Sports

FAIRFIELD– Despite heat, humidity and threat of strong to severe storms, Thursday, Sept. 12, was a perfect night for the Clear Creek Amana (CCA) High School varsity boys cross country team as they competed in Fairfield’s meet. The Clippers swept the meet posting the top five finishes to win the team championship decisively.
Brandon Barker won the varsity boys’ race in 16:53.08, with Gavin Zillyette the runner up in 17:24.39. Jack Sexton, Caleb Alcorn, and Nick O’Connor rounded out the third-, fourth-, and fifth-place finishes for the Creek Boys.

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.

SOLON– There was a chance in the first game, but it slipped away.
The Mount Vernon Mustangs, ranked first in Class 3A at the time, swept the Solon volleyball team at home Sept. 10.
The Mustangs dropped the Lady Spartans 25-23, 25-17, 25-14.
Solon kept pace with Mount Vernon in the first game, closing to within two points and a single point at 24-23 before the final Mustang kill put the Lady Spartans away.
Solon found itself in a 1-6 and then a 2-10 hole in game two, but clawed back within five before falling.

IOWA CITY– Three runners in the top-20 led their pack, with Solon’s girls finishing as team runner-up in the annual Bob Brown Invitational cross country meet, Sept. 5 in Iowa City.
Sophomore Emma Bock was eighth, overall– seventh in the team count– across the finish line on the 5-kilometer course, in 21:40. Junior Kiersten Conway (11th overall, 10th in the team scoring), came in at 22:01). The pair swapped their one-two team finish the week prior at the season opener. Teammate Meghan O’Neill (22:32) was 18th. Kaia Holtkamp was 22nd, in 22:43, with freshman Mary Fiala 27th, 23:05.

IOWA CITY– Solon’s boys are getting the pack idea down.
Their job over the next few cross country meets is to move it up as the finish line approaches.
With sophomore Gabe Hinman cracking the top 10 at the Regina-hosted Bob Brown Invitational, the Spartans didn’t have another runner cross the finish line for a minute and a half. Hinman, 25th ranked among Class 3A boys, turned in a 17:45 finish; good for eighth place at the Sept. 5 Regina meet.