Linn-Mar High School - Marion, Iowa

Linn-Mar boys drubbed by Onalaska

LA CROSSE, Wis. - The Linn-Mar Lions were plastered by Onalaska (Wis.), 67-32, in an intrastate boys basketball game that was played in La Crosse on Saturday.

The game was part of the Pepsi Midwest Players Classic at the La Crosse Civic Center.

Jon Schlotterback led Linn-Mar (5-7) with nine points. Matt Lassen and Jimmy Roth, the team's leading scorers, were held to four points apiece.

Onalaska is 12-2.

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Strauel leads Linn-Mar girls to win

Sara Strauel scored 18 points and grabbed seven rebounds to lead Linn-Mar to a 62-56 win over Pleasant Valley in a nonconference girls basketball game Saturday at Linn-Mar.

Mykaela Brandt added 11 points and Courtney Major had 10, including 7-of-7 from the free-throw line.

Sydney Dwyer scored 20 points for Pleasant Valley.

Linn-Mar is 7-9.

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Linn-Mar boys too strong for Saints

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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Saints surge past Linn-Mar girls

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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