Metro Sports Report

RoughRiders fall to Dubuque, 4-2

The Cedar Rapids RoughRiders suffered a damaging 4-2 loss to the Dubuque Fighting Saints in a USHL game before 3,129 fans at the Cedar Rapids Ice Arena Saturday night.

The loss dropped the RoughRiders three points behind Youngstown in the race for the Eastern Conference title with seven games left in the regular season.

Dubuque poured in four straight goals in the second period to grab a 4-0 lead. Seamus Malone scored three of those goals for the Fighting Saints for a hat trick.

Ross Colton put Cedar Rapids on the board with a power-play goal in the final seconds of the second stanza. Erik Foley made it 4-2 at the 14:22 mark of the third period when the RoughRiders had an extra attacker on the ice, but the home team could not get any closer.

Ryan Larkin stopped 39 shots in goal for Cedar Rapids.

Youngstown beat Waterloo Saturday night and leads the Eastern Conference with a 35-13-5 record for 75 points. The RoughRiders are in second place with a 36-17-0 record for 72 points. Dubuque is in third place with a 31-18-4 mark for 66 points.

Dubuque      0  4  0 - 4
RoughRiders  0  1  1 - 2

No.9 KCC softball team sweeps

The ninth-ranked Kirkwood softball team belted six home runs Saturday and swept Iowa Lakes, 8-0 and 11-0, in an ICCAC conference doubleheader at Kirkwood.

Erin Weno slugged two solo homers in the first game. Jasmine Ragusi and Natalie Clark also hit home runs in the opener. Tara Walls was 2-for-3 with a double and two RBIs.

Mallory Neubauer and Ragusi were 2-for-3 with a home and two RBIs in the second game. Chasney Jenkins was 2-for-3 and scored two runs.

Iowa Lakes managed only two hits in the doubleheader. The Lakers are winless this season at 0-8 overall and 0-2 in the league.

Weeces tosses 1-hitter as Coe sweeps

FULTON, Mo. - Arran Weeces pitched a one-hit shutout with 11 strikeouts Saturday as Coe nipped Westminster College, 1-0, in the first game of a softball doubleheader in Fulton, Mo.

Coe won the second game, 11-1.

Weeces (7-1) did not walk any batters in her masterpiece. She was touched for a leadoff single in the bottom of the first inning and did not allow another baserunner all day.

Coe scored its only run in the first game in the top of the second inning. Mallory McArtor tripled down the right-field line with two outs and scored on a single by Erin Lang. Lang was 3-for-4 in the ballgame.

Quiet Kohawks swept by Wartburg

The Coe baseball team left their hot bats in Florida.

The Kohawks hit a lusty .396 as a team while compiling a 7-1 record on their spring trip to the Sunshine State last week, but they hit only .231 and dropped both ends of their Iowa Conference twinbill Friday at Daniels Park.

Wartburg's pitchers had a lot to do with Coe's problems as the Knights swept the doubleheader, 5-2 and 7-1, on a sunny 60-degree afternoon in northeast Cedar Rapids.

Coe Coach Steve Cook thought his team would hit better in the league opener.

"I really did," he said. "We thought we saw some decent pitching down there (in Florida).