Metro Sports Report

Hanna's heroic shots lift Prairie

He's the King of Clutch. Captain Courageous. Mister Everything. And a hero.

That's Jace Hanna, the pride and joy of Prairie High School.

Hanna hit two phenomenal shots Friday night to give the Hawks a dramatic 61-59 overtime victory against Washington in a dramatic Mississippi Valley Conference duel at Prairie.

City High routs Linn-Mar girls

Mickey Hansche and Haley Lorenzen scored 18 points apiece and No.6 Iowa City High rolled past Linn-Mar, 60-32, Friday night in a Mississippi Valley Conference girls basketball game at Linn-Mar.

Iowa City High improved to 13-2 overall and 6-1 in the Mississippi Division.Linn-Mar is 6-8, 4-4 in the Valley Division.

“We’re a work in progress on defense,” City High Coach Bill McTaggart said. “The key to our victory was that we played better defense tonight and Linn-Mar was cold in their shooting.”

Linn-Mar opened the scoring on a Mykaela Brandt field goal and Linn-Mar built a 5-4 lead.

No.1 West shackles J-Hawks

Iowa City West's stifling defense prevented Jefferson from scoring in double figures in any quarter and the No. 1 Trojans routed the J-Hawks, 59-32, Friday night in a Mississippi Valley Conference boys basketball game at the Jefferson gym.

“That’s the best defense we have seen all year,” said Jefferson Coach Stu Ordman.  “They are so long and athletic; because they are so talented you can’t afford to have any bad possessions and their defense forces bad possessions.”

Jefferson's Jacob Olson had three baskets in the first 10 minutes of the game and then the West High defense shut him down for the rest of the night.  Olson ended the game with six points.

Wempen not focused on 4 state titles (yet)

Matt Wempen won a state wrestling title for the Linn-Mar Lions last season as a freshman, which means he has a chance to become only the 22nd four-time champion in state history.

He'd rather not think about it.

"I have to concentrate on being a two-time state champion before I do a fourth," he remarked Thursday night. "I'm going to take it one year at a time."