Metro Sports Report

No. 7 Eagles sweep Ellsworth

Shy Saladino pitched a two-hitter with 16 strikeouts Sunday as the seventh-ranked Kirkwood Eagles nipped Ellsworth, 2-1, in eight innings in the first game of an ICCAC doubleheader at Kirkwood.

Sam Belz tossed a five-hitter with 11 strikeouts as the Eagles captured the second game, 7-4.

Saladino has a 12-0 record and 0.89 ERA this season. She has struck out 100 batters and walked only 11 in 78.1 innings.

Chasney Jenkins and Brittney Lash went 2-for-3 in the first game for Kirkwood. Lexi Quandt and Erin Weno had RBIs as the Eagles prevailed in extra innings.

Lash went 3-for-4 in the second game for Kirkwood. Alex Finn was 2-for-3 with an RBI and Jenkins was 2-for-2 with an RBI. Weno and Natalie Clark also drove in runs for the Eagles.

Kirkwood raised its records to 26-5 overall and 9-1 in the conference. Ellsworth fell to 5-8 overall and 4-6 in the league.

Keller moves up; Schebler, Sweeney stay put

The Baltimore Orioles have promoted Jon Keller to the Delmarva Shorebirds in the Class A South Atlantic League for his second year of professional baseball.

Keller, who prepped at Xavier High School, pitched in the Gulf Coast League and the New York-Penn League last year after being selected in the 22nd round of the 2013 draft.

Scott Schebler was hoping for a promotion this season after hitting .279 with 27 home runs and 91 RBIs for Rancho Cucamonga in the California League last season, but the Prairie graduate has been assigned to Rancho again to begin the 2014 campaign.

Kellen Sweeney has been assigned to the Lansing Lugnuts in the Midwest League for the third straight year as the Jefferson High School graduate tries to find his batting stroke. Sweeney got a $600,000 signing bonus after being drafted by Toronto in the second round in 2010, but he's hit only .198 in the minor leagues.

Eagles suffer bad weekend in Boone

BOONE - The Kirkwood baseball team spent a weekend in Boone they would like to quickly forget.

The 19th-ranked Eagles were swept by DMACC in a league doubleheader for the second straight on Sunday, 12-4 and 9-6.

Kirkwood was outscored, 42-13, in the four-game series, dropping its records to 10-6 overall and 0-4 in the conference. Will Ross was the starting pitcher for Kirkwood in the first game Sunday. He was touched for 13 hits and nine earned runs in six innings.

Coe baseball team drops squeakers

WAVERLY - The Coe baseball team suffered a frustrating day in Waverly Sunday with a pair of one-run losses to the Wartburg Knights.

Wartburg won the first game, 2-1, in eight innings and captured the nightcap, 5-4. The Knights swept the four-game series.

Kyle Brady and Jake Tickle pitched well for the Kohawks in the first game, but Wartburg pushed a run across in the bottom of the eighth to prevail in extra innings.

Craig Konrardy went 2-for-4 and drove in three runs for Coe in the second game. Cole Tomlinson was 2-for-2.

Wartburg shortstop Ty Mougin, a freshman from Cedar Rapids Prairie, went 3-for-6 in the doubleheader.