Articles Tagged: Cedar Rapids Xavier High School

Davis Kern of Linn-Mar and Jacob Williams of Dubuque Senior have been named boys’ basketball players of the year in their respective divisions of the Mississippi Valley Conference.

Gilbert went on a 12-6 run to close the fourth and added a 6-0 run in overtime to top Cedar Rapids Xavier, 60-57, in the Class 4A Region 6 girls’ basketball final Tuesday night at Gilbert.

Seven area girls’ basketball teams are involved in Class 5A and Class 4A Iowa high school girls’ basketball regional finals Tuesday. Six of them are making lengthy road trips.

Wednesday’s Iowa high school boys’ state wrestling notebook: Cedar Rapids Xavier’s Ngoma advanced to the Class 2A 215-pound quarterfinals. No matter how the rest of the state meet turns out, he’s set himself up for even bigger gains heading into next season.

Five area Iowa high school girls’ basketball games to watch Wednesday in Class 5A and 4A regional quarterfinals and 3A regional semifinals.

Girls’ basketball: Examining the regional brackets in 5A and 4A.

Using its trademark balance — nine kids played, nine kids scored — Class 5A 10th-ranked Prairie set up a monster showdown by defeating Xavier, 58-47, in a girls’ basketball Tuesday night. The Hawks welcome No. 7 Cedar Falls on Thursday. The winner is guaranteed a share of the Mississippi Division championship.

No. 1-ranked teams in Iowa high school basketball picked up some big wins last week: Class 1A’s top-ranked North Linn girls beat 3A No. 1 Mount Vernon, while the 4A top-ranked Cedar Rapids Kennedy boys handled West Des Moines Valley. And there’s another big boys’ game on Friday, when 1A No. 1 Bellevue Marquette hosts No. 3 North Linn. The Call It Both Ways podcast discusses those games on this week’s episode, plus more notable performances.

Eight metro area Catholic schools uniting under one PK-12 school system as of July 1

Freshman Eleanor Pfab qualified for this week’s IGHSAU state wrestling tournament. She etched her name in history, becoming Cedar Rapids Xavier’s first state qualifier in girls’ wrestling.

Libby Fandel scored a school-record 34 points and played a brilliant all-around floor game, and Cedar Rapids Xavier defeated Iowa City Liberty, 53-45, in a Mississippi Valley Conference girls’ basketball game Friday night at Ron Thillen Gymnasium.

Alburnett has climbed to the top of the Class 1A boys’ wrestling dual rankings. The Pirates were fourth at the 2023 state duals and will host regional duals again this season. The Wamac Conference has seven teams in the field with No. 2 Mount Vernon, West Delaware and Indpendence hosting 2A regional duals. Linn-Mar is the lone Gazette-area host in 3A.

Girls’ basketball notes: Three years after a 1-20 campaign, Mount Vernon has climbed to a No. 1 ranking in Class 3A, thanks to a come-from-behind win over archrival Solon on Tuesday.

Miranda Nolte, a senior and 2023 state qualifier, hopes future generations of Saints can share the same enjoyment in the Cedar Rapids Xavier bowling program she’s had. With the scores Nolte and the Saints are putting up this season, there’s reason to believe her legacy will live on.

Cedar Rapids Prairie’s Wyatt Vlasek posted the principles of a new mental approach on his mirror, reading them each day. He has applied them to his wrestling and has reaped the rewards, climbing to sixth in the 157-pound rankings of Class 3A.