Xavier High School - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Techau sparks Saints by J-Hawks

Max Techau scored 23 points to lead the Xavier boys basketball team to a 59-44 win over Jefferson on Friday at Jefferson.

The J-Hawks cut the lead to 37-34 with seven minutes remaining in the fourth quarter, but the Saints answered with a 22-10 run to finish the game.

Blake Whitten had 10 points for Xavier (4-1) and Matt Mims added nine points.

Royshawn Webb scored 10 points to lead Jefferson (2-5).

XAVIER (59): Burger 1 0-0 2, Mims 4 1-1 9, Batkowski 2 2-2 8, Whitten 4 0-0 10, Joens 0 0-0 0, Stulken 2 3-3 7, Schulte 0 0-0 0, Houtakker 0 0-0 0, Techau 9 4-6 23. Totals 22 10-12 59.

JEFFERSON (44): Webb 5 0-0 10, Wiederin 1 0-0 3, Green 3 1-4 7, Kramer 1 0-0 2, Brown 3 3-4 9, Van Oort 3 0-2 7, Szabo 1 0-0 2, McKinney 2 0-0 4, Larson 0 0-0 0. Totals 19 4-10 44.

Halftime – Xavier 26, Jefferson 23. 3-point goals – Xavier 5 (Batkowski 2, Whitten 2, Techau), Jefferson 2 (Wiederin, Van Oort).

J-Hawks stop Lilly from netting 500

It wasn’t a thing of beauty, but the Jefferson girls got their wish with a 38-36 win on Xavier’s home floor Friday night.

"Before this week, our motto in the locker room was, ‘All we want for Christmas is two big wins,'” J-Hawk point guard Avery Guy explained. “We won both games, so now we’re over .500 (at 5-4) going into the break.”

The Saints, on the other hand, are now 3-5 and must wait awhile longer to give veteran coach Tom Lilly his 500th career victory.

“I don’t even want to talk about that,” Lilly said. “What I’m interested in is what we have to do to play with the intensity we showed in the last four and a half minutes.”

Up to then, it was a ragged affair as both teams had trouble holding onto the ball. Xavier had 18 turnovers for the game, Jefferson 16. And, at times, they had trouble putting the ball in the hoop.

In a woeful third quarter, the J-Hawks outscored the Saints 3-2 and went into the final stanza ahead just 24-19.

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Xavier wrestlers trim Wahlert

The Xavier wrestling team edged Dubuque Wahlert 39-33 Tuesday at Xavier.

Peter Kennedy (106 pounds) and Clint Lembeck (138) had pins for the Saints.

XAVIER 39, WAHLERT 33
106 – Peter Kennedy (X) pinned Liam Dolehide 3:50.
113 – Jeff Vipond (X) won by forfeit.
120 – Keegan Schultschik (X) won by forfeit.
126 – Patrick Chambers (X) won by forfeit.
132 – Connor Lange (DW) dec. Garrett Ries SV-1 8-6.
138 – Clint Lembeck (X) pinned Harrison Haynes :51.
145 – Josh Gerke (X) dec. Anthony Dudek 8-3.
152 – Grant Oberfoell (DW) pinned John Bell :36.
160 – Boone McDermott (DW) pinned Brent Charipar 1:23.
170 – Kolton Bartow (DW) won by forfeit.
182 – Zach Kemp (DW) won by forfeit.
195 – Eric Rodriguez (X) injury def. over Declan Duffy.
220 – John Patrick (DW) dec. Alex Francois 8-3.
285 – Blake Bradley (DW) dec. Tommy Pudil 3-2.

Burger, Techau pace Xavier boys

Mitchell Burger and Max Techau each scored 16 points to lead the Xavier boys basketball team in a 65-55 win over Dubuque Senior on Tuesday at Xavier.

The Rams led 26-24 at halftime and the Saints pulled ahead 46-45 at the end of the third quarter. Xavier pulled away down the stretch with a 19-10 run to win.

Matthew Mims added 14 points for Xavier (3-1) and Jackson Joens scored 10.

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