By Andrew Ward The Gazette Tony Lombardi coached at Linn Mar Monday evening, but it wasn’t on the football field. The Cedar Rapids Washington football coach was found on the baseball diamond, leading the Warrior baseball team in his first game as head coach. He said football and baseball aren’t that different. “All sports are about [...]
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Can you get to McMinnville, Ore., from Cedar Rapids? And in two days? Apparently so. McMinnville is where the Coe College baseball team will play its NCAA Division III college baseball regional tournament. The Kohawks play Trinity (Texas) in a first-round game Wednesday afternoon at 5. Coe (27-15) is the fifth seed in a six-team pod, [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS — Coe took a 12-5 lead into the eighth inning Friday and just barely held off Buena Vista, 12-11, in the Iowa Conference baseball tournament at Veterans Memorial Stadium. B.V. scored four runs in the eighth and two more in the ninth to put a scare into the second-seeded Kohawks. With the score [...]
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He is the new controlling owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers. He is the chief executive officer of Guggenheim Partners, a privately held financial services firm with offices in nine countries and more than $125 billion in assets under management. He reportedly is a billionaire. But Mark Walter wasn’t born on third base and [...]
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By Greg Echlin, correspondent KANSAS CITY, Mo. — With the shock of the off-season trade worn off, outfielder Ryan Sweeney of Cedar Rapids is making the most of his opportunity with the Boston Red Sox. Sweeney admits he wasn’t happy in Oakland last year while trying to regain a foothold on the starting spot in [...]
continue »CEDAR RAPIDS — So can we file this one under the subtitle “It shouldn’t be this hard to win a baseball game?” “Yes, you can,” Coe College baseball coach Steve Cook said, shaking his head. “Unbelievable.” Coe continued on in the winner’s bracket of the Iowa Conference tournament after beating Wartburg Thursday night at Veterans Memorial Stadium, [...]
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It’s been a great, great start to the 2012 baseball season for B.J. Hermsen. The former West Delaware prep and Minnesota Twins minor leaguer made his Double-A debut Tuesday night, throwing seven strong innings against Harrisburg. Hermsen allowed only four hits and a walk, striking out five for the New Britain Rock Cats. He was recently [...]
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BURLINGTON – Scott Schebler never saw this coming. Playing professionally and hitting cleanup for the Great Lakes Loons of the Midwest League. Having people ask him to autograph his Topps baseball card. Never in a million years did he think this was likely, when he was excelling in five sports at Cedar Rapids Prairie. He loved [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS — Frazier Hall is a man of faith, which you find out quickly when you ask him how he ended up playing college baseball at Southern University. “For me, I felt like the Lord led me there,” the Cedar Rapids Kernels first baseman said. Located in Hall’s hometown of Baton Rouge, La., [...]
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