Kennedy High School - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Beyer is 'Mr. Everything' for Kennedy

Keep your eye on Shaun Beyer during Kennedy football games this season. He'll be moving around a lot.

He'll be a tight end, wide receiver and quarterback on offense. He'll be the "Bandit" on defense as a hybrid defensive end and linebacker, free to hunt the ball and cause as much havoc as possible. He'll be the punter and he also might sell hotdogs at halftime.

Beyer is a superb athlete at 6-foot-5 and 210 pounds. He's big, strong and fast - and a 6-foot-6 high jumper. The whole idea is to get him the ball as much as possible and turn him loose on defense.

"He can catch the ball. He can go up and get it," said Kennedy Coach Brian White. "And if all else fails, we can put him at shotgun and snap the dang thing to him and just let him go, because he's tough to tackle. He's a big part of what we want to do."

Christian French, now a defensive end at Oregon, played the "bandit" position for the Cougars a few years ago. Beyer led the Cougars in tackles last season at linebacker, but now opponents will have to look around to see where No. 2 will line up next.

"This off-season we've been trying to find ways to make him more of a weapon on defense," said White.

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Register tabs 3 Metro ballplayers

Zach Daniels of Kennedy, Sammy Lizarraga of Kennedy and Cal Clark of Prairie have been named to the all-state baseball teams by the Des Moines Register.

Daniels, a shortstop and pitcher, made the Elite All-State team for players from all school classifications. Lizarraga was named first team all-state in Class 4A as a pitcher. Clark made second team all-state in Class 4A as a shortstop.

Daniels and Lizarraga are now playing for the Iowa Hawkeyes. Clark is entering his senior year at Prairie.

Lindwall strikes again for Warriors

SILVIS, Ill. - Two days, two demanding courses, two outstanding rounds of golf.

That's been the story this week for Cedar Rapids Washington junior Frank Lindwall, who fired a 3-under-par 68 Tuesday and claimed medalist honors at the Washington Warrior Invitational at TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Ill.

Lindwall nipped Tripp Kinney of Waukee by one shot Tuesday, just a day after the two premier golfers shared medalist honors with 3-under 69's in the Linn-Mar Invitational at Hunters Ridge.

Waukee won the team championship Tuesday at 294. Dowling took second place, followed by Linn-Mar, Washington and Xavier.

Max Thrune and Brent Larson of Linn-Mar tied for eighth at 5-over 76.

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