Prairie Boys Track

Pritts wins Metro Spotlight Award

Cedar Rapids Prairie senior Mitch Pritts is the winner of the Metro Spotlight Award for high school boys this week, the Metro Sports Report announced Sunday.

Pritts has established himself as one of the top distance runners in Iowa. He helped Prairie capture the Class 4A state cross country title last fall in Fort Dodge and placed in three events at the Class 4A state track meet last May.

Pritts began the 2014 season by winning the 3200 in 9:44.59 at the Dickinson Relays in Cedar Falls on Tuesday.

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Pritts wins 3200 at Dickinson Relays

CEDAR FALLS - Mitch Pritts of Cedar Rapids Prairie captured the 3200 meter run at the Dickinson Relays Tuesday at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls.

Pritts was timed in 9 minutes, 44.59 seconds.

The Linn-Mar Lions won the 4x800 relay in 8:12.48.

Cedar Rapids Jefferson sprinters fared well in the 200 meter dash. Nate Karlan placed third in 23.34 seconds and Shaquille Harbor was fifth in 23.60 seconds.

Tristan Beyer eyes state title in 400

IOWA CITY - Tristan Beyer is excited about playing football at Upper Iowa University this fall, but there's something he wants to accomplish with the Cedar Rapids Prairie track team before heading to Fayette.

Beyer finished second by a scant margin in the 400 meter dash at the Class 4A state meet last May and it's bugged him ever since.

Deshond Robinson of Clinton won the state title in 48.71 seconds, with Beyer a tick behind in a personal-best 48.85 seconds.

Robinson and Beyer are both seniors now. If they meet again, Beyer plans to finish on top.

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Beyer tops Corbett in Valley 400

Tristan Beyer finally beat Nick Corbett in a 400-meter dash Monday.

Now he wants to do it again. And again.

Beyer, a junior from Prairie, and Corbett, a senior from Washington, are two of the top quarter-milers in the state and they clashed Monday in the Mississippi Valley Conference division meet at Kingston Stadium.

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