Xavier High School - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Solon tames Metro volleyball teams

Sat - 07 Sep Written by Tom Fruehling

It's somewhat odd, but the so-called “old gym” used for the Cedar Rapids Washington volleyball tournament Saturday is air conditioned while the “new gym ” is not due to an ongoing geo-thermal project at the school.

Switching back and forth over a sweltering eight-hour day didn't seem to faze small-school Solon, which lost just one game in five matches and claimed the championship in a star-studded 11-team field.

No real surprise there, since the Spartans are ranked second in the Class 4A IGHSAU poll and have won this meet against bigger schools twice in the last three years.

What was mildly surprising is that Solon faced Xavier in the title game.

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No.1 Saints stuff J-Hawks, 44-0

Fri - 06 Sep Written by Jim Ecker

The Xavier Saints are ranked No.1 in the state by the Des Moines Register, the Associated Press and The Gazette, but that can't be right.

Surely the Northern Iowa Panthers, Iowa Hawkeyes, Iowa State Cyclones and Coe Kohawks are better than the Saints.

But if you're looking for the No.1 high school football team in the state, you won't get any arguments from Jefferson Coach Brian Webb.

"I haven't seen the teams on the west side (of the state), but I don't know who's better than this team on the east side," Webb said Friday night. "Xavier is where we want to be."

The Saints rolled to a 37-0 lead at halftime and smashed the J-Hawks, 44-0, on Senior Night at the Xavier field.

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Xavier ranked 9th in volleyball

Thu - 05 Sep Written by Metro Sports Report

Cedar Rapids Xavier is No.9 and Marion No.12 in this week's Class 4A volleyball rankings released Thursday by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union.

No other Metro team is ranked.

The top teams in the rankings are Bettendorf (5A), Harlan (4A), Union (3A), Dike-New Hartford (2A) and Holy Trinity (1A).

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Quinton Scholer made an impressive debut as Xavier's new quarterback Friday in Dubuque. (Photo by Donna Schmitt)

'Big brother' helped Scholer with Saints

Wed - 04 Sep Written by Jim Ecker

New Cedar Rapids Xavier High School quarterback Quinton Scholer had a "big brother" on the football team the past 12 months or so, but they were not actually related by birth or family ties.

Scholer's "big brother" was Reggie Schulte, the all-state quarterback who led the Saints to the Class 4A championship game last year before leaving this summer for his new duties at the University of Northern Iowa.

Xavier has a "Big Brother/Little Brother" program, where older players adopt a younger player at their position and show them the ropes. Scholer had Schulte as his big brother and is mighty glad he did.

Scholer, a 6-foot-3 senior, looked good in his debut as top-ranked Xavier's new starting quarterback in a 35-7 victory at Dubuque Hempstead last Friday. He completed 8 of 10 passes for 112 yards and two touchdowns and carried the ball eight times for 99 yards and two more TDs.

Scholer's relationship with Schulte began last season, when Scholer was the No.2 quarterback for the Mississippi Valley Conference champs. It continued during the winter, spring and into the summer until Schulte left for Cedar Falls.

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Last Updated on Wednesday, 04 September 2013 19:44

Cedar Rapids Xavier outside hitter Kayla Torson (8) gets a kill shot past Linn-Mar's Sarah Renner (10) for a score Tuesday night. Xavier swept past Linn-Mar. Torson recorded 17 kills. (Photo by Ken Gilchrist)

Torson helps Saints 'kill' Lions

Tue - 03 Sep Written by Tom Fruehling

Cedar Rapids Xavier's 3-0 home court volleyball win over Linn-Mar on Tuesday night can be summed up in two words.

“Kill, Torson.”

Saints junior jumping-jack Kayla Torson scored kills at the net, from the back line and spaces in between to lead her squad to a 25-18, 25-19, 25-18 sweep.

When she wasn't slamming spikes, the lanky all-stater was diving on the floor for digs to keep rallies alive.

“She just lays it out there on defense,” said Xavier Coach Krista Johnson, who notched her first victory as a head coach after serving the past two years as an assistant at Northern State University in South Dakota. “And she's tough from both the front row and back row.”

In all, Torson recorded 17 kills. Many came in crucial situations.

Her first put the Saints up 2-1 in the opening game, and they never trailed after that. She closed it out with two kills out of the final three points.

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Last Updated on Tuesday, 03 September 2013 22:33