Metro Sports Report

Heitland helps Cougars scalp Saints

New Kennedy Coach Jon McKowen had a few words of advice for Drew Heitland when basketball practice began in November.

Get a haircut, son.

"He was like, 'You can't be looking like a girl,'" Heitland said Tuesday night. "So I just cut it and it's out of my face now.

"I just went down the street to Cost Cutters from Kennedy and they chopped it all off."

Heitland has a good look at the basket these days without all that long hair in his eyes and he proved it Tuesday with a big game against the Xavier Saints.

The burly football player scored a career-high 17 points to help the Cougars outscore the Saints, 85-76, in an entertaining game at the Xavier gym.

Cougars build big lead, hold on to beat Saints

Kennedy girls basketball coach Tony Vis didn’t spend much time in the locker room after his team’s 54-46 home win Tuesday night over rival Xavier.

The time for talking will come prior to practice on Wednesday.

Despite sporting 9-2 overall record (4-1 in the Mississippi Valley Conference) and a No. 6 state ranking in Class 5A, Vis was not a happy man after Tuesday’s game.

“We’ve had three straight games of lackluster effort,” he said. “We’ve had lackluster execution and I’m just tired of watching it.”

Warriors stun No.3 West behind Franklin

WATERLOO - Dani Franklin scored 25 points and Aleena Hobbs added 18 to lead Washington to an 81-68 upset win over No.3 Waterloo West Tuesday night in a Mississippi Valley Conference girls basketball game at West.

Courtney Squires had nine points and Anne Visser eight off the bench for Washington (8-3, 6-1 MVC).

Kate Letkewicz, Blaire Thomas and Sammie Sproul combined for 65 points for West (10-2, 5-2). Letkewicz had 27 points, including five 3-pointers.

Thorson, Saulnier lead Warriors past Cougars

Jared Thorson and Nick Saulnier were quadruple winners, leading Washington past Kennedy, 118-52, Tuesday night in a boys swimming meet at Washington.

Thorson won the 50 freestyle and 100 back and swam on the victorious 200 medley and 400 free relays.

Saulnier won the 200 and 100 free, and swam on the winning 200 and 400 free relays.

Nick Durin and Cameron Kelley were triple winners for the Warriors.