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Kennedy swept the top three spots in all but one individual event, and the top two spots in all three relays and dunked Jefferson, 151-26, Tuesday in a girls swimming meet at Kennedy.
The Cougars had a different winner in each individual event. Amanda Jacobsen was on two winning relays - the 200 medley and 400 freestyle - making her the only triple winner of the night.
Larissa Keller scored the J-Hawks' only third-place finish in an individual event.
The best boys golf teams in the Mississippi Valley Conference are from Cedar Rapids.
It's not even close.
The Kennedy Cougars ran away with top honors in the Mississippi Division Monday with a strong showing at Bunker Hill Golf Course in Dubuque, winning their division by 50 strokes.
The Xavier Saints, meanwhile, completed a dominating performance in the Valley Division at Hunters Ridge in Marion, taking their division by 44 shots.
DUBUQUE - Xavier went 3-2 and avenged a regular-season loss to Kennedy on Saturday at the Dubuque Invitational volleyball tournament.
Both Xavier and Kennedy went 2-1 in pool play and were paired against each other in the championship bracket quarterfinals. The Saints beat the Cougars, 25-18, 25-21.
Xavier, ranked eighth in Class 4A, was ousted in the semifinals by Class 5A No. 1 Iowa City High, 25-22, 25-21.
Hannah Botkin has spent hundreds of hours in a swimming pool without getting hurt, but she suffered a painful shoulder injury in August while simply changing her clothes.
Botkin, a junior at Kennedy, suffered a subluxation of her right shoulder, a temporary and partial dislocation of the shoulder joint that can be serious if not treated properly.
"I was like, seriously?," she said Saturday, still trying to comprehend what happened. "I've trained all this time, but it's changing my clothes that injures me?"
Reggie Schulte began asking his father to diagram football plays for him when he was in the fifth grade and a ballboy for the Xavier Saints.
He learned his lessons well.
Schulte tossed four touchdown passes Friday night as No. 4 Xavier blanked Kennedy, 35-0, in a 42nd Street mismatch at the Saints Field.
DUBUQUE - The Kennedy girls cross country team began winning major races four weeks ago when they captured the Prairie Invitational.
They haven't stopped since.
The Cougars made it 5-for-5 Thursday by running away with top honors at the Eastern Iowa Classic on a sunny, breezy day at the Dubuque Soccer Complex.
CEDAR FALLS - Tyler Sievertsen is a smart guy. He can do the math in his head, but he'd rather not.
Every time he makes a field goal for the University of Northern Iowa, he improves his status as the most accurate place-kicker in FCS football.
The Cedar Rapids Kennedy grad is 22 for 24 the past two seasons for 91.7 percent, which makes him the most accurate kicker in the country among active players in his division, according to the UNI sports information department.
Sievertsen knows it, but almost wishes he didn't. It's not something a kicker wants to think about when he's running onto the field to boot a field goal before 70,000 fans.
The Cedar Rapids Washington volleyball team tied Kennedy in total points Tuesday night, 95-95, in their Mississippi Valley Conference match at Washington.
Unfortunately for the Warriors, they didn't win enough of the big points to claim a victory.
Kennedy trimmed Washington, 29-27, 16-25, 25-20, 25-23, by making a series of clutch plays in the first and fourth games.
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Quinn Jamrok shot a 34 Monday at Twin Pines to lead Kennedy to a one-stroke win at the Xavier boys golf quadrangular meet.
Kennedy finished at 142. Xavier and Waterloo West were at 143 and Cedar Falls 152.
Xavier was awarded second place on the basis of its fifth golfer - Colin Gunn - shooting a 38. West's fifth golfer shot a 40.
DUBUQUE - Dubuque Senior scored a touchdown in each of the first three quarters and held on to defeat Kennedy, 21-14, in Mississippi Valley Conference football Friday night in Dubuque.
The loss dropped the Cougars to 0-4 for the campaign.
Senior (4-0, 2-0) scored on 5- and 1-yard runs by Parker Hammel to take a 14-0 lead in the first half. And on its first possession in the second half, the Rams executed a snappy 72-yard scoring drive
that culminated in a 7-yard touchdown pass from Austin Clemens to Andrew Conzett.
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