Metro Sports Report

KCC women sign 6-foot-5 center

The Kirkwood women's basketball team will have one of the tallest players in school history on the roster next season when 6-foot-5 center Kaycee Kallenberger joins the squad.

Kallenberger spent this past season at Eastern Illinois University, where she played sparingly and scored seven points in 11 games.

Kallenberger was an all-conference player in the Mississippi Athletic Conference (MAC) in high school. She set the career record for blocked shots at North Scott, then transferred to Pleasant Valley for her senior year.

Kirkwood has signed seven new players for the 2014-15 campaign, Coach Kim Muhl announced Wednesday.

The other new players are Cyerra Hutchins of Cedar Rapids Prairie, Casey Miles from Hudson High School, Addie Obermann from Northeast Goose Lake, Madison Wood from Cedar Falls, A.J. Downs from Merillville (Ind.) and Caitlin Sudduth from Tinley Park (Ill.).

Gorman set for Navy; Prairie wins title

Shannon Gorman has grown accustomed to getting up early and going for long jaunts as one of the top distance runners in Iowa, but those early-morning excursions will take a new twist when she reports for duty at the U.S. Naval Academy June 30.

When she gets to Annapolis, those early-morning runs will begin shortly after 4 a.m. and there could be somebody yelling at her at the equivalent of Navy's boot camp.

Gorman narrowed her college choices to the U.S. Air Force Academy and the U.S. Naval Academy before going Navy.

"I'm definitely excited for it," she said Tuesday. "I'm scared about getting yelled at and waking up at 4 in the morning every day, but I think it's necessary (for training purposes).

"I'm confident that I can get through it, but I know it will be really tough."

Kernels blasted by River Bandits, 10-4

DAVENPORT - The Cedar Rapids Kernels lost to the Quad Cities River Bandits, 10-4, Tuesday at Modern Woodmen Park in a Midwest League game that began at 11 a.m.

The River Bandits jumped ahead of the Kernels early, leading 8-1 after two innings.

Bryan Haar hit his fifth home run of the season for Cedar Rapids. The solo blast came in the second inning for the team's first run, cutting through a stiff wind blowing in from left field.

J.D. Williams reached base in all five plate appearances as he collected a single, a double, two walks and a hit by pitch for the Kernels. River Bandits third baseman Tyler White went 5-for-5 with four RBIs.

Coe hosting NCAA softball regional

The ninth-ranked Coe College softball team has been selected to host a regional for the NCAA Division III Championships this Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

The Kohawks earned an at-large berth into the field of 62 teams.

The three teams Coe will welcome to Clarke Field are Augustana (Ill.), St. Scholastica (Minn.) and St. Thomas (Minn).

Augustana, the runnerup in the College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin, enters play ranked 19th by the NFCA and boasting a 33-11 record.

St. Scholastica, winner of the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference, is 27-10 and currently riding a 21-game winning streak.