BELOIT, Wis. – Chad Lewis hit a groundball off the second-base bag with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning to score the winning run in Beloit’s 3-2 victory over the Cedar Rapids Kernels on Monday night at Pohlman Field. It was the second walk-off hit of the series for Lewis, who also [...]

Cedar Rapids Kernels outfielder Adam Brett Walker has been named Midwest League Player of the Week for the second time this season. Walker hit .444 (12 for 27) last week, with four doubles, two triples, three home runs, 13 RBIs, and a 1.074 on-base plus slugging percentage (OPS). In a 23-16 win Sunday at Beloit, [...]

BELOIT, Wis. – Adam Brett Walker had two home runs and seven RBIs for the second time this season to help the Cedar Rapids Kernels outlast Beloit, 23-16, in a Midwest League offensive affair Sunday. Walker also collected a pair of doubles, scoring four runs. He went 4-for-6. Every Kernels position player had at least [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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. [...]