DUBUQUE - The Kennedy High School baseball team dropped a pair of one-run games to Dubuque Hempstead Wednesday, 6-5 and 8-7, in a Mississippi Valley
Conference doubleheader in Dubuque.

Kennedy (17-15, 13-9) had a 5-4 lead in the first game, but Hempstead scored twice in the bottom of the fifth and was never headed.

The Cougars trailed 8-3 after three innings of the second game. They scored one run in the fourth inning and three more in the sixth, but the rally fell short.

Zach Daniels went 3-for-3 in the nightcap for Kennedy. Matt Stevens and Tony Maiers had two hits.

GAME 1

KENNEDY (5): Jacobus, ss, 4 0 1 0, Daniels, p, 3 1 0 0, Johnson, cf, 3 1 1 1, Maiers, c, 3 1 1 1, Staton, 1b, 3 0 1 1, Stevens, rf, 3 0 0 0, Skow, dh, 2 1 0 0, Lizarraga, 2b, 2 0 0 0, Pauls, pr, 0 0 0 0, Moa, lf, 2 1 1 1, Sass, 3b, 0 0 0 0. Totals 25 5 5 4.

HEMPSTEAD (6): Tomkins, ss/p, 2 0 0 0, Till, lf, 2 1 0 0, D.Fitzgerald, 1b, 4 1 2 0, Oberbroeckling, dh, 3 0 0 0, Boleyn, p/ss, 3 2 1 0, Fitzgerald, rf, 3 1 1 2, Tauber, 3b, 2 1 0 0, Crimmins, 2b, 3 0 2 3, Kutsch, cf, 3 0 1 1, Breitbach, c, 0 0 0 0. Totals 25 6 7 6.

Kennedy     004 100 0 - 5 5 1
Hempstead  022 020 x - 6 7 2

Daniels and Maiers. Boleyn, Tomkins (4) and Kutsch. W - Tomkins. L - Daniels. 2B - Crimmins. SB - Jacobus, Johnson.

GAME 2

KENNEDY (7): Jacobus, cf, 1 0 0 0, Moa, lf, 1 1 0 0, Staton, ph, 1 0 0 0, Daniels, ss, 3 1 3 1, Johnson, lf/cf, 3 1 1 1, Skow, dh, 4 1 1 1, Maiers, c, 4 1 2 1, Fifield, cr/ph, 1 0 0 0, Stevens, rf, 4 1 2 1, Sass, 3b, 3 0 1 0, Lizarraga, 2b, 4 0 1 1, Brewer, p, 1 0 0 0, Dralle, p, 1 1 0 0, Cunningham, 1b, 0 0 0 0. Totals 31 7 11 6.

HEMPSTEAD (8): Tomkins, 3b, 3 2 1 1, Fitzgerald, rf, 2 1 1 0, D.Fitzgerald, p/1b, 4 0 2 4, Noonan, c, 3 1 1 0, Boleyn, ss, 2 1 1 1, Bortchellar, 1b/p, 1 1 0 0, Stumpf, p, 0 0 0 0, Crimmins, 2b, 3 1 1 1, Till, lf, 3 0 0 0, Kutsch, cf, 3 1 1 1. Totals 24 8 8 8.

Kennedy       012 103 0 - 7 11 0
Hempstead   224 000 x - 8 8 2

Brewer, Dralle (3) and Maiers. D.Fitzgerald, Bortchellar (4), Stumpf (7) and Noonan. W - Fitzgerald. L - Brewer. 2B - Daniels, Skow, Maiers, Lizarraga, Noonan, Boleyn, Crimmins. SB - Moa, Daniels, Johnson 2, Fifield, Sass, Boleyn 2.