Metro Sports Report

Jubilant J-Hawks snap 24-game skid

DUBUQUE - The Cedar Rapids Jefferson football team doesn't have to answer questions about a long losing streak anymore.

The 24-game streak is dead.

It ended Friday night when the J-Hawks clippped Dubuque Hempstead, 12-7, in a Mississippi Valley Conference game that was played at the University of Dubuque.

“Let somebody else deal with the issue of losing strings,” said new Jefferson Coach Brian Webb, who lost his first two games this season before tearing the streak to pieces.

Polished Saints belt Prairie, 48-14

No high school team has ever played a perfect football game, but the Xavier Saints came pretty darn close Friday night at John Wall Field.

There were A's and A-pluses all over the place.

The seventh-ranked Saints excelled in all facets of the game and belted the Prairie Hawks, 48-14, in a Mississippi Valley Conference battle of unbeaten clubs.

You name it, and the Saints did it well.

Offense, defense, special teams. It was all Xavier, all night.

No.1 Tigers top Warriors, 31-16

Washington tailback Mitch Bredeson is listed at 5-foot-8 and weighs a solid 160 pounds with soaking wet full pads.

But the latest of Washington's talented scatbacks kept pounding and pounding into the middle of a massive Cedar Falls line Friday night at Kingston Stadium despite getting gang-tackled time and again.

Same for his club, which battled the state’s top-ranked 4A team all night, even after costly mistakes at inopportune times kept putting them deeper in a hole they couldn’t escape.

Marion defense blanks Anamosa

Having more than 10 penalties in a game is bad for a football team.

Marion had 10 in the first half on Friday against Anamosa.

Thankfully for the Indians, 10 is the same number of total yards they allowed the Raiders in the first half.

They will take the good with the bad.

Marion’s smothering defense held Anamosa scoreless and, generally, yard-less in helping the Indians defeat the Raiders, 28-0, at Thomas Park.