Kirkwood Softball

Kirkwood signs 11 new softball players

Joe Yegge digs the long ball, but he also likes softball players who can run.

The Kirkwood coach thinks he may have sacrificed a little power to get more speed in his new recruiting class of high school seniors for the 2015 campaign, but that's OK with him.

Kirkwood led all Division II junior colleges in the country last season with 104 home runs on its way to the semifinals of the national tournament and a 57-5 record. Yegge thinks there are power hitters in the new class, but perhaps not as many.

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Kirkwood hosting softball camp Dec. 28

Kirkwood Community College will host its annual softball camp for players in the 8th grade through 12th grade on Saturday, Dec. 28 at the Gould Recreation Center on campus.

The camp will cover offense, defense and pitching. Each camper should bring their own equipment. Pitchers are asked to supply their own catcher.

The Kirkwood coaching staff will be joined by guest coaches from Alabama, Western Illinois, Northern Iowa, Bowling Green, Northern State and Wichita State. Current and former Kirkwood players also will assist.

Brochures are available in the Kirkwood athletic offices at Johnson Hall. Kirkwood softball coach Joe Yegge may be contacted at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Belz will pitch for UNI softball

Samantha Belz was interested in attending the University of Northern Iowa when she was a high school student at Davenport West, but it didn't work out then.

Now it has.

Belz, currently a sophomore at Kirkwood Community College, signed a national letter-of-intent Wednesday to join the UNI softball program for the 2014-15 school year.

"It feels good, knowing where I'm going and that I'm going to a good program," she said.

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McInerny receives CRSHOF scholarship

Cedar Rapids Jefferson product Hannah McInerny has been named the Kirkwood Community College scholarship winner by the Cedar Rapids Softball Hall of Fame.

McInerny, a 2012 Jefferson graduate, was a freshman on Kirkwood’s softball team last year that had a 57-5 record and reached the winner’s bracket semifinals of the national tournament.

McInerny will be honored during the CRSHOF Hall of Fame weekend Aug. 24-25 at Ellis Park. The ceremony will be at noon Aug. 25.

Inductees into the CRSHOF this year are Max Elliott, John Monroe, Steve Stafford, Kevin Thorp, Gary Alberhasky, Jody Beltram, Larry Pilcher and Dan Sipe.