Sports

SOLON– “Cast out the Demons,” capped on each side by the Spartan logo, was the warning off Highway 1 as the Washington Demons came to town on Friday, Sept. 15. They should have heeded the warning as the Solon Spartans demolished the Washington Demons, 40-0.
The Solon Spartans are sitting at 4-0, 2-0 in district play, and have only allowed seven points.
Did Solon Head Football Coach Kevin Miller see that coming?
“I’m not sure to be honest,” Miller said. “We knew that we had some important pieces in places that would allow our team to achieve at a high level.”

MANCHESTER– It was a week of ups and downs that didn’t result in too many wins for the Solon varsity volleyball team.
The Lady Spartans doubled-down against No. 7 (5A) Pleasant Valley and faced off with No. 14 (2A) Sumner-Fredericksburg at a Marion tournament over the previous weekend and then fell on the road to West Delaware Sept. 12.
The lone victory for Solon came against Vinton-Shellsburg at Marion, a 2-0 sweep Sept. 9.
But the Lady Spartans battled against the ranked teams– pushing Pleasant Valley in a rematch and taking a 1-0 lead before falling to Sumner-Fredericksburg.

IOWA CITY– The West High Women of Troy swam and dove to the runner-up spot in City High’s 2017 Little Hawk Invitational Saturday, Sept. 16, at the Mercer Park Aquatic Center. Bettendorf claimed the team championship with 468 points followed by West High (384), Ankeny (361), Cedar Rapids Kennedy (248) and West Des Moines Valley (214). The host Little Hawks were sixth with 196 team points.

CORALVILLE– Iowa City West High’s Women of Troy swim team dunked the Cedar Rapids Kennedy Cougars, 128-58, Tuesday, Sept. 12, at the Coralville Recreation Center.
Varsity winners for West High included Melanie Housenga (200-yard freestyle), Lilly Ernst (200-yard Individual Medley (IM), 100-yard butterfly), Izabel Houselog (50-yard freestyle), Aurora Roghair (100-yard freestyle, 100-yard backstroke), Alleyna Thomas (500-yard freestyle) and Jenny Geng (100-yard breaststroke).

AMES– She did it again.
Iowa City West High’s Bailey Nock pulled away from the field early in the Heartland Classic cross country invitational (hosted by Des Moines Roosevelt High School and held Saturday, Sept. 16 at Iowa State University’s cross country course in Ames) and won by 13 seconds over runner-up Olivia Soverign of St. Thomas Aquinas (Missouri) in 18:51.9 Nock, a senior, was over 20 seconds ahead of Linn-Mar’s Micah Poellet, a freshman, who finished third in 19:15.6.