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The Xavier Saints celebrate their victory over the Marion Indians in the quarterfinals of the Class 4A state volleyball tournament Tuesday night at the U.S. Cellular Center. (MSR photo by Margaret O'Banion)

Saints win historic volleyball match

Wed - 09 Nov Written by Jim Ecker

Xavier High School should just go ahead and cancel all of its classes on Thursday and declare it a sports holiday.

Lots of students will have trouble concentrating on school Thursday with the volleyball and football teams participating in the semifinals of their state tournaments that day.

Get some rest and get ready to cheer.

The Xavier volleyball players carved their names into the record books Tuesday night when they clipped the Marion Indians, 27-25, 25-18, 22-25, 26-24, at the U.S. Cellular Center for the first victory at the state tournament in school history.

The Saints (32-9) will face Dubuque Wahlert (26-6) in the semifinals of the Class 4A tournament at noon Thursday.

And in a rare day-night doubleheader, the Xavier football team will play Pella in the semifinals of the Class 3A tournament at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls Thursday at 8:21 p.m.

"They are giving us a half-day off," said Xavier kill-shot artist Charlotte Richards, who rolled up 29 kills against Marion. "I think they are dismissing us at 11."

Richards would like to see the Xavier football team play top-ranked Pella Thursday night, but not if she and her teammates upset Wahlert and reach the state finals Friday at 12:15 p.m.

"If we have a match on Friday I will not be going to the game," she announced. "I've got to get some sleep."

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Fluent, Sade top all-state volleyball

Wed - 25 Nov Written by Metro Sports Report

Anna Fluent of Cedar Rapids Kennedy and Isabella Sade of Marion have been named to the top units on the all-state volleyball teams by the Iowa Girls Coaches Association.

Fluent was named first team all-state in Class 5A and Sade was named first team all-state in Class 4A. Both players helped their teams reach the state tournament this season.

Kate Busswitz of Prairie and Amanda Ollinger of Linn-Mar were named second team all-state in Class 5A. Macy Anderson and Brinley Milbrath of Kennedy received honorable mention.

Olivia Frazier of Marion was named second team all-state in Class 4A.

Caitlyn Smith of Marion received honorable mention.

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Sade wins Metro Spotlight Award

Sun - 15 Nov Written by Metro Sports Report

Isabella Sade of Marion is the winner of the Metro Spotlight Award for high school girls this week, the Metro Sports Report announced Sunday.

Sade, a 6-foot-2 junior, was one of the top players for the Marion High School volleyball team this season. The Indians compiled a 31-9 record and reached the quarterfinals of the Class 4A state tournament before losing a tough five-set match to Lewis Central.

Sade led fourth-ranked Marion with 20 kills against Lewis Central and had seven blocks in that match. She paced the Indians this season with 322 kills and also led them with 110 blocks.

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Olivia Frazier (8) of Marion watches her shot go over the net against Lewis Central in the first round of the Class 4A state volleyball tournament Tuesday at the U.S. Cellular Center. (MSR photo by Ken Gilchrist).

Marion bumped off by Lewis Central

Tue - 10 Nov Written by Tom Fruehling

As Marion senior Olivia Frazier put it, the Indians’ volleyball state tournament first round match with Lewis Central on Tuesday night was a “roller coaster.”

First up, then down. Up and down.

But it ended on the downside.

The Class 4A sixth-ranked Titans of Council Bluffs peaked when it mattered, prevailing 15-10 in the fifth set, to oust fourth-ranked Marion in the last match of opening day at the U.S. Cellular Center.

It started out so well, too.

With big twin hitters Frazier and junior Isabella Sade pounding down kills almost at will (six and four, respectively), the Indians took the first game with relative ease 25-13.

"We came out really pumped up,” senior Kaela Halvorson said. “We definitely had all of our adrenaline.”

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 10 November 2015 22:50

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Macy Anderson (8) and the Kennedy Cougars will face Cedar Falls in the quarterfinals of the Class 5A state volleyball tournament at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the U.S. Cellular Center. (MSR photo by Ken Gilchrist).

Cougars, Indians ready for state volleyball

Mon - 09 Nov Written by Jim Ecker

The Kennedy Cougars and Marion Indians face completely different challenges in the opening round of the state volleyball tournament Tuesday.

Kennedy knows all about Cedar Falls, its opponent in the first round, from their wars in the Mississippi Valley Conference and tournaments around eastern Iowa.

Marion, however, does not know a whole lot about Council Bluffs Lewis Central, its first-round opponent, because the two schools are located so far apart and rarely see each other.

The Cougars know their opponents on the other side of the net by their first names. The Indians know their opponents by their uniform numbers, which should make for an interesting dynamic when the tournament begins at the U.S. Cellular Center.

Kennedy (29-9) faces Cedar Falls (36-4) at 2 p.m. Tuesday on Court 2 in Class 5A. Marion (31-8) meets Lewis Central (32-5) at 6 p.m. Tuesday on Court 1 in Class 4A.

Kennedy is ranked No. 9 in Class 5A and Cedar Falls is ranked No. 3, so that makes the Cougars a slight underdog. Cedar Falls owned a 2-1 edge over Kennedy during the regular season, but the Cougars swept the Tigers in their only MVC match en route to a conference regular-season title. Cedar Falls beat Kennedy twice at the Osage tournament.

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Last Updated on Monday, 09 November 2015 18:48