Metro Sports Report

Coe women boot Simpson for 14th win

INDIANOLA – The Coe women’s soccer team improved to 14-1-1 with a 2-1 win over Simpson on Friday.

The match remained scoreless through the first 65 minutes.

Simpson’s Mackenzie Stump broke the scoreless tie in the 66th minute, but the Kohawks answered with two quick goals. Keira Frederito scored off an assist by Kelsey Fauser in the 72nd minute, and Sarah Fathallah scored off an assist from Ashlyn Moos in the 79th minute.

Goalie MJ Winterer had eight saves for Coe as the Kohawks out-shot the Storm 12-9.

Coe is 4-1 in the IIAC. Simpson fell to 3-12 overall and 0-5 in the league.

Coe runners take 2nd in Dubuque

DUBUQUE – The Coe men’s and women’s cross country teams each placed second at the Loras College Invitational on Friday at the Dubuque Soccer Complex.

Lucy Conroy finished third in 23:09.5 on the 6-kilometer course to lead the Coe women, who scored 71 points to finish behind Central College’s 32.

The Coe men scored 48 points to finish a point behind the Loras College junior varsity. Ryan Izer led the Kohawks in fifth place in 26.51.3 over 8 kilometers.

Wahlert tops bruised, battered Indians

DUBUQUE – The Marion sideline wore the bruises and scars of football battle.

Many players wore warm-ups or street clothes and Tylor Fairbanks missed the final few minutes while being treated on a stretcher with a foot injury. The Indians' ace training staff rushed for more than 400 yards while tending to players.

On the coldest night of the roughest of seasons, the Indians were clearly beat up and beaten.

They started this chilly battle with Dubuque Wahlert missing 11 players. By the time the clock struck triple zeros on the Golden Eagles' commanding 35-8 victory at the Rock Bowl, Marion's list of walking wounded had grown to 19.

It's too bad undefeated Cougars, Saints don't meet

The Kennedy Cougars and Xavier Saints have enjoyed perfect seasons in football so far. Both of them are undefeated, both are ranked high in the polls and both are racing toward No. 1 seeds in the playoffs.

It's just a shame they won't meet on the field this year.

Kennedy is a Class 4A school and Xavier is 3A, so they won't meet in the playoffs. And when the new districts were adopted two years ago, the Cougars and all the other local 4A schools said they did not want to play a 3A opponent.

So here we have Kennedy and Xavier, located 2.5 miles apart in northeast Cedar Rapids along 42nd Street, passing each on the street each day but not meeting in a game.

For the record, Xavier wanted to continue playing Kennedy, Washington, Jefferson, Linn-Mar and Prairie when they did away with football competition in the Mississippi Valley Conference and went to districts last season. However, some people who wanted to preserve the MVC viewed Xavier as one of the instigators for district football and may have held a grudge when it came time to scheduling non-district games.