Archive - Dec 27, 2015

North Liberty Leader
CORALVILLE– West High’s swim team remained undefeated Tuesday, Dec. 15, after sinking the Cougars of Cedar Rapids Kennedy, 110-60, at the Coralville Recreation Center.
Lane Griffis won the 200- and 500-freestyle events, Mark McGlaughlin won the 200-individual medley and 100-freestyle while Will Scott won the 50-freestyle and 100-butterfly and Ben Berhow took the 100-breaststroke.
McGlaughlin, Aidan Keen, Scott and Brennon Keen won the 200-freestyle relay while Scott, Aidan Keen, McGlaughlin and Noah Bruns won the 400-freestyle relay.

IOWA CITY– The West High Women of Troy maintained their perfect record in the 2015-2016 season, improving to 6-0 with a 63-12 blowout over the Waterloo East Lady Trojans on Tuesday, Dec. 15, at West High.
While it was an easy win for West, it wasn’t a perfect game.
“Those games are hard to play,” West coach B.J. Mayer said afterward. “I think we kind of thought, maybe, we’re better than them, so sometimes when that happens… you play sloppier, or like you don’t have to concentrate as much.”

By Nora Heaton
North Liberty Leader
NORTH LIBERTY– Sometimes, numbers don’t tell the whole story. Sometimes the experience matters more.
At Buford Garner Elementary School, class sizes may be higher than the district’s ideal numbers, but the atmosphere is one of creativity, curiosity, and innovation, said Principal Nick Proud.

SOLON– The Solon Robotics teams will conduct a can/bottle drive on Saturday, Jan. 2, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Students will go door to door asking for any empty containers with a 5¢ deposit to be recycled to raise funds. Can or bottle pickup can be arranged by contacting coach Bill Mattaliano at solonrobotics367@gmail.com. Donations may be dropped off at the robotics room, behind the Solon Middle School auditorium.

TROY MILLS– The Spartan varsity wrestlers continued to fare well in weekend tournaments, taking second place at the North Linn Varsity Lynx Invitational Dec. 19.
Cole Fritz (145 pounds) and Trevor Nelson (160) were crowned tournament champions for Solon.
Nelson pinned quarterfinal opponent Colton Caldwell of North Fayette in 1:40, then earned a technical fall over Cameron Bantz of Center Point-Urbana (CP-U) and a 12-4 major decision over Owen Grover of Beckman in the final. He remained undefeated on the season with a 14-0 record.