Prairie High School - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Prairie has 'fowl' trip to Cedar Falls

CEDAR FALLS - The Cedar Rapids Prairie girls tennis team won its meet in Cedar Falls Tuesday, but lost its encounter with a wild turkey on the way home.

Coach Scott Leggat was driving the team van when it struck a turkey on I-380 near Gilbertville.

"Blew out the driver's window and ripped the mirror off," Leggat reported. "Glass and turkey feathers all over the inside of van.

"Gilbertville fire department very helpful," he wrote in an e-mail to the Metro Sports Report. "Took us to their station and cleaned the girls up.

"They also vacuumed and cleaned the inside of the van and put plastic on the window so I could drive it home. Girls picked up by parent after

getting tour of fire station and trucks. Very nice people in Gilbertville!!!"

Leggat said he sustained "very minor cuts" from the broken glass.

Prairie defeated Cedar Falls in the Mississippi Valley Conference meet, 5-4. Vale Caro, Magui Caro and Karleigh Schilling won their singles

matches for the Hawks.

Prairie 5, Cedar Falls 4

Singles

1. Vale Caro (P) def. Sophie Malloro, 10-4.

2. Magui Caro (P) def. Madison McCann, 10-3.

3. Becky Hughes (CF) def. Michelle Grenn, 10-6.

4. Arianna Mitra (CF) def. Bri Kalous, 11-10 (7-4).

5. Karleigh Schilling (P) def. Mia Poleksic, 10-2.

6. Emma Redington (CF) defe. Lauren O'Brian, 10-5.

Doubles

1. Caro/Caro (P) def. McCann/Hughes, 10-0.

2. Malloro/Poleksic (CF) def. Grenn/Kalous, 10-6.

3. Schilling/O'Brian (P) def. Redington/Rachel Paup, 10-2.

Lions, Hawks shine at Prairie Relays

Josh Evans has a small dilemma.

He's qualified for the Drake Relays in five events and could win all of them with a little help from his teammates in the relays, but he'll be limited to four races at the Blue Oval in Des Moines next week.

Those are the rules.

"We'll figure out what I'm going to run and what's going to be best to benefit the team," he said Tuesday after putting on another show at the 49th Prairie Hawkins Relays. "We'll figure all that out once everything is in."

Qualifying for the Drake Relays ends Thursday.

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Cedar Falls dunks Prairie netters

Evan Gaskill was the lone winner for the Cedar Rapids Prairie tennis tennis at No.6 singles as the Hawks fell, 8-1, to Cedar Falls Tuesday at Prairie.

Gaskill downed Mitch Dekutoski, 6-4, 6-3.

Cedar Falls 8, Prairie 1

Singles

1. Vineel Mallavarapu (CF) def. Connor Anthony, 6-0, 6-0

2. Andy Mong (CF) def. Blake Larsson, 6-0, 6-0

3. Brennan Ashwood (CF) def. Conor Wiesender, 6-1, 6-1

4. Kyle Wiebers (CF) def. Jason Niccolls, 6-1, 6-1

5. Michael Flanscha (CF) def. Brandon Bruhn, 6-1, 6-1

6. Evan Gaskill (P) def. Mitch Dekutoski,) 6-4, 6-3

Doubles

1. Mallavarapu/Ashwood (CF) def. Anthony/Larsson, 6-1, 6-0

2. Mong/Dekutoski (CF) def. Wiesender/Niccolls, 6-1, 6-0

3. Wiebers/Flanscha (CF) def. Bruhn/Gaskill, 6-4, 3-6, 11-9

Kamin shares top spot at Airport National

Cedar Rapids Washington senior MJ Kamin fired a 5-over-par 37 Tuesday to share medalist honors at a Mississippi Valley Conference quadrangular meet at Airport National.

Kamin tied Sarah Overton of Iowa City High with the best round of the day.

Wahlert won the meet at 169.

Team Standings

1. Wahlert 169, 2. Washington 179, 3. Prairie 193, 4. Iowa City High 194.

Washington: MJ Kamin 37, Mady Goodwin 42, Hannah Harberts 50, Kandis O'Donnell 50, Kate Nash 57, Anna Rohde 59.

Prairie: Emily Perrin 44, Mallory Bennett 49, Emily Machula 50, Kennedy Fisher 50, Grace Lindgren 53, Sydney Stolba 56.