Jefferson High School - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Metro track athletes have golden chance

Metro athletes might need to hire a Brink's truck to haul all their gold medals back home from the state track meet in Des Moines this week.

Metro girls are favored to win seven events at the Class 4A meet at Drake Stadium and Metro boys are ranked No. 1 in three events. In addition, numerous Metro individuals and relay teams are ranked No. 2 or No. 3 and are quite capable of moving into the victory circle.

The Linn-Mar girls, featuring distance star Stephanie Jenks and freshman phenom Payton Wensel, could have enough firepower to claim the 4A team championship if a few things break their way.

The state meet will be held Thursday, Friday and Saturday with all seven Metro schools in the running for high honors (Cedar Valley Christian does not have a varsity track program).

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Kigin helps Wash girls nip J-Hawks

Katie Kigin scored the only goal of the game Tuesday night as Washington nipped Jefferson, 1-0, in a Mississippi Valley Conference soccer match at Kingston Stadium.

The contest was part of a girl/boy doubleheader between the two Metro schools.

Kennedy girls top Jefferson, 7-2

Shelby Cook defeated Kiley Jonas, 10-4, at No. 1 singles Tuesday as Kennedy topped Jefferson 7-2 in a Mississippi Valley Conference tennis meet at Kennedy.

Veena Venkatesh, Gabby Olejniczak, Lauren Gifford and Aubree Langhurst also won their singles matches for the Cougars.

KENNEDY 7, JEFFERSON 2

Singles

1. Shelby Cook (K) def. Kiley Jonas, 10-4
2. Veena Venkatesh (K) def. Mary Korch, 10-1
3. Gabby Olejniczak (K) def. Ashley Davidson, 10-0
4. Maddie Slagle (J) def. Lydia Yang, 10-3
5. Lauren Gifford (K) def. Alexis Johnson, 10-6
6. Aubree Langhurst (K) def. Cameron Cox, 10-2

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Machula is medalist at Airport golf

Emily Machula of Cedar Rapids Prairie shot a 36 Tuesday to claim medalist honors in a triangular golf meet at Airport National.

Kandis O'Donnell shot a 40 to help the Washington Warriors win the meet.

TEAM STANDINGS

1. Washington 166, 2. Prairie 174, 3. Jefferson 204.

WASHINGTON: Kandis O'Donnell 40, Grace Claassen 41, Brett Visser 42, Mady Goodwin 43, Devon O'Donnell 49, Kate Nash 49.

PRAIRIE: Emily Machula 36, Grace Lindgren 46, Hannah Stebral 46, Peyton Staab 46, Amanda Happel 47, Lexi Poundstone 52.

JEFFERSON: Regan Grekoff 48, Jordan Henderson 48, Victoria Day 52, Emily Smith 56, Taylor Rajtora 56, Paige Archer 57.

Lucy Schneekloth wins Metro Spotlight Award

Lucy Schneekloth of Cedar Rapids Jefferson is the winner of the Metro Spotlight Award for high school girls this week, the Metro Sports Report announced Sunday.

Schneekloth, a senior, has enjoyed a spectacular career with the Jefferson track team as a vital member of their record-setting sprint relay squads.

Schneekloth helped the J-Hawks establish an all-time state best in the 4x200 relay as a sophomore in 2013 when Jefferson won the event at the Class 4A state meet in Des Moines.

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Wash girls blank J-Hawks in 2A tennis

The Washington Warriors defeated Jefferson, 6-0, in the first round of the girls Class 2A regional tennis tournament Saturday at the Washington courts.

Lilly Hartman blanked Kylie Jonas, 6-0, 6-0, at No. 1 singles.

WASHINGTON 6, JEFFERSON 0

Singles

1. Lilly Hartman (W) def. Kylie Jonas, 6-0, 6-0
2. Hannah Sherman (W) def. Mary Korch, 6-0, 6-0
3. Kelly King (W) def. Ashley Davidson, 6-0, 6-0
4. Jennifer Greif (W) def. Maddie Slagle, 6-1, 6-1
5. Eliza Sundermann (W) def. Alexis Johnson, 6-2, 6-0
6. Laura Gibson (W) def. Cameron Cox, 6-0, 6-0

Chung places 4th at district tennis

IOWA CITY - Jason Chung of Cedar Rapids Jefferson finished fourth at the Class 2A district tennis tournament at the Klotz Tennis Courts at the University of Iowa Friday.

Chung defeated John Dubberke of Davenport West, 6-0, 6-2, in the quarterfinals. Chung lost to David DiLeo of Iowa City West, 6-0, 6-0, in the semifinals and fell to Drew Jaspers of Iowa City High, 5-7, 6-2, 10-3 in the consolation match for third place.

Jiung Jung defeated DiLeo for the singles title. Joe Hoff and Greg Hensley of Iowa City High topped Cole Schneider and Ryan Smith of Iowa City West in the championship match at doubles. The champions and runners-up advance to the state tournament in Cedar Rapids in two weeks.

Iowa City West won the team title and advanced to the substate tournament May 23.

TEAM STANDINGS

1. Iowa City West 29, 2. Iowa City High 24, 3. Davenport West 10, 4. Jefferson 7, 5. Muscatine 5, 6. Burlington 0.

No. 11 Cougars knock off J-Hawks

Alex Stone, Mark Schulz and Sameeullah Jung scored goals Friday as the 11th-ranked Kennedy Cougars defeated Jefferson, 3-1, in a Mississippi Valley Conference soccer match at Lower Kingston.

Ryan Walker and Schulz collected two assists for Kennedy. Jung and Andrew Sheeley also had assists.

Jefferson scored in the final minute of the match.

Kennedy raised its records to 6-6 overall and 4-5 in the MVC.

Jefferson boys net 6-3 victory

Jason Chung, Chris Weisbein, Zach Biseniu and Alex Moncivais won their singles matches Tuesday as the Jefferson J-Hawks topped Waterloo West, 6-3, in a Mississippi Valley Conference meet at Jefferson.

Chung defeated Dan Rafferty, 6-2, 4-6, 12-10 in a tiebreaker at No. 3 singles.

JEFFERSON 6, WATERLOO WEST 3

Singles

1. Seth Christensen (WW) def. Alex Tvedte, 6-4, 4-6, 10-8
2. Dane Hurst (WW) def. Kellen Brown, 7-5, 6-3
3. Jason Chung (J) def. Dan Rafferty, 6-2, 4-6, 12-10
4. Chris Weisbein (J) def. Matt Ritland, 6-4, 7-5
5. Zach Bisenius (J) def. Dan Loes, 4-6, 6-2, 11-9
6. Alex Moncivais (J) def. Jarrett Weeter, 6-4, 4-6, 10-3

Doubles

1. Tvedte/Brown (J) def. Christensen/Hurst, 7-5, 6-0
2. Rafferty/Ritland (WW) def. Chung/Weisbein, 6-4, 6-3
3. Bisenius/Mincivais (J) def. Loes/Weeter, 6-1, 6-1