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Tuesday, August 06, 2024
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Lembeck, Gerke keep shining for Saints

It's been a tough season for the Xavier wrestling team with only 16 guys on the squad, but Clint Lembeck and Josh Gerke keep plugging away and doing a good job for the Saints.

Lembeck and Gerke struck again Thursday with pins against the Jefferson J-Hawks, but the Saints had to forfeit four bouts and lost the Mississippi Valley Conference meet 51-21.

Lembeck, ranked No. 2 at 132 pounds, wrestled up a class and stuck Michael Handley at 138 in 1:39. Gerke, ranked No. 6 at 126 pounds, pinned Seth Jellison in 4:46.

Jeff Vipond collected a pin at 106 pounds for the Saints and Thomas Pudil won a 4-0 decision at 220, giving Xavier four victories in 10 actual bouts against a strong opponent.

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Lamaak finds good fit with Mustangs

Kyle Lamaak played on some good intramural basketball teams at the University of Northern Iowa, but the Kennedy grad missed the real thing.

He's found what he was looking for at Mount Mercy.

Lamaak hit 8-for-9 shots and scored 18 points Wednesday night as the 18th-ranked Mustangs bounced Viterbo, 85-73, in a Midwest Collegiate Conference game at the Hennessey Recreation Center.

Lamaak graduated from Kennedy in 2011 and spent 2 1/2 years at UNI, but he yearned for serious competition.

"I really missed the game," he said. "I went to school for awhile and I just really missed it."

Mount Mercy Coach Paul Gavin tried to recruit Lamaak at Kennedy four years ago. So when Lamaak decided he wanted to play college basketball, he gave Gavin a call.

"He said there's a spot for me to play, so I jumped on that," he said.

Lamaak spent one semester at Kirkwood last winter, preparing for his official transfer to Mount Mercy this fall. He's a fourth-year junior with the Mustangs with another full year of basketball to go.

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Paul Molitor still loves the game

Paul Molitor fell in love with the game of baseball when he was 5 or 6 years old.

As soon as the snow would melt in St. Paul, Minn., he'd grab his bat and baseball and head outside with his dad.

And if his beloved Minnesota Twins were on TV, he'd sit glued to the set and watch all the action. This was back in the early 1960's, when the Twins had some good teams.

"Growing up in St. Paul, I liked all sports," Molitor said Tuesday before the Kernels Hot Stove Banquet and Twins Winter Caravan in Cedar Rapids. "There wasn't a lot of television back then. I think the Twins broadcast like 50 games a year.

"But it was as much as I could absorb from the Twins in the '60's, what with Harmon Killebrew and Tony Oliva and Camilo Pasqual and Zoilo Versalles. It was something I was drawn to. I was kind of consumed by the game."

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Martensen sparks No. 4 Eagles by SCC

The Kirkwood Eagles needed a new power forward in the starting lineup Wednesday night with All-American Ariel Sneed sidelined with a knee injury.

Anna Martensen handled the call in style.

Martensen made her first start of the season and responded with 18 points and nine rebounds as the fourth-ranked Eagles bounced Southeastern Community College, 78-62, in a conference game at Johnson Hall.

Martensen, a 5-foot-10 sophomore from Belvidere, Ill., normally plays about 16 minutes per game with averages of 7.2 points and 4.5 rebounds. She played 31 minutes Wednesday and more than doubled her production.

"Tiring," she said with a weary smile after her career night. "I'm not used to that. I had to catch my breath a couple of times."

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Kennedy boys smother Prairie, 71-38

The Prairie boys picked the wrong time to travel north to visit the Kennedy gym Tuesday night.

The previously ranked Cougars came out of the gate with gusto on both offense and defense and simply hammered the Hawks, 71-38.

It might have been even more lopsided if subs hadn’t played much of the fourth quarter on both sides.

“This is the first game we really put the offense and defense together,” said Kennedy Coach Jon McKowen. “There have been times when we’ve had one or the other. But tonight we had both.”

Prairie bruiser JoJo Simpson scored the first basket of the night on a nifty dipsy-doodle under the rim. After that, it was Kennedy (7-3, 4-2) the rest of the way.

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