Xavier High School - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

No.2 Saints earn trip to state soccer

Luke Koechner fired in two goals Saturday as the Xavier Saints blanked Clear Creek-Amana, 4-0, in the Class 2A substate finals at Heco Field.

The second-ranked Saints (14-2) will face seventh-ranked ADM (16-4) in the opening round of the state soccer tournament Thursday at 2:35 p.m. in Des Moines.

Xavier has won six state titles in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2013.

Koechner gave the Saints an early 1-0 lead on an assist from Stephen Jones. Will Hanigan made it 2-0 with an assist from Luke Duball, then Koechner scored again on an assist from Duball to make it 3-0 at halftime.

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J-Hawks 3rd, Saints 11th in softball poll

The Cedar Rapids Jefferson softball team is ranked third in Class 5A in the first rankings of the season by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union.

The Xavier Saints are ranked 11th in Class 4A.

The top-ranked teams are Johnston in 5A, Fort Dodge in 4A, Solon in 3A, Alburnett in 2A and Woodbury Central in 1A.

RANKINGS

(2014 records in parenthesis)

CLASS 5A

1. Johnston (37-3), 2. Waukee (25-19), 3. Jefferson (35-8), 4. Dowling (30-9), 5. West Des Moines Valley (27-14), 6. Iowa City West (29-10), 7. Pleasant Valley (31-10), 8. Southeast Polk (30-10), 9. Ottumwa (27-12), 10. Council Bluffs Lincoln (24-6).

CLASS 4A

1. Fort Dodge (33-8), 2. Norwalk (28-14), 3. Le Mars (22-18), 4. Carlisle (35-3), 5. Indianola (24-12), 6. Oskaloosa (31-10), 7. Dallas Center-Grimes (41-1), 8. ADM (25-11), 9. Winterset (19-16), 10. Clear Creek Amana (22-10), 11. Xavier (33-7), 12. Waverly-Shell Rock (31-9), 13. West Delaware (31-9), 14. Keokuk (23-14), 15. Fairfield (30-7).

CLASS 3A

1. Solon (39-3), 2. Center Point-Urbana (29-11), 3. Benton (37-5), 4. East Marshall (33-5), 5. Greene County (29-8), 6. Mid-Prairie (27-11), 7. Spirit Lake (24-10), 8. West Burlington/Notre Dame (23-15), 9. Sergeant Bluff-Luton (21-9), 10. Mount Vernon (29-10), 11. PCM (22-7), 12. Clarke (24-8), 13. Bondurant-Farrar (22-14), 14. Sioux Center (26-4), 15. Waterloo Columbus (33-7).

CLASS 2A

1. Alburnett (28-13), 2. Highland (32-3), 3. Fort Dodge St. Edmond (30-7), 4. St. Ansgar (19-11), 5. Emmetsburg (19-12), 6. Iowa City Regina (21-18), 7. Woodward-Granger (23-11), 8. Earlham (31-4), 9. Eddyville (26-6), 10. BCLUW (24-10), 11. Sumner-Fredericksburg (23-15), 12. Denver (25-9), 13. Durant (27-11), 14. IKM-Manning (24-5), 15. Cascade (18-15).

CLASS 1A

1. Woodbury Central (30-6), 2. Akron-Westfield (38-0), 3. Lansing (34-10), 4. AGWSR (29-7), 5. Martensdale-St. Mary's (26-6), 6. Marquette Catholic (35-8), 7. North Butler (19-10), 8. Lynnville-Sully (36-2), 9. Don Bosco (20-15), 10. Exira-EHK (24-2), 11. Remsen St. Mary's (22-11), 12. New London (25-5), 13. Glidden-Ralston (14-14), 14. Logan-Magnolia (21-7), 15. Newell-Fonda (23-14).

Paulson tops all-Metro tennis team

Linn-Mar senior Tim Paulson has been named the Athlete of the Year on the 2015 All-Metro Tennis Team, it was announced Friday.

Chris Wundram of Linn-Mar was named the Metro Coach of the Year. The Lions are undefeated this season and ranked No. 1 in the state.

Jackson Hoyt of Washington, Trevor McCann of Linn-Mar, Ben Curley of Xavier, Rami Hemaiden of Kennedy and Caleb Scott of Marion joined Paulson on the first team.

SECOND TEAM

Parker Muller (Washington), Oliver Hammond (Washington), Ben Myers (Linn-Mar), Jon Lansing (Xavier), Alex Tvedte (Jefferson), Evan Gaskill (Prairie).

HONORABLE MENTION

PRAIRIE: Jason Niccolls, Jake Crumbo

XAVIER: Charlie Esker, Jack VanKampen

KENNEDY: Corey Duncan, Kyle Butler

WASHINGTON: Dane Van Antwerp, Will Rizer

LINN-MAR: Kyle Brendes, Shane Skvor

JEFFERSON: Chris Weisbein, Kellen Brown

MARION: Nate Meister, Peter Ward

No. 2 Saints roll into substate finals

Connor Ramlo, Luke Duball and Nolan Armstrong scored two goals Thursday as the second-ranked Xavier Saints defeated Fort Madison, 8-0, in the semifinals of the Class 2A substate soccer tournament at Heco Field.

Xavier (13-2) will host Clear Creek-Amana in the substate finals Saturday at noon.

Camden Stovie and Shane Scott also scored goals for Xavier.

Will Hanigan collected three assists for the Saints. Ramlo had two assists. Stephen Jones, Luke Koechner and Nick Koechner also had assists.

Jordan Even and Austin Havertape combined for the shutout in goal.