After a sluggish first half, Iowa City West came out strong in the second to defeat Waterloo East, 35-14, on a beautiful opening night for Mississippi Valley Conference football.
West opened the scoring late in the first quarter with quarterback Charles Rogers scampering in from seven yards out on a broken play. West continued the scoring in the second quarter as Rogers hit sophomore Ezra Reiners on a 20-yard pass completion for a touchdown.
With a 14-0 lead at halftime, West Coach Brian Sauser said he got on his team.
“I challenged them …

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa – Waterloo East stranded 11 baserunners, eight in scoring position, as the Trojans were eliminated Saturday by Marshalltown, 3-1, in a Class 4A regional softball opener.
East (17-20) left the bases-loaded in the both the second and third innings, while the Bobcats (18-17) took advantage of two Trojan errors to score all three of their runs.
East tied the game in the top of the third when Jessica Kinnetz hit a one-out double and Charissa Wright drove her home.
Click here to read the entire article from the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.

WATERLOO – The Waterloo East Trojan baseball squad dropped a pair of contests to Cedar Rapids Jefferson Friday, losing 11-1 and 10-0.
Jefferson (19-14) scored seven of its 11 runs during the first three innings of game one and cruised.
“First game (we) had one of those innings where we fell apart,” said East coach Bruce Pietro.
“Defensively, the pitcher was throwing strikes. Gaige (Frank), every time he’s on the mound he throws strikes and we just didn’t play defense well.”
In game two, Jefferson jumped right in, putting up six on the board …

A pair of strong pitching performances propelled the Waterloo East softball squad to a sweep of Dubuque Wahlert Tuesday as the Trojans won, 4-1 and 8-0.
Alyson Netty and Kesley Rash both fired complete-game two-hitters for East.
Solid hitting was also East’s ally on this evening. In game one, Katelyn Kinnetz, Netty and Megan Dunn also registered two hits apiece.
Click here for the complete story from the Waterloo Courier.

CEDAR RAPIDS — This is the time prep tennis coaches are put to the test.
With rosters due Monday for Thursday’s Class 1A and 2A district meets, boys’ tennis coaches are challenged to find their best possible lineup.
It turns out that determining lineups for district competition is more complex than filling out a sheet with names. Coaches implore strategy to try to advance as many athletes to the state meet as well as improving the team’s chances to reach team substate.
Coaches and players have to decide whether to compete in singles …

The Class 2A district assignments were released by the Iowa High School Athletic Association. They begin May 13. The top two in each districts, in both singles and doubles, advance to the state meets May 28 and 29 in Waterloo (Class 1A) and Cedar Rapids’ Veterans Memorial Tennis Complex (2A).
Cedar Rapids Jefferson hosts a district with Cedar Rapids Kennedy, Cedar Rapids Prairie, Cedar Rapids Washington, Cedar Rapids Xavier and Marshalltown. Iowa City High also hosts a district with Iowa City West, Burlington, Davenport West, Muscatine and Ottumwa. Linn-Mar heads to Dubuque …

There are the divisions for the MVC in 2010-11 and 2011-12:
MISSISSIPPI DIVISION
Cedar Rapids Kennedy
Cedar Rapids Washington
Dubuque Senior
Dubuque Wahlert
Iowa City High
Linn-Mar
Waterloo West
VALLEY DIVISION
Cedar Falls
Cedar Rapids Jefferson
Cedar Rapids Prairie
Cedar Rapids Xavier
Dubuque Hempstead
Iowa City West
Waterloo East

Here it is. Chris Robertson of Linn-Mar and Bob Fontana of Cedar Rapids Kennedy are the division coaches of the year. Cedar Rapids Jefferson’s Jarrod Uthoff and TrayVonn Wright of Waterloo West were players of the year.
Striking how much better the Valley Division was this season than the Mississippi Division. Three MVC are at the state tournament next week, all from the Valley Division.
2009 10.PDF All MVC Hoops

            2009-2010             
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ALL-CONFERENCE WRESTLING TEAM
VALLEY DIVISION
FIRST TEAM ALL-DIVISION
 

