Articles Archive for 3 November 2009
Jeff Linder, Prep Sports, Volleyball »
Here are brackets for the state volleyball tournament.
Oriole Fan, Prep Sports, Springville, Volleyball »
From the fans came a standing ovation for the Springville Orioles, as they left the court with heavy hearts, after a hard fought battle that did not go the Orioles way. It was the end of the 2009 volleyball road for the Orioles, as Don Bosco took the match in four games to advance to the State Tourney.
After losing two close games, the Orioles bounced back to win the third in a slightly quicker paced match-up. Momentum slipped away in game four when Don Bosco ran up an 8 point lead that ultimately was …
Featured, IC High, Jeff Linder, Linn-Mar, Prep Sports, Volleyball »
CEDAR RAPIDS — It’s green, Coach. Forest green.
No. 9 Linn-Mar endured five games and two hours — and survived two match points — to outlast No. 5 Iowa City High in a Class 4A regional-final volleyball match last night at Prairie High School.
Scores were 25-27, 25-13, 21-25, 25-15 and 18-16.
The Lions (26-14) earned their first trip to the state tournament. They’ll face No. 2 Iowa City West (37-2) in a quarterfinal at 2:15 p.m. next Wednesday.
“I’m really, really proud,” said Lions Coach Rob Justis, clutching the state-tournament banner. “We have …
Mt. Vernon, Volleyball, West Branch »
SOLON — Let Ali Stark describe her team’s strategy going into its Class 2A regional volleyball final Tuesday night against West Branch.
“In practice, we’ve been preparing for this and going through pretty hard drills,” the Mount Vernon junior said. ”We wanted to keep up our intensity the entire time and not let them in (it). We just wanted to come in, play our game and dominate.”
So did your team do that, Ali?
“Yeah, I thought we did a good job of that,” she smiled.
No argument here. Mount Vernon played like the …
KJ Pilcher, Swimming »
The field is set for the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union’s state swimming and diving meet this weekend at the Horne Henry Center at the Marshalltown YMCA.
The regional held at Cedar Rapids Washington is well represented in the 100 butterfly and 100 backstroke. Regional 100 fly champion Jill Broghammer of Washington leads a group of five to qualify, including Cedar Rapids Prairie-Williamsburg’s Shelby Doehrmann, Linn-Mar’s Sarah Wodnik, the Warriors’ Sami Puk and Cedar Rapids Kennedy’s Lexi Scharmer.
In the 100 back, Puk leads the way and is joined by Kennedy’s Carmen McCoy, …
