Sweeting left Bahamas to help Eagles
Kirkwood pitcher David Sweeting could have been back home in the Bahamas on Friday afternoon, enjoying another warm day and the beautiful blue-green waters.
"Mid-80s," he mused about the temperature where he lives in Nassau. "Clear skies, clear water. You can go out a couple of hundred feet of water and still see the bottom."
Instead, Sweeting was toiling on the mound for the Eagles on Friday with the temperature straining to reach 40 under gray skies.
He didn't seem to mind a bit.
Sweeting tossed six shutout innings as No.19 Kirkwood defeated Rochester Tech, 5-3, in the first game of a doubleheader at the Kirkwood Community College diamond in Cedar Rapids.
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