Ankeny Sports Highlights: AHS Boys Bowling Team Compete at Iowa State Tournament, Prep of the Week and More

Ankeny High School and Ankeny Christian Academy sports news aggregated from local news sources.

Sophomore Garrett Schaeffer took fourth as an individual while leading the Ankeny boys bowling team to an eighth-place finish in its first-ever state tournament appearance last week, reports the Des Moines Register.

Ankeny finished with a total of 3,018. The Hawks had posted a school-record score of 3,211 in the regional meet on Feb. 14 at Marshalltown.

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Ankeny boys’ basketball standout Ted Friedman has received all-state honors for the second straight season, writes Dan Holm of the Des Moines Register.

Friedman, a 6-foot-10 senior center, was named to the Class 4-A first team by the Des Moines Sunday Register last week after earning second-team honors last year.

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Last month, Nikkie Inskeep, senior goalkeeper on the Ankeny girls soccer team, signed a letter of intent to play for South Dakota State, reports the Register.

Inskeep was a second-team all-state selection as a junior, when she helped Ankeny to a 20-1 record and a runner-up finish in the Class 3-A state tournament, according to the article. She was also named to the CIML Central Conference second team.

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Ian Baskins, a senior on the Ankeny boys bowling team, was chosen as the Des Moines Register's Ankeny Prep of the Week.

Baskins helped the Ankeny boys’ bowling team to an eighth-place finish in the Class 2-A state tournament on March 12 at Plaza Lanes.