 Weight
 
    Name

Record
Overall

 
School

 
Grade

103
Joel Northrup

32-3

Linn-Mar

9

112
Bryce Lynn

23-4

Dubuque Senior

11

119
Kirk Sallis

18-1

Waterloo East

12

125
Dan Radig

20-19

Linn-Mar

11

130
Demetrious Taylor

20-2

Waterloo East

12

135
Josh Pederson

26-9

Linn-Mar

10

140
Tim Toerner

17-12

Cedar Falls

12

145
Zach Witte

28-3

C.R. Prairie

10

152
Michael Kelly

30-1

Cedar Falls

12

160
K.C. Groomes

19-15

Cedar Falls

11

171
Mark Atwater

24-6

Linn-Mar

10

189
Kyven Gadson

23-0

Waterloo East

12

215
Josh Lambrecht

17-0

C.R. Prairie

12

285
Mac MahmensConner Herman

20-5
25-1

Linn-Mar
C.R. Jefferson

11
11

 
COACH OF THE YEAR     Doug Streicher & Linn-Mar Coaching Staff          
 
SECOND TEAM ALL-DIVISION
 
 

 Weight
 
    Name

Record
Overall

 
School

 
Grade

103
Zach Becicka

27-7

C.R. Prairie

10

112
DeShawn Robertson

22-6

Waterloo East

10

119
Jordan Eicher

16-13

C.R. Washington

10

125
Blake Carson

19-13

C.R. Jefferson

11

130
Jeremy Severin

18-15

Linn-Mar

11

135
Dylan Moenck

12-21

C.R. Jefferson

11

140
Cameron Rathje

20-11

C.R. Prairie

9

145
Dailey JohnsonStephen Settlage

31-5
18-11

Linn-Mar
C.R. Jefferson

12
12

152
Peyton Wagner

24-5

C.R. Prairie

10

160
Austin Gould

8-3

C.R. Prairie

9

171
Alex Steenblock

25-11

C.R. Prairie

 

189
Riley Welsh

19-14

C.R. Jefferson

11

215
Cody Hirsch

17-12

Cedar Falls

11

285
 

 

 

 

 
HONORABLE MENTION ALL-DIVISION
 

 Weight
 
    Name

Record
Overall

 
School

 
Grade

103
 

 

 

 

112
Jayden Flege

23-12

C.R. Prairie

9

119
Dehrik Bevins

13-14

Linn-Mar

10

125
 

 

 

 

130
Casey Becker

13-11

C.R. Prairie

9

135
Sam Dagit

11-18

Cedar Falls

11

140
Jeremy Helgeson

19-13

Waterloo East

11

145
 

 

 

 

152
John Conner

22-15

Linn-Mar

10

160
Kyle …

MISSISSIPPI VALLEY CONFERENCE WRESTLING ACADEMIC HONORS
 MISSISSIPPI DIVISION
 

SCHOOL
NAME
NAME

 
Cedar Falls
 
Michael Kelley
 
Tim Toerner

 
C.R. Prairie
Derek Dozier
Jordan Netolicky

 
Dubuque Hempstead
 
Brian Ensign
 
Brock Haas

 
Dubuque Wahlert
 
Ben Berning
 
Jon Kane

 
Iowa City City
Isaac Thompson
Alex Sullivan

 
Iowa City West
 
Nick Moore
 
Griffin Weihe

 
Linn-Mar
Michael Green
Dailey Johnson

 
 
VALLEY DIVISION

 
C.R. Jefferson
 
Zac Builta
 
Stephen Settlage

 
C.R. Kennedy
 
Drew Johnson
 
Chas Mollenhauer

 
C.R. Washington
 
Zach Pilcher
 
Justin Cole

 
C.R. Xavier
 
Josh McDonald
 
Jason Milke

 
Dubuque Senior
 
TJ Weidemann
 
Enoch Warnke

 
Waterloo East
 
Jeremy Helgeson
 
Kendrick Veasley

 
Waterloo West
 
Ian Brauer