Sports

TIPTON– Clear Creek Amana’s (CCA) varsity boys cross country squad won the Tipton Invitational Tuesday, Sept. 5, in Tipton’s City Park. The Clippers topped the 18-team field with 77 team points and were led by Nick O’Connor’s seventh-place finish in 17:10. Brandon Barker was three seconds behind O’Connor and took eighth place.
Center Point-Urbana was second in points with 91 while the host Tigers were third with 102.

By Chris Umscheid
North Liberty Leader

TIPTON– Clear Creek Amana’s (CCA) varsity girls cross country squad finished 10th in team points Tuesday, Sept. 5, at Tipton’s Cross Country Invitational, held in Tipton’s City Park. Davenport Assumption won the meet with 67 team points while Solon was third with 113 and the host Tigerettes were seventh with 170. Center Point-Urbana (CP-U) was ninth with 200 while the Clippers were 10th with 276 team points.
Kaylie Barker led CCA with a ninth-place finish in 20:51.

By Chris Umscheid
North Liberty Leader

CEDAR FALLS– Iowa City West High’s Trojans improved to 3-0 on the varsity football season as they slipped past the Cedar Falls Tigers, 32-30, in overtime Friday, Sept. 8, at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.
The Tigers controlled the first half and held a 17-0 lead at halftime before the Trojans regrouped.
Owen McAreavy put the Trojans on the scoreboard in the third quarter with a 2-yard leap into the end zone. Lucas Karwal’s extra point kick made it 17-7.

I’ve got to admit that I had almost given up when Iowa State scored with 4:36 left in the game and the ‘Clones took a 38-31 lead.
The Hawks had tied it up 31-all when Miguel Recinos kicked a 23-yard field goal, but on its first play after the kickoff, Iowa State completed a wide-open, 74-yard touchdown pass to take the lead.
Thank goodness Akrum Wadley wasn’t giving up.
The 46-yard touchdown pass that retied the game at 38 was one of the best catch-and-runs I have ever seen.
The Hawks had a first and 10 on the ‘Clone 46.

By Joe Wilkinson
Special to the Economist

ATKINS– To call the Atkins Roundhouse trail ‘tree-lined’ is a severe understatement. Over the last decade, the park has literally had a running trail carved out of its heavily-wooded acres. No manicured golf course or graded trail to traverse. At the Benton Community Invitational cross country meet, even fans stumble through the woods to get to their next vantage point. With stubble, occasional tree roots and a dropoff here and there, it is, truly, a cross country course.