Kennedy High School - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Emily Feltes wins Metro Spotlight Award

Cedar Rapids Kennedy senior Emily Feltes is the winner of the Metro Spotlight Award for high school girls this week, the Metro Sports Report announced Sunday.

Feltes is one of the top soccer players in the state and she led Kennedy in scoring as a freshman, sophomore and junior. She has scored 53 goals in 58 games during her career and was named Class 3A all-state last season.

Feltes is a 4.0 student and a member of the National Honor Society. She plans to play soccer at Lewis University next year.

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Cunningham, Butler lead Kennedy netters

Jimmy Cunningham and Kyle Butler won both of their singles matches Saturday as Kennedy split a pair of Mississippi Valley Conference tennis meets at Kennedy.

The Cougars bounced Prairie, 7-2, and lost to Iowa City High, 5-4.

Cunningham and Butler were victorious in both of their matches at No.2 and No.3 singles.

Kennedy 7, Prairie 2

Singles

1. Quinn Jamrock (K) def. Connor Anthony, 6-0, 6-1.

2. Jimmy Cunningham (K) def. Blake Larsson, 6-0, 6-2.

3. Kyle Butler (K) def. Conor Wiesender, 6-3, 6-2.

4. Corey Duncan (K) def. Jason Niccolls, 6-1, 6-2.

5. Matt Jontz (K) def. Brandon Bruhn, 6-2, 7-6.

6. Evan Gaskill (P) def. Connor Crippes, 6-1, 6-3.

Doubles

1. Cunningham/Duncan (K) def. Anthony/Wiesender, 6-1, 6-0.

2. Jontz/Cody Heaton (K) def. Larrson/Niccolls, 6-3, 6-2.

3. Bruhn/Gaskill (P) def. Max Frank/Brad Zimmerman, 6-2, 7-6.

Iowa City High 5, Kennedy 4

Singles

1. Joe Hoff (ICH) def. Jamrock, 6-4, 7-6.

2. Cunningham (K) def. Greg Hensley, 6-4, 6-0.

3. Butler (K) def. Drew Jaspers, 6-0, 4-6, 1-0.

4. Kunj Saxena (ICH) def. Duncan, 7-6, 6-7, 1-0.

5. Holden Feagler (ICH) def. Jontz, 4-6, 6-3, 1-0.

6. Kurt Blankenheim (ICH) def. Heaton, 6-2, 6-0.

Doubles

1. Hoff/Hensley (ICH) def. Cunningham/Duncan, 6-1, 6-2.

2. Jamrock/Crippes (K) def. Saxena/Blankenheim, 6-1, 6-0.

3. Frank/Zimmerman (K) def. Jaspers/Feagler, 7-6, 6-1.

Little Hawks blank Cougars in tennis

IOWA CITY - Iowa City High swept to a 9-0 girls tennis victory over Cedar Rapids Kennedy on Saturday.

City High's Eve Small was a 10-1 winner over Kennedy's Jessica Pedersen at No. 1 singles.

Iowa City High 9, Kennedy 0

Singles

1. Eve Small (ICH)def. Jessica Pedersen, 10-1

2. Innes Hicsamaz (ICH) def. Mira Hemaiden, 10-6

3. Susanna Gianola (ICH) def. Hannah Krivit, 10-0

4. Kit Finley (ICH) def. Evann Martin,  10-1

5. Lucy Wagnerover (ICH) def. Annie Castellicio, 10-2

6. Amelia Prybil (ICH) def. Amy Wacker, 6-5 (ret. to injury)

Doubles

1. Small/Hicsamaz (ICH) def. Pedersen/Hemaiden, 10-4

2. Gianola/Finley (ICH) def. Krivit/Martin, 10-2

3. Wagner/Maria McCoy (ICH) def. Michelle Becker/Gabby Oleniczak, 10-5

Prairie girls down Kennedy, 8-1

Bri Kalous won in a tiebreaker at No. 4 singles to lead Prairie to an 8-1 girls tennis victory over Kennedy on Saturday at Prairie.

Kalous took the tiebreak by a 7-4 score. The Hawks won five of six singles matches and swept the doubles.

