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DUBUQUE - The Xavier volleyball team had to work hard in Dubuque Tuesday night, but the Saints returned home as champions.
The Saints outslugged Dubuque Wahlert, 25-23, 27-29, 25-11, 25-21, to claim the Valley Division title in the Mississippi Valley Conference with a perfect 6-0 record.
Britni Scholtes collected 56 assists for Xavier. Kayla Torson had 23 kills and Madsey Richards had 17.
The Xavier Saints climbed one spot to No.7 in the Class 4A football rankings by the Des Moines Register Sunday.
The Saints (7-1) blanked Cedar Falls, 14-0, Friday night.
West Des Moines Dowling leads the Class 4A rankings, followed by Pleasant Valley, Ames, Waukee and Iowa City High.
Xavier quarterback Quinton Scholer limped around school all week with a sore ankle. Then he helped the Saints limp past Cedar Falls Friday night.
Scholer made two key plays and the eighth-ranked Saints pitched their fifth shutout of the season with a gritty 14-0 victory over the Tigers at Saints Field.
Xavier (7-1) scored twice in the fourth quarter, first on a 3-yard touchdown pass from Scholer to Matt Nelson and then on a 62-yard punt return by Wes Gardner.
There was no scoring in the defensive slugfest for 40 minutes, and then the Saints scored twice in 64 seconds to whip Cedar Falls for the third straight time.
Xavier and Marion held onto their spots in the Class 4A volleyball rankings released Thursday by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union.
Xavier (24-8) is ranked No.4 and Marion (23-13) is No.11.
There was a change atop the Class 5A list. Ankeny moved up one spot to No.1 and Bettendorf fell to No.2.
The No.1 teams in the other four classes remained the same.
The Cedar Rapids Xavier Saints had never defeated the Cedar Falls Tigers at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls before last season. Then they did it twice in one year.
First in the regular season, 24-7. Then in the semifinals of the Class 4A playoffs, 27-6.
They were breakthrough victories.
"For that group last year, it certainly was," said Xavier Coach Duane Schulte. "I don't know if it matters to this group, because each year is different."
The eighth-ranked Saints (6-1) host Cedar Falls (5-2) Friday night. As far as Schulte is concerned, last year's games are dead and buried.
"I hope these guys, at the snap of the ball, are not thinking about last year," he said. "They better be thinking about what they have to do in the next two seconds.
"It doesn't matter what they did last year. It's what you do now," he said. "But for last year, we wanted to win those games. And thank God we did."
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