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CEDAR FALLS - Amber Decker captured the 400 meter dash and 800 meter run Monday to help the Linn-Mar Lions finish in second place at the MVC Valley Division track meet in Cedar Falls.
Maleta Montague won the 100 hurdles for Linn-Mar. The Lions also claimed the distance medley.
Halle Lueck won the long jump and Leslie Harder captured the high jump to help the Prairie Hawks finish third in the team standings.
RICHMOND, Va. - Linn-Mar High School freshman Stephanie Jenks placed second in the Junior Elite Female division Sunday morning at a major triathlon in Richmond, Va.
Jenks completed the 750 meter swim, 20 kilometer bike race and five kilometer run in 1 hour, 1 minute and 13 seconds.
The Junior Elite division is for athletes whose birthdays put them in the 16 to 19 age group. Jenks is listed as a 16-year-old.
Linn-Mar is coming off a 29-11 season that saw them make an appearance in the Class 4A state tournament. With a quality core of pitching returning, we can expect to see a strong Linn-Mar team again this season.
Graduated from last season’s club are pitchers Jake Stolley (7-1) and Keaton Blackford (2-3). Also not participating for the Lions is Nate Greve (7-3), who is playing travel ball before heading to Barry University in Florida.
That accounts for 16 wins and 140 innings that will have to be accounted for by the returning staff.
Also gone from last year is outfielder Michael Redmond, whose .366 average was second only to Greve’s .383. Redmond also provided overall leadership that will be missed.
Connor Ramlo scored in the third minute of the game Thursday as the Xavier Saints blanked Linn-Mar, 1-0, in a Mississippi Valley Conference boys soccer game on a cold, wet night at Linn-Mar.
Ramlo received a pass from Isaac Frisch, eluded a Linn-Mar defender and booted the ball into the low right corner of the goal.
Xavier is ranked No.1 in Class 2A and Linn-Mar is ranked No.7 in Class 3A.
Both teams had scoring opportunities as the game proceeded, but neither team found the net in the next 77 minutes.
Neither wind nor rain nor bitter cold could keep two of the best of the state’s girls soccer teams from their appointed round ball matchup Thursday night.
As it turned out, the game was won after it barely started when Xavier all-stater Kayla Armstrong scored on a rocket kick at the 38:03 mark of the first to give her team a 1-0 lead.
For the next 78 minutes, the Saints and the visiting Lions of Linn-Mar battled back and forth to a standstill.
“It was basically like a boxing match,“ said Linn-Mar Coach Steve Dickinson, whose previously undefeated and unscored upon squad on Thursday climbed from three to two in Class 3A poll.
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