Marion High School - Marion, Iowa

Maddie Bach wins IATC All-Star race

ANKENY - Marion High School senior Maddie Bach captured top honors at the IATC Senior All-Star cross country meet Saturday in Ankeny.

Bach covered the 5K course in 19 minutes, 8 seconds for a four-second victory over Maddy Bradley of Johnston.

Meredith Koenigsfeld of Jefferson finished seventh in 20:09 and Sarah Hanna of Jefferson was eighth in 20:13.

Marion selling state volleyball tickets

Marion High School is selling tickets for the Class 4A state volleyball tournament at the main office in the school.

Marion plays Lewis Central in the quarterfinals of the state tournament on Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 6 p.m. at the U.S. Cellular Center in downtown Cedar Rapids.

Marion will be selling tickets from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Friday and Monday, and from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday. Tickets also may be purchased at the arena. All tickets cost $10.

Make checks payable to "Marion High School" if purchasing tickets at the school.

Marion sweeps to state volleyball meet

WASHINGTON, Iowa - The Marion High School volleyball team cruised to a 25-12, 25-14, 25-9 victory over Fort Madison in the Class 4A regional finals Tuesday night and earned its second straight trip to the state tournament.

Marion (31-8) will face Lewis Central (32-5) in the quarterfinals of the state tournament at 6 p.m. Tuesday on Court 1 at the U.S. Cellular Center. The Indians reached the semifinals of the state tournament a year ago.

Fort Madison committed 17 errors in the first set Tuesday night in a match played in Washington, about halfway between the two schools. Marion played a strong game on offense in the second set for a 2-0 lead, then rallied from a 7-4 deficit in the third set to post a convincing victory.

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Bach, Fopma shine in Class 3A race

FORT DODGE - Myles Bach and Jeremy Fopma are only sophomores at Marion High School, but they had high hopes at the Class 3A state cross country meet in Fort Dodge Saturday.

"We wanted to go 1-2," Fopma declared confidently. "We felt like we had a shot. It was within range."

Bach was credited with fifth place and Fopma was awarded sixth place, even though both 10th graders had identical times of 16 minutes, 33.5 seconds. They were engaged in a terrific photo finish for 4th, 5th and 6th with Nick Peters of Estherville Lincoln Central, who edged them by one-tenth of a second in 16:33.4 for fourth.

You see photo finishes like that in track on occasion, but it's rare for it to happen at the end of a 5 kilometer cross country race when the runners are sore and tired.

Bach and Fopma were aiming for the top, but were proud of themselves for a good showing.

"Yeah, real happy with that," said Bach. "I trained hard all summer. That was good."

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