Prairie High School - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Kadolph rolls hot, but Hawks fall to Linn-Mar

Abbey Stenersen had the hot hand, rolling a 263 high game and a 393 series, and teammate McKenzie Routhe fired a 399 series to lead Linn-Mar past Prairie, 2670-2513, Monday in a Mississippi Valley Conference girls bowling meet at the Cedar Rapids Bowling Center.

The meet was the regular-season finale for both teams.

Routhe had a 229 game, Nicole McMahon a 221 and Stacey Schwarzenstein a 212 for Linn-Mar (7-7, 6-5 MVC).

Jamie Kadolph rolled a high game of 256 and series of 449 for Prairie (5-9, 4-7). Brittany Meyers had a 204 high game.

Linn-Mar will compete in the Class 2A regional tournament Saturday at May City Bowl. Prairie is in the Marshalltown regional.

PRAIRIE (2513): Brittany Meyers 204-380, Niona Bruce 198-376, Brianna Wagner 175-319, Rebecca Kacena 122-232, Jamie Kadolph 256-449.

LINN-MAR (2670): Stacey Schwarzenstein 212-352, Abbey Stenersen 263-393, Nicole McMahon 221-336, McKenzie Routhe 229-399, Amy Pickering 196-349.

First round -- Linn-Mar 1829, Prairie 1756. Baker round -- Linn-Mar 841, Prairie 757.

Hawks crown 4 champs at district mats

EPWORTH -- They held a demolition derby at Western Dubuque High School Saturday and called it a Class 3A district wrestling tournament.

Linn-Mar survived a day of bloody noses to trim Prairie, 223-207.5, for the district title on a day that had a little of something for everyone.

A little happiness, a little sadness.

Prairie and Kennedy crowned four individual champions apiece, Linn-Mar captured three titles and Xavier notched one as Metro wrestlers nabbed 12 of the 14 individual crowns.

On the unhappy side, quality individuals like Prairie 103-pounder Trey Blaha, Xavier 171-pounder Peter Ickes and Linn-Mar 189-pounder Mark Atwater did not qualify for the state tournament at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines Feb. 17-19.

"It's tough to see a good kid not be able to reach their dreams," Linn-Mar Coach Doug Streicher remarked.

The top-2 finishers at each weight class qualified for the state tournament. Blaha and Atwater both finished third, as did other talented wrestlers.

Chris Walters (119), Zach Witte (145), Cameron Rathje (152) and Andrew Netolicky (189) earned district titles for Prairie.

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Prairie boys' come up short against Xavier

The first half was run and gun and the second half was much more methodical, but the result was a 56-51 Xavier victory  in Mississippi Valley Conference boys basketball at Prairie Friday night. 

Both teams were putting up points in the first half.  It was 19-19 at the quarter and Xavier led 35-29 at the half, forging their margin in the last two minutes of the half.  In the second half defense improved and the pace slowed and while Prairie actually outscored Xavier, it wasn’t by enough.

“Prairie really made it hard on us in the second half.  We really struggled to maintain our lead; we just had to weather the storm,” said Xavier Coach Matt Jenkins.

That was the case as Prairie (3-15, 2-11 MVC) managed to cut the lead to 48-46 at one point in the fourth quarter. Down the stretch, Xavier (5-14, 4-10) maintained its composure in a loud road environment and the Hawks missed four critical free throws that cooled their comeback effort.

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Xavier girls stump Hawks

It wasn't always pretty, but Xavier got the job done at Prairie, beating the Hawks, 56-37, on Friday in the regular season girls basketball finale.

No. 15 Xavier (14-7, 10-6 MVC) was led by senior Alex Saxen, who notched 19 points, including three 3-pointers. Junior Emily Walvoord chipped in 10 points for the Saints.

Freshman Madison Dellamuth topped Prairie with 10 points, and sophomore Alisa Weiland added eight points.

Prairie (4-17, 3-13) threw an unexpected wrinkle at the Saints by opening up the game playing zone defense for the first few minutes. But the Saints didn't miss a beat, stretching out the defense by hitting five 3-pointers to open up a 20-10 first-quarter advantage.

The Saints maintained a double-digit lead the rest of the way.

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