BY JON SWISHER – SPORTS DIRECTOR:
CROSS COUNTRY-
At the Cedar Rapids Invitational hosted by CR Washington at the Seminole Valley Park, Abby Miller started with a bang in her first varsity meet for the Maquoketa girls. She placed 2nd in a stacked field of runners with a time of 18:32 putting her second all time fastest runner for the Maquoketa girls cross country program history, behind previous standout and 2026 graduate, Izzy Hardin. The Cardinal girls team battled to a 6th place finish out of 14 scoring schools with some top performing runners and high ranked teams in the state.
Natalie Hackman, Riley Buttz, Natalie Irwin, Iris Wagner, Charlotte Ihns, and Briley Eggers rounded out the varsity squad.
Iris Wagner recorded her second PR of the season with a time of 22:32, Riley Buttz ended her race with a season best of 22:12.
On the boys side, Jasper Bonney (20:17), Noah Cornwell (23:18), and Corey Johnson (25:32) all recorded personal record runs.
Season best times were run by Gavin Machael (20:09) and Brenden Gerardy (18:46),
VOLLEYBALL-
In Tri-Rivers Conference play:
Ed-Co beat Easton Valley 2-1 and fell to Bellevue 2-0 in Edgewood.
Midland lost to North Linn 3-1.
North Cedar defeated Springville 3-1.
FOOTBAL-
Week 3 of the season began last night in the coverage area as Calamus-Wheatland traveled up to Elkader and lost to Central 73-32.
In the coverage area tonight, our Maquoketa broadcast will come from Goodenow Field for the first time in the young season. The Cardinals will entertain Tipton with the Scouting Report starting at 6:45, live pregame from Goodenow Field with Dale Scott and Chad Coakley at 7pm followed by a 7:15pm kick-off time scheduled.
Elsewhere-
Bellevue will welcome in Northeast.
Easton Valley heads to Springville.
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