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CEDAR RAPIDS– The West High swimmers traveled to Cedar Rapids Washington Tuesday, Jan. 10, for a dual meet with the Warriors and prevailed, 118-51. The junior varsity (JV) also won, sinking the Warriors, 122-44.
Lane Griffis won both the 200- and 500-yard freestyle events in 1:53.10 and 5:03.10, and Oliver Martin was also a double winner with victories in the 50- and 100-yard freestyle events in 21.80 and 48.46 seconds. Izaak Hajek won the 100-yard butterfly in 55.75 seconds, while Ben Berhow took the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:02.81.

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BETTENDORF– West High’s wrestlers finished the two-day Midwest Shootout hosted by Bettendorf High School in ninth place. The tournament kicked off on Friday, Jan. 13, and wrapped up on Saturday, Jan. 14, with Johnston taking the team championship with 241.5 points. The host Bulldogs were seventh with 147.0 points and West High’s Trojans were ninth with 122.5.
Keaton Speicher and Nelson Brands earned crowns at 113 and 152 pounds, respectively, while Ashton Stumpf finished the weekend in second place at 170 pounds.

IOWA CITY– The Trojans of Iowa City West High fell, 40-33, in a varsity wrestling match with Cedar Rapids Kennedy Thursday, Jan. 5, at West High.
West High’s Carter Rohweder (160 pounds), Hans Von Rabenau (106), Keaton Speicher (113) and Nelson Brands (152) all won by fall. Rohweder pinned Hunter Erickson in 2:57, Von Rabenau took down Ben Hoeger in 2:51, Speicher pinned Gabe Long in 2:40 and Brands pinned Logen Benion in 3:45. Guy Snow (285) took a 13-8 decision from Kennedy’s Josh Vis.

The Hawkeye women played one game last week, the men played two. The Iowa wrestlers were at Michigan on Friday and Michigan State on Sunday.

Hawkeye women

Just one day after the Hawkeyes lost in the Outback Bowl and struggled on offense, the Iowa women had the same problem at Penn State, losing 71-58 last week.
The Hawks only trailed 32-31 at half, shooting 50 percent from the floor and 29 percent from 3-point range.
In the third quarter, Iowa was 1-10 from the floor and 0-6 from behind the arc.

The Hawkeyes started the weekend last Friday by knocking off 15th-ranked Michigan, 31-7.
On Sunday, they crushed Michigan State 44-0 at East Lansing.
You start with Thomas Gilman (125) and Brandon Sorensen (149) with major decisions, Sammy Brooks (184) with a technical fall and it finished with Sam Stoll (285) getting a pin.
Cory Clark (133), who hasn’t wrestled since Nov. 27 but is still ranked No. 1, shut out seventh-ranked Stevan Micic, 2-0.
Second-ranked Michael Kemerer (157) beat 10th-ranked Brian Murphy, 6-3.