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Kennedy defeated Washington in a Mississippi Valley Conference wrestling meet at Kennedy Thursday night, 42-21.
Both Metro teams lost to Dubuque Wahlert in the double-dual. The Cougars lost to the Golden Eagles, 33-31, and the Warriors fell to Wahlert, 57-10.
Austen Winders (145) collected a pin and a decision for Kennedy. Trey Schuler (132) had a major decision and a regular decision for Washington.
The double-dual was marred by forfeits.
Don't be alarmed if you see Brennan Urbi dashing from one end of Kennedy High School to the other. And then back again.
He might be hustling to swimming practice. Or racing to show choir rehearsals. Or joining the speech club for improv. Or tying to squeeze in a few minutes for homework.
"The north end of our building, the south end of our building, he's a very talented young man," Kennedy swim coach Shawn Thomsen said Thursday night.
Urbi won three events Thursday and helped the Cougars slip by Jefferson, 92-75, in a Mississippi Valley Conference meet at Kennedy. He graciously had time for a quick interview before heading to his next activity ... or perhaps a nap.
New Kennedy Coach Jon McKowen had a few words of advice for Drew Heitland when basketball practice began in November.
Get a haircut, son.
"He was like, 'You can't be looking like a girl,'" Heitland said Tuesday night. "So I just cut it and it's out of my face now.
"I just went down the street to Cost Cutters from Kennedy and they chopped it all off."
Heitland has a good look at the basket these days without all that long hair in his eyes and he proved it Tuesday with a big game against the Xavier Saints.
The burly football player scored a career-high 17 points to help the Cougars outscore the Saints, 85-76, in an entertaining game at the Xavier gym.
Kennedy girls basketball coach Tony Vis didn’t spend much time in the locker room after his team’s 54-46 home win Tuesday night over rival Xavier.
The time for talking will come prior to practice on Wednesday.
Despite sporting 9-2 overall record (4-1 in the Mississippi Valley Conference) and a No. 6 state ranking in Class 5A, Vis was not a happy man after Tuesday’s game.
“We’ve had three straight games of lackluster effort,” he said. “We’ve had lackluster execution and I’m just tired of watching it.”
Jared Thorson and Nick Saulnier were quadruple winners, leading Washington past Kennedy, 118-52, Tuesday night in a boys swimming meet at Washington.
Thorson won the 50 freestyle and 100 back and swam on the victorious 200 medley and 400 free relays.
Saulnier won the 200 and 100 free, and swam on the winning 200 and 400 free relays.
Nick Durin and Cameron Kelley were triple winners for the Warriors.
WAUKEE - Fifth-ranked Waukee used a 17-5 blitz in the second quarter to build a 10-point lead and held off No.6 Kennedy, 45-43, in overtime Saturday night in girls basketball.
Paige Hendrickson led Kennedy (8-2) with 13 points.
Reilly Jacobson scored 14 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for Waukee (9-0). The Warriors had 16 team steals.
WISCONSIN DELLS, Wis. - Anthony Carter, JB Bil and Drew Heitland scored 11 points apiece Saturday as the Kennedy Cougars topped Reedsburg (Wis.), 52-44, in a basketball event at the Wisconsin Dells.
Bryton Heisler contributed 10 points to the balanced attack as Kennedy raised its record to 7-1.
Kennedy senior John Bardsley has a broken bone in his hand and will be sidelined for several weeks.
DUBUQUE - Brennan Urbi of Kennedy placed in four events at the Dubuque Hempstead Invitational swimming meet Saturday.
Urbi finished second in the 100 freestyle and was fourth in the 100 backstroke. He also swam the anchor legs on the 200 freestyle relay (fifth) and the 400 freestyle relay (sixth).
Bettendorf won the team championship. Kennedy placed fifth out of seven schools.
Cole Murdock has a nice touch on a golf course for Kennedy High School, which has one of the top golf programs in the state.
He's developing a nice touch on the basketball floor as well.
Murdock tossed in a pair of clutch 3-pointers in the fourth quarter Friday night to help the Cougars fend off Jefferson, 55-52, in a Mississippi Valley Conference game at Kennedy.
Murdock finished with a team-high 13 points as the Cougars raised their records to 6-1 overall and 4-0 in the MVC under first-year coach Jon McKowen.
Jefferson's Kiddie Corps nearly came of age Friday night.
The young Jefferson girls threw a scare into No.6 Kennedy before falling short, 43-39, in a Mississippi Valley Conference defensive tussle at Kennedy.
The J-Hawks outscored Kennedy, 28-18, in the second half and held the high-powered Cougars to just three field goals in the third and fourth quarters. And when Amanda Ollinger hit a 3-pointer to pull Jefferson within 37-36 with three minutes left, it look like the visiting team might ride the momentum to a monumental victory.
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