Metro Sports Report

Famiek Cook wins Metro Spotlight Award

Cedar Rapids Kennedy senior Famiek Cook is the winner of the Metro Spotlight Award for high school boys this week, the Metro Sports Report announced Sunday.

Cook won two events at the Mississippi Valley Conference indoor track meet in Cedar Falls last Monday. He captured the 200 meter dash in 23.21 seconds and won the long jump at 21 feet, 3 inches.

Cook enjoyed a highly successful season with the Kennedy track team last year as a junior. He helped the Cougars place second in the 4x200 relay and second in the shuttle hurdle relay at the Class 4A state meet and finished third in the long jump at 22-1 3/4. Kennedy finished fourth in the team standings.

No. 5 Eagles roll past Iowa Lakes

ESTHERVILLE - The fifth-ranked Kirkwood softball team swept Iowa Lakes, 13-0 and 10-0, in the ICCAC conference opener in Estherville on Sunday.

Sam Belz (9-3, 0.74 ERA) pitched a two-hit shutout in the opener with nine strikeouts. Shy Saladino (8-0, 0.67 ERA) tossed a two-hit shutout with seven strikeouts in the second game. Both contests lasted only five innings.

Krysta Tutsch hit a home run in each game for Kirkwood (19-4, 2-0) and drove in seven runs in the doubleheader. She also had a triple in the opener.

Erin Weno hit a home run and drove in three runs and Jenna Schulte was 2-for-4 with a homer in the opener. Chasney Jenkins, Tara Walls and Brittney Lash had two hits.

Walls drove in two runs in the second game.

6 Metro cagers set for All-Star game

Six high school basketball players from the Cedar Rapids Metro area will participate in the 4th Annual Eastern Iowa All-Star Games at Kirkwood Community College on Wednesday.

A.J. Carter of Kennedy and Jacob Olson of Jefferson will play in the boys game that's scheduled to start at approximately 7:30 p.m.

Katie Sommer of Linn-Mar, Kristie Sommer of Linn-Mar, Morgan Martin of Kennedy and Cyerra Hutchins of Prairie will play in the girls game at 6 p.m.

A 3-point shootout will be held during halftime of the girls game, and a dunk contest will be held during halftime of the boys game.

Tickets cost $8 for adults and $6 for students. Doors open at 5:30.

Riders top Dubuque, clinch playoffs

DUBUQUE —  The Cedar Rapids RoughRiders clinched a spot in the USHL playoffs Saturday night with a 3-1 victory over Dubuque before 3,098 fans at the Mystique Ice Center.

Perhaps of more importance, the RoughRiders moved three points ahead of the Fighting Saints for second place in the Eastern Conference. Cedar Rapids has a 33-20-3 record for 69 points, and Dubuque has a 31-19-4 mark for 66 points, although the Fighting Saints have two games in hand entering the last two weeks of the regular season.

Neither team scored during the first two periods of the defensive struggle Saturday night. The RoughRiders broke through on a goal by Alec Marsh at the 2:19 mark of the third period for a 1-0 lead with an assist from Dylan Steman.

Frederik Tiffels and Andrew Poturalski scored on power plays to give Cedar Rapids a 3-0 lead. Dubuque scored its only goal with 44 seconds left in the contest when it pulled its goalie for an extra attacker.

Danny Tirone pitched a shutout for more than 59 minutes for the RoughRiders.