Sports

DYERSVILLE– The Solon boys didn’t mind Friday the 13th one bit.
Solon’s varsity boys’ soccer team traveled to Dyersville April 13 to face the second-ranked (Class 1A) Beckman Catholic Blazers and came away with a hard-fought, 1-0 upset win.
The lone goal came in the first period of play off a long free kick by senior Nick Radcliffe which found junior Luke McInnis whose header into the net was the difference in the game.
Senior goalkeeper Eric Weetman delivered another shut out with four saves against no goals allowed.

DAVENPORT– The Solon Spartan boys track and field team traveled to Brady Street Stadium for the Jesse Day Relays in Davenport on Thursday, April 12, and came away with a seventh-place team finish among the 11 teams participating. Bettendorf took the team champion honor with 143.25 points, followed by Pleasant Valley (113), Davenport West (108), North Scott (64.5), Clinton (62.5), Muscatine (56), Solon (53.5), Davenport Central (51), the event host Davenport North (36.25), Central DeWitt (36) and Davenport Assumption (15).

MARION– “Sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn’t,” or so said Old Lodge Skins in the 1970s movie, “Little Big Man,” a comical fictionalization of the lone survivor of the Battle of Little Big Horn. The Lady Spartans, third place in the WaMaC East, moved to 1-1 on the season Tuesday, April 10, following a windswept 4-0 defeat by the second-place WaMac West Marion Indians on the grass at the Marion High School soccer field, just up the hill from the high school.

CLINTON– Liberty High’s varsity girls track and field team tied for fifth place in team points Tuesday, April 10, in Clinton, at Clinton High School’s Relays. Dubuque Wahlert won the meet with 119 points, Clinton was eighth with 48.5, and City High finished ninth with 31.

TIFFIN– They put up a tough fight for over 90 minutes, but ultimately, the No.12 team in Class 2A Sabers of Central Clinton in DeWitt prevailed, 5-4, over the varsity girls of Clear Creek Amana (CCA) in only the second match of the season on Tuesday, April 10, in Tiffin.
Carsyn Gallagher scored with an assist from Amelia Pereira in the second-minute to give the Creek Girls a quick 1-0 lead. DeWitt tied shortly after, leading to a stalemate throughout almost the rest of the first half. Alexis Schau put the Clippers ahead, 2-1, late in the period, scoring with an assist from Ellen Austin.