Metro Sports Report

Clinton hurls no-hitter at Kernels

It may have been inevitable, with the way the Cedar Rapids Kernels have been struggling to hit for the past two weeks, but they finally reached the lowest of offensive lows Friday night.

The Kernels fell victim to a combined no-hitter by three Clinton pitchers, losing 2-0 before 3,068 fans at Veterans Memorial Stadium.

The game lasted only 1 hour and 58 minutes.

Clinton starter Daniel Missaki tossed seven innings of hitless ball, not even allowing a base-runner until Kernels first baseman Trey Vavra worked a full-count walk with two outs in the seventh inning.

Kody Kerski and Troy Scott each added another hitless inning to complete the 23rd no-hitter in LumberKings history.

Coe advances to IIAC softball semis

DECORAH - Gretchen Lilienthal had three hits and drove home two runs as Coe defeated Buena Vista, 6-2, in the opening round of the Iowa Conference softball tournament Friday at Luther.

The win moves the Kohawks to 24-15 and opposite top-seeded Luther at 11 a.m. on Saturday.

Haley Smith and Erin Lang both had two hits for Coe. Pitcher Maliah Fligg had a double as well. She allowed five hits and two runs in picking up her eighth win of the season.

Parry eager for shot with NFL

David Parry beat the odds when he joined the Stanford football team five years ago as a walk-on and enjoyed a highly successful career, earning Pac-10 Conference honors and starting in two straight Rose Bowls.

Now the 2010 Linn-Mar High School grad is determined to beat the odds again by playing in the National Football League.

Parry, a 6-foot-1, 308-pound defensive tackle, hopes to be selected as the NFL draft continues this weekend, but he's not sure what's going to happen.

"I've heard as high as the third round. I've also heard that I could go undrafted, so it's a pretty wide spectrum at this point," he said Thursday night from his family's home in Marion.

He's willing to take the "walk-on" path again to the NFL as a free agent, if necessary.

Kernels fall to River Bandits, 4-2

DAVENPORT - The Cedar Rapids Kernels continued to have problems scoring runs Thursday and lost to the Quad Cities River Bandits, 4-2, in a Midwest League game before 2,808 fans at Modern Woodmen Park.

The Kernels (12-9) collected only four hits in the game, although three of them were doubles.

Jacob Nottingham and Derek Fisher socked home runs for the River Bandits (15-6), who won two games in the three-game series.

Zack Granite reached base twice for the Kernels and extended his team-best hitting streak to 10 games with a double down the left-field line to start the game.

Joshua James (1-0) earned his first win for Quad Cities. The right-hander retired 11 in a row at one point and allowed just one hit and struck out three in four shutout innings of relief.