Linn-Mar High School - Marion, Iowa

No. 7 J-Hawks stick Lions, Trojans

Colten Mastin, Brenden Baker, Dalton Mastin and Kyle Briggs collected two pins Thursday night as the seventh-ranked Jefferson wrestling team topped Linn-Mar and Iowa City West in a double-dual at Linn-Mar.

The J-Hawks downed Linn-Mar, 56-21, and defeated Iowa City West, 44-26. Linn-Mar took care of Iowa City West, 44-24, in the other match.

Joseph Sibomana, Matt Culver, Nick Dreckman and David Bonner also won both of their matches for Jefferson.

Cole Kraklio, Alex Streicher and Shea Hartzler were double-winners for Linn-Mar. Hartzler is ranked No. 1 at 160 pounds.

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Printy enjoys return to Washington

Everybody knew about it, but nothing was said.

Linn-Mar's basketball game Thursday night at Washington marked the return of Jared Printy to the gym where he played the first three years of his prep career.

Printy transferred to Linn-Mar for his senior season and everybody in the Lions' camp knew the atmosphere would be more charged than usual when the two teams met.

"We didn't talk about it at all," Linn-Mar coach Chris Robertson said. "He knew, but we didn't talk about it."

After a bit of a slow start, Printy had a successful homecoming. He scored 18 points, including three 3-point baskets in the third quarter, helping the Lions to a 69-49 win.

"I knew it was going to be crazy intense," Printy said. "I didn't think I could possibly be unprepared for it, but it was intense out there. Both teams played so hard and it was a really fun game to be a part of."

Lions senior Jordan Bohannon, who led all scorers with 22 points, thought his teammate handled the situation well.

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No. 10 Linn-Mar girls are 4-0

DUBUQUE – Amanda Ollinger scored 12 points to lead the 10th-ranked Linn-Mar girls basketball team to a 45-17 win over Dubuque Hempstead on Tuesday.

Megan Murphy had nine points for the Lions (4-0) and Ally Johnson chipped in four assists.

Megan Gronau had eight points for Dubuque Hempstead (2-4).

LINN-MAR (45): Weaver 0 0-0 0, Simons 0 0-0 0, Lorenz 1 0-0 3, Johnson 0 0-0 0, Noggle 0 0-2 0, Akers 3 0-0 7, Frese 0 0-0 0, Lancial 2 0-1 4, Glanz 0 0-0 0, Murphy 3 0-0 9, Fensterman 0 0-0 0, Spies 2 0-0 4, Finley 3 0-0 6, Larson 0 0-0 0, Ollinger 5 1-1 12. Totals 19 1-4 45.

DUBUQUE HEMPSTEAD (17): Paulsen 0 2-2 2, Tressel 0 0-0 0, Bryte 0 0-0 0, Britter 0 2-2 2, Kluesner 0 1-2 1, Snitker 0 0-0 0, Wagner 0 0-0 0, Fleckenstein 0 0-1 0, Kallaher 1 0-0 2, O’Hare 0 0-0 0, Krug 1 0-0 2, Bleymeyer 0 0-0 0, Doyle 0 0-0 0, Gronau 2 4-6 8. Totals 4 9-13 17.

Halftime – Linn-Mar 30, Dubuque Hempstead 7. 3-point goals – Linn-Mar 6 (Murphy 3, Lorenz, Akers, Ollinger), Dubuque Hempstead 0.

Myers leads Linn-Mar swimmers

Hogan Myers won two events and led the Linn-Mar boys swimming team to a 97-73 victory over Dubuque Hempstead on Tuesday at Linn-Mar.

Myers won the 200- and 500-yard freestyles in 1 minute, 52.57 seconds and 5:05.30, respectively. Matt Peng took the 100 freestyle (50.81), Zach Vana won the 100 backstroke (1:07.15) and Linn-Mar captured the 200 freestyle relay.

LINN-MAR 97, DUBUQUE HEMPSTEAD 73
200 medley relay – Dubuque Hempstead (Chris Duehr, Ethan Kueter, Will Stender, Sean Johnson) 1:47.68.
200 freestyle – Hogan Myers (LM) 1:52.57.
200 individual medley – Chris Duehr (DH) 2:07.76.
50 freestyle – Johnson (DH) 22.63.
100 butterfly – Duehr (DH) 56.28.
100 freestyle – Matt Peng (LM) 50.81.
500 freestyle – Myers (LM) 5:05.30.
200 freestyle relay – Linn-Mar (Reid Snell, Matthew Mather, Brycen Snell, Peng) 1:33.59.
100 backstroke – Zach Vana (LM) 1:03.05.
100 breaststroke – Johnson (DH) 1:07.15.
400 freestyle relay – Dubuque Hempstead (Chris Duehr, Nick Rober, Tom Poggemiller, Sean Johnson) 3:27.93.