Metro Sports Report

Metro Players in Pro Baseball

The Metro Sports Report is providing a daily update for all the Metro graduates in pro baseball again this season.

Here is the report through Thursday, April 10.

RYAN SWEENEY (Xavier), Chicago Cubs, OF: Sweeney pinch-hit and drew a walk in Chicago's 5-4 loss to Pittsburgh Thursday. He is hitting .118 (2-for-17).

SCOTT SCHEBLER (CR Prairie), Chattanooga, OF, Double-A, Southern League (Dodgers): Schebler went 1-for-4 in a 1-0 victory over Tennessee Thursday. He is hitting .231 (6 for 26) with a double, triple, home run and five RBIs.

Prairie girls win Muscatine Relays

MUSCATINE — The Cedar Rapids Prairie girls track team won eight events and captured top honors at the Dick Washburn Invitational in Muscatine on Thursday.

Eilish Stanek won the 3000 (11:49.3), Hailee Montgomery claimed the 100 hurdles (15.63), Jocelyn Wood captured the 800 (2:29.56), Kenzie Soeken took the 200 (27.73) and Natalie Rumer won the shot put (37-8 1/2).

The Hawks also won the shuttle hurdle relay (1:09.34), the distance medley (4:37.67) and the sprint medley (1:54.34).

Prairie finished with 192 points to easily win the meet. Dubuque Hempstead placed a distance second with 124.5 points. The Washington Warriors finished fifth out of seven teams.H

Team standings

1. Prairie 192, 2. Hempstead 124.5, 3. Bettendorf 117.5, 4. Muscatine 79, 5. Washington 74, 6. Burlington 69, 7. Davenport North 24.

Jacobson sets NCAA record for homers

Cedar Rapids Jefferson graduate Alex Jacobson has written her name into the NCAA record book.

Jacobson, a senior third baseman at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Mo., broke the NCAA softball record for all divisions when she hit home runs in eight consecutive games from March 22 to March 29.

"I didn't think much about the streak until the sixth game," she said in a story posted on her school's website.

Kernels win series at Great Lakes, 11-2

MIDLAND, Mich. —  The Cedar Rapids Kernels exploded for a season-high 11 runs and 11 hits on their way to an 11-2 victory over the Great Lakes Loons on Thursday afternoon before 1,085 fans in a Midwest League game at Dow Diamond.

The win gave the Kernels (4-3) their first series victory of the season as they took two of three games.

Righthander Ryan Eades (1-0) went seven innings and allowed one unearned run on six hits. He struck out five and walked none.

The lone run the Loons tallied off Eades came in the fifth inning when Joey Curletta doubled and later scored on a fielding error. Eades was solid during all seven innings, escaping danger in the seventh by fielding a comebacker with two runners in scoring position to end the inning and his outing.