CEDAR RAPIDS — Travis Harrison rounded first base and turned toward his dugout, expecting to be surrounded by a host of Cedar Rapids Kernels teammates. But everyone ran toward home plate to celebrate with Jorge Polanco instead. Six of one, half-dozen of the other. You either mob the guy with the game-winning hit or the guy [...]

Through the Iowa Writers Workshop, Lucas Mann spent a full season with the Clinton LumberKings of the Midwest League  and has released a book about it entitled “Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere.” Here is a New York Times interview with Mann:

Iowa City West’s McKennan Cronbaugh ran (or jumped) away with the Iowa state long jump title, leaping 19 feet and one inch on her second of three jumps. That mark puts her in the top-5 female long jumps of all-time in Iowa. She finishes her career as a three-time-defending champion in the event. Here are [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – His first grand slam, his first walk-off hit, his first postgame shaving cream pie. Yet another step out the door here in Cedar Rapids and toward Fort Myers. Honestly, there’s probably not much more Byron Buxton can do at the low-Class A level. The 19-year-old phenom sent Veterans Memorial Stadium into a tizzy [...]

Cedar Rapids Jefferson boys’ basketball coach Stu Ordman announced Thursday that head sophomore coach Brandon Horman has accepted a position as co-head coach with the J-Hawks varsity. “(He) has demonstrated dedication and leadership and has an outstanding ability to collaborate,” Ordman said in a release. “(I) am very excited that Brandon will be more involved [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — You’ve never met Hudson Boyd , so you look for the real big guy in the Cedar Rapids Kernels clubhouse. You finally find his locker, but the dude sitting in a chair in front of it is this svelte kid nowhere near the 268 pounds the roster lists him. Hudson Boyd? Yep, Hudson Boyd. “The only way [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — Just kinda weird. That’s for regular Cedar Rapids Kernels fans and seven of the guys they have watched play a lot of baseball. The Burlington Bees made their first visit of the season to Veterans Memorial Stadium Tuesday night, which could best be described as Reunion Night. Or the old Kernels versus the new [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – For the first time in awhile, the Cedar Rapids Kernels have a full working roster of 25 players. The Kernels sent outfielder Romy Jimenez to Minnesota Twins extended spring training Tuesday but received three players in return: catcher Michael Quesada, outfielder Jeremias Pineda and right-handed pitcher Josue Montanez. Jimenez was 7 for [...]

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 won Saturday’s [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS – Of all the places you’d expect to see Marcus Paige, the Iowa Conference baseball tournament was not among them. Yet there was the North Carolina point guard Friday, at Veterans Memorial Stadium to root on some of his old Linn-Mar High School buddies. “I’ve got four days off here, then it’s school, [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — He’s the next one…maybe. You couldn’t really tell which way A.J. Puk was leaning Monday afternoon when asked about the upcoming 2013 Major League Baseball amateur draft. A month from now, the Cedar Rapids Washington senior could be a professional pitcher for some organization, or he could still be with the Warriors, [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — Rick Wulkow is a basketball guy. The Executive Director of the Iowa High Athletic Association played the sport in high school and college and was a referee at the Division I college level for many years. He loves hoops and wants it to be all it can be at the prep level [...]

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, Walker had [...]

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 one hit and [...]

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 [...]

      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 a [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — The bus leaves for Dubuque Wahlert at 6:30 Saturday morning. Players are supposed to be at school by 6 to wait for it. So much for any real big celebration for knocking off Class 3A’s top-ranked team Friday night, eh, Cedar Rapids Xavier’s boys’ soccer team? “If we win (against Wahlert), this [...]

CEDAR RAPIDS — That was quite a rock Kayla Armstrong was toting around after her soccer game Friday night. One beautiful diamond. “It’s just the right weight and size,” Armstrong beamed, holding up her hand for everyone to admire. Let’s complete the story here before too many eyebrows get raised. Yes, Armstrong, Cedar Rapids Xavier’s [...]

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 Iowa [...]