March 29, 2024

Weather hampers start of spring sports

Mother Nature 1, Spring Sports 0

That’s the only results to report from Thursday. The cold, rainy weather postponed track meets and a golf meet involving area high schools Thursday.

Newton’s boys were to have competed at Southeast Polk in track and Newton’s girls were set to open the outdoor track season at Boone. Lynnville-Sully’s boys were going to Belle Plaine for their second meet of the outdoor season.

Pella Christian’s girls postponed their home opener in golf. There was no word on the soccer game at Pella Christian between the Eagle boys and the Prairie City-Monroe boys.

Today, PCM boys are headed to Roland-Story to open their outdoor track season.

Newton’s rugby club team opens its 2014 season at home against Van Meter at 7 p.m. and Boone at 8:40 p.m. at H.A. Lynn Stadium.

The Newton Senior High varsity boys’ soccer team hosts a four-team tournament Saturday at H.A. Lynn Stadium. Newton plays Benton Community of Van Horne at 10 a.m. followed by PCM’s Mustangs taking on Mid-Prairie of Wellman at 11:30 a.m. Losing teams of the first two games square off at 1 p.m. and the winning teams play each other at 2:30 p.m.