Metro Sports Report

'Just Drew It' shirts honor special young man

Once in awhile, a special person comes along and touches the hearts and souls of countless people in his community.

Drew Wall was such a person, and he had only 16 short years on earth to spread his message.

Drew passed away Monday after a five-year battle with cancer, but his spirit and determination will not be soon forgotten.

Drew's friends and admirers are hustling to keep up with the requests for the special purple "Just Drew It" shirts that commemorate his life and expand his message.

Saints pin Warriors this time, 52-24

The Washington Warriors crushed Xavier in their dual wrestling meet last January by a humiliating score of 67-9 with nine pins, and when it was over the Saints spent an hour in their practice room trying to sweat that drubbing out of their system.

This time somebody should have thrown the Saints a party.

Xavier collected five pins Thursday night and drubbed Washington, 52-24, in their Mississippi Valley Conference meet at Xavier.

Prairie grapplers open with routs

The Prairie wrestlers recorded 18 pins and three technical falls and flattened a pair of Mississippi Valley Conference foes Thursday at Prairie.

The Hawks waxed Dubuque Wahlert 78-0, then leveled Iowa City High 73-3.

Prairie had eight pins and a technical fall, and received three forfeits against Wahlert.

The Hawks had 10 pins and two technical falls against Iowa City High.

No. 2 Lions crush Cougars, Rams

DUBUQUE - The second-ranked Linn-Mar High School wrestling team drubbed Kennedy and Dubuque Senior in a Mississippi Valley Conference double-dual in Dubuque Thursday night.

The Lions socked Kennedy, 71-3, and dumped Dubuque Senior, 66-9.

Alijah Jeffery (120), Damon Griffin (126), Shea Hartzler (138), Ross Lembeck (152) and Luke Wempen (170) had two pins for Linn-Mar.

Dubuque Senior defeated Kennedy, 46-33.