Prairie Football

Rima hurt as Prairie falls to City High

Jalen Rima leaned on his crutches and shook hands with all of his teammates Friday night after the Prairie Hawks gave Iowa City High a good battle in a 28-21 setback at John Wall Field.

Rima suffered a knee injury in the second quarter after catching a short pass and the Hawks never got over the hump in the Class 4A district game with their star player out of action.

Rima was diagnosed with a strained ligament on the outside of his left knee -- a strained LCL -- but there's a chance he could play again this season after missing two or three weeks.

"It sucks," Rima said. "It's my senior year. I'd rather not sit out for two or three weeks, but it's nothing I can really control."

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Jalen Rima wins Metro Spotlight Award

Jalen Rima of Cedar Rapids Prairie is the winner of the Metro Spotlight Award for high school boys this week, the Metro Sports Report announced Sunday.

Rima, a senior, is enjoying a remarkable season for the Prairie football team with 10 long touchdowns in five games on running plays, pass plays, kickoff returns and punt returns.

Rima scored three times Friday night in a 57-7 conquest of Burlington at John Wall Field. He did not touch the ball often, but made the most of his chances with three catches for 152 yards and three runs for 72 yards.

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Rima helps Prairie race by Burlington

As a publicity stunt (and to make money), the great Olympic sprinter Jessie Owens sometimes ran against race horses.

On the football field Friday night, Prairie’s unstoppable Jalen Rima out-ran a pack of Grayhounds not once, but several times, to lead his team to a much-needed 57-7 shellacking of District 6 foe Burlington.

Rima, a multi-sport star senior still deciding on college, scored three times on two long pass plays and a long run.

In the first half alone, as the Hawks built a 43-7 margin and coasted the rest of the way under a continuous clock, the lanky speedster accounted for 224 yards on just three rushes and three pass receptions.

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Prairie slips in rain at North Scott

ELDRIDGE – Standing your ground in the steady rain and slick field conditions was half the battle Friday night. A deer would have trouble staying on four legs in that monsoon.

And the Cedar Rapids Prairie defense couldn't keep its footing or keep up with North Scott's elusive Brown brothers in the Hawks' frustrating unsuccessful attempt to end a two-game losing streak and get their season back on track.

Quarterback Kier Brown and tailback Kiel Brown rumbled through the Prairie defense at will while commanding North Scott to a 27-14 weather-shortened victory at Lancer Stadium.

Lighting, and a ton of it, put the game on ice with 53 seconds left and North Scott driving inside the Prairie 5-yard line in the third quarter. After at least four dozen confirmed lightning strikes pushed the game's earliest possible re-start time to 11:30 p.m. and with the Hawks already having lost three starters to injury, coaches opted to call the game in the name of player safety, giving North Scott (1-3) its first victory of the year.

“This is pretty crazy,” Prairie coach Mark Bliss said. “I've never seen anything like that.”

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