Katie Hammond of Cedar Rapids returns the ball during the girl's 16 and under final against Jenna Heil at the Iowa Open Tennis Tournament at Veterans Memorial Tennis Center in Cedar Rapids on Friday, July 31, 2010. (Cliff Jette/The Gazette)

Katie Hammond’s double duty of spring has extended into summer.

Soccer gave her a concussion. Tennis gave her a title.

Well, actually, two.

Hammond plowed through the 16-and-under girls’ singles field at the Iowa Open Tennis Tournament, culminating her run with a 6-0, 6-1 breeze against Jenna Heil of Johnston in the championship match Friday at the Veterans Memorial Tennis Center.

“I wasn’t hitting a lot of winners, so I was just trying to keep the ball in play,” said Hammond, a junior-to-be at Cedar Rapids Washington.

Hammond was dominant throughout the tournament, dropping only nine games in her four-match blitz to the title.

She teamed with Riley Galbraith of Cedar Rapids to win the 18-and-under mixed doubles title Thursday and joined Catherine Butschi of Tyler, Texas, in a runner-up 16-and-under girls’ doubles effort.

If that sounds like a handful, well, Hammond is used to it. She juggles soccer and tennis at Washington in the spring, and a blow to the head in a soccer showcase earlier this summer caused a concussion.

“I’ve tried to play as much as I could the past couple weeks,” Hammond said.

“(Playing both sports) is a lot of work, and it’s meant a lot of late nights, but I love both sports and both teams.”

Brandon Schneider of Dubuque followed Thursday’s 16U doubles title with a singles crown Friday, outlasting Brady Anderson of Cedar Rapids, 7-6 (7-3), 1-6, 1-0 (10-1) in one of several matches that concluded at Clark Racquet Center on the Coe College campus.

“In the second set, I was trying to speed up points too quick, and that doesn’t work against Brady,” said Schneider, a 15-year-old sophomore-to-be at Dubuque Wahlert.

Schneider was extremely good in the tie-breaker, scoring the first six points. The final point of the match came on a misconduct point against Anderson.

“I didn’t miss a single ball in the tie-break,” Schneider said.

Rami Hemaidan and Ty Sherman of Cedar Rapids, both of whom recently turned 10, claimed the 12U boys’ doubles crown, winning their final match, 6-3, 6-3.

“This is only the third tournament we’ve played together,” said Sherman, who will be a fourth-grader at Grant Wood Elementary. Hemaiden will be a fifth-grader at Pierce.

“It’s fun to go to different places and play. We really communicate well.”