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Linn-Mar's Nate Hutcheson
As of Thursday night, every Metro boys’ basketball team was still kicking in the postseason. Marion played a 3A district final Thursday night against Williamsburg.
In Class 4A, all six Metro schools and both Iowa City’s schools have advanced into the substate semifinal round. That list will be pared starting Friday, considering there are some head-to-head matchups:
No. 2 Linn-Mar (19-2) hosts Cedar Rapids Xavier (7-14)
Cedar Rapids Washington (15-6) hosts Cedar Rapids Jefferson (11-10)
In other games Friday, No. 4 Cedar Rapids Kennedy (20-1) hosts Waterloo East (11-10). It’s Cedar Rapids Prairie (3-18) playing at sixth-ranked Iowa City High (16-5). Iowa City West (9-12) hosts Burlington (7-15).
It’s the Wash-Jeff winner facing the Linn-Mar/Xavier winner in a substate final at the U.S. Cellular Center on Tuesday night (8 p.m. tip). The City High-Prairie winner plays either West or Burlington in a 6:30 game at The Cell that same night.
Kennedy or East will play the winner of Friday night’s Marshalltown (ranked ninth)-Cedar Falls game in a Tuesday substate final at UNI’s McLeod Center.
So who will emerge out of all this to play in the state tournament in Des Moines in a couple of weeks?
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Alex Rodriguez homered in his spring training debut Wednesday. He was booed lustily by much of the crowd in Dunedin, Fla.
He should have been booed after the game. Apparently A-Roid took off in an SUV with his cousin. You remember Yuri Sucart, right? He’s the guy who supposedly got Rodriguez his steroids in the Dominican Republic and needled him up.
“It was nice, just nice to play baseball,” Rodriguez said after the spring training game against Toronto. “That’s what I do, that’s what I get paid for.
“Fans were okay, I would like to invite a bunch of them to Fenway Park. They were pretty nice. Hope this is the start of a successful year for all of us. Thought today was very mild, thought fans were great.”
Oh, by the way. This New York Post headline never gets old.
Diamonds and Ice 