Metro Sports Report

Huskies score 1st points of season

SPRINGVILLE -- Springville turned two pass interceptions and a punt return into 21 first-quarter points and rolled over Cedar Valley Christian, 68-6, Friday night in an 8-player football game.

Springville (3-0, 2-0) ran up a 42-0 lead after one quarter and led 61-0 at halftime.

Cedar Valley Christian (0-3, 0-2) scored its first points of the season on the last play of the game, a 47-yard touchdown pass from Spencer Zielke to Arturo Melendez.

Kernels ready to turn the page

A wrapup to the Kernels season and a note about Rule 56:

This is to assure baseball fans that the Cedar Rapids franchise will have an affiliation with a Major League team that will provide the players for the 2013 Midwest League campaign.

In fact, the Kernels have already released their schedule for next season, putting to bed what was a record-tying worst season for the Kernels franchise on the field this year.

We've been making jokes around the ballpark about Rule 56 of the Player Development Contract that deals with obtaining a new working agreement with a Major League club, and the rumors that accompany that sort of story.

In reality, when this sort of thing happens, there are rules put down by Minor League baseball about obtaining a new working agreement, which includes the line that nothing can be said or done before the 16th of September. But I should imagine after that date, things will move rapidly.

Cougars dumped by No. 5 Trojans

The Kennedy Cougars thought they could cover Iowa City West receiver Jeremy Morgan with somebody six inches shorter Thursday night.

They came up a mile short.

Nate Boland lobbed two touchdown passes to the 6-foot-6 Morgan on Iowa City West's first two possesions and the No. 5 Trojans left Kingston Stadium with a 35-14 victory over the winless and frustrated Cougars.

Stephanie Jenks runs quickly to top of Metro

The Stephanie Jenks era in Metro cross country began with a bang Thursday at the Cedar Rapids Invitational.

Jenks, a freshman at Linn-Mar who is a nationally ranked triathlete, beat a strong field of older runners in the first varsity cross country race of her career.

Jenks covered the 4-kilometer course in 14 minutes, 26.71 seconds for a 16-second victory over Ashlynn Yokum of Iowa City West.