Sports

MOUNT VERNON– Megan Hall and Clear Creek Amana’s (CCA) 4x200-Meter Relay team earned wins Tuesday afternoon at the WaMaC indoor meet, held in the Cornell College Recreation Center.
Hall led the 55-Meter Dash with a time of 7.38 seconds, .08 seconds ahead of second-place’s Olivia Loy from Anamosa. The CCA 4x200-Meter Relay squad won their event with a time of 1:52.54.
No team points were kept for the meet.
Weather and field conditions permitting, the Clippers will return to Mount Vernon on Saturday, March 30, for the Mustang’s Coed Invitational.
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IOWA CITY– The 7th annual Coaches for Kids benefit for Children of Promise, Youth Mentoring Programs will spotlight three area high school coaches who go above-and-beyond to act as mentors for their youth. Basketball coach, Robert Fontana of Kennedy High School; golf coach, Mark Wilden of Kennedy High School; and football coach, Kevin Miller of Solon High School will each be recognized by University of Iowa head football coach, Kirk Ferentz, during the Coaches for Kids benefit at the Sheraton in downtown Iowa City on April 2.

The Hawkeye men took on both Indiana teams last week, hosting Purdue last Wednesday and traveling to Indiana on Saturday.
The Boilermaker game at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, which Iowa won 58-48, was one of those grind-it-out games that wasn’t a lot of fun to watch… unless you were an Iowa fan.
It didn’t help that Mike Gesell was out with a stress fracture. He has averaged the most minutes since the Big Ten season started and might be back for the Big Ten Tournament.
Devyn Marble looked good taking over the point. He had 18 points, four assists and only three turnovers in 29 minutes.

IOWA CITY– Turnovers and a suffocating Mount Pleasant defense spelled trouble for the Spartans.
Solon fell in the Class 3A Substate 5 final, 51-33, to the defending champion Panthers Monday night at Iowa City West.
The Spartans held a 14-point lead at one point in the first half, but a wound-up Mount Pleasant team started hitting the 3-pointers they missed earlier in a second half that saw only one made field goal by Solon until the game was in its final minute.

CEDAR RAPIDS– The West High Women of Troy are going back to the Girls State Basketball Tournament. A decisive 55-42 win over City High Tuesday night at Cedar Rapids Prairie in a Class 5A regional final punched their ticket, and put the ladies on track for their third consecutive tourney appearance.
West led the third meeting this season of the crosstown rivals throughout, edging past 11-10 after the first period and taking a 21-19 lead into the locker room at the half.