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It was a tale of opposites at Kingston Stadium Monday night as the Washington and Linn-Mar boys soccer teams advanced to Wednesday’s Class 3A substate semifinals.
The Warriors skunked Western Dubuque 9-0 in the opener and didn’t allow a single shot at the goal the entire match.
In the nightcap, meanwhile, the Lions were knotted with Jefferson 0-0 after two overtimes and won by outscoring the J-Hawks 4-2 in the shootout.
OTTUMWA - Megan Furnish achieved her goal of qualifying for the Class 4A state golf tournament Monday by claiming medalist honors at the regional tournament in Ottumwa.
Now the Cedar Rapids Jefferson senior has a new goal for the state meet next week in Ankeny.
"I'd like to go out and win it, but I'll just go and do my best," she said after Monday's round.
Furnish fired an 8-over-par 80 at the Ottumwa Country Club to win the regional tournament by a comfortable six shots. Her next stop will be the state meet at Otter Creek Golf Course in Ankeny on May 29-30.
Rachel Sedlacek and Kristian Anderson have won the George Hidinger Awards as the Athletes of the Year at Cedar Rapids Jefferson.
Sedlacek will finish her career with 10 varsity letters in softball (5), track (3) and cross country (2) and she'll continue her softball career next year at the University of Northern Iowa. She was named first team all-state in 2011 after she hit .447 with 11 homers, 31 RBIs and 49 runs scored in 38 games.
Sedlacek is a member of the National Honor Society and will graduate in the top 10 percent of her class with a GPA above 4.0.
Anderson will graduate with six varsity letters with the J-Hawks in swimming (4), cross country (1) and track (1). He helped Jefferson set a school record in the 200 yard freestyle relay and qualified for the state meet in six events.
Megan Furnish shot a 2-over par 34 Tuesday for medalist honors and led Jefferson to victory at the Prairie girls golf triangular at Airport National.
Washington's MJ Kamin shot a 37 and was runnerup.
Prairie's Alyssa Beisker shot a 46 to lead the Hawks to second place.
PRAIRIE TRIANGULAR
At Airport National
JEFFERSON (185): Megan Furnish 34, Emily Aukes 49, Megan Kibby 50, Sammy Seeman 52
PRAIRIE (191): Alyssa Beisker 46, Konnor Griffith 46, Emily Perrin 49, Kerstin Flugum 50
WASHINGTON (196): MJ Kamin 37, Kandis O'Donnell 52, Sophia Ochs 52, Anna Rohde 55
Cedar Rapids Jefferson senior Tyler Hemphill will play college basketball at William Penn University in Oskaloosa.
Hemphill, a 6-foot-3 forward, averaged 7.1 points and 4.1 rebounds for the J-Hawks this past season despite a knee injury. He helped Jefferson compile a 15-9 record and make the Class 4A state tournament.
William Penn is an NAIA Division II school that competes in the Midwest Collegiate Conference.
Jim Womochil's venture into college coaching lasted less than six months.
Instead, he's headed home.
Womochil, the former Jefferson football coach, will be the next football coach at Vinton-Shellsburg the Vinton Today website is reporting. He also has been hired to teach social studies, history and psychology.
Xavier High School softball coach Brian Erbe had triple bypass surgery on Friday and is recovering at St. Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids.
Erbe works at Cedar Rapids Jefferson High School as an administrator.
Erbe has compiled a 300-132 record in nine years as Xavier's head coach and has reached the state tournament five times.
The Saints are scheduled to open the 2012 season on Tuesday, May 22 with a doubleheader against Cedar Rapids Washington at Xavier.
Xavier and Jefferson officials could not be reached for comment Saturday night.
Brooke Barnhart scored six goals and Katie Dierks tallied four and Jefferson demolished Waterloo West and Waterloo East in girls soccer Saturday at lower Kingston.
Barnhart had four goals and Dierks two in the J-Hawks' 9-0 win over West. Ashley Rayer and Shalyn Kinney also scored. Dierks had three assists.
Barnhart, Dierks, Alexis Brannan and Kayla Jaschen had two goals apiece in Jefferson's 10-0 rout of East. Trina Gallagher and Kinney also had goals. Kinney had three assists.
Jefferson is 10-4 overall, 7-4 in the MVC.
DUBUQUE - Megan Furnish began playing golf when she was about 8 years old, but it didn't stick as her favorite sport the first time around.
"I actually quit for a couple of years to play softball," she said Monday with a smile.
Furnish picked up the golf clubs again when she was about 12 and hasn't put them down since. "I figured this is something I want to keep doing and stick to it and get good at it," she said.
The Cedar Rapids Jefferson senior has become very, very good at it.
Shaquille Harbor did not win any races at the Mississippi Valley Conference track meet at Kingston Stadium Friday, but he was a winner nonetheless.
Harbor has experienced quite a bit during the past nine months, enough to make most teenagers dizzy and confused. Instead, Shaq sounds level-headed and determined to make a success of himself in sports and the classroom at Cedar Rapids Jefferson.
Harbor moved from Louisiana to Cedar Rapids in September, was adopted by his biological cousin and her husband in October, began the school year as an eighth grader at McKinley Middle School and was promoted to the freshman class at Jefferson in January.
He joined the Jefferson track team after the season began and has already developed into one of the top young sprinters that Ron Tower has tutored during his 16 years as head coach.
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