Linn-Mar Boys Basketball

Bohannon nets 35 as Lions win 90-87

It appeared to be personal between Jordan Bohannon and Cordell Pemsl.

The longtime AAU teammates met as high school opponents for one final time on Friday night and the future Iowa Hawkeye teammates put on quite a show.

Bohannon scored 35 points and Pemsl finished with 34, but in the end it was Bohannon and his Linn-Mar teammates holding on for a 90-87 Mississippi Valley Conference win over Pemsl and his mates from Dubuque Wahlert at Linn-Mar.

"Both of them did a great job of leading their teams," Linn-Mar coach Chris Robertson said. "You'd expect that. Both of them are four-year guys and they have a lot of pride.

"Those were the two tough match-ups," Robertson continued. "We had a hard time guarding him and they were going to have a hard time guarding Jordan."

There was also a scary moment for both players with just under to minutes remaining and Wahlert making a charge in an effort to erase what had been a 14-point Lion lead early in the fourth quarter.

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Bohannon nets 37 as Lions top Ankeny

ANKENY – Jordan Bohannon poured in 37 points to lead the eighth-ranked Linn-Mar boys basketball team to a 78-68 victory in overtime over No. 6 Ankeny in a non-conference game Tuesday at Ankeny.

Bohannon popped in five 3-pointers for Linn-Mar.

Ankeny led 29-14 in the second quarter, but the Lions cut the lead to 49-48 with a minute left in the third quarter. The score was tied 66-66 at the end of regulation and Linn-Mar took control in the overtime period.

Jared Printy scored 14 points for the Lions (8-3), Beau Klostermann had 12 and Riley Murphy added nine.

Chris McCleod and Conor Riordan each had 15 points for the Hawks (10-3).

LINN-MAR (78): Printy 6 0-0 14, Murphy 3 3-4 9, Phillips 0 2-2 2, Bohannon 11 10-10 37, Klostermann 5 2-2 12, Voves 1 2-2 4, Cronin 0 0-0 0, Brandt 0 0-2 0. Totals 16 19-22 78.

ANKENY (68): Cummings 3 02-4 8, T.Maschoff 2 1-1 6, Shannon 0 0-1 0, Rinker 3 1-2 8, Plummer 1 1-2 4, McCleod 4 7-8 15, Riordan 3 8-10 15, D.Maschoff 6 0-1 12, McCoy 0 0-0 0, Roberts 0 0-0 0. Totals 22 20-29 68.

Halftime – Ankeny 34, Linn-Mar 28. 3-point goals – Linn-Mar 7 (Bohannon 5, Printy 2), Ankeny 4 (T.Maschoff, Rinker, Plummer, Riordan).

No. 6 Lions fall to No. 2 Trojans

IOWA CITY – Defeating the Iowa City West boys basketball team always presents a difficult challenge, even with two-fifths of its starting lineup missing.

Sixth-ranked Linn-Mar found that out the hard way Friday, losing to a depleted West squad 77-71 at the West High gymnasium.

Senior forward Wali Parks led four West players in double figures with 24 points, including 17 in the second half. Freshman forward Patrick McCaffery moved into the starting lineup for Friday’s game and contributed 14 points, while senior Nate Barnes more than doubled his 5.9 scoring average with 13 points.

The 27 points scored by McCaffery and Barnes helped fill the void left by missing starters Connor McCaffery and Tanner Lohaus.

Connor McCaffery, who is Patrick’s older brother and the son of Iowa basketball coach Fran McCaffery, missed Friday’s game because of a concussion, while Lohaus has been out for a nearly a month with a foot injury.

“Them not having two players obviously hurt them, but they’re so good,” Linn-Mar coach Chris Robertson said. “I mean they’ve got guys who can play. So we knew that type of an effort was coming and I thought our guys matched their effort.

“I thought our effort was really good, but we gave up some untimely offensive rebounds. That was the tough part for us tonight was on the offensive glass.”

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Bohannon leads No. 6 Lions by Rams

Jordan Bohannon scored 18 points Tuesday night and led the sixth-ranked Linn-Mar boys basketball team in a 71-60 win over Dubuque Senior in a Mississippi Valley Conference game at Linn-Mar.

Bohannon popped in three 3-pointers, giving him 202 in his career and making him only the third player in Metro history with more than 200 3-pointers. Jason Bohannon is the Metro leader with 230 triples for Linn-Mar from 2004-2006 and Josh Kimm of Prairie is second with 206 from 1996-1998.

Beau Klostermann had 15 points for the Lions (7-2). Jordan Brandt scored 14 and Jared Printy added 12.

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