Linn-Mar High School - Marion, Iowa

Lassen tallies 16 in Linn-Mar loss

DES MOINES - Matt Lassen's 16 points weren't quite enough for the Linn-Mar boys basketball team Saturday.

For the second time in less than 24 hours the Lions lost a two-point game.

Eric Huber Huber scored 13 points and Cortez Seales added 12 to lead North Scott past Linn-Mar, 40-38, in the Wells Fargo Shootout at the Wells Fargo Arena.

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City High girls shoot down Linn-Mar

IOWA CITY - Mickey Hansche and Haley Lorenzen combined for 32 points to lead No. 6 Iowa City High past Linn-Mar, 48-29, Saturday afternoon in a Mississippi Valley Conference girls basketball game.

Alexis Libenguth led Linn-Mar with eight points. Sara Strauel had seven.

The Lions (2-5) trailed by only 7-6 after the first quarter. But City High built a 26-17 lead by halftime that Linn-Mar could not overcome.

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J-Hawks snap drought against Linn-Mar

It's been a long time since the Jefferson J-Hawks defeated the Linn-Mar Lions in a boys basketball game.

"Yeah, it was 1896," Jefferson Coach Stu Ordman quipped before the teams tangled Friday night at the Linn-Mar gym.

It wasn't quite that long, but it may have seemed that way to J-Hawk fans.

The drought is over.

Jefferson defeated Linn-Mar for the first time in nine seasons with a tense 46-44 verdict in a Mississippi Valley Conference game.

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J-Hawk girls run and gun past Linn-Mar

The Jefferson girls are once again the runnin,’ gunnin’ J-Hawks.

Decimated by injuries last season, Jeffferson's five senior regulars are all back at full speed.

And unlike a year ago they have some underclassmen to come off the bench to spell the starters.

“We’ve got a lot of fast girls on the team,” said mile-a-minute talker and speedster Rachel Broghammer, also a star on the track team.  “We figure we can use that to our advantage. We can get down the court before the other team sets up. And we’ve all got fresh legs for a change.”

In a fast-paced up-and-down-the-floor home game Friday night, the newly energized J-Hawks ran Linn-Mar out of the J-Hawk gym in an entertaining 69-56 victory.

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