Sports

By Chris Umscheid
North Liberty Leader
IOWA CITY– The West High Women of Troy overhauled the Rams from Dubuque Senior with a 3-0 win Tuesday, Sept. 16, at home while doing a little fine-tuning of their own.
Coach Randy Dolson rolled out a new line-up with some new faces to the varsity squad, new roles for some of the veterans, and an 8-6 record. The Rams entered the contest with a 3-8 record and put up a bit of a challenge. West had a 6-0 lead early in the game with back-to-back kills from senior Laynie Whitehead. Whitehead went on to lead the Women of Troy with nine kills on the night.

TIPTON– The junior varsity and varsity races were cancelled at the Tipton Cross Country Invitational, held in Tipton’s City Park on Tuesday, Sept. 9. However, the middle school runners soldiered on in a 1.5-mile course.
Clear Creek Amana (CCA) sent a handful of runners with Kaylie Barker and Ally Loren representing the girls and Noah McNeil and Trevor King for the boys.
Barker, an eighth grader, finished seventh in 10:39 to lead the Clippers. Loren, also an eighth grader, was 44th in 12:24. McNeil, a seventh grader, was 34th in 10:59 while King, also in seventh grade, was 36th in 11:04.

IOWA CITY– The West High Women of Troy finished the 2014 Little Hawk Invitational swim meet with a sixth-place finish in team points Saturday, Sept. 20, at the Mercer Park Aquatics Center in Iowa City. Cedar Falls won the meet with 398 points while host City High was eighth with 95. Ten teams competed for 2,080 total points awarded.
West’s Jacintha Thomas won the 1-meter diving event with a score of 515.35 while teammate Alex Aaberg was second with a score of 438. Erica Hsu won the 200-yard IM in 2:14.21 and finished second in the 500-yard freestyle in 5:18.40.

CEDAR RAPIDS– Solon head football coach Kevin Miller hopes his team will respond in a positive manner.
No. 2 Cedar Rapids Xavier handed No. 3 Solon its first loss of the season Friday at Saints Field in Cedar Rapids, a convincing 28-0 shut-out in a Class 3A match-up.
Xavier held the Spartan offense in check, limiting Solon to just 40 yards of rushing and 121 yards of total offense.
On the flip side, the Saints, fueled by 172 rushing yards by senior running back Jay Kortemeyer, generated 369 total yards on the evening.

ATKINS– The pack is there. The task before Solon is to slide it up the finish list a little higher.
On their way to a third-place team finish at the Benton Cross Country Invitational Sept. 13, Solon’s girls had all five scoring runners within 16 seconds of each other. The boys pack stretched a little wider, on their way to fifth place in the nine-team Roundhouse Trail ‘Run Through the Woods’ in Atkins.

Folkerts, Coberly shoulder to shoulder