Prairie High School - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Rosenthal helps Warriors nip Prairie

With 7.3 seconds left Friday night at home and his team ahead of Prairie, 43-41, Washington senior David Rosenthal was sent to the foul line for two shots.

Just nine seconds before that, he’d made one free throw and missed the second.

“This time,” said Warrior Coach Adam Sanchez during a timeout, “Rosey’s gonna knocked down both of ‘em ... unless there’s a breeze.”

The big lefty then went out and swished both shots.

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Palmer's 477 powers Prairie girls past Wash

Katlynn Palmer was red-hot for Prairie, rolling games of 244 and 233 for a 477 series that led the Hawks past Washington, 2695-2477, Friday afternoon at Lancer Lanes.

Amber Westemeier had a 215 game and Rylee Blood shot a 200 for Prairie.

Courtney Snodgrass led Washington with a 235 game and 404 series.

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Prairie claims share of MVC mat crown

DUBUQUE - Prairie dusted off Kennedy and Dubuque Hempstead to finish in a tie with Linn-Mar for the Mississippi Valley Conference Valley Division wrestling title Thursday night at Hempstead.

The Hawks (24-3, 12-1) clobbered Kennedy 53-22 and pummelled Hempstead 62-13.

Prairie may have suffered a blow to its state dual meet title hopes, however. Josh Wenger, the Hawks' 126-pounder, had to default because of injury in his match against Kennedy's Nathan Waterhouse.

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Hanna scores 20; Hawks lose in 2OT

IOWA CITY - Jace Hanna scored 20 points in a losing cause Tuesday night when Prairie lost in double overtime to Iowa City High, 62-56, in a Mississippi Valley Conference boys basketball game.

Prairie (5-11, 4-7) made eight 3-pointers and Hanna had four of them.

Iowa City High (6-10, 2-9) was led by Lonnie Chester's 28 points.

City High made 25 of 31 free throws and outscored the Hawks by 13 points at the charity stripe.

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