Kennedy Baseball

Hargens tosses 2-hitter for Cougars

CEDAR FALLS - Blake Hargens pitched a two-hit shutout Friday night as the Kennedy Cougars walloped Cedar Falls, 15-0, in five innings in the second game of a Mississippi Valley Conference doubleheader at Cedar Falls.

Cedar Falls won the first game, 10-4.

Hargens struck out 11 batters in the second contest. Zach Daniels had three hits and three RBIs for the Cougars. Derek Jacobus had two hits and two RBIs.

Jimmy Cunningham and Jacobus had three hits in the opener.

Game 1

Kennedy      201 100 0 - 4 13 1
Cedar Falls  004 132 x - 10 10 2

Game 2

Kennedy      260 43 - 15 13 0
Cedar Falls    000 00 - 0 2 4

Kennedy making it 'Herkelman Field'

Bill Herkelman began his involvement with the Kennedy baseball program when the high school opened 47 years ago in 1967 and he's still going strong as one of Kennedy's assistant coaches.

Now the Kennedy baseball facility is being named "Bill Herkelman Field" in his honor.

The ceremony will take place between games of Monday night's doubleheader against Iowa City West that starts at 5 p.m.

Herkelman worked as an assistant coach for nine seasons at Kennedy from 1968 to 1976, then compiled a 318-224 record in 16 seasons as the head coach from 1977 to 1992. He won five Metro tournaments, two Mississippi Valley Conference titles and took two teams to the state tournament, including a trip to the semifinals in 1983.

Herkelman "retired" as a Kennedy baseball coach in 1992, but he accepted an invitation from current head coach Bret Hoyer to rejoin the program in 2005 and has been working with the Cougars again ever since.

Herkelman is a member of the Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

Hargens leads Cougars at Brown Deer

IOWA CITY - Sierra Hargens shot an 8-over-par 44 Tuesday as Kennedy placed third in a Mississippi Valley Conference quadrangular meet at Brown Deer.

Emily Machula and Emily Perrin had 52's for Prairie, which finished fourth.

Team Standings

1. Iowa City West 175, 2. Cedar Falls 197, 3. Kenendy 201, 4. Prairie 215.

KENNEDY: Sierra Hargens 44, Valerie Davidson 47, Breanna Osterkamp 53,

Emily Moore 57, Erica Gouchee 58, Avery Haefner 59, Katie Choate 60.

PRAIRIE: Emily Machula 52, Emily Perrin 52, Mallory Bennett 55, Grace

Lindgren 56, Sydney Stolba 59, Hannah Stebral 61, Kennedy Fisher 62.

Yancey honored by Midwest Conference

Cedar Rapids Kennedy graduate David Yancey has been named the Midwest Collegiate Conference Pitcher of the Week.

Yancey threw a two-hit shutout for St. Ambrose in a 4-0 victory over William Penn last Wednesday in a conference game.

Yancey, a junior righthander, has a 1-1 record and 2.63 ERA.