Last year, Missie Feuerbach advanced to the state golf tournament as an individual.
This year, her team is coming along. For more than just the ride.
Last year, Missie Feuerbach advanced to the state golf tournament as an individual.
This year, her team is coming along. For more than just the ride.
CEDAR RAPIDS — Nick Mozena wasn’t in the mood for sympathy.
Not with the semifinals in sight.
Mozena, a senior from Dubuque Senior, blew a 5-2 second-set lead in the quarterfinals, then outlasted a cramp-wracked Joey White of Cedar Rapids Kennedy, 6-2, 5-7, 6-3, in Friday’s biggest upset at the Class 2A boys’ tennis tournament at Veterans Memorial Tennis Center.
Cedar Rapids Kennedy and Cedar Rapids Xavier are ranked No. 1 in the final girls’ soccer rankings of the season.
If district scores mean anything, the Class 3A boys’ state golf tournament is anybody’s race.
Three defending state champions are ranked No. 1 in the preseason softball rankings, released Wednesday at the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union.
CEDAR RAPIDS — Four players in double digits.
One balanced, veteran team to state.
Each of Iowa City High’s four scoring players broke 100, and the Little Hawks won a Class 4A girls’ regional golf tournament Tuesday at Gardner Golf Course.

Cedar Rapids Kennedy catcher Sam Hunter (left) braces for contact as Marion's Dusty Albaugh goes in hard during the Bob Vrbicek Metro Baseball Tournament Monday at Kennedy. Hunter didn't have the ball, but Albaugh was called out and ejected on the play. (Photo by Chris Macklin)
CEDAR RAPIDS — The next chapter of the Christensen Civil War will have to wait.
Austin Christensen pitched six shutout innings in the quarterfinals Monday, then collected three hits in the semifinals as Cedar Rapids Kennedy reached the championship game of the Bob Vrbicek Metro Baseball Tournament.
“I’m thrilled to be 2-0 and in the championship game,” said Kennedy Coach Bret Hoyer.

Clear Creek Amana's Melissa Walls takes a cut in a scrimmage last week at Oxford. (Photo by Liz Martin)
OXFORD — The most key component to Clear Creek Amana’s offseason softball workouts hasn’t been pitching.
Or hitting. Or fielding.
It has been the constuction of a team. A true team.
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