Metro Sports Report

MSR Classic teams helping Salvation Army

Sun - 10 Nov Written by Metro Sports Report

Basketball players and cheerleaders from all eight Metro high schools will be serving as bell-ringers for the Salvation Army Red Kettle holiday fundraising campaign this Saturday, Nov. 16 at various locations in Cedar Rapids and Marion.

The activity is part of the Metro Sports Report Classic, which will be held on Saturday, Nov. 30 at Johnson Hall on the Kirkwood campus and showcases all eight Metro boys basketball teams.

The Metro Sports Report Classic is part of the Hall of Pride Challenge, which features a combination of basketball events and community service projects. The Salvation Army is celetrating its 125th anniversary in Cedar Rapids in 2013 and is working with the Metro Sports Report on the MSR Classic.

The basketball players and cheerleaders will serve as bell-ringers from noon until 6 p.m. this Saturday in the Metro area.

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Kirkwood's Tyra Polite (24) gets out on a fastbreak ahead of teammate Zoe Kelso in Saturday's 67-45 win over No.6 Kishwaukee at Johnson Hall. (Photo by Ken Gilchrist)

Eagles bump off No.6 Kishwaukee

Sat - 09 Nov Written by Ryan Suchomel

It was a brutal, horrible, not-very-good opening 10 minutes for the Kirkwood women's basketball team, but the Eagles adjusted and upset No. 6 Kishwaukee College, 67-45, in the 2013 Clarion-Kirkwood Classic Saturday afternoon at Johnson Hall.

"I just didn't think we were ready to go to war, we were playing scared," Kirkwood Coach Kim Muhl said. "We're going to struggle offensively because we're young, and we just don't know how to play with each other yet.

"But I thought our effort defense would win the game. And it did."

Kirkwood (4-0) played tight defense and held Kishwaukee's top players to a combined 7-for-32 shooting (22 percent). Tami Morice led the Kougars with nine points.

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KCC volleyball team falls in finals

Sat - 09 Nov Written by Metro Sports Report

FORT DODGE - The Kirkwood volleyball team ran into one of the hottest teams in the country and lost to Southwestern Community College in the Region XI-B finals, 31-33, 25-21, 25-23, 25-23, Saturday afternoon in Fort Dodge.

Southwestern (32-9) will take a 12-match winning streak to the national tournament in Toledo, Ohio, Nov. 21-23.

The seventh-ranked Eagles defeated Southwestern, 3-1, during the regular season Sept. 11 at Kirkwood, but the Eagles fell short Saturday after taking the marathon first game 33-31.

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Miller tied Xavier rushing record

Sat - 09 Nov Written by Metro Sports Report

Xavier tailback Brendan Miller officially rushed for 92 yards against Kennedy in the Class 4A playoffs Friday night and tied the school record for career rushing yards with 2,483.

Miller has matched Will Martin, who rushed for 2,483 yards in 2005 and 2006. Miller can break the record when the Saints play Bettendorf in the state semifinals Friday in the UNI-Dome.

The Metro Sports Report credited Miller with 93 yards on the ground against Kennedy, which would have broken Martin's career mark by one yard. The official statistics, kept by Xavier, had Miller with 92 yards.

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Xavier's Hunter Baldus (4) pumps his fist after sacking Kennedy quarterback Derek Jacobus Friday night in a Class 4A quarterfinal playoff game at Saints Field. The Saints scored three touchdowns in the third quarter and beat the Cougars, 21-0. (Photo by Margaret O'Banion)

Saints pinch Cougars for trip to Dome

Sat - 09 Nov Written by Jim Ecker

There were no fancy speeches in the Xavier locker room at halftime Friday, no fire-and-brimstone demonstrations and certainly no finger-pointing.

"All we said was, 'Do your job,'" Coach Duane Schulte maintained after the game had a happy ending for his club.

The Saints absorbed Kennedy's best shot in the first half and came out swinging in the third quarter in the quarterfinals of the Class 4A playoffs Friday before a standing-room-only crowd on a crisp, breezy night at Saints Field.

Xavier exploded for 21 points in the third period and blanked the Cougars, 21-0, to earn a trip to the Class 4A semifinals next week.

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