 Jeff JohnsonMulti-media sports reporter for SourceMedia in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who has covered it all over the past 20-plus years. Particularly enjoy baseball and hockey. |
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Kernels activate pitcher Jones from DL
The Cedar Rapids Kernels announced Friday that they have activated relief pitcher Tyler Jones from the disabled list and that reliever Josh Burris has been sent back to Minnesota Twins extended spring training in Fort Myers, Fla. Jones had to be removed from a May 6 game after suffering a right flexor mass strain. He [...]
Prairie’s Eilers wins Nick Adenhart Scholarship
CEDAR RAPIDS – Cedar Rapids Prairie’s Thomas Eilers is the 2013 winner of the Nick Adenhart Memorial Scholarship, the Cedar Rapids Kernels announced Thursday. Eilers played baseball, basketball and football at Prairie. He plans on attending the University of Iowa to major in mathematics. The Nick Adenhart Scholarship is awarded annually in honor of the [...]
Kernels lose again at Beloit, lead down to 3 games
BELOIT, Wis. – The Cedar Rapids Kernels stranded 10 men on base, including the bases loaded twice in a 5-3 loss Thursday afternoon to the Beloit Snappers at Pohlman Field. Beloit (27-18) has won six games in a row and shaved the Kernels’ lead in the Midwest League’s Western Division to just three games. The [...]
Beloit edges Kernels, 7-6
BELOIT, Wis. – Nick Rickles hit a pair of home runs to help the Beloit Snappers outlast the Cedar Rapids Kernels in Midwest League baseball Wednesday night, 7-6. Beloit pulled within four games of the Kernels for first place in the Western Division with the victory. The teams play again Thursday morning at 11. Beloit built [...]
Goodrum tackles 1st base, gets big hit in 8-7 win
CEDAR RAPIDS — That really was first base Niko Goodrum was playing. You weren’t just seeing things. Goodrum is the most-day’s shortstop for the Cedar Rapids Kernels, where he’s considered a legitimate prospect for the Minnesota Twins. This first base thing has never happened, until Monday afternoon. “A couple of spring training games and instructs,” [...]
Kernels game Monday delayed until 1:30 p.m.
The start of Monday’s Cedar Rapids Kernels game against the Kane County Cougars will be delayed an hour until 1 p.m. Power at Veterans Memorial Stadium was knocked out by a severe thunderstorm Sunday night and not restored until late Monday morning. Additionally, part of the tarp covering the playing field was blown off by [...]
Winter travels paying off for Kernels OF Williams
CEDAR RAPIDS — Most guys go to Mexico or the Caribbean to get in their offseason baseball work. J.D. Williams traveled a little farther. Half-a-world away, 14-hour plane ride farther. “I probably couldn’t do that again,” said the Cedar Rapids Kernels outfielder, who doubled leading off the ninth inning and scored on a Dalton Hicks [...]
Nice catch, Jose. Don’t ever do it again
CEDAR RAPIDS — So what are you thinking when you watch one of your best young pitching prospects sprint off the mound after a foul pop and dive head first onto the clay warning track near the opponent’s dugout to catch the ball? You’re talking about $1.55 million flying through the air and landing on [...]
Harrison’s walk-off hit really a single this time
CEDAR RAPIDS — Travis Harrison rounded first base and turned toward his dugout, expecting to be surrounded by a host of Cedar Rapids Kernels teammates. But everyone ran toward home plate to celebrate with Jorge Polanco instead. Six of one, half-dozen of the other. You either mob the guy with the game-winning hit or the [...]
A talk with the author of ‘Class A …’
Through the Iowa Writers Workshop, Lucas Mann spent a full season with the Clinton LumberKings of the Midwest League and has released a book about it entitled “Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere.” Here is a New York Times interview with Mann: Not Heaven; Iowa: Lucas Mann Talks About ‘Class A’ By JOHN WILLIAMS [...]
