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CLINTON, Iowa – In muddy conditions, the Muscatine boys cross country team finished ninth Saturday at the Clinton Invitational.

Jason Kenyon was Muscatine’s lone medalist with a 25th-place finish in 18 minutes, 13 seconds.

“Jason leads by example, and today he showed the rest of the Muskies how to run in the mud,” Muscatine coach Chris Foxen said.

Ryan Fick was 39th in 18:31 for Muscatine.

“This was not a day to try for a P.R. (personal record),” Foxen said. “The course was saturated by two days of rain. Every athlete for the Muskies embraced the conditions and competed well.”

Durant-Bennett finished 12th in the varsity division. Deane Wichelt just finished outside the top 10 in 17:46.

The Muscatine freshman and sophomore team took second behind Pleasant Valley.

Conor Dolan and Kevin Hughes had top-10 finishes in 18:35 and 19:05, respectively.

Meanwhile, the Muscatine girls were 17th in the varsity division. Dixie Cruz led the Muskies in 72nd place.

“The Muskies competed well under horrible conditions as the course was muddy and sloppy from previous races,” head coach Tim Armstrong said.

“A great team race against some of the top-ranked teams in the state.”

Durant was 13th, led by Whitney Wolf’s 60th-place finish in 17:46.

Meanwhile, the Muscatine freshman and sophomores won its division with 41 points.  Lindsay Brunson won the race in 16:50, while Sam Kistler was second in 17:24.

Muscatine hosts the Muskie Classic at Discovery Park on Tuesday. The freshman-sophomore boys race starts at 4:15 p.m. The varsity girls will run at 4:40 p.m., followed by the varsity boys at 5:05 p.m.

Boys

Varsity

Team standings — 1. Pleasant Valley 51; 2. Urbandale 80; 3. Cedar Rapids Washington 81; 4. Indianola 115; 5. Clinton 186; 6. Cedar Rapids Xavier 219; 7. Iowa City Regina 220; 8. Bettendorf 260; 9. Muscatine 265; 10. Prairie City Monroe 279; 11. DeWitt Central 293; 12. Durant-Bennett 304; 13. Fort Madison 353; 14. North Scott 373; 15. Clinton Prince of Peace 521.

Top 10 individuals — 1. Dan Jensen (Urb.) 16:53; 2. Austin O’Brien (PV) 17:08; 3. Drew Prescott (Urb.) 17:09; 4. Tyler Meseke (PV) 17:13; 5. Matt Butler (Bett.) 17:18; 6. Cody Doughan (PV) 17:31; 7. Robert Hogg (CR Wash.) 17:32; 8. Tyler Kepan (Ind.) 17:38; 9. Mason Walters (Urb.) 17:41; 10. Nolan Knudson (Central DeWitt) 17:45.

Muscatine (265) — 25. Jason Kenyon 18:13; 39. Ryan Fick 18:31; 61. Reid Chandler 19:11; 66. James Luth 19:16; 74. Dalend Pearson 19:28; 85. Austin Czerwiec 19:45; 115. Skylar Kochuyt 20:48; 116. Zack Watson 20:51; 120. Duncan Eichelberger 21:06; 136. Caleb Mann 23:22.

Durant (304) — 11. Deane Wichelt 17:46; 40. Ben Friedrichs 18:33; 78. Chase Exline 19:34; 80. John Hughes 19:36; 95. Alex Wright 19:54; 108. Slatter Marshell 20:32; 110. Nick Roesger 20:36; 119. Cody Halferty 21:03.

Freshman/sophomore

Team standings — 1. Pleasant Valley 60; 2. Muscatine 93; 3. Cedar Rapids Xavier 105; 4. Cedar Rapids Washington 106; 5. DeWitt Central 123; 6. Bettendorf 131; 7. Iowa City Regina 205; 8. Clinton 212; 9. North Scott 296; 10. Durant-Bennett 331; 11. Davenport West 415.

Muscatine (93) — 4. Conor Dolan 18:35; 8. Kevin Hughes 19:05; 19. Eli Price 19:47; 20. David Meyer 19:55; 42. Noah Salmonson 21:00; 73. Alex Edwards 23:42; 92. Ryan Lee 27:19.

Durant (331) — 53. Brent Fick 21:26; 58. Matt Hughes 21:44; 62. DJ Mathias 21:52; 63. Austin Halferty 21:54; 95. Kris Bland 28:54.

Junior varsity

Muscatine — Chris Dotseth 21:13; Zach Minder; Josh Wheaton; Miles Allison; Abel Canaui.

Girls

Varsity

Team standings — 1. Urbandale 80; 2. Pleasant Valley 84; 3. Bettendorf 126; 4. Cedar Rapids Washington 130; 5. Indianola 175; 6. Mason City 180; 7. Cedar Rapids Xavier 190; 8. Fort Madison 238; 9. Iowa City Regina 251; 10. North Scott 330; 11. Clinton 334; 12. Clinton Prince of Peace 352; 13. Durant-Bennett 364; 14. Davenport West 426; 15. Northeast Goose Lake 429; 16. DeWitt Central 499; 17. Muscatine 510.

