 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 lose in walk-off fashion at Beloit, 3-2
BELOIT, Wis. – Chad Lewis had a one-out, two-run double in the ninth inning to lift the Beloit Snappers past the Cedar Rapids Kernels, 3-2, on Saturday afternoon. Lewis’ hit came against losing pitcher Manuel Soliman. Cedar Rapids took a 2-1 lead in the top of the inning on a Travis Harrison RBI double, scoring [...]
Kernels sweep Quad Cities to extend Western Division lead
DAVENPORT – The Cedar Rapids Kernels extended their lead in the Midwest League’s Western Division to four games after a double-header sweep of the Quad Cities River Bandits, 2-0 and 5-1, Friday night at Modern Woodmen Park. The first game went 12 innings. The Kernels improved to 23-9 as they hit Beloit for [...]
Former Marion/Kirkwood guard Semler headed to UNI
Former Marion High School and Kirkwood Community College basketball guard Kasey Semler said via Facebook Thursday night that he will continue his education and basketball career at Northern Iowa this coming year. Semler is recovering from surgery to repair a torn ACL, suffered late in Kirkwood’s season. He said he will be a walk-on this [...]
Coe’s Stein has pro baseball aspirations
CEDAR RAPIDS — Nick Stein will earn his degree this spring in athletic training, but the soon-to-be Coe College graduate is in no hurry to use it. He’s got other things on his mind. Such as a professional baseball career. “Every little kid’s dream, MLB,” Stein said, after Coe knocked off Loras, 6-3, Thursday night in [...]
Kernels rained out at Quad Cities
The Cedar Rapids Kernels had their Midwest League game against the Quad Cities River Bandits rained out Thursday night at Modern Woodmen Park. The teams will play a double-header (two seven-inning games) Friday afternoon beginning at 5. Cedar Rapids has a 21-9 record and two-game lead on Quad Cities for first place in the MWL’s [...]
Kernels drop first game in Quad Cities, 4-2
Kernels Game Story (5-8) by Jeffrey Johnson Box Score (5-8) by Jeffrey Johnson
RoughRiders have USHL rights to 61 players
That’s after the second phase of the United States Hockey League draft Tuesday. The Cedar Rapids RoughRiders took 27 players in an elongated, seven-hour draft that didn’t conclude until after 11 p.m. The club selected seven other guys with 1997 birthdates in the first phase of the draft Monday. Possible returning players from this season whose [...]
Coe shoots for 3rd straight IIAC baseball title
CEDAR RAPIDS — Maybe it meant something, maybe it didn’t. Coe swept Wartburg in a double-header to end the Iowa Conference regular season last week. The Knights still won the IIAC championship, but the Kohawks hope the twin wins will catapult them to a third consecutive conference tournament championship. Maybe it will, maybe it won’t. [...]
‘Riders take F Master with 1st pick in USHL draft
The second phase of the United States Hockey League begun late Tuesday afternoon and was still going on as midnight approached. The Cedar Rapids RoughRiders appeared to have done Master-fully. That’s as in 18-year-old forward Nick Master, who the club took, with it first pick. The Broomhall, Pa., native has been playing with the Philadelphia Jr. Flyers [...]
Kernels lose catcher Rodriguez to promotion
05-07 Roster Move by Jeffrey Johnson
