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The Prairie and Kennedy softball teams combined for six home runs during a Mississippi Valley Conference doubleheader at Kennedy Monday night, but one in particular stood out.
Kennedy’s Amanda Gaffey, who had been in a minor hitting slump, smoked a grand slam in the fourth inning of the nightcap as the Cougars beat Prairie, 10-3.
Prairie slugged its way to a 7-2 victory in the opening game.
Josh Jahlas and Logan Ambrosy are terrific table setters for Kennedy High School, but it has nothing to do with knives, forks or silverware.
Jahlas and Ambrosy set the table for the top-ranked Cougars by getting on base at the top of the lineup and scoring runs, and they've been doing it very well.
The dynamic duo went a combined 6-for-7 Monday night and scored nine runs as Kennedy swept a Mississippi Valley Conference twinbill from Dubuque Hempstead, 11-0 and 9-0, at the Kennedy field on a gorgeous night for baseball.
MUSCATINE - Sixty-five seconds of lightning brought the Kennedy girls soccer team a lifetime of happy memories Saturday.
The Cougars poured in both of their goals during a 65-second span of the second half and stunned top-ranked Ankeny, 2-1, in the championship game of the Class 3A tournament for their second state title in the past four years.
The victory capped a remarkable performance by the unheralded Cougars at the Muscatine Soccer Complex.
It began Thursday with a 2-0 victory over No. 3 Iowa City West, continued Friday with a 1-0 verdict over No. 2 Bettendorf and ended Saturday with a victory over the No. 1 team that had won 31 straight matches since last year.
MUSCATINE - Kaela Dickerman was unlucky twice, but the spunky Kennedy sophomore got lucky at just the right time Friday night at the state soccer tournament.
As a result, the surging and surprising Cougars will be playing for the Class 3A state title Saturday afternoon against Ankeny, the imposing 2011 champs and No. 1 team in the state.
Dickerman lofted a long shot over the goalie's head with less than 8 minutes remaining to snap a scoreless tie and give the Cougars a dramatic 1-0 victory over Bettendorf in the semifinals on a comfortable evening at the Muscatine Soccer Complex.
MUSCATINE - The girls on the Kennedy High School soccer team got out their black magic markers Thursday after they defeated Iowa City West in the state tournament.
They quickly erased the "3" on their back of their hands and replaced it with a "2," because that's how many more victories they need to win the Class 3A state title.
The seventh-ranked Cougars blanked No. 3 Iowa City West, 2-0, in the quarterfinals Thursday at the Muscatine Soccer Complex.
As a longtime ardent booster of the Iowa high school coed tennis tournament, it’s fitting that veteran Kennedy girls coach Vance Fuller would finish his career at the meet this week.
And his Cougar duo of Sarah Lasecki and Riley Galbraith sent him off on a high note, finishing second at the event Tuesday in Des Moines to an all-star pair from Ames in a nail-biter.
“This may be hard for some people to believe,” said Fuller’s friend Randy Krejci, who has been involved in state tennis circles for more than 40 years, “but Iowa remains the only state in the union that still has a coed program.
“Vance has had a team at the tourney since he began his distinguished career. I can’t think of a better way for him to end it.”
Cedar Rapids Prairie dropped out of the Class 4A baseball rankings this week, but the Hawks don't care a whole lot about that.
They know they have the ingredients for a good club this year and they proved it Tuesday night.
Brennan Hammer carried a shutout into the seventh inning and Prairie beat top-ranked Kennedy, 3-1, in a crisp Mississippi Valley Conference game at Prairie.
DES MOINES - Sarah Lasecki and Riley Galbraith of Cedar Rapids Kennedy placed second in the 2012 State Co-ed Tennis Tournament Tuesday in Des Moines.
Lasecki and Galbraith lost to Jessica King and Alex Qin of Ames, 6-3, 3-6, 1-0 in a tiebreaker in the championship match to conclude a marathon day of tennis.
Katie Hammond and Mitchell Anderson of Cedar Rapids Washington were defeated by Mary Hill and Naveen Nath of Des Moines Roosevelt, 6-3, 6-3, in the consolation match for third place.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 05 June 2012 22:28
The Kennedy baseball team called on Johnson & Johnson to ease its pain Monday night.
Andrew Johnson delivered a key triple and Zach Johnson collected a gutsy win in relief as the top-ranked Cougars trimmed Prairie, 5-4, on Junior Cougars Night at Kennedy.
Andrew Johnson tied the game, 4-4, with a triple down the right-field line in the bottom of the sixth inning and scored the go-ahead run on a passed ball.
Zach Johnson (not the golfer) wriggled out of a one-out, bases-loaded jam in the top of the seventh inning to give Kennedy (9-1, 4-1) the Mississippi Valley Conference victory.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 05 June 2012 14:12
After 60 minutes of its soccer game Monday night, the Kennedy girls were living 10 feet above the net. Nearly 10 Cougar shots sailed past Dubuque Hempstead’s goal, and the two teams were locked in a scoreless stalemate in the Class 3A regional finals at Kingston Stadium.
But at the 22:53 mark in the second half, Kennedy’s Emily Feltes was fouled inside the box. The Cougars wouldn’t have to worry about an airborne blunder on the penalty kick. Feltes nailed the shot to the left past Hempstead’s keeper and made sure it was low.
The penalty kick proved to be the difference as the Cougars defeated Hempstead, 1-0, to reach the Class 3A state tournament.
No. 7 Kennedy (14-4) will face No. 3 Iowa City West (17-2) in the quarterfinals of the state tournament Thursday at 5 p.m. at the Muscatine Soccer Complex.
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