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DES MOINES - Elvir Ibisevic scored the winning goal in the first minute of second overtime to give Johnston his team the comeback, 2-1, victory over Cedar Rapids Kennedy in the Class 3A third place at Cownie Soccer Park.
Kennedy (16-5) took a 1-0 lead late in the first half on Sameeullah Jung's goal.
Johnston's Parker Gesiriech started a rally with a goal in the 64th minute.
Last Updated on Saturday, 01 June 2013 19:05
The Cedar Rapids Kennedy girls double team of Sarah Lasecki and Jessica Pedersen rebounded from a disappointing semifinal loss to the Washington girls to finish third in the Class 2A state tournament Friday a the Veterans Memorial Tennis Center.
In the morning match against Warriors Rina Moore and Lilly Hartman, they took a 5-2 lead in the opening set but then lost their next three games.
They then dropped the tiebreaker 7-5 when the senior Lasecki double-faulted on her final serve.
Knotted at 2-2 in the second set, Washington went on to win 6-3 to move into the championships.
Cedar Rapids Washington’s Rina Moore and Lilly Hartman knew they had a tough task when they faced the top-seeded doubles team from Urbandale in Friday afternoon’s Class 2A state championship.
Madeline Heer and Michelle Van Roekel, after all, had a perfect 17-0 record this season. In the two years they’ve played the together, the two seniors were 32-1. Their only blemish came in last season’s state tournament when they lost to the eventual state champs from Ames in a semifinal match.
To advance into Friday’s finals at the Veterans Memorial Tennis Center, the Urbandale duo had dispatched an Ames tandem that still had one of the girls from the title team.
“We’d watched them and knew they were very good,” said Hartman.
DES MOINES - The Kennedy Cougars ended their quest for the Class 3A boys state soccer title with a possible concussion, a few ice bags and a heavy dose of frustration.
The Cougars gave top-ranked Iowa City West a stiff battle in the first half Friday but lost to the defending state champions, 2-0, in the semifinals at Cownie Park.
Kennedy (16-4) will face Johnston (19-2) in the consolation game for third place Saturday at 4:10 p.m.
DES MOINES - Cedar Rapids Kennedy assistant soccer coach Doug Graham gave junior Nate Waterhouse an affectionate kiss on the cheek Thursday afternoon at the state tournament in Des Moines.
It was the kiss of success.
Waterhouse scored the game-winning goal with 20 minutes, 45 seconds left in the second half as the Cougars trimmed Sioux City West, 2-1, in the opening round of the Class 3A tournament at the Cownie Soccer Park.
Last Updated on Thursday, 30 May 2013 22:43
Neither was seeded coming into the girls high school state tennis tournament, but either a doubles team from Cedar Rapids Washington or Kennedy will be playing for the Class 2A championship Friday afternoon.
After pulling off a pair of second round upsets Thursday at the Veterans Memorial Tennis Center, Warriors Lilly Hartman and Rina Moore face Cougars Sarah Lasecki and Jessica Pedersen in Friday morning's semifinals.
The winner will play for the title against the top-seeded Urbandale team or fourth-seeded Ames.
Last Updated on Thursday, 30 May 2013 20:30Last season, the Kennedy girls went into the state soccer tournament ranked seventh and ended up taking the title by beating the top three teams in three days.
They’re hoping the underdog role pays off this year as well.
“We’re excited to prove everyone wrong again,” said Cougar captain Tory Harman after leading her squad into next week’s regional finals with a 4-1 win over Washington Wednesday night at Kingston Stadium.
“We’ve had kind of a bumpy season, and a lot of people have written us off. So we’re out to prove something.”
For much of the season, Kennedy sophomore Ryan Walker has been a playmaker.
In Saturday's Class 3A Substate 4 final against Linn-Mar, Walker took on a new role - goal scorer.
The speedy 5-foot-3 forward broke away from the Lion defense, took a long stretch pass from teammate Reid Botkin and hammered it past Lion keeper Jared Belin with 17:30 remaining for his first tally of the season.
That goal, combined with another three minutes later from Sameeullah Jung and another stellar performance from goalkeeper Nathan Althoff, gave the Cougars a 2-0 victory and their third trip to state in the past four seasons.
Last Updated on Saturday, 25 May 2013 20:42
On a miserable night of marathon boys soccer at Kingston Stadium Wednesday, highly ranked Washington and Kennedy both survived scares from lesser foes to make into Saturday substate finals.
Each Class 3A semifinal game was tied 1-1 after two overtimes and decided in shootouts.
In the contest that started in drizzle at 5 p.m., fourth-ranked Washington escaped a scrappy Waterloo West bunch 5-4 on penalty kicks.
And in the nightcap that ended at 10:15 in a misty fog, fifth-ranked Kennedy squeaked by a young Dubuque Hempstead crew 4-2 in the shootout.
DES MOINES - The Kennedy Cougars and Linn-Mar Lions have banged heads many times over the years for bragging rights in the Mississippi Valley Conference in a variety of sports.
Now they're banging heads for top honors at the Class 4A boys state track meet in Des Moines.
The surging Cougars got a sweet victory from Derek Jacobus in the long jump Friday and lead the 4A standings with 37 points heading into the final day on Saturday.
The talented Lions got impressive victories in the 4x200 relay and 1600 medley and stand in second place with 31 points with eight more events to be settled Saturday.
Last Updated on Friday, 17 May 2013 21:04Page 98 of 131
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