Kennedy Girls Soccer

No. 8 Kennedy girls boot Wahawks

WATERLOO - Morgan Petsche scored three goals Friday as eighth-ranked Kennedy kicked Waterloo West, 10-0, in a Mississippi Valley Conference soccer match in Waterloo.

Carlee Ellsworth scored twice for the Cougars. Sydney Hayden, Emily Feltes, Jordan Holmes, Marci Christianson and Kasey Dekko also tallied for Kennedy.

Petsche and Holmes had two assists. Feltes and Dekko also had assists.

Emily Feltes wins Metro Spotlight Award

Cedar Rapids Kennedy senior Emily Feltes is the winner of the Metro Spotlight Award for high school girls this week, the Metro Sports Report announced Sunday.

Feltes is one of the top soccer players in the state and she led Kennedy in scoring as a freshman, sophomore and junior. She has scored 53 goals in 58 games during her career and was named Class 3A all-state last season.

Feltes is a 4.0 student and a member of the National Honor Society. She plans to play soccer at Lewis University next year.

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Lions top Cougars in bizarre match

In a soccer match that almost ended midway in the second half when the lead official walked off the field, a stout defense by the fourth-ranked Linn-Mar girls prevailed in a 3-2 win Thursday night at Cedar Rapids Kennedy.

The second-ranked Cougars could have sent it into overtime, but a dead-onfree penalty kick by Emily Feltes with 1:27 to go was smacked straight into the clutches of Lions goalkeeper Rylee Frese.

“We had our chances,” said Kennedy assistant coach Scott Myers. “We had the ball inside the box right at the end, and you can't ask for anything better than that.”

Kennedy head coach Andrew McKnight announced previously that his last game would be next week against Washington because he is joining the Iowa City Police Department. But Myers took the reins sooner than expected when McKnight was hit with two yellow cards for disputing calls and automatically ejected with 23:36 left in the match.

Immediately thereafter, the referee who made the calls walked off the field into the parking lot. Order was restored 15 minutes later when Kennedy athletic director Aaron Stecker coaxed him back into the game.

“We all wanted the game to finish,” said Linn-Mar Coach Steve Dickinson. “This was a game for the girls.”

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No. 2 Kennedy girls boot City High

Morgan Petsche, Marci Christianson and Emily Feltes scored goals Tuesday as the second-ranked Kennedy soccer team blanked Iowa City High, 3-0, in a Mississippi Valley Conference match at Kennedy.

Sydney Hayden, Melette Devore and Petsche had assists for the Cougars.