Metro Sports Report

Beyer is 'Mr. Everything' for Kennedy

Keep your eye on Shaun Beyer during Kennedy football games this season. He'll be moving around a lot.

He'll be a tight end, wide receiver and quarterback on offense. He'll be the "Bandit" on defense as a hybrid defensive end and linebacker, free to hunt the ball and cause as much havoc as possible. He'll be the punter and he also might sell hotdogs at halftime.

Beyer is a superb athlete at 6-foot-5 and 210 pounds. He's big, strong and fast - and a 6-foot-6 high jumper. The whole idea is to get him the ball as much as possible and turn him loose on defense.

Marion looks to rebound after tough year

The Marion Indians got off to a good start last year when they whipped Mount Vernon, 28-6, in the first game of the regular season, but they never won another ballgame and finished with a 1-and-8 record.

It was a tough season to swallow for a program that's accustomed to winning records and trips to the Class 3A playoffs.

"It was horrible," Coach Tony Perkins said Thursday before practice. "The worst thing about it, you do everything the same as you have in every other year, and then you have one of those years where everything that could go wrong ..."

Perkins did not finish the season, but you know the ending.

"That's the way the season went last year," he said. "The biggest thing we're doing, we're not talking about it. It didn't happen. Move on."

J-Hawks looking to take next step

The Jefferson J-Hawks took a big step forward last season when they won four games and reached the Class 4A playoffs after years of futility.

Now they want to take the next step in their development with a winning record and deeper run in the playoffs.

"I think it's very important, just to keep the tide going. We are definitely wanting to do that," said quarterback Jared Eivins, who missed the 2014 campaign with a shoulder injury. "We just have to give it our full effort."

The J-Hawks came close to having a winning record last season, but were foiled in near-misses against Prairie (17-14) and Waterloo West (23-17). They muffed golden opportunities to win those games with big mistakes at the wrong time.

The four victories and trip to the playoffs were a nice reward for all their hard work, but Coach Brian Webb thinks they could have accomplished a lot more.

Hughes captures 500 for Warriors

CEDAR FALLS - Jenny Hughes won the 500 yard freestyle race for the Washington Warriors in their Mississippi Valley Conference dual meet against Cedar Falls Tuesday in Cedar Falls.

Cedar Falls took all the other events and won the swim meet, 123-63.