Xavier Boys Basketball

Saints clip Waterloo West, 58-56

WATERLOO - Waterloo West Coach John Curta had little to fault with the way his team played for all but the final five minutes of Thursday's makeup game with Xavier at Siddens Gymnasium.

West valued the basketball on offense and held Xavier in check on defense as it built a six-point lead early in the fourth quarter. But after turning the ball over just five times in the first three quarters combined, West turned the ball over five times in the final five minutes.

The Saints turned those miscues into points as it outscored West 12-4 down the stretch to secure a hard-fought, 58-56, Mississippi Valley Conference road win.

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McDermott, Burger propel Saints past Dowling

WEST DES MOINES – Adam McDermott scored 22 points and Mitchell Burger added 17 to lead Xavier to a 58-53 win over Dowling Catholic Saturday in a non-conference boys basketball game.

Both teams hit 21 field goals and seven free throws but Xavier made five more 3-point goals. McDermott connected on four 3s and Burger three.

Xavier (6-5) led the entire game.

Dowling (6-6) rallied from a 41-29 deficit after the third quarter. Jack Green’s 17 points paced the Maroons. Ben Olson and Eric Austin each scored eight points.

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Xavier boys tripped by Wahlert, 69-60

DUBUQUE - Calvin Winker scored 26 points Friday night and Adam McDermott added 22, but they weren't enough to prevent Xavier from dropping a 69-60 verdict to Dubuque Wahlert in a Mississippi Valley Conference game in Dubuque.

Winker and McDermott combined for 48 points for the Saints (5-5, 2-4), but the rest of the club combined for only 12 markers.

Josh Carter, a 6-foot-5 junior, pumped in 28 points for Wahlert.

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Heitland helps Cougars scalp Saints

New Kennedy Coach Jon McKowen had a few words of advice for Drew Heitland when basketball practice began in November.

Get a haircut, son.

"He was like, 'You can't be looking like a girl,'" Heitland said Tuesday night. "So I just cut it and it's out of my face now.

"I just went down the street to Cost Cutters from Kennedy and they chopped it all off."

Heitland has a good look at the basket these days without all that long hair in his eyes and he proved it Tuesday with a big game against the Xavier Saints.

The burly football player scored a career-high 17 points to help the Cougars outscore the Saints, 85-76, in an entertaining game at the Xavier gym.

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