Archive - Sep 2019

JOHNSON COUNTY– The filing deadline to be on the ballot for the Tuesday, Nov. 5, city and school elections was 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 19. The Johnson County Auditor’s Office has posted the list of the many candidates throughout the county in city and school elections, with several in the North Liberty Leader’s coverage area: North Liberty, Tiffin, Oxford, Swisher and Shueyville; and including the Clear Creek Amana (CCA) Community School District and the Iowa City Community School District (ICCSD).

SOLON– A late-game rally under the lights in Solon on a humid Friday, Sept. 20, catapulted the fourth-place ranked Spartans (3-0) to a 17-13 triumph over the Davenport Assumption Knights (2-1) and moved them to 4-0 for the season.
The win also answered the question whispered quietly this season if the Spartans could play back from a deficit and win after outscoring their opponents 127-14 thus far in the season.

SOLON– The pack is developing. It just needs to gravitate upwards.
With lead runner Gabe Hinman finishing 13th in the 64-runner field, Solon put together a pack of four more between 31st and 46th. Included in that field were 11 top-30 individual runners (in their school’s enrollment class). Hinman entered the week 29th in the coaches’ poll of the top 30 3A runners.
That pack will need to keep dropping its finish times, though, to move the team up. Solon was seventh among the 10 teams at its home cross country meet Monday, Sept. 23, at the Solon Recreation and Nature Area.

It’s Homecoming this week for Solon High School, and the Homecoming Court gathered outside the school Friday for the traditional group shot. This year, the court includes: (front) Peyton Sands, Aira Foster, Gabbi Bullard, Ella Duster, Hannah Bock and (not pictured) Khaylor Fleck; (back) Dillon Jeworrek, Seamus Poynton, Michael Broghammer, A.J. Coons, Nolan Pattison, Joe Hickman and Joe Stahle. The king will be announced at the conclusion of the Homecoming Parade, with the queen named during halftime of the varsity football game Friday night against the Fort Madison Bloodhounds.

IOWA CITY– Liberty High ran the table for a 6-0 championship at Iowa City West High’s Caroline Found Volleyball Extravaganza Saturday, Sept. 14, at West High. The annual tournament is in memory of Found, who was killed in a moped accident in August 2011, and was the setter for West High’s 2010 state championship volleyball team. Found’s, and the Women of Troys’ story was told in a book, The Miracle Season, by former West High Coach Kathy Bresnahan, and later made into a movie starring Helen Hunt as Bresnahan.