Metro Sports Report

Harbaugh leads Coe volleyball team

Mackenzie Harbaugh collected 31 assists Tuesday night as Coe swept Simpson, 25-15, 25-12, 25-19, in an Iowa Conference volleyball match at Eby Fieldhouse.

Brianna Smith led a balanced attack with nine kills. Samantha Philiph had eight kills, Harbaugh seven kills and Lauren Himan seven kills. Jaimee Rindy blocked seven shots.

The Kohawks raised their records to 16-10 overall and 2-3 in the conference. Simpson fell to 11-13 overall and 0-5 in the league.

Elmcrest tames best golfers in state

They held the 2015 boys state golf tournament at Elmcrest Country Club this year and the golf course won.

The best high school golfers in Iowa struggled with the winds, fast greens, narrow fairways and abundant trees at Elmcrest and nobody was able to break par for the 36-hole event.

Ben Epperly of West Des Moines Valley fired a 2-under-par 68 Saturday and won the championship at 2-over 142. Two golfers from Waukee tied for second at 8-over 148 and everybody else finished at least 10 shots over par.

Elmcrest is a tough course and the windy conditions made it even tougher, but nobody seemed to think the course was too tough for a high school meet.

"No, I don't think the course was too tough. I think it was just right," said Washington sophomore Alex Slattery, who had the best round among Metro golfers Saturday with a 74.

Cougars fall in Westside semifinals

Perhaps they just plain pooped out.

The last of the six Metro teams still standing Saturday in the 24-team Westside Volleyball Invitational, Cedar Rapids Kennedy advanced to the semifinals of the championship bracket but was upended at the end by Class 4A top-ranked West Delaware.

West Delaware lost in the finals to Class 5A seventh-ranked Ankeny Centennial.

The Cougars’ first match in the star-studded tournament started at 9:30 Saturday morning, and the fifth and final one of the day began eight hours later.

“It was a long day in a big tournament with a lot of tough competition,” noted Kennedy middle hitter Brinley Milbrath. “I think we lost a little energy. We seemed to kind of peter out there at the end.”

Kohawks fall at No.6 Wartburg

WAVERLY - Coe took the opening kick and drove 77 yards for a quick touchdown against sixth-ranked Wartburg Saturday, but it was mostly downhill from there for the Kohawks in an Iowa Conference game in Waverly.

Wartburg scored 24 straight points and topped the Kohawks, 31-14, on a sunny day at Walston-Hoover Stadium.

Coe quarterback Josh Rekers passed for 300 yards and two touchdowns, but the Kohawks rushed for only 34 yards and were turned into a one-sided football team by Wartburg's defense.

The Kohawks moved 77 yards in six plays on their first possession and took a 7-0 lead on a 7-yard touchdown pass from Rekers to Mitchell Malloy. The Kohawks did not score again until Kazumasa Ikoma snared a 22-yard TD pass from Rekers with 33 seconds left in the third period to pull the visitors within 24-14.