Kirkwood Womens Basketball

Kirkwood women trimmed in opener

SEDALIA, Mo. - The Kirkwood women's basketball team was nipped by State Fair, 53-52, in the season opener Friday night at the State Fair Classic in Sedalia, Mo.

The Eagles led by five points with about two minutes remaining but could not hold on in a hard-fought game.

"It was a fight. It was a fist-fight, is what it was," Kirkwood coach Kim Muhl said. "Our kids stepped up pretty well."

Kirkwood is ranked No. 6 in the nation in the NJCAA Division II poll. State Fair is ranked No. 13 in NJCAA Division I.

Cyerra Hutchins led the Eagles with 17 points. Casey Miles added 13. Caitlin Sudduth scored nine points.

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Muhl has normal worries at Kirkwood

Kim Muhl has a few complaints about his women's basketball team at Kirkwood Community College on the eve of the 2015-16 campaign, but it's probably nothing to get too concerned about.

He always worries about his team this time of year. More often than not, everything turns out OK.

Muhl thinks the Eagles need to get tougher, play better defense, communicate better, play harder and listen more to the coaches.

"I think we have a little ways to go," he said Monday. "We have some nice kids and we could be pretty good, but I think it's going to be awhile."

Defense. Toughness. Intensity.

"It's got to be important to them," Muhl said. "Execution to me is important. Guarding somebody is important. We should be able to guard, but it's not important to them yet. What's important to them is scoring.

"It's just Basketball 101, sometimes, and buying into how we want it done."

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Kirkwood, Mount Mercy host jamboree Sunday

Kirkwood Community College and Mount Mercy University will co-host a women's basketball jamboree this Sunday.

Twelve teams will participate in the event, which begins at 10 a.m. at Johnson Hall and the Hennessey Recreation Center. Each team will play three short exhibition games.

There will be nine games at each gym, scheduled 45 minutes apart.

Here is the schedule:

AT KIRKWOOD

10 a.m. - Kirkwood vs Saint Ambrose
10:45 a.m. - Southeastern vs Clarke
11:30 a.m. - Iowa Central vs Saint Ambrose
12:15 p.m. - Kirkwood vs Clarke
1 p.m. - Southeastern vs Grand View
1:45 p.m. - Ellsworth vs Saint Ambrose
2:30 p.m. - Kirkwood vs Grand View
3:15 p.m. - Southeastern vs Culver-Stockton
4 p.m. - Ellsworth vs Grand View

AT MOUNT MERCY

10 a.m. - Marshalltown vs Blackhawk
10:45 a.m. - Ellsworth vs Mount Mercy
11:30 a.m. - DMACC vs Blackhawk
12:15 p.m. - Marshalltown vs Culver-Stockton
1 p.m. - Iowa Central vs Mount Mercy
1:45 p.m. - DMACC vs Culver-Stockton
2:30 p.m. - Iowa Central vs Blackhawk
3:15 p.m. - Marshalltown vs Clarke
4 p.m. - DMACC vs Mount Mercy

Kirkwood women find new homes for hoops

The Kirkwood slogan of "Start Here, Go Anywhere" has turned out to be literally true for all nine sophomores who helped the women's basketball team finish fifth at the national tournament this year with a sparkling 31-6 record.

The nine Eagles plan to continue their basketball careers at four-year colleges in Mississippi, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois and Missouri.

"All of them got new homes," Kirkwood Coach Kim Muhl said Tuesday morning at his office in Johnson Hall.

Ariel Sneed is heading to Southern Mississippi. Peyton Bockholt is enrolling at Limestone in South Carolina. Tyra Polite is returning home to Pennsylvania to play at Clarion. Kirsten Larson and Anna Martensen are both going to Wayne State in Nebraska.

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