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CENTER JUNCTION - Jefferson senior Michelle Zikes placed third at the Anamosa Invitational cross country meet Saturday at Central Park.
Zikes covered the 4-kilometer course in 16:04. Lauren Benzing of Solon won the race in 15:47.
The J-Hawks finished fifth out of nine schools in the girls team standings. Meredith Koenigsfeld placed 14th for Jefferson.
Devin Stone finished 14th as the Jefferson boys placed seventh in their team standings.
Oh, but for the sticky fingered hands of a freshman and Jefferson might be celebrating its second football victory of the season.
Waterloo East's Javon Middleton reached back above his head and guided into his hands what appeared to be a Jefferson touchdown pass early in the fourth quarter and the Trojans went on to claim a 30-24 victory over the J-Hawks in a Mississippi Valley Conference Mississippi Division game Friday night at Kingston Stadium.
Mitch Willems shot a 36 for medalist honors and he led Jefferson to a five-stroke victory at the Jefferson boys golf triangular meet Thursday at Jones Park.
Jefferson finished with a 157. Waterloo West was next at 162 and Iowa City High had 165.
Jake Van Oort shot a 38 for the J-Hawks. Seventh man Gavin Williams shot a 40 that turned what appeared to be a tie with West into a five-stroke win.
FORT DODGE - Former Iowa Central softball player Morgan Allee has been named the NFCA Golden Shoe Award winner for the 2012 season. The award is given annually to the nation’s top base-stealer in each division. Allee swiped a school-record 73 stolen bases last season en-route to First Team NFCA All-American honors.
“We are very happy for Morgan, she had a tremendous career here and it was all because of the hard work that she put in,” said head coach Josh Sandin. “She’ll never admit it, but I know this was a very special award for her to win.”
Allee, a shortstop from Cedar Rapids Jefferson, set single-season school records in batting average (.540), hits (114), runs (89), triples (9) and stolen bases (73). Allee also set career records in batting average (.533), runs (151) and hits (191). She also set a single-game record with six stolen bases against Ellsworth in the Region XI Tournament. This season she reached base safely in 64 of Iowa Central’s 65 games and was named NJCAA Player of the Week twice. She was also named All-American four times by the NJCAA and NFCA. She is currently playing at Indiana State, an NCAA Division I program.
Allee is the third Triton to win the Golden Shoe Award. Samantha Waters won the award in 2008 with 52 stolen bases and Ashley Willard won the Award in 2009 with 72 stolen bases.
Prairie bounced back from a first set loss to win the next three and beat Jefferson Tuesday night in a Mississippi Valley Conference volleyball match at Prairie.
Prairie won by scores of 21-25, 25-15, 25-17 and 25-16.
"We started off slow in game one," Prairie Coach Kevin Geary said. "We did not have very good defense at the net or floor defense."
WATERLOO -Jefferson won only five of 12 events, but the J-Hawks' depth proved overwhelming in a girls swimming meet Tuesday night against Waterloo West.
Emily Ritchie was a triple winner and the J-Hawks won 104-79.
Ritchie won the 100 breaststroke and swam on the winning 200 and 400 freestyle relays.
Emily Howington won the 500 free and Hannah Martin the diving for Jefferson.
Kyle Rodenkirk's cell phone rang at 3:30 Monday afternoon. He hasn't stopped smiling since.
Chris Deam, the athletic director at Cedar Rapids Jefferson, called to see if Rodenkirk wanted to return to his alma mater and become the school's new baseball coach.
Rodenkirk, 28, didn't have to think about it, but he did have to catch his breath.
"It was a pretty quick trigger for me," he said. "I was a little shell-shocked.
"I'm excited and honored."
Brian Webb was in no mood to be a politician.
He wasn't about to put lipstick on a pigskin after his Jefferson football team was drubbed by No. 9 Iowa City High, 38-0, in a Mississippi Valley Conference game Friday night at Kingston Stadium.
"We got whupped in every phase of the game," said Webb, Jefferson's first-year football coach. "Special teams, passing, we couldn't block, we couldn't tackle, we couldn't catch, we couldn't get the snap.
"We didn't do anything correct."
Baseball is a funny game. Just ask Kellen Sweeney.
Sweeney scuffled much of the season and got demoted, but he finished strong and got the game-winning hit as the Vancouver Canadians won the Northwest League title Sunday night.
He was up, down and sideways, but survived and feels good about his career again.
"It was good to end the season on a good night," he said Wednesday, a day after returning to his home in Cedar Rapids.
Jefferson swept three straight sets away from Waterloo East and won a Mississippi Valley Conference volleyball match Tuesday night at Jefferson.
The J-Hawks won by scores of 26-24, 25-18, 25-18.
Amanda Ollinger led Jefferson (3-9, 1-2) in three stat categories.
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