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Kennedy and Xavier both held onto the top spots in the Class 3A and 2A boys soccer polls, respectively, that were released Monday by the Iowa High School Soccer Coaches Association.
Kennedy received all 10 first-place votes in Class 3A. Washington and Prairie held onto the 5 and 6 spots, respectively. Linn-Mar slipped two spots to No.9.
Xavier received six first-place votes. Unbeaten Spencer got the other four votes and is No.2 in the poll.
Kennedy went to the state baseball tournament again in 2012, continuing a run of excellence that put up 33 wins against just seven losses last season.
The Cougars, under the direction of Bret Hoyer, have developed a program to be admired.
Alex Hayden, Nick Appleget, Adam Lloyd and Cody Bell accounted for 30 of those 33 wins and 218 innings last season. Give Devon Jacobus and Zach Johnson 24 more innings and that would mean the seniors accounted for 93 percent of the innings pitched for Kennedy last season.
Bell, Josh Jahlas, Logan Ambrosy and Hayden all hit .386 or better. Jimmy Lizarraga hit .311 and Jacobus added a .310 average. Seniors accounted for 82 percent of the team’s hits, 80 percent of the RBIs, 71 percent of the runs and 100 percent of the home runs.
The graduating seniors will be sorely missed.
Kennedy heads up a four-team contingent from the Metro ranked in the top seven of this week's Class 3A boys soccer poll released Wednesday by the Iowa High School Soccer Coaches Association.
Kennedy is ranked No.1 and received all 10 first-place votes cast in the poll. Washington is ranked fifth, Prairie sixth and Linn-Mar seventh.
Xavier is ranked No.1 in Class 2A. The Saints received all but one first-place vote.
MUSCATINE - The Kennedy Cougars won seven events and captured top honors at the Dave Mathews Invitational boys track meet in Muscatine Monday.
Kennedy finished with 128 points in the eight-team field for a comfortable 35-point victory over Clinton.
The Cougars got individual titles from Famiek Cook (200), Marcus Perkins (400 hurdles), Derek Jacobus (long jump) and Drew Heitland (shot put).
Kennedy also claimed the shuttle hurdle relay, 4x200 relay and 4x100 relay.
Mississippi Valley Conference boys soccer this season seems to come down to the survival of the fittest in each and every game.
With the MVC boasting six of the top seven rated teams in this week’s Class 3A poll, there are few easy matches.
Pity the sixth-ranked Prairie Hawks, for instance.
They started the year with eight straight wins and climbed to the No.1 ranking. They’ve since lost four out of five, but their last six games have been to ranked foes.
The Hawks dropped yet another nail-biter Monday night at home, this time a hard-fought 1-0 loss to top-rated Kennedy (10-0, 7-0).
Jessica Pedersen and Sarah Lasecki won two matches apiece to lead Kennedy to a 6-3 win over Linn-Mar in girls tennis Wednesday at Kennedy.
Pedersen beat Ashley Smith, 10-5, at No.1 singles.
Lasecki won at No.2 singles. Pedersen and Lasecki teamed for a win at No.1 doubles.
Anna Riester and Lindsey Rutz also won singles matches for Kennedy.
The Kennedy Cougars and Xavier Saints moved to the top of the boys soccer rankings Tuesday.
Kennedy replaced Prairie as the No.1 team in Class 3A. Xavier replaced Dubuque Wahlert as the No.1 club in Class 2A.
Prairie fell to No.4 in Class 3A. Washington is ranked sixth and Linn-Mar is tied for 12th.
A dead cinch to be ranked the state’s best in the next poll on Tuesday, the Kennedy boys soccer team dodged a scare Saturday afternoon against 12th-ranked Linn-Mar.
On a rare sunny day at Kingston Stadium, the two traditional rivals played cat-and-mouse for 80 minutes of regulation and two overtimes before the Cougars finally broke the scoreless tie with an 8-7 shootout victory.
“We were very lucky we didn’t lose in the second overtime,” said Kennedy co-coach Steve Robertson. “One inch to the left and the ball would have gone in."
IOWA CITY - The Kennedy girls tennis team lost a pair of meets Saturday in Iowa City.
The Cougars were beaten by Iowa City West, 6-3, and by Iowa City High, 8-1.
Jessica Pedersen won twice against West. She won her No.1 singles match, 10-6, and teamed with Sarah Lasecki to win at No.1 doubles, 10-8.
Kennedy bounced back from a difficult Saturday morning to drub Iowa City High, 8-1, and split a pair of Mississippi Valley Conference boys tennis meets at Kennedy.
Iowa City West blanked the Cougars, 6-0, in the morning. The Cougars won 13 games but did not capture a set. Doubles were not played because of cold weather and West had already clinched the win.
Kennedy's Quinn Jamrock beat Holden Feagler in a tiebreaker at No.1 singles to get the Cougars off to a good start against City High.
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