Metro Sports Report

Lions pound Waterloo West, 59-35

The Ryan and Ross show took center stage Friday night at Linn-Mar Stadium.

Junior quarterback Ryan Schmidt tossed three touchdown passes and ran for another while hard-nosed senior tailback Ross Lembeck rushed for four scores as Linn-Mar got its first win of 2013, downing Waterloo West, 59-35.

Coach Bob Forsyth’s Lions raced to a 42-6 halftime lead, then survived some anxious moments in the third quarter to secure the win.

Kennedy dumped by No.6 Trojans, 41-14

IOWA CITY - It might be hard for Cedar Rapids Kennedy to play an effective game of "This Little Piggy" this week.

The Cougars shot off most of their toes in a failed bid to upset No.6 Iowa City West Friday at Trojan Stadium. West won, 41-14, making the most of five Kennedy turnovers.

"We shot ourselves in the foot too many times," senior quarterback Derek Jacobus said. "And they capitalized on our mistakes."

J-Hawks tripped by Hempstead, 21-12

After being on the losing side in 11 of the 12 games he's coached at Cedar Rapids Jefferson, Coach Brian Webb says it's like a broken record.

“It's the same thing over and over,” he said Friday night after his J-Hawks lost, 21-12, to Dubuque Hempstead on Homecoming at Kingston Stadium.

“It's about discipline, attention to detail and execution. We perform well in practice. But we get in games and we make mistakes at key times.”

Or, as assistant coach Nelson Evans put it, “We just keep shooting ourselves in the foot.”

Marion steamrolls Anamosa, 58-0

ANAMOSA -- One week after being sidelined and schooled by the defending Iowa Class 3A state champions, Marion returned to its typical dominating form Friday night.

The schedule mandated that the no-luck Anamosa Raiders would be the Indians' rebound game, and the Marion offense was an unstoppable scoring machine in this gigantic District 6 mismatch. Marion's starters were gone by the midway point of the second quarter, but the Indians never stopped yard-marching at will in a 58-0 walk in the park at Downing Field.

The dropped passes, third down breakdowns and bend-and-break defense that defined Marion's hard 34-7 road loss to reigning 3A king Decorah in last week's early-season measuring stick game were nowhere to be found Friday as Marion got its groove back by exploiting its vast strengths over the undersized, outmanned Raiders.