Metro Sports Report

Kohawks clinch tie for IIAC title

The Coe volleyball team clinched a tie for the regular-season title in the Iowa Conference Tuesday night with a 25-13, 23-25, 25-21, 25-11 victory over Central College at Eby Fieldhouse.

The Kohawks raised their records to 22-6 overall and 6-0 in the IIAC.

Coe senior Rachel Bosworth collected eight kills and became only the seventh player in school history to reach 1,000 kills in her career. She also had eight blocks.

Rachel Schaefer contributed 14 kills and 14 digs for the Kohawks. Mackenzie Harbaugh had 34 assists and eight kills.

Alissa Wittenburg finished with 15 digs and Ali Arns had 10 digs.

Central fell to 16-8 overall and 3-3 in the league.

No.3 Indians clipped at Wamac meet

MOUNT VERNON - They held a mini-state volleyball tournament at Mount Vernon High School Tuesday night and called it the Wamac Conference tournament.

Seven ranked teams reached the quarterfinals of the star-studded field, so some awfully good squads fell by the wayside and failed to reach the semifinals in the elite event.

Unfortunately for the Marion Indians, they were one of the teams that fell short.

Clear Creek-Amana swept Marion, 31-29, 25-18, in the quarterfinals, dropping the Indians into the consolation bracket with other disappointed clubs.

Brave new world for football playoffs

Bracketology is dead.

We're not talking about brackets for March Madness and the NCAA basketball tournament. Those brackets are alive and well.

Rather, we're talking about brackets for the high school football playoffs that begin next week. Those brackets are gone.

In previous years, the IHSAA would select 32 teams in each class for the playoffs and assign them to an orderly bracket that you could follow from the first round all the way to the championship game in the UNI-Dome.

You could study the bracket, pick the winners and see how close you came to the real thing as the tournament went along.

No more.

Schmidt, Noble share Metro Spotlight Award

Linn-Mar seniors Ryan Schmidt and Trevor Noble are the co-winners of the Metro Spotlight Award for high school boys this week, the Metro Sports Report announced Sunday.

Schmidt and Noble shared the spotlight Friday night when the sixth-ranked Lions smashed Waterloo West, 63-28, in a district football game in Waterloo.

Schmidt, a 6-foot-5, 230-pound quarterback, passed for four touchdowns and ran for three scores as he collected 398 yards of total offense.

Noble caught three touchdown passes for 135 yards and scored on a 55-yard interception return.