Kirkwood Community College - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Kirkwood softball ranked 9th in NJCAA

The Kirkwood Community College softball team has been ranked ninth in the NJCAA Division II preseason rankings.

The Eagles went 52-8 last season and were ranked fourth in the final poll.

Jones County Junior College is ranked No. 1, followed by LSU-Eunice and Illinois Central. The Eagles are scheduled to face Illinois Central March 6 at an event in Rosemount, Minn.

Tagarelli grabs 23 rebounds as KCC rolls

Kirkwood sophomore Joe Tagarelli was mildly disappointed when he left Saturday's game against NIACC and was told he finished the afternoon with 23 rebounds.

That's a career for some guys, but "Tags" wanted more.

"I was trying to go for the school record," he said. "So I was a little disappointed I didn't put my name in the record book. But that's all right. We got the win. It was a good team win."

Tagarelli finished with an impressive double-double with 18 points and 23 boards as the 11th-ranked Eagles bopped NIACC, 88-70, in an ICCAC Conference game at Johnson Hall.

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NIACC spoils party for Muhl & Eagles

A sensational player with the presidential last name of Sierra Ford-Washington spoiled the party for Kim Muhl and the Kirkwood Eagles Saturday afternoon.

Unfortunately for Kirkwood, the Eagles contributed mightily to their own demise as well.

Ford-Washington stuffed the stat sheet with 35 points, nine rebounds, seven assists and six steals as the eighth-ranked NIACC Trojans tripped the third-ranked Eagles, 84-71, at Johnson Hall.

Kirkwood honored Muhl before the game for his 750th victory at the school, but the post-game reception for the Hall of Fame coach was not as sweet after NIACC snapped Kirkwood's 15-game winning streak and pulled into a tie with the Eagles for first place in the ICCAC.

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Tagarelli, Larson honored by ICCAC

Joe Tagarelli and Kirsten Larson of Kirkwood Community College have been named the ICCAC Athletes of the Week.

Tagarelli averaged 22 points and 10 rebounds for Kirkwood in two games last week. He also had nine assists.

Larson set a school record with nine 3-pointers and scored 27 points in a victory against DMACC last week. She is shooting 42.5 percent on 3-pointers and ranks sixth in the country with 71.

Kirkwood honors Muhl Saturday for 750

Kirkwood Community College women's basketball coach Kim Muhl will be honored Saturday at Johnson Hall for his 750th victory with the Eagles.

The ceremony will take place at approximately 12:45 p.m., prior to Kirkwood's game against NIACC. Immediately following the women's game, guests are invited to Classroom 130 at Johnson Hall for refreshments to congratulate Muhl.

Kirkwood is hosting NIACC in a doubleheader. The women's game features No. 3 Kirkwood (19-4, 7-0) against No. 8 NIACC (17-4, 6-1) in a showdown for first place in the ICCAC conference at 1 p.m. Kirkwood has won 15 straight games and NIACC has won seven straight games.

The men's game features No. 11 Kirkwood (17-5, 4-2) against NIACC (13-10, 3-3) at 3 p.m. Kirkwood is in second place in the ICCAC standings.

Local high school students will be admitted to the games for free. Kirkwood has designated Saturday as "bleed blue" day, with spectators asked to wear Kirkwood's blue colors.

7 Kirkwood softball players pick schools

Seven members of the Kirkwood softball program will be heading to four-year schools after they play for the Eagles this season.

Brooke Prior and Hannah Cole will be heading to William Penn. Lexi Quandt and Alex Finn are going to St. Ambrose. Tara Walls has committed to Upper Iowa, Alicia Crivaro has committed to Northern Iowa and Chasney Jenkins has committed to Savannah State.

Prior, a shortstop from Silvis, Ill., hit .343 with 4 four home runs and 23 RBIs for Kirkwood last season. Cole, a pitcher from West Delaware, joined Kirkwood this season as a freshman.

Quandt, a catcher from Davenport, hit .325 with 38 RBIs last season. Finn, an outfielder from Davenport, hit .387.

Walls, an infielder from Oxford, hit .365 with five homers and 39 RBIs. Crivaro, an infielder from Des Moines, hit .281 with 11 homers and 48 RBIs. Jenkins, an outfielder from East Moline, Ill., hit .446 with two homers and 36 RBIs.

Kirkwood women roll to 15th straight

FORT DODGE - Cassidy Clark, Peyton Bockholt and Anna Martensen provided the muscle Saturday as Kirkwood belted Iowa Central, 77-59, for its 15th straight victory.

Clark collected 16 points and six rebounds. Bockholt scored a career-best 15 points and grabbed eight rebounds. Martensen contributed 10 points and seven boards as the three interior players combined for 41 points and 21 rebounds.

The fourth-ranked Eagles raised their records to 19-4 overall and 7-0 in the conference.

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No.7 Kirkwood men top Iowa Central

FORT DODGE - The seventh-ranked Kirkwood men's basketball team won a key road game Saturday with an 86-79 victory over Iowa Central in Fort Dodge.

The victory lifted the Eagles to 17-5 overall and 4-2 in the ICCAC, one game behind DMACC for first place in the conference.

Joe Tagarelli led Kirkwood in scoring, supported by Jordan Ashton, Hunter Rhodes, Ajay Lawton and Matt Lassen.

Iowa Central fell into a three-way tie for third place in the ICCAC with a 3-3 league record.

Sampson helps No. 8 DMACC trim No. 7 Eagles

Trey Sampson planned to play football at Wayne State University after he graduated from Xavier High School two years ago, but he changed his mind that summer and decided he wanted to play college basketball instead.

He picked Des Moines Area Community College over Kirkwood and Wednesday night he returned to Cedar Rapids and helped the DMACC Bears trim Kirkwood in a premier junior college basketball game at Johnson Hall.

Sampson made two pressure free throws with six seconds left in overtime to help the eighth-ranked Bears edge the seventh-ranked Eagles, 88-87, in a showdown for the ICCAC conference lead.

Sampson's two free throws gave DMACC an 88-84 lead, giving his team the space it needed to survive a 3-pointer by Kirkwood's Jordan Ashton at the buzzer.

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