Washington Boys Soccer

Bergstrom honored in MVC soccer

The Mississippi Valley Conference soccer coaches have named Austin Bergstrom of Cedar Rapids Washington as the Athlete of the Year in the Valley Division for 2013.

Mike Robertson and Steve Robertson, the co-coaches at Kennedy, were named Coaches of the Year in the Mississippi Division.

Jack Sundermann and Jacob Bjornsen joined Bergstrom as first-team selections in the Valley Division from Washington. Ben Johnson (Linn-Mar), Hunter Wong (Linn-Mar), Isaac Frisch (Xavier), Eli Smith (Xavier), Logan Rinderknecht (Prairie) and Matt Christen (Prairie) also were named first-team picks in the Valley Division.

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Bergstrom saluted on all-Metro soccer

Austin Bergstrom of Cedar Rapids Washington has been named the Athlete of the Year on the 2013 All-Metro Men's Soccer Team.

Mike Robertson and Steve Robertson, the co-coaches at Kennedy, shared the Coach of the Year award.

Bergstrom and Jacob Bjornsen of Washington were named to the first unit on the All-Metro squad. They were joined by:

Logan Rinderknecht, Sam Drysdale and Nermin Ibrahimovic of Prairie; Connor Ramlo and Dan Cowden of Xavier; Hunter Wong and Ben Johnson of Linn-Mar; Enoch Duval of Marion; and Killian Magee, Mitch Bobbin, Ryan Walker and Nathan Althoff of Kennedy.

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Warriors learn lesson; headed to state

J.P. Graham and his Cedar Rapids Washington boys soccer team remembered what cost them in an earlier loss this season to Cedar Falls.

"We gave the a couple of goals on dead ball situations," Graham said of his team's 3-2 loss to the Tigers during the regular season. "We worked on it for two weeks and it showed today. We were a lot more comfortable out there today."

The Warrior defense stood tall and the offense came through with a pair of late first-half goals to post a 2-0 win in the Class 3A Substate 3 final at Kingston Stadium.

No. 4-ranked Washington (14-4) will playtop-seeded Iowa City West (17-1)  in the state quarterfinals Thursday at 5 p.m. in Des Moines. No. 8 Cedar Falls closes its season at 13-6.

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Wash, Kennedy advance on shootout wins

On a miserable night of marathon boys soccer at Kingston Stadium Wednesday, highly ranked Washington and Kennedy both survived scares from lesser foes to make into Saturday substate finals.

Each Class 3A semifinal game was tied 1-1 after two overtimes and decided in shootouts.

In the contest that started in drizzle at 5 p.m., fourth-ranked Washington escaped a scrappy Waterloo West bunch 5-4 on penalty kicks.

And in the nightcap that ended at 10:15 in a misty fog, fifth-ranked Kennedy squeaked by a young Dubuque Hempstead crew 4-2 in the shootout.

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