CEDAR RAPIDS — It may not have played a game since last Thursday, but Cedar Rapids Prairie shook off any softball rust early Tuesday night at Cedar Rapids Kennedy.The Hawks swept the Cougars, 16-6 in six innings and 8-2 in game two. Even though the ...

IOWA CITY — Cedar Rapids Kennedy came out with authority Monday night.“It was very impressive tonight,” Kennedy baseball coach Brett Hoyer said after the Cougars swept Iowa City High, 8-0 and 4-0, in a Mississippi Valley Conference doubleheader.Sophomore Zach Daniels had a stellar pitching performance ...

CEDAR RAPIDS -- It's been his field for more than three decades.Now, a sign beyond the fence in right-center field makes it official.The Jefferson Softball Complex was renamed Larry Niemeyer Field during a ceremony between games of Wednesday's Mississippi Valley Conference double-header -- Class 5A eighth-ranked Cedar ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — The intentional walk disappointed Erin Drahozal, but she understood it. As a pitcher herself, she said, she’d have done the same thing.“That’s a hard question,” she laughed after the Xavier Saints had swept a double-header against Iowa City High on Tuesday. “I ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Even before last week’s Major League Baseball Draft, Cedar Rapids Washington senior pitcher/first baseman A.J. Puk had made up his mind.The lanky Warrior had decided he is going to go to college instead of signing a professional contract.A 35th-round draft pick by ...

DES MOINES - Eight straight is great. So is Kayla Armstrong.It's one for the thumb plus three for the Cedar Rapids Xavier Saints after a 5-0 kicking of Sioux City East in the Class 2A girls' soccer title game Saturday afternoon at Cownie Park. Let ...

DES MOINES — One word formed the narrative for Iowa City West’s last soccer match of the season.“Frustrating,” Women of Troy midfielder Alli Peterson said.And that’s not just because the talented junior failed to convert a penalty kick into a goal for the first time ...

DES MOINES – A Class 1A state championship berth was right there for the taking for the No. 6 Center Point-Urbana girls soccer team. Offensive rushes and shots on goal were plentiful.But standing between the Stormin’ Pointers (19-3) and the state finals was No. 2 ...

DES MOINES — Iowa City High’s run in the girls’ state soccer tournament may not have been the success it hoped for, but just getting to the tournament certainly was.Ankeny defeated the Little Hawks, 4-0 in a Class 3A quarterfinal Thursday evening to advance to the semifinals ...