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Kennedy High School - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Big innings doom Cougars twice

Tue - 16 Jul Written by Metro Sports Report

BETTENDORF - Two big innings sent Kennedy to a pair of losses Tuesday in non-conference baseball against Pleasant Valley.

Pleasant Valley put eight runs in the third inning of the opener and won, 9-7. The Spartans came back with five runs in the sixth inning of the nightcap to pull out a 5-3 win.

Kennedy's Brock Skow had a double and drove in three runs in the opener. Ben Sass had three hits.

Sammy Lizarraga and Gage Jurgenson had two hits apiece in the nightcap for the Cougars.

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Wyant tosses gem, but Lions miss title

Mon - 15 Jul Written by Jim Ecker

Justin Wyant knew he had to pitch a strong game Monday night for the Linn-Mar Lions to have any chance of winning a Mississippi Valley Conference title.

He performed admirably, but the Lions fell short anyway.

Wyant tossed a no-hitter as Linn-Mar walloped Kennedy, 12-0 in five innings, in the second game of their MVC doubleheader at the Linn-Mar complex.

Kennedy won the opener, 3-2, and that outcome cost the Lions dearly in the conference race.

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Cougars blank Solon for 20th win

Sat - 13 Jul Written by Metro Sports Report

Zach Daniels tossed a four-hit shutout Saturday night as the Kennedy Cougars blanked Solon, 5-0, at the Kennedy Field.

Kennedy (20-15) reached the 20-win plateau for the 15th straight year and the 20th time in 21 years under Coach Bret Hoyer.

Daniels, a sophomore righthander, struck out four batters, walked two and allowed only four singles.

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Cougars club Wahawks twice

Fri - 12 Jul Written by Metro Sports Report

WATERLOO - Kennedy tallied 25 runs on 20 hits and swept a Mississippi Valley Conference baseball doubleheader from Waterloo West, 12-6 and 13-1, Friday night at West.

Kennedy (19-15, 15-9) trailed 5-1 after three innings in the opener.

But the Cougars scored three runs in the fourth inning and eight in the fifth to retake the lead, 12-5.

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Brock Skow hits a two-run homer for Cedar Rapids Kennedy in a game against Cedar Rapids Jefferson on Tuesday, July 9. Kennedy defeated Jefferson, 12-11. (Photo by Ken Gilchrist)

Cougars nip J-Hawks in epic battle, 12-11

Tue - 09 Jul Written by Jim Ecker

The Cedar Rapids Jefferson J-Hawks didn't know when they were licked in their ballgame at Kennedy on Tuesday night.

Unfortunately for Jefferson, neither did the Cougars.

Kennedy rallied for two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning and topped the J-Hawks, 12-11, on a game-winning single by Andrew Johnson.

Jefferson scored three runs in the top of the seventh to take an 11-10 lead, but the Cougars tied the game on a double by Derek Jacobus and won it on Johnson's clean single to left.

"That was a dogfight," said Jefferson Coach Kyle Rodenkirk. "That's exactly what you want when you come to the yard.

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Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 July 2013 00:46

Cougars split a pair of 1-run tilts

Tue - 09 Jul Written by Metro Sports Report

Ashley Hamilton's two-run single in the bottom of the fourth inning rallied Kennedy from a one-run deficit and sent the Cougars past Waterloo East, 5-4, and to a split of their Mississippi Valley Conference softball doubleheader Monday night at Kennedy.

East (18-18, 11-13) won the opener, 9-8. Kennedy (13-24, 8-18) rallied for three runs in the bottom of the seventh and had the tying and winning runs at second and third base when Erin Coker flied out to end the game.

Hamilton had four hits and drove in six runs in the doubleheader. Teammates Tianna Drahn and Taylor Sohn had five and four hits, respectively.

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5-run 1st carries J-Hawks past Cougars

Mon - 08 Jul Written by Don Taylor

Jefferson plated five big runs in the home half of the first inning and downed visiting Kennedy, 7-3, in Mississippi Valley Conference baseball Monday night.

The J-Hawks (9-25, 7-16) squared up on five first inning line drives that included a three-run double by Layne Sullivan and a two-run double by Lucas Larson.

“The pitch I hit was a fastball right down the pipe,” said Sullivan. “I hit it hard and it hit a gap to clear the bases.”

Cam Frazier, Spencer Hunt, and Ky Kramer all collected two hits for the J-Hawks.

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No-name Cougars stun No.4 Johnston

Sat - 06 Jul Written by Jim Ecker

Bret Hoyer has won 553 games and a state title during his career as the baseball coach at Kennedy High School, so it's usually not a great surprise when the Cougars upset a ranked team at home.

This one, however, belongs in the "Holy Cow!" department for startling developments.

The Cougars stunned No.4 Johnston, 6-5, Saturday afternoon with an improbable concoction of players that had Kennedy fans scratching their heads and wondering "Who's he?"

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Olson tosses no-hitter as Jeff sweeps Cougars

Tue - 02 Jul Written by Tom Fruehling

It was a potent 1-2 punch that helped power the Jefferson girls to a doubleheader sweep Tuesday night at Kennedy.

Young pitching phenom Alyssa Olson claimed the first no-hitter of her fast-rising career and came within a walk of a perfect game in the opener.

Her slugging catcher, Maddie Hansen, slammed two doubles in one inning to knock in three runs during a nine-run outburst in the 14-0 five-inning affair.

Then, in the nightcap, Hansen unloaded a deep two-run homer to left-center as the Class 5A No.9 J-Hawks strolled, 6-2.

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