Jefferson High School - Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Jefferson girls nipped by Rams

DUBUQUE - The Jefferson girls soccer team lost to Dubuque Senior, 2-1, in a Mississippi Valley Conference soccer match in Dubuque Tuesday.

Haley Murray scored for the J-Hawks with an assist from Margie Clow.

Maddy Webber made 12 saves for Jefferson.

J-Hawks win 4 events in Fort Madison

FORT MADISON - The Jefferson girls track team won four events at the 39th Annual Pen City Relays in Fort Madison Tuesday.

The J-Hawks captured the 4x200 relay (1:46.00), the 4x100 relay (50.12) and the 4x400 relay (4:18.07). They also got a victory from Madison Ranschau in the 100 hurdles (14.70).

Mount Pleasant won the championship with 144 points. Jefferson placed fourth with 94.5 points.

Erin Kuba and Alexi Bolden tied for second in the shot put for Jefferson. Brenna Parke ran second in the 400 hurdles and the J-Hawks placed second in the shuttle hurdle relay.

Jefferson boys trim Xavier, 5-4

Jefferson took two of three doubles matches to edge Xavier, 5-4, in boys tennis action Tuesday at Jefferson.

Three of the matches went to a third set and all three were won by the Saints, but it wasn't enough to overcome a strong effort by the J-Hawks.

Zach Denny and Jason Chung won both in singles and doubles for Jefferson.

Jefferson 5, Xavier 4

Singles

1. Kyle D'Mello (X) def. Jacob Donald, 0-6, 6-4, 11-9

2. Zach Denny (J) def. Ben Curley, 7-5, 6-3

3. Chris Schirm (X) def. Nate Weger, 6-3, 6-2

4. Alex Tvedte (J) def. Jack VonKampen, 6-2, 6-3

5. Jason Chung (J) def. Grant Gibney, 6-1, 6-1

6. Ryan Jasper (X) def. Kellen Brown, 1-6, 6-2, 10-6

Doubles

1. D'Mello-Curley (X) def. Donald/Tvedte, 6-3, 1-6, 10-6

2. Denny/Weger (J) def. Schirm/VonKampen, 6-2, 6-2

3. Chung/Brown (J) def. Gibney/Jasper 6-1,6-2

J-Hawks fall to Rams in PK shootout

The Jefferson boys soccer team gave Dubuque Senior a good battle Tuesday before losing to the Rams, 2-1, in a PK Shootout at Jefferson.

The score was tied, 1-1, after regulation. Bryce Lund tallied for the J-Hawks with an assist from Carter Schmitz.

Neither team score in overtime and Dubuque Senior won the Shootout, 3-2.

Linn-Mar girls blank Jefferson

The Linn-Mar girls tennis team dropped only six games in nine matches en route to a 9-0 win over Jefferson on Tuesday at Linn-Mar.

The Lions' Ellie Anderson took a 10-0 decision from Kylie Jonus at No. 1 singles.

Linn-Mar 9, Jefferson 0

Singles

1. Ellie Anderson (LM) def. Kylie Jonus, 10-0

2. Anna Schlueter (LM) def. Hallie Techau, 10-0

3. Emily Jones (LM) def. Alexa Terrin, 10-1

4. Jessica Carpenter (LM) def. Mary Korch, 10-0

5. Jamie Wantock (LM) def. Ashley Davidson, 10-1

6. Raquel Kragel(LM) def. Alexis Johnson 10-0

Doubles

1. Anderson/Schlueter(LM) def. Jonus/Techau, 10-0

2. Jones/Ashley Resewehr(LM) def. Terrin/Korch, 10-4

3. Wantock/Megan Burr(LM) def. Davidson/Cameron Cox, 10-0

Xavier golfers trimmed by Trojans

Grace Winker and Maddie Bertsch both shot 43s, but it wasn't quite enough as Iowa City West edged the Xavier Saints by three strokes to win a Mississippi Valley Conference quadrangular meet Tuesday at St. Andrews.

West was led by Tiffany Danger, who also shot 43 and was medalist by card back. The Trojans finished at 183 and Xavier came in at 186. Jefferson (266) and Waterloo East (289) rounded out the scoring.

Xavier (186): Grace Winker 43, Maddie Bertsch, 43, Catie Locher 49, Kara Zwanziger 51.

Jefferson (266): Emily Smith 64, Regan Grekoff 67, Victoria Day 67, Cassidy Simpson 68.

Lane used sports as springboard for success

The one thing Doug Lane was good at as a Cedar Rapids Jefferson High School student back in the mid-1960s was throwing a 12-pound steel ball.

He could throw it so far, in fact, that after 46 years he still holds the state shot put record as well as the high school record at the Drake Relays.

When he heaved the shot 70 feet, 11 inches at a meet in Dubuque on a mild day in May in 1968, it was a remarkable 10 feet farther than any Iowa prep had thrown before and five feet farther than any has done since.

“A perfect day,” Lane, now 64, recalled on Friday while watching this year's J-Hawk track squad practice at Kingston Stadium. “Everything came together.”

It set the national record then, too, by more than a foot and put him on the cover of the prestigious Athletic Journal.

Long since living in California after he left Cedar Rapids for an All-American and NCAA championship stint at USC, he was back in town to visit relatives. And he asked Jefferson Coach Ron Tower if he could talk to the track team.

“I've wanted to do this for a long time,” he said.

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Waterloo West slips past J-Hawks, 5-4

WATERLOO — Waterloo West captured four of six singles matches to edge Jefferson, 5-4, in boys tennis action Saturday in Waterloo.

Nate Weger was the lone double-winner for the J-Hawks, winning at No. 3 singles and combining with Zach Denny to win at No. 2 doubles.

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Lions nip J-Hawks in boys soccer

It took 72 minutes, but the Linn-Mar Lions finally scored and trimmed Cedar Rapids Jefferson in a Mississippi Valley Conference boys soccer meet at the Lower Kingston field in Cedar Rapids on Thursday.

A shot by Kevin Simons was turned away, but Ben Johnson scored on the rebound to give fifth-ranked Linn-Mar a 1-0 victory.

Two other scoring opportunities for Linn-Mar hit the post.