Kennedy Baseball

Zach Daniels wins Metro Spotlight Award

Kennedy junior Zach Daniels is the winner of the Metro Spotlight Award for high school boys this week, the Metro Sports Report announced Sunday.

Daniels has excelled for the third-ranked Cougars this season as a pitcher, hitter and second baseman.

Daniels has pitched three straight shutouts, giving him a 3-0 record and 0.00 ERA in 21 innings. He has struck out 14 batters and walked only four. Opposing batters are hitting a meager .176 against him with just 13 hits.

Daniels began the year by beating Mitch Keller and the Xavier Saints, 5-0, on a one-hitter in the Metro tournament. Less than two weeks later, Keller was selected in the second round of the Major League draft and got a $1 million signing bonus from the Pittsburgh Pirates.

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Cougars, J-Hawks lead Metro baseball

The Kennedy Cougars have the best record among Metro baseball teams with a 10-2 mark through Sunday, with the Jefferson J-Hawks a notch behind at 10-4.

Here are the Metro records:

KENNEDY          10-2 overall, 6-2 MVC
JEFFERSON        10-4 overall, 5-2 MVC
XAVIER              9-6 overall, 4-4 MVC
MARION             6-6 overall, 6-4 Wamac
LINN-MAR           8-9 overall, 3-5 MVC
PRAIRIE             4-9 overall, 3-4 MVC
WASHINGTON     2-9 overall, 2-6 MVC
CEDAR VALLEY     0-10 overall

Lizarraga tosses 3-hitter for Cougars

DUBUQUE - Sammy Lizarraga pitched a three-hit shutout with eight strikeouts Friday as third-ranked Kennedy blanked Dubuque Senior, 5-0, in the first game of a Mississippi Valley Conference doubleheader in Dubuque.

Dubuque Senior won the second game, 9-6.

Derek Jacobus had two hits for Kennedy in the first game. Zach Daniels had three hits and Ben Sass had two RBIs in the second game.

Game 1

Kennedy         020 012 0 - 5 6 2
Dubuque Senior  000 000 0 - 0 3 3

Game 2

Kennedy         211 101 0 - 6 7 1
Dubuque Senior  111 222 x - 9 12 3

No. 3 Cougars thrive with young hurlers

The Kennedy Cougars and their "Kiddie Corps" struck again Tuesday night.

Coach Bret Hoyer used three more underclassmen on the mound as the third-ranked Cougars defeated Prairie, 6-2, at the Prairie diamond to sweep the two-game series.

Junior Sawyer Neuhaus gave Kennedy four strong innings, sophomore Tyler Dralle tossed two frames and junior Blake Hargens sealed the deal in the seventh inning.

Kennedy raised its records to 8-1 overall and 5-1 in the Mississippi Valley Conference with a rotation built entirely of kids.

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