Metro Sports Report

Martin hurt; No. 9 Cougars escape

It has been a difficult week for those associated with Kennedy High School.

The ever-popular Drew Wall, a golfer and outstanding young man, died of cancer on Monday and this certainly affected the entire Cougar community.

A new coach also was being baptized into the Mississippi Valley Conference after a long and successful career at Harlan High School. But in this case Tony Vis started the Cougars toward a, hopefully, very successful season with an intra-division victory over Dubuque Wahlert 45-41, Friday night at Kennedy.

Coach Vis replaced long-time Cougar coach Dennis Roloff for the 2012-2013 campaign.  Vis spent the past seven years at Harlan and also had coaching stops at Audubon and Hudson - successful at all venues.

Late free throw dooms Marion boys

Marion dropped a squeaker to Maquoketa at home Friday night, 48-47, in Wamac boys basketball.

Marion’s Daly Quinn hit a 3-pointer to tie the game late.

But with 3.2 seconds remaining Jeb Miller was fouled on a rebound and went to the line to shoot two for Maquoketa. He made the first and missed the second.

Kirkwood women top Northeast in OT

Kim Muhl has 14 players on his active roster at Kirkwood Community College with all shapes, sizes and ability.

He needed them all Friday night.

The Eagles collected their best victory of the season by topping Northeast Community College, 82-72, in overtime in the first round of the Kirkwood Classic at Johnson Hall.

Northeast arrived with a perfect 10-0 record, but the Eagles got contributions from all 14 players and raised their mark to 6-2.

Xavier volleyball coach Sullivan resigns

Barb Sullivan has resigned as the volleyball coach at Xavier High School, but she might like to return to coaching at some point.

Sullivan and her husband, Dave, are expecting their first child in January and she wants to spend as much time as possible with her baby girl. Dave Sullivan is an assistant coach in football and girls  basketball at Xavier, so both of them have been leading busy lives with teaching and coaching.

Barb Sullivan plans to take eight weeks of maternity leave before returning to Xavier as a teacher in the theology department. Sometime in the future, she'll consider returning as a coach.