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IOWA CITY - The Cedar Rapids Kennedy girls cross country team won its second title of the season Thursday by dominating the Bob Brown Invitational on the Ashton Course at the University of Iowa.
Lauren Meyer, Alyssa Averhoff, Katie Wampole and Allison Culver of Kennedy swept the top four spots in the individual race and Carolyn Stone placed sixth as the Cougars finished with a near-perfect score of 16 points.
Linn-Mar won seven of 11 events and squeezed past Kennedy, 96-90, in a girls swimming meet at Coe.
Seniors Lauren Dalecky and Lauren Reynolds, and freshman Stephanie Jenks won two events apiece for Linn-Mar.
Dalecky won the breaststroke and swam on the winning medley relay. Reynolds won the 200 individual medley and 100 butterfly. Jenks won the 200 and 500 freestyle.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:30
Top-ranked Iowa City High won the last two games and beat No. 2 Kennedy, three games to one, Tuesday in Mississippi Valley Conference volleyball.
City High won the first game, 25-11, but Kennedy rallied for a 25-16 win in game two.
City High came back to win the next two games, 25-10 and 25-17.
Kennedy fell to 1-3 overall and 0-1 in MVC.
Kennedy senior Katie Wampole stands 5-foot, 3 1/2 inches tall (don't forget that half-inch) and weighs 105 pounds.
She used every half-inch and every pound to help the Cougars take first place in the Black Division at the Prairie Invitational cross country meet Saturday morning.
Wampole finished in third place in the individual standings as Kennedy nudged Iowa City West, 52-53, for the championship.
With 10 graduated seniors playing college football, experts perhaps could have been forgiven for hedging their expectations for the Washington football team.
"There weren't very high expectations for us," Washington senior tailback Mitch Bredeson said Friday night, after the Warriors disposed of cross-town rival Kennedy, 17-6, in a season-opener at Kingston Stadium. "We proved we still could play in the MVC and be a top 10 team in the MVC. That's pretty special to us, yeah."
How special?
"This is a special win and I'm going to give you eight hours to celebrate," Warriors Coach Tony Lombardi told his squad after the game.
ELDRIDGE - The Cedar Rapids Kennedy volleyball team was ranked No. 2 in the Class 5A preseason poll this year, but the high ranking did not help the Cougars Thursday night.
Kennedy began the season at the North Scott tournament and came home with 1-2 record.
The Cougars lost to Class 5A No. 8 Pleasant Valley in two games, defeated Bettendorf in two games and lost to Class 4A No. 9 North Scott in three games.
Harrison Moore fired a 1-under-par 35 Thursday to help Kennedy win a Mississippi Valley Conference quadrangular boys golf meet at Gardner Golf Course.
Conner Koberg shot an even-par 36 for the Cougars. Davis Sutton of Kennedy, Austin Bergstrom of Washington, Noah Federici of Iowa City West and Christian Rapp of Wahlert all shot 37.
GRANGER - Conner Koberg fired an even-par 72 Wednesday to help Kennedy finish in second place at the Johnston Invitational at Jester Park Golf Course.
West Des Moines Valley ran away with the title in the nine-team field at 291. Kennedy nipped Johnston for second place, 308 to 309.
Cole Murdock of Kennedy tied for the seventh-best score with a 4-over-par 76. Harrison Moore shot a 6-over 78 for the Cougars.
Grant Smith of Johnston took medalist honors with a 3-under-par 69.
The Kennedy High School girls swimming team has big goals this season, but it's hard to get an exact handle on what they are.
It depends on who you ask.
"We're just looking to do our best and be the best in the Metro, to beat Wash and Jeff and Linn-Mar and everybody," senior Jessica Schmeiser said Tuesday.
That's one opinion. Here's another.
Kennedy has been to the semifinals of the Class 4A state volleyball tournament each of the last three seasons.
The Cougars will be aiming a little higher this season.
Kennedy begins the season ranked No. 2 in Class 5A. Iowa City High is ranked No. 1 and Iowa City West, the Cougars' semifinal nemesis the last three seasons, is ranked ninth.
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