Prairie aiming for another big year
The Cedar Rapids Prairie football team enjoyed a strong season last year when it finished 8-4, stunned No.2 Iowa City West in the playoffs and reached the quarterfinals of the state tournament.
The Hawks want to do it all over again - and more.
"We're coming out with high intensity and high tempo, just the way we want to play," linebacker Tristan Beyer said last week after practice. "We want to start right where we left off."
Prairie had a modest 3-3 record after losing to Cedar Falls, 41-30, in the sixth week of the season last year. As it turned out, that disappointing homecoming setback turned their season around.
"We were up three touchdowns and lost it," Beyer noted. "That was a rallying point. That's where everything came together."
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