Articles Tagged: Cedar Rapids Xavier High School

Girls and Boys wrestlers compete in the high school wrestling duals between Kennedy Cougars and Xavier Saints.

Cedar Rapids Xavier broke open the boys’ wrestling dual with seven straight wins and topped Cedar Rapids Kennedy, 52-14, Thursday night at Ron Thillen Gymnasium. Kennedy won the girls’ dual, 72-6.

Here are The Gazette’s third 2024-25 installment of area high school boys’ wrestling individual rankings.

Hawkeye Wrestling Club’s Olympic silver medalist announced Monday that he will wrestle Japan World champion Masanosuke Ono in Flowrestling Feb. 26 at Xtream Arena in Coralville. Iowa men dominate, UNI men and Iowa women win NWCA National Duals and more in the Wrestling Weekend That Was.

Cedar Falls remained atop Class 4A in the second Iowa High School Athletic Association boys’ basketball rankings of the season. Huxley Ballard (3A), Western Christian (2A) and Bellevue Marquette (1A) stay at No. 1 in their respective classes, as well.

Here are The Gazette’s second 2024-25 installment of area high school boys’ wrestling individual rankings.

Here is The Gazette’s first 2024-25 installment of area high school boys’ wrestling individual rankings.

The Battle of Waterloo didn’t disappoint and Alburnett left with a runner-up finish to Class 3A power southeast Polk. Iowa State competed at the Collegiate Duals. Cornell, Luther impressed at the Gator Boots Duals in Tennessee and more in the Wrestling Weekend That Was.

Xavier Saints visited Cedar Rapids Washington Warriors in a boy’s basketball game

The Saints defeated the Warriors in a Mississippi Valley Conference girls basketball game.

Cedar Rapids Xavier’s boys’ basketball team lost for the first time this season when Waterloo West beat it in overtime Tuesday night. There was no hangover from that loss Friday night, as the Saints beat up Cedar Rapids Washington.

Cedar Rapids Xavier girls’ basketball coach Tom Lilly has worn a Grinch tie for games just prior to the Christmas break for the last decade or so. Grinch, make that Lilly, picked up his 630th career victory Friday night when his Class 4A ninth-ranked Saints beat up Cedar Rapids Washington, 61-36.

Iowa football defensive end Ethan Hurkett is a Cedar Rapids Xavier graduate who is getting married in the summer to a Linn-Mar graduate. Beyond around family one more year and seeking to improve himself for a possible NFL career were reasons why he has decided to return to the Hawkeyes for a sixth season next season.

Girls’ basketball: Cedar Rapids Xavier’s Libby Fandel registers 20 points and 15 rebounds, and does a more-than-adequate job defending the post in the Saints’ 50-33 win over Cedar Rapids Jefferson.

Union Community’s Jace Hedeman has subscribed to a new free and fun approach after his drerams of four state titles were dashed last season. He was dominant Saturday, winning the 132-pound title of the Cliff Keen Independence Invitational