Metro Sports Report

Linn-Mar's Jimmy Roth (21) drives on Xavier's Corbin Woods during Friday's game at Linn-Mar. Roth scored 11 points as Linn-Mar won its third straight game, 56-44. (Photo by Ken Gilchrist)

Linn-Mar boys too strong for Saints

Sat - 19 Jan Written by Jim Ecker

The Linn-Mar Lions had a few things to prove when the basketball season began in November.

Matt Lassen had to prove he was fully recovered from a serious head injury and not afraid of contact around the basket.

Jimmy Roth had to prove he could fit seemlessly onto the team and be a leader after being suspended for the first four games of the season.

Jordan Bohannon had to prove he deserved to play on the varsity as a freshman, whether his name was Bohannon or not.

The answers appear to be yes, yes and yes.

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Xavier's Morgan Breitbach (white jersey) goes up and under for her only two points of the game in Xavier's 52-37 win over Linn-Mar Friday night at Xavier. (Photo by Margaret O'Banion)

Saints surge past Linn-Mar girls

Sat - 19 Jan Written by Tom Fruehling

Try as she might, Linn-Mar’s Mykaela Brandt could not beat the Xavier girls Friday.

She came close, single-handedly bringing her team back from a runaway to within three points late in the third quarter.

But then the music died for the visiting Lions.

The Saints marched off a 20-2 run over a seven-minute period, waltzing down the stretch to a 52-37 victory.

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Steady Kennedy downs City High

Sat - 19 Jan Written by Don Taylor

Kennedy hosted Iowa City High Friday night in a Mississippi Valley conference boys basketball game that saw the Cougars come out on top, 58-47.

Kennedy put together a pretty steady ballgame. The Cougars scored 13 in the first quarter and led by five. They scored 13 in the second quarter and led by six at halftime. They scored 14 and 16 in each quarter of the second half and won by their biggest margin of nine.

City High hung around. The Little Hawks would cut the deficit to three points and Kennedy would push it back to six. That is the way the entire game went.

“We showed some nice toughness mentally and physically tonight,” said Kennedy Coach Bob Fontana. “Every day in practice we work on the mental as well as the physical part of the game.

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Waterloo West drubs Prairie girls

Sat - 19 Jan Written by Randy Krejci

It was viewed as a battle royale between two Valley Division foes in a tight four-way bottleneck for supremacy in their division Friday night when Waterloo West came to town to take on the host Cedar Rapids Prairie Hawks.

It never happened.

The Wahawks left town with a 70-38 victory behind a massive 28-point production from Kate Letkewicz in her best offensive outing of the year.

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