Xavier Football

Schulte nabs 150th win as Saints roll

EPWORTH – This time around, no one was issuing Upset Alerts on Twitter. Nobody was talking about the district stunner of the year on Facebook. Nobody wearing Xavier blue was sweating bullets in the fourth quarter.

And nobody was questioning Friday night that Class 3A, District 4 belongs to the Xavier Saints.

Revisiting a dangerous, nothing-to-lose Western Dubuque team that shell-shocked them last season, the first-place and undefeated Saints were all business and mostly all dominant in a 35-12 air-powered push past the Bobcats before a packed house at Buchman Field.

The victory earned Xavier coach Duane Schulte his 125th victory with the Saints and 150th career triumph.

"I'll be honest: It's special,” Schulte said. “It goes to show I've had a lot of good people helping me.”

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Wilson stars as Saints dump Maquoketa

MAQUOKETA – Maliki Wilson studied the tapes of NFL greats like Walter Payton and Barry Sanders. Their reads, their cuts and their moves.

Man, those moves.

"I watch a lot of film of Walter Payton. I watch the way Barry Sanders used to cut back against the field,” said Wilson, Xavier's 5-foot-11, 175-pound junior running back. “My dad helps me study a lot.”

Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, and Walter and Barry would have been flattered by Wilson's deft impressions of their Hall of Fame running styles Friday night.

Xavier took full control of the Class 3A, District 4 race with the dynamic and razzle-dazzling Wilson putting on a 191-yard, four-touchdown rushing clinic in the Saints' drama-less 42-13 victory over Maquoketa at Goodenow Field.

“He is a student of the game. He has a great love of the game,” Xavier coach Duane Schulte said.

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Schulte wins Metro Spotlight Award

Bryce Schulte of Xavier is the winner of the Metro Spotlight Award for high school boys this week, the Metro Sports Report announced Sunday.

Schulte, 6-foot-3 junior, completed 8 of 10 passes for 232 yards and five touchdowns Friday night when the Saints defeated DwWitt Central, 42-6, in the rain at Saints Field.

Schulte tied the school record for most touchdown passes in a single game. He matched his brother Reggie Schulte, who passed for five touchdowns in a game for Xavier in 2012.

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Schulte tosses 5 TDs for Saints

With runners slipping all over the place in mostly monsoon conditions Friday night at Saints Field, Xavier quarterback Bryce Schulte found a way to win through the wet air.

Schulte passed the ball only 10 times but connected on eight of them for 232 yards. And five of those completions went for touchdowns, tying the school’s single-game record set by his older brother Reggie three years ago.

Four of the scores came in the second and third quarters as the Saints broke open a sluggish 7-6 first quarter lead over gritty DeWitt Central and won going away, 42-6, in a Class 3A/District 4 game.

"Give DeWitt credit,” said Saints coach Duane Schulte, father of the two passing phenoms. “They played hard and really challenged our kids. They made it tough on us.”

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