Washington High School - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Warriors top J-Hawks in fierce winds

Sat - 11 May Written by Tom Fruehling

Trying to play tennis Saturday morning at the Veterans Memorial Tennis Center was like hitting a ping-pong ball in a wind tunnel.

Under gale-force conditions, the Washington boys breezed by Jefferson 5-0 in a preliminary substate team match and moved on to play again next Saturday.

The Warriors will play Linn-Mar in a substate semifinal next Saturday at Kennedy. The winner of that match will face the winner between Cedar Falls and Clinton on Saturday afternoon at Kennedy for the right to advance to the state team tournament.

Gusty winds on the hill-top courts Saturday blew the ball about like a badminton birdie. Serves sailed into the backcourt, high lobs flew away and drop shots bounced every which direction.

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Wash girls blank Marshalltown

Sat - 11 May Written by Metro Sports Report

The Cedar Rapids Washington girls tennis team blanked Marshalltown, 5-0, in the quarterfinals of the Class 2A regional tournament at Washington Saturday.

Kristin King, Lilly Hartman, Rina Moore, Jennifer Greif and Kitty McGurk won their matches in straight sets.

Washington advances to play Davenport North at Bettendorf in next Saturday morning's semifinals. The winner of that faces the winner of the Kennedy-Bettendorf semifinal for the regional championship next Saturday afternoon.

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Blades & Hoyt win district doubles title

Thu - 09 May Written by Metro Sports Report

Washington's Mitch Blades and Jackson Hoyt won the doubles championship Thursday in the Class 2A boys tennis district meet at Westfield Tennis Center.

The team of Blades and Hoyt qualified for the state singles and doubles tournament May 24-25 at Vets Tennis Center in Cedar Rapids.

Blades and Hoyt were seeded No.1, but they lost the first set of the championship match, 6-1, to the second-seeded Cedar Falls duo of James McManus and Roy Ju.

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Warriors moving in right direction

Sat - 04 May Written by Don Taylor

Washington was easily the youngest team in the Metro last year and it looks to be more experienced this season.

Coach Tony Lombardi and his staff are rebuilding a program that is rich in tradition, and they are doing it the right way. While they were young, there was not a team that competed any harder than the 2012 Warriors.

Grant Dostal and Robert Hogg, the only two players who graduated from last year's team, accounted for 61 innings on the mound. A big question mark regarding this year’s roster is A.J. Puk, who is considered one of the top prospects in the nation and has choices to make about where he wants to play ball this summer.

“We would honestly love to have A.J. playing with us. That said, I just want to support A.J.,” said Lombardi. “The decision is A.J.’s to make and I trust that he will do what is best for his development. I honestly don’t know.”

Puk began practicing with the Warriors when drills began last week.

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James returns as Wash football coach

Wed - 01 May Written by Jim Ecker

Cedar Rapids Washington did not have to conduct a statewide search for a new football coach to succeed Tony Lombardi.

A highly qualified candidate was sitting right there in the Washington activities office all along.

Paul James, who was Washington's head football coach from 1995 through 2006 before becoming the school's activities director, has happily agreed to take the football job again.

"It's like being given a second chance at something I love to do," he said Wednesday morning.

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