The Kirkwood softball team is having a season for the ages. The Eagles (55-3) followed their Region XI title by capturing the District F Championship last weekend, beating Dawson Community College of Glendive, Mont., 12-0. The win was the 48th straight for Kirkwood and sent the team to the NJCAA Division II national tournament as [...]
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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 [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS – It’s a sabbatical. Whether it becomes permament remains to be seen. “It is 100 percent my intention to revisit this in a year,” Doug Wagemester said Monday, after it was announced he is stepping down as head men’s basketball coach at Kirkwood Community College. “I feel very blessed I’m being afforded this [...]
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Kirkwood Community College CEDAR RAPIDS – The Kirkwood golf team ended the fall season on a high note and now is poised to continue that success during the 2013 portion of teh schedule. The Eagles finished in the top five of every tournament they played in, building momentum for this spring. Kirkwood finished the fall [...]
continue »CEDAR RAPIDS – Kirkwood’s Shawn Manego had just given his team a 81-79 overtime lead when he caught the ball behind the three-point line in front of his team’s bench. “I said, ‘Knock that down,’” said Kirkwood head coach Doug Wagemester. Manego did, and his five overtime points allowed the second-seed Eagles to hold off [...]
continue »Cornell accomplished something Saturday it hadn’t done before. Cornell defeated Monmouth, 63-52, for the Midwest Conference Tournament championship and earned the school’s first berth in the NCAA women’s basketball tournament. The victory also avenged the only loss this season for the 11th-ranked Rams (24-1). Cornell led 39-24 at halftime, then stretched that lead to 26 [...]
continue »CORNELL 93, LAWRENCE 47 No. 14 Cornell used a balanced attack to cash in for its 20th win of the season. The Rams improved to 15-1 in conference, 20-1 overall. Four players reached double figure for Cornell, with Rikki Mulloy’s 18 leading the way. All 12 Rams that played scored. In addition to having four [...]
continue »KIRKWOOD 73, ELLSWORTH 57 Former Marion prep Kasey Semler scored 19 points and Kevin Hunter added 17 as Kirkwood downed Ellsworth, 73-57, in an Iowa Community College Athletic Conference men’s basketball game Saturday at Johnson Hall. Gage Heffernan added 11 points and 13 rebounds for the Eagles (12-10, 4-3). COE 68, DUBUQUE 60 Seth Light [...]
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COE 68, BUENA VISTA 66 Jenna Power’s 3-pointer with four seconds left got Coe to overtime, then she sealed a 68-66 victory with two free throws in the closing seconds of the extra period at Eby Fieldhouse in Cedar Rapids. Coe improved to 11-7 overall and 4-3 in the Iowa Conference. Kayla Waskow and Mary [...]
continue »MBB: KIRKWOOD 68, IOWA CENTRAL 57 CEDAR RAPIDS – The win hadn’t aged five minutes, yet Doug Wagemester’s focused turned to the future. Before he entered the locker room to address his team’s 68-57 win against Iowa Central, the Kirkwood head coach discussed the next day’s practice. It displayed one of many examples as to [...]
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