Metro Sports Report

RoughRiders iced by Indiana, 4-2

INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana scored a pair of second-period goals it made stand up in a 4-2 win over the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders Friday night in a USHL game.

Alec Marsh and Judd Peterson scored third-period goals for the RoughRiders.

Cedar Rapids got as close as one goal twice, but never led the game.

Johnny Orr belongs in Hall of Fame

Imagine a Big Ten basketball coach inviting a wide-eyed young sportswriter from the college newspaper into his office to listen quietly as his staff discussed the scouting report for its NCAA tournament game against Notre Dame.

It wouldn't happen today, but it did nearly 40 years ago when Johnny Orr was getting ready to coach the Michigan Wolverines against Digger Phelps and the Fighting Irish down in beautiful Tuscaloosa, Ala., in March of 1974.

One of Michigan's assistant coaches - it may have been Jim Dutcher - suspected that Notre Dame star Adrian Dantley had trouble going to his left, so the Wolverines were going to overplay him to his right and slow him down.

Johnny loved that piece of information. "Jimmy!," he exclaimed to the young sportswriter, "We're gonna drill 'em!"

RoughRiders gutted by Gamblers, 2-1

GREEN BAY, Wis. - Connor Hurley scored with 13:21 left in the third period Tuesday night to snap a 1-1 tie and give Green Bay a 2-1 victory over Cedar Rapids in a USHL game before 4,777 fans at the Resch Center.

Andrew Oglevie tied the game for the RoughRiders, 1-1, with an unassisted goal early in the third period, but Hurley answered less than four minutes later for the game-winner on assists from Matthew Weis and Nick Schmaltz.

Danny Tirone made 26 saves for Cedar Rapids.

Roeder '100% confident' on Prospect Meadows

Jack Roeder was the general manager of the Cedar Rapids Kernels when they opened the new Veterans Memorial Stadium in 2002, so he knows a few things about building a ballpark and making sure things are done the right way.

Now he's overseeing another grand project - this time with 17 ballfields - and he's absolutely convinced the Prospect Meadows Baseball & Softball Complex will be seen to fruition in the next few years.

The $9.4 million complex is scheduled to be built on 121 acres of farm land just northeast of Marion near the juncture of Highway 13 and County Home Road. The site is east of Highway 13 and just south of County Home Road.

"I'm 100 percent confident, or as confident as can be at this point, that this project is going to move forward and it will get built," Roeder said Monday.