Prairie High School - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Prairie girls top IC West, 6-3

IOWA CITY - Vale Caro, Magui Caro, Michelle Grenn and Karleigh Schilling won their singles matches Thursday as Prairie defeated Iowa City West, 6-3, in a Mississippi Valley Conference tennis meet in Iowa City.

Vale Caro blanked Megan Jans at No. 1 singles, 8-0.

Prairie 6, Iowa City West 3

Singles

1. Vale Caro (P) def. Megan Jans, 8-0

2. Magui Caro (P0 def. Brittani Langland, 8-4

3. Michelle Grenn (P) def. Hannah Smigel, 8-1

4. Maria Burtch (ICW) def. Bri Kalous, 8-6

5. Karleigh Schilling (P) def. Abby Jans, 8-6

6. Sidney Beaurivage (ICW) def. Lauren O'Brian, 8-2

Doubles

1. Caro/Caro (P) def. Langland/Smigel, 8-4

2. Jans/Jans (ICW) def. Grenn/Kalous, 8-5

3. Schilling/O'Brian (P) def. Beaurivage/Rachel Paup, 8-3

No. 10 Prairie girls top Solon

SOLON - Maleah Baloch scored the only goal of the game Thursday as 10th-ranked Prairie blanked Solon, 1-0, in a girls soccer match at Solon.

Lions take 2nd at Prairie golf

Lauren Coughlin and Teresa Lopez Moreno helped the Linn-Mar Lions finish in second place at the Prairie Invitational golf tournament at Airport National Thursday.

Coughlin shot a 14-over-par 77 to place fourth in the individual standings. Lopez Moreno finished with a 15-over 78.

Kate Coyle of Cascade took medalist honors with a 74.

Iowa City West won the team title at 309, followed by Linn-Mar (323) and Prairie (345). Marion placed eighth out of nine teams.

Emily Machula led Prairie with an 81. Taylor Wade and Ashley Ohl topped Marion with 88's.

Team Standings

1. Iowa City West 309, 2. Linn-Mar 323, 3. Prairie 345, 4. Solon 350, 5.(tie) Cascade 355, Iowa City Regina 355, 7. Clear Creek Amana 368, 8. Marion 381, 9. West Delaware 388.

Top 5 Individuals 
Airport National
Par 63

1. Kate Coyle, Cascade            74

2. Tiffany Danger, IC West        75

3. Avery Kout, IC West            76

4. Lauren Coughlin, Linn-Mar      77

5. Teresa Lopez Moreno, Linn-Mar  78

LINN-MAR: Lauren Coughlin 77, Teresa Lopez Moreno 78, Katie Harding 83, Amanda Shannon 85, Jordan Postma 86, Morgan Uridil 92.

PRAIRIE: Emily Machula 81, Emily Perrin 83, Kennedy Fisher 87, Grace Lindgren 94, Mallory Bennett 96, Sydney Stolba 98

MARION: Taylor Wade 88, Ashley Ohl 88, Kirsten Way 98, Anna Martinson 107, Isabelle Webber 118, Erin Thomason 125.

Utley earns top honor on IIAC team

Cedar Rapids Prairie grad D.J. Utley has been named the Position Player of the Year on the Iowa Conference all-star baseball team.

Utley, a junior first baseman for the Wartburg Knights, hit .407 with seven home runs and 37 RBIs this season. He led all conference players in on-base percentage and home runs, ranked second in batting average and slugging percentage, third in doubles and total bases, fourth in RBIs and seventh in hits.

AJ Reuter of Coe was named to the first team at first base. Pitcher Connor Alberhasky and shortstop Craig Konrardy of Coe were selected to the second team. Michael Redmond, a Linn-Mar grad, received Honorable Mention for the Kohawks as an outfielder.

Ben Rettenmeier, a Jefferson grad, was named as a first-team pitcher for Wartburg.