Top 10 individuals — 1. Maddy Becker (CR Wash.) 15:12; 2. Morgan Casey (NE Goose Lake) 15:31; 3. Anna Peer (Bett.) 15:49; 4. Sammi Bruett (Urb.) 15:51; 5. Kate Kaster (Clint.) 15:56; 6. Anne Martin (PV) 15:59; 7. Grace Shemwell (Clint.) 16:02; 8. Emily Franks (NE Goose Lake) 16:05; 9. Nicole Kleinmeyer (IC Reg.) 16:10; 10. Kate Benge (PV) 16:11.

Durant (364) — 60. Whitney Wolf 17:46; 69. Bryanne Duckett 18:05; 74. Caitlin Kuehn 18:13; 80. Leah Clark 18:27; 81. Katey Meyer 18:28; 111. Hannah Lilienthal 19:31; 139. Jade Thompson 21:03.

Muscatine (510) — 72. Dixie Cruz 18:08; 101. Hannah Peck 19:10; 105. Megan Shoppa 19:12; 109. Emily Summers 19:22; 123. Maggie LoBianco 20:08; 125. Jess Coder 20:19; 129. Natalie White 20:27; 140. KellieAnn Burton 21:05; 142. Ashlee Estabrook 21:12; 145. Caitlin York 21:51.

Freshman/sophomore

Team standings — 1. Muscatine 41; 2. Bettendorf 57; 3. Mason City 60; 4. Pleasant Valley 108; 5. Cedar Rapids Washington 150; 6. Cedar Rapids Xavier 152; 7. DeWitt Central 177; 8. Davenport West 220; 9. North Scott 271.

Muscatine (41) — 1. Lindsay Brunson 16:50; 2. Sam Kistler 17:24; 9. Rachel LoBianco 17:56; 10. Staci Eversmeyer 17:59; 19. Megan Sweere 18:24; 28. Alex Chamberlain 19:14; 41. Desi Darting 19:36; 66. Marci Paca 21:26; 81. Hailey Oepping 23:30.

Junior varsity

Muscatine — 24. Ofelia Leza 20:51; 53. Anna Snyder 22:45; 75. Natalie Fillmore 24:02; 83. Miriam Loiza 26:24; 90. Becca Townsend 29:20.

Durant takes second at NE Goose Lake tourney

GOOSE LAKE, Iowa — The Durant-Bennett volleyball team reached the finals of the Northeast Goose Lake tournament on Saturday before falling to Camanche, 25-13, 25-22.

The seventh-ranked Wildcats beat Davenport Assumption 21-11, 21-10 and Calamus-Wheatland 21-10, 21-10 in pool play, but lost to Camanche, 21-10, 21-17.

In the semifinals, Durant downed Fulton 25-16, 27-25 before succumbing to Camanche for a second time.

Durant’s Makenzie Meyer and Renee Telsrow were named to the all-tournament team.

Durant (24-4) plays host to Wilton tonight.

L-M volleyball team goes winless at New London

NEW LONDON, Iowa — The Louisa-Muscatine volleyball squad dropped matches to New London (21-7, 21-15), Winfield-Mount Union (21-19, 16-21, 15-12) and English Valley (25-23,

21-16) Saturday at the New London Invitational.

Jordyn Schaper had seven kills, 11 blocks and four digs for the Falcons. Megan Guldenpfennig had 17 digs, while Tiffany Hoffman collected seven kills, five assists and three blocks. Setter Shayla Fordyce had 16 assists and six service aces.

“Our team showed great improvement this weekend even though we didn’t get the wins we were after,” L-M coach Lori Bashore said. “We worked well together and had fun.

“I am hoping we can keep this momentum moving into our upcoming games.”

Pair of fumbles lead to setback for MHS sophs

CLINTON, Iowa — Wet, sloppy playing conditions marred the Muscatine sophomore football team Friday in a 16-7 loss to Clinton.

The River Kings keyed on a pair of second-quarter fumbles to take a 16-7 lead at halftime.

Muscatine grabbed a 7-0 lead after Austin Sink’s 8-yard touchdown run and Juan Espinal’s point after.

But a pair of Muskie fumbles in the last 1:15 of the second quarter helped the River Kings take the lead.

Muscatine (3-3) had six fumbles, three of which were lost, while Clinton lost three of five.

Clinton 16, Muscatine 7

Muscatine                   7   0  0 0 — 7

Clinton                   0 16  0 0 — 16

First Quarter

Mus — Austin Sink 8 run (Juan Espinal kick). 3:37

Second Quarter

Clin — Torris Green 5 run (Green run). 1:15

Clin — Shawn Mauritz 44 pass from Seth Pennock (Green run). 0:08

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

Rushing

MUSCATINE — Earl Wooten 6-24; Jorge Galvez 1-10, Austin Sink 16-(27), Kris Treiber 3-(3).

CLINTON — Torris Green 21-109; Brett Larkin 2-18; Seth Pennock 7-(3).

Passing

MUSCATINE — Sink 4-7-26-1-0; Galvez 0-1-0-0-0.

CLINTON — Pennock 3-5-49-0-1.

Receiving

MUSCATINE — Galvez 2-6; Wooten 1-13, Woodburn 1-7.

CLINTON — Larkin 1-1; Shawn Mauritz 2-48.