Articles Tagged: Kirkwood Eagles

Kirkwood men’s golf program is one of the best in the country and now it finally has a national title to go with that claim

Cedar Rapids Prairie’s Cal Sullivan has excelled on the baseball diamond. He grew up in a family of accomplished softball and baseball players.

Fourth-seeded Iowa Central scored two runs in the top of the seventh and limited top-ranked Kirkwood’s rally in the bottom half to hold on for a 3-2 victory in the second round of the NJCAA Region 11-A Division II softball tournament Friday.

UNI commit Kara Maiers owns team highs in multiple categories, helping Kirkwood claim an Iowa Community College Athletic Conference softball title. She will step into the circle Friday when the Eagles host the NJCAA Region 11-A tournament.

Lisbon High School graduate and former Kirkwood Community College pitcher Austin Krob is in his first full season of professional baseball in the San Diego Padres system. His numbers have been good in three starts thus far for high-Class A Lake Elsinore, though the southpaw feels he needs to improve his control.

Seventh-ranked Southeastern scored all of its runs in one inning and thwarted attempts at timely hits for a 7-5 win over Kirkwood in an Iowa Community College Athletic Conference baseball game Tuesday.

Mount Mercy senior Kyle Moeder shared a passion for baseball with his late father, Tony, who died earlier this week after a long battle with Frontotemporal Dementia. He took the field Friday, using baseball as an escape for himself and a tribute to his dad.

Kirkwood is seeded third in the 16-team NJCAA women’s basketball tournament, but will be missing two guards when it opens against Catawba on Tuesday in Port Huron, Mich.

Third-ranked Kirkwood will defend national title after beating Iowa Western, 62-54, in Region XI championship

Kirkwood defeated Iowa Western 62-54 in the Region XI women’ basketball championship game.

No. 3 Kirkwood used a late 9-2 run to top North Iowa Area, 58-49, in a Region XI women’s basketball semifinal Saturday at Johnson Hall in Cedar Rapids.

As postseason play begins, the Kirkwood Community College women’s basketball has been handed a bit of a mixed bag.

Kirkwood women’s basketball coach Kim Muhl achieved the 1,000-career win milestone Saturday afternoon in Iowa Falls when the Eagles beat Ellsworth, 98-32.

Saturday, in front of a packed Johnson Hall filled with approximately 400 fans for Kirkwood’s first annual “Crowd the Court” event, NJCAA Division II’s third-ranked Kirwood women’s basketball team defeated Iowa Lakes Community College, 65-47, giving head coach Kim Muhl career win No. 996.

Cedar Rapids Prairie graduate, former Kirkwood Community College and Mount Mercy University player Corbin Day will serve as a hitting coach for the 2023 Cedar Rapids Kernels, it was announced Thursday. Day has been an assistant coach at Kirkwood. Brian Dinkelman will return as Kernels manager.