Metro Sports Report

Springville buries Huskies, 91-0

It was all sixth-ranked Springville all night Friday in an 8-man mismatch against Cedar Valley Christian at the LaSalle Middle School field.

Springville scored 47 points in the first quarter and blitzed the Huskies, 91-0.

Elias Nissen scored four touchdowns as the Orioles played the entire game on the Cedar Valley half of the field.

Local players in pro baseball

RYAN SWEENEY (Xavier, Chicago Cubs) - Started in center field Friday and was 1-for-3 in the Cubs' 5-4 win over the Pirates. Season stats: G - 56, Avg. - .279, AB - 147, H - 41, HR - 6, RBI - 18, SB - 1.

Pritts, Hawks claim titles at CR Invy

Cedar Rapids Prairie senior Mitch Pritts has been a very good distance runner for a long time now with a string of top-12 finishes at state track and cross country meets.

Now he could be ready to climb from "very good" into one of the elite high school runners in Iowa.

Pritts topped a strong field at the Cedar Rapids Invitational Thursday at Noelridge Park to help the Hawks claim the team championship by 22 points over top-ranked Linn-Mar.

Isaiah Vlasek finished second for Prairie, just five seconds behind Pritts, as the two seniors placed 1-2 in a field of 122 runners from 18 schools on a perfect day for cross country.

Pritts was timed in 15 minutes, 32.94 seconds for five kilometers.

Football prevues - Sept. 13

The upstarts take on the established powers in the third week of the prep football season.

Prairie takes on No.1 Xavier for the third time in the past 12 months Friday night.

Undefeated Kennedy travels to No.6 Iowa City West.

And a Washington team that started the season with games against Kennedy and West, gets no breather - traveling to the UNI-Dome for a date with No.2 Cedar Falls.