Coe College - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Fitzgerald paces Coe swimmers

SIOUX CITY - Sam Fitzgerald was a double-winner in the 200 IM and 100 breaststroke Saturday as the Coe women's swimming team defeated Morningside, 110-88.

Lindsay Meade (200 free), Kenni Sterns (100 fly) and Kendall Bundy (100 back) also won individual events for the Kohawks. Coe also captured the 200 medley relay.

The Coe men's swimming team lost its meet to Morningside, 144-53. Tucker Dangremond won the 100 breaststroke for the Kohawks.

Kohawks facing Drake in exhibition game

The Coe men's basketball team finished with an 11-15 record last season, but the Kohawks were not far away from doing much better than that.

The Kohawks were outscored by a slim margin, 72.9 to 71.6, and they lost the rebounding battle by a small differential of 35.3 to 34.2 per game. The Kohawks had fewer turnovers than their opponents, more steals and just as many assists.

"It seems like we became the kind of the two-possession losses. And our guys are well-aware of that," third-year coach Bryan Martin said Friday. "These guys are hungry for success this year. They're motivated by last year.

"Our league is that way," he remarked. "It comes down to a couple of possessions almost every game."

Coe will face the Drake Bulldogs in an exhibition game Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Knapp Center in Des Moines, pitting an NCAA Division III team from the Iowa Conference against an NCAA Division I club from the Missouri Valley Conference. Martin plans to use the media timeouts to his advantage and break the game into 10 four-minute segments.

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4 Coe volleyball players honored

Four members of the Coe volleyball team have been named to the Iowa Conference all-star squad.

Seniors Rachel Schaefer, Rachel Bosworth and Alissa Wittenburg and junior Mackenzie Harbaugh have been selected to the 15-player team. Schaefer became the first player in school history to make all-conference all four years of her career.

Bosworth and Wittenburg have been all-conference for three years. Harbaugh won her second award.

Brianna Smith of Coe received honorable mention.

Bailey Wilson of Wartburg was named the Player of the Year. Lori Slight of Buena Vista is the Coach of the Year.

Coe won the Iowa Conference regular-season title with a 7-0 record and will host Buena Vista in the championship game of the league tournament Saturday night.

Coe aiming for IIAC tourney crown

Coe College has been a member of the Iowa Conference since 1997, and in all that time the Kohawks have never won the conference volleyball tournament despite having some strong teams.

They hope to change all that Saturday night.

The Kohawks marched into the IIAC tournament finals with a convincing 25-17, 25-13, 25-19 victory over Central College in the semifinals Thursday night at Eby Fieldhouse.

Coe (27-8) will host Buena Vista (25-10) for the title Saturday at 7 p.m., with the winner earning an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III postseason tournament.

"It will be fun," said senior Alissa Wittenburg. "We're going to bring everything we have. All four years we've been working for this."

The Kohawks won the Iowa Conference regular-season title this season with a perfect 7-0 league record. They reached the tournament finals last year, but lost to Wartburg on the road.

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