KMCH SPORTS: Weekend recap

BY JON SWISHER – SPORTS DIRECTOR:

At the Xtream Arena in Coralville, West Delaware Girls senior wrestler Anna O’Rear wrapped up a fantastic career on Friday night in the Class 1A 135-pound final. Competing in a finals match for the 2nd-year in row, O’Rear fell in a major decision. Also in Class 1A in the coverage area. At 145 Tayla Stieful won with a fall as she pinned all of her opponents in the 2-day state tournament. Brooklyn Graham at 190 with her second straight title. The Buccaneers finished fifth in the team standings.

On Friday afternoon at the Cadillac Bowling Center in Waterloo the West Delaware Boys Bowling team competed in a Triangular against Decorah and host Waterloo Columbus. The Hawks won the meet with a program record score of 3475 breaking the previous mark set by the 2014-15 squad of 3328. Leading the way for the Hawks with a 493 was Freshmen Cash Meyer, 487 for Bradley Schiess, 477 for Ethan Sellers, 458 for Hayden Tucker, John Wickman with a 446 and a 418 for Travyn Sullivan. The Hawk boys are taking part in the WaMaC Conference tournament today which started at 10am at the Keystone Turner Hall hosted by Benton Community.

Also on Friday afternoon, two West Delaware student athletes swimming for Dubuque Hempstead at the District state qualifying meet at Dubuque Senior. Junior Caden Stickney and Freshmen brother Calvin qualified in both of their individual events and three relays between the two. The boys swimming state meet will be this Friday and Saturday in Iowa City.

On Friday night in Boys Basketball, West Delaware upset Class 3A #9 Center Point-Urbana 76-66. Paul Beswick and Keegan Clemen-Jones tallied career high in points scored with 29 and 22 respectively. They combined for 9 three-pointers as the team hit 13 in total, the 3rd best in a game in program history in the past 15 years.   The Hawks return to play tomorrow night in Grinnell as they will face the Tigers starting at 6pm. The Maquoketa Valley Boys edged North Linn 49-43 on the road to claim their first Tri-Rivers Conference title since 2010 and the program’s 18th since 1979. We’ll have coverage of Maquoketa Valley Girls and Boys Basketball tonight in a coverage area doubleheader as they take on Monticello in Delhi. Starting at 6pm on the KMCH Sports Video Stream with Sports Director Jon Swisher and Bill Logan.

The State Dual Team Tournament concluded on Saturday night at the Xtream Arena in Coralville.

In Class 2A-

West Delaware lost to Independence 35-29, the Hawks then beat Glenwood 41-32 before falling to Alburnett 39-27 for 6th place. The Mustangs lost to Decorah in the semifinals 43-25 then lost to Clarion-Goldfield-Dows 36-23 to take 4th place. The wrestling postseason will be on pause until Saturday when state qualifying districts take place around the state starting at 10am.