came up with 15 digs for the Hawks and Haley Stecklein had 10. Stecklein also had two aces. Maddie Bell had three blocks.

No. 2 Indians rally by No. 12 Indee

INDEPENDENCE - The second-ranked Marion Indians got stronger as the match went along Tuesday night and defeated 12th-ranked Independence, 20-25, 25-21, 25-10, 25-13, in a battle of Wamac Conference powers at Independence.

Isabella Sade led Marion with 19 kills and four blocks. Caitlyn Smith provided 32 assists and 10 digs.

Morgan Swanger had nine kills and Olivia Frazier had eight. Tanea Westhoff furnished 18 digs. Kenzie Redmond had 13 digs and four aces. Haley Dullea contributed six digs.

Both teams compete in Class 4A.