Linn-Mar High School - Marion, Iowa

Galbraith, Linn-Mar cop district tennis titles

Brotherly love stopped at the net on the Linn-Mar tennis courts Thursday as the Lions' doubles team led by senior Tyler McCann trounced kid brother Trevor’s duo, 6-1, 6-1, to claim a district championship.

Putting both of its doubles teams in the finals, however, helped propel Linn-Mar to the team title in the six-team Class 2A field.

In singles competition, Kennedy’s undefeated and top-seeded Riley Galbraith coasted to three lopsided wins for a return to the state tournament, May 25-26 at Veterans Memorial Tennis Center in Cedar Rapids.

Galbraith’s run powered the Cougars to the runner-up spot in the team standings. Dubuque Hempstead came in third.

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Lions win 4th straight MVC tennis title

Linn-Mar walloped Dubuque Wahlert, 8-1, Tuesday and clinched its fourth straight MVC boys tennis title.

The Lions are 15-1 overall and 12-1 in the MVC. They won the Mississippi Division title.

Linn-Mar won five singles matches and all three doubles matches.

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Linn-Mar romps to MVC girls golf title

IOWA CITY --Linn-Mar had five golfers in the top 10 places and ran away with the MVC Mississippi Division girls golf tournament Monday at Pleasant Valley Golf Course.

Monday's meet was the second leg of the tournament series to determine the MVC division champions. The Lions came into Monday with a five-stroke lead over Dubuque Senior after last week's Super Meet.

Linn-Mar shot 365 as a team and finished with a 20-stroke advantage over second-place Dubuque Wahlert. Senior was third, 30 strokes back. Kennedy was fifth and Washington seventh.

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Lions stay red-hot in rout of Washington

Linn-Mar boys tennis coach Chris Wundram apparently knew what he was doing when he kept his team at practice until almost 7:30 Friday night.

By then it was just getting dark, but it was even more cold and windy than it had been most of the day.

“I thought the weather was supposed to be the same way today,” Wundram said Saturday afternoon, after his red-hot Lions crushed Washington 8-1 on the Warriors' home courts. “I wanted the players to practice in those conditions. I thought they’d do better today.”

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