Baseball

Kennedy beats Washington in Metro

Hayden leads No. 1 team with solid pitching performance

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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Iowa Conference releases all-conference baseball teams

These were released Wednesday by the Iowa Conference: IIAC bsb

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Coe's Scott DeAngelis misses on a pitch for a strikout during play Saturday afternoon at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Cedar Rapids. Coe beat Buena Vista, 4-1, to move on to NCAA Division III regional play and won its second consecutive Iowa Conference baseball tournament championship.(Justin Torner/Freelance)

Coe sent to Oregon for NCAA D-III baseball regional play

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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Coe's Adam Nisenson dives back to first base, narrowly slipping past the tag in the bottom of the 6th against Buena Vista University, Friday, May 11, 2012, at Veteran's Memorial Stadium, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The Kohawks went on to win game six in the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference with a final score of 12-11. (Nikole Hanna/The Gazette-KCRG)

Coe escapes in tourney

Kohawks play in league championship game Saturday

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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Dodgers owners Peter Guber, Stan Kasten, Mark Walter, Magic Johnson (AP photo)

From Cedar Rapids to owning the L.A. Dodgers, Mark Walter moves quietly and effectively

Former Jefferson High classmates recall him as smart, driven, quiet, friendly 5

  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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Boston Red Sox's Ryan Sweeney, who replaced an injured Jacoby Ellsbury earlier in the game, watches his two-run single in the eight inning against the Tampa Bay Rays during the home opening day baseball game at Fenway Park in Boston, Friday, April 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Booming in Boston

Cedar Rapids' Sweeney off to fast start with Red Sox

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 [...]

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Coe stays in IIAC winner’s bracket with wild win over Wartburg

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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B.J. Hermsen

Hermsen impressive in Double-A debut

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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Great Lakes Loons outfielder Scott Schebler hits a foul ball during the third inning at Community Field, Monday, April 23, 2012 in Burlington. (Photo by Brenna Norman/TheHawkEye)

Dodgers prospect Schebler living a dream in professional baseball

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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Frazier Hall reaches for a throw at first base in a game last week against Clinton at Veterans Memorial Stadium. (The Gazette/KCRG photo by Cliff Jette)

Kernels’ Hall takes unique path to professional baseball

  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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