GO SAINTS! XHS Activities Weekly Highlights: April 28, 2022

 

Boys Soccer:

Boys soccer defeated Cedar Rapids Jefferson on Tuesday 4-2.  They have moved to 3-4 on the year.  Tonight, the Saints will take on Dubuque Hempstead in a varsity only match starting at 6:00pm.

 

Next week, the boys will travel to Waterloo East on Tuesday and will host Waterloo West on Friday.  

 

Girls Soccer:

Girls soccer defeated Cedar Rapids Prairie 8-2 on Thursday last week.  On Monday this week, they defeated Jefferson 10-1.  They moved to 5-2 overall on the year.  Tonight, the ladies will travel to Dubuque Hempstead in a JV/Varsity double header.   

 

Next week, the girls take on Waterloo East at home and Waverly-Shell Rock on the road.

 

Girls Golf:

The Girls golf team competed at the CRANDIC tournament on Thursday last week.  Meera Julka finished 5th overall with a score of 74.

 

Friday, the girls added a meet at Waterloo Columbus.  Meera finished as the runner-up medalist at that meet.

 

Tonight, the girls are set to play in an MVC quad at Ellis.  Next week the girls travel to Brown Deer for the MVC Supermeet on Monday followed by a make-up MVC quad on Tuesday at St. Andrews.  

 

Track and Field:

Thursday last week, the boys track team headed to Dubuque Senior.  Here are the top three placewinners from that meet.  

The 4x800m Relay team made up of Marcus Camacho, Gunnar Black, Zack Pisney, Josef Lemker placed 3rd

 

The Shuttle Hurdle Relay team made up of Will Hacke, Cole Beasler-Weber, Grayson Hartman placed 2nd

 

The Sprint Medley Relay team made up of Luke Efting, Grayson Hartman, Aidan McDermott, Jevin Rexroth placed 3rd

 

Grayson Hartman placed 1st in the 110 high hurdles and Reached the Blue Standard to automatically qualify for the Drake Relays!

 

On Thursday last week, the girls traveled to Davenport Assumption.  Here are the top three placewinners from that meet.

Emma Arnold placed 1st and broke her own school record again in the 400m hurdles

 

The Sprint Medley team made up of Naomi Durin, Braylen Conlon, Kate Weiss and Emma Arnold placed 3rd

 

Sierra Durin placed 1st in the High Jump

 

Ava Van Berkum placed 2nd in the High Jump

 

The Shuttle Hurdle relay team of Jaclyn Meyer, Sierra Durin, Emma Arnold and Naomi Durin placed 2nd

 

Jaclyn Meyer placed 3rd in the Long Jump

 

Naomi Durin placed in the 100m Hurdles

 

On Tuesday, Xavier hosted the Xavier CoEd Invitational.  Here are the top results from the Girls division.

Ava VanBerkum - placed 3rd in the High Jump

 

Jaclyn Meyer - placed 2nd in the Long Jump

 

The Sprint Medley Relay team of Regan Muhlbauer, Ava Blue, Kate Weiss and Braylen Conlon placed 2nd

   

The Shuttle Hurdle Relay team of Emma Arnold, Sierra Durin, Jaclyn Meyer and Naomi Durin placed 2nd

    

Jordan Jansen placed 2nd in the 100m Dash

 

Naomi Durin placed 2nd in 100m Hurdles

Jordan Jansen - placed 1st in the 200m Dash

Emma Arnold placed 1st in the 400m Hurdles

 

The 4x100m Relay team of Durin, Conlon, Weiss and Durin placed 2nd

 

Here are the top results from the Boys Division:

Cole Beasler-Weber - placed 3rd in the long jump

 

The Sprint Medley Relay team finished 2nd.

 

The 4x800 finished 3rd.

 

The Shuttle Hurdle finished 1st.

 

Aidan McDermott - placed 2nd in the 100 and 3rd in the 200

 

Grayson Hartman - placed 1st in the 110m Hurdles

 

Josef Lemker - placed 3rd in the 800m

 

The 4x100 finished 1st overall.  The 4x400 finished 2nd, and the team finished 3rd overall. 

 

Tennis:

Both our girls and boys tennis teams picked up wins against Dubuque Hempstead on Thursday last week.  Both teams won by a score of 9-0.  The teams competed on Saturday against Linn Mar and CR Kennedy - girls won both matches by a score of 8-1 and 8-1.  The boys defeated Linn-Mar 5-4 in a tough match followed by an 8-1 win over Kennedy.  

 

In a tough week of make-up matches, the Saints continue their dominance.  On Monday, both boys and girls defeated Western Dubuque 9-0.  Against Wahlert on Tuesday, the boys won with a team score of 8-1 and the girls won with a perfect 9-0 again.  On Wednesday, the boys defeated Cedar Rapids Washington 8-1. 

 

They take on Dubuque Senior tonight at 4:00pm.  Boys are home and girls are on the road.  

 

Other Events:

On Wednesday, we had seven seniors sign their National Letter of Intent to go on to the next level.  Congratulations to these seniors:

Sara Gundacker - Dance - St. Ambrose 

Brady Horstmann - Tennis - Wisconsin La Crosse

Reilly Moore - Soccer - Western Illinois

Carson Jeffery - Soccer - Western Illinois

Will Hiserote - Football - Coe

Courtney Carstensen - Tennis - Coe

Riley Jonker - Volleyball - Drake