Prairie 8, Kennedy 1

Singles

1. Vale Caro (P) def. Jessica Pederson, 10-7

2. Magui Caro (P) def Mira Hemaiden, 10-2

3. Michelle Grenn (P) def. Hanna Krivit, 10-2

4. Bri Kalous (P) def. Evann Martin, 11-10 (7-4)

5. Karleigh Schilling (P) def. Annie Castelicio, 10-3

6. Amy Wacker (K) def. Lauren O'Brian, 10-7

Doubles

1. V. Caro/M. Caro (P) def. Pederson/Hemaiden, 10-3

2. Grenn/Kalous (P) def. Krivit/Martin, 10-2

3. Schilling/O'Brian (P) def. Michelle Becker/Gaby Oljenczak, 10-2

No. 3 Cougars win pair at tourney

WEST DES MOINES - Third-ranked Cedar Rapids Kennedy won a pair of tight matches Saturday at the West Des Moines Valley Soccer Tournament, downing Waukee and Des Moines Hoover by identical 1-0 scores.

The opening match against Waukee went to penalty kicks where the Cougars converted all five of their chances with keeper Nathan Althoff making a save that resulted in the win.

In their second match, the Cougars got a goal in the 35th minute to win. Junior Mark Schulz converted a header off a free kick from senior Killian Magee.

Kennedy is now 5-1.

Kennedy topples Valley in double OT

WEST DES MOINES - Junior Skylar Showalter scored in the second overtime to give No. 3 Cedar Rapids Kennedy a 1-0 win over No. 9 West Des Moines Valley on Friday night.

Reid Botkin and Nick Waterhouse assisted on the goal for the Cougars (3-1).

Jenks, Evans lead Metro parade to Drake

Linn-Mar distance stars Stephanie Jenks and Josh Evans are poised to leave their mark on the Drake Relays again next week.

Jenks, a sophomore, is seeded first in the 1500 meter run, first in the 3000 meter run and second in the 800. She won the 1500 and 3000 at Drake last year as a freshman.

Evans, a senior, is seeded first in the 3200, third in the 1600 and 10th in the 800. He and his teammates are seeded No.1 in the 4x800 relay and the sprint medley, with Evans the anchor on both relays when they ran their best times.

Evans set a meet record at the Drake Relays last year when he captured the 1600 in 4 minutes, 10.86 seconds. He also finished second in the 3200.

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Lions top Cougars in bizarre match

In a soccer match that almost ended midway in the second half when the lead official walked off the field, a stout defense by the fourth-ranked Linn-Mar girls prevailed in a 3-2 win Thursday night at Cedar Rapids Kennedy.

The second-ranked Cougars could have sent it into overtime, but a dead-onfree penalty kick by Emily Feltes with 1:27 to go was smacked straight into the clutches of Lions goalkeeper Rylee Frese.

“We had our chances,” said Kennedy assistant coach Scott Myers. “We had the ball inside the box right at the end, and you can't ask for anything better than that.”

Kennedy head coach Andrew McKnight announced previously that his last game would be next week against Washington because he is joining the Iowa City Police Department. But Myers took the reins sooner than expected when McKnight was hit with two yellow cards for disputing calls and automatically ejected with 23:36 left in the match.

Immediately thereafter, the referee who made the calls walked off the field into the parking lot. Order was restored 15 minutes later when Kennedy athletic director Aaron Stecker coaxed him back into the game.

“We all wanted the game to finish,” said Linn-Mar Coach Steve Dickinson. “This was a game for the girls.”

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Kennedy boys blanked by IC West

IOWA CITY - The Kennedy boys tennis team was blanked by Iowa City West, 9-0, in a Mississippi Valley Conference meet in Iowa City Thursday.

Blake Oetting of Iowa City West defeated Quinn Jamrock at No.1 singles, 6-0, 6-1.

IOWA CITY WEST 9, KENNEDY 0

Singles

1. Blake Oetting (ICW) def. Quinn Jamrock, 6-0, 6-1.

2. Jiung Jung (ICW) def. Jimmy Cunningham, 6-1, 6-0.

3. Trent Schneider (ICW) def. Kyle Butler, 6-1, 6-0.

4. David DiLeo (ICW) def. Corey Duncan, 6-1, 6-2.

5. Karl Wenzel (ICW) def. Matt Jontz, 6-0, 6-3.

6. Adam Dellos (ICW) def. Cody Heaton, 6-0, 6-0.

Doubles

1. A.Dellos/T.Schneider (ICW) def. Cunningham/Duncan, 6-1, 6-0.

2. DiLeo/Wenzel (ICW) def. Jamrock/Butler, 6-0, 6-0.

3. Cole Schneider/Ben Dellos (ICW) def. Jontz/Heaton, 6-0, 6-0.