Metro Sports Report

Make sure you see Paige in person

I would like to start today by writing about the Linn-Mar versus Cedar Rapids Prairie boys basketball game last Friday at Linn-Mar.

In my view, taken in its total body of play, it was one of the most unusual and thrilling high school games that I've seen in a long, long time. I usually take the game program and keep score and make notes, and this resulted in some scratching for a couple of pages.

When Linn-Mar trailed 26-6 and later 35-18, I wrote that the Lions were playing with feet of clay and the basketball must have had grease on it. Their shooting and passing, at best, were erratic.

Prairie girls whipped by No. 2 West

Twelfth-ranked Cedar Rapids Prairie is hitting a rough patch in the home stretch of its girls basketball season and it may not get any tougher then it was Thursday night.

Second-ranked Iowa City West had four players score in double figures and raced past Prairie, 75-45, in a Mississippi Valley Conference game at Prairie.

Prairie (11-6, 8-5) got 18 points from Courteney McCrary, but lost its third straight game. The Hawks play at No. 9 Iowa City High Friday night, then have games against ranked foes Dubuque Wahlert and Xavier next week.

“We have to play better,” Prairie Coach Steve Doser said. “We have three tough ones left; we have to be better.”

Prairie grapplers sweep; J-Hawks split

WATERLOO - Peyton Wagner collected two pins at 145 pounds Thursday night as No. 4 Cedar Rapids Prairie swept a Mississippi Valley Conference double dual in Waterloo.

Wagner pinned Kelly May in 1:42 as the Hawks defeated Cedar Rapids Jefferson, 51-15. He pinned Gabe Kruger in 1:06 as Prairie flattened Waterloo West, 60-13.

Jefferson belted Waterloo West, 63-15, in the third meet.

Jaime Printy hurt in UI victory

MADISON, Wis. - University of Iowa junior Jaime Printy suffered an apparent knee injury in a Big Ten basketball game at Wisconsin Thursday night.

Printy, a 5-foot-11 guard from Linn-Mar, got hurt in overtime as the Hawkeyes topped the Badgers, 85-79.

"Jaime doesn't feel good about it," Iowa Coach Lisa Bluder said after the game, according to the UI website. "The doctor's looking at it right now, but as of right now she doesn't feel very good about it. It's pretty bittersweet."