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MOUNT VERNON– The Lady Spartans soccer team suffered a week of setbacks with two road losses on grass fields away from home.
Nike had a marketing campaign bearing the quote, “The road to athletic greatness is not marked by perfection, but the ability to constantly overcome adversity and failure.”
Tuesday, April 24, the Lady Spartans girls’ soccer team boarded the bus and traveled to Epworth challenging the Western Dubuque Bobcats. The Bobcats took an early lead and kept applying the pressure, dealing the Lady Spartans an 8-0 loss.

JOHNSON COUNTY– Student athletes from Clear Creek Amana, Liberty High School and Iowa City West High will compete in the 2018 Drake Relays at Drake University in Des Moines this weekend. High school competition runs from Thursday, April 26, through Saturday, April 28.
West High will send athletes in 21 events, while Clear Creek Amana qualified for three. Liberty High School, in its first year, is sending two athletes: Camille Mac and Taylor Cannon for the 3,00-meter run and 100-meter hurdles, respectively.

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Gabe Caruthers, 100-meter dash.

Liberty girls golf drops close one to Bears

West Branch 209, Liberty High 212

CORALVILLE– Liberty High’s varsity girls golf team is “getting better every time out,” said coach Brian Wernimont after the Lightning dropped a close match Tuesday, April 17, at Brown Deer Golf Course, to West Branch. The Bears won 209 to the Bolts’ 212. Aleah Rocha, from West Branch, won with 48, while Liberty’s Neely Maurus was the runner up with 49. Cassidy Sundine shot a career-best 51 in the match.

Rain delay and missing top two players didn’t hinder IC West North Liberty Leader DUBUQUE– Rain delayed the start of tennis matches by three-and-a-half hours Saturday, April 21, and the Iowa City West Women of Troy were short their top-two singles players, Emma and Audrey Koch, but nonetheless the team knocked off Wahlert and Hempstead to improve to 6-0 in the Mississippi Valley Conference (MVC). West High defeated Wahlert, 5-4, and Hempstead, 6-3. “Without our number one and two singles players in the lineup, the Women of Troy stepped up and came out victorious against last year’s co-conf

LONG GROVE– Liberty High’s varsity girls golf team finished the day seventh in team points Thursday, April 12, at North Scott’s Lancer Invitational held at the Glynn’s Creek Golf Course in Long Grove.
Dubuque Wahlert Catholic won the 12-team meet with a team total of 339, Dubuque Senior was third with 376, North Scott was sixth with 409 while the Lightning finished seventh with 421 and Davenport West rounded out the field with 522.
Neely Maurus once again led the Lightning with 96 through 18 holes.