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Kelly May had a pair of pins at 152 pounds and led Jefferson to two resounding wrestling victories Thursday night at Xavier.
The J-Hawks routed Xavier, 60-12, and Dubuque Wahlert, 53-6.
Wahlert beat Xavier, 42-28.
BETTENDORF - Cedar Rapids Prairie put five wrestlers in the finals and Josh Wenger claimed the 138-pound title to lead the Hawks to the championship of the Mike Hall Invitational Saturday at Pleasant Valley High School.
Prairie beat Washington, Ill., by 23 points. Millard South, Neb., was third.
Cedar Rapids Jefferson crowned a champion in Brenden Baker at 106 pounds and the J-Hawks finished sixth in the 16-team field.
With up-and-coming junior jumping jack Maurice Arrington playing his second great game in a row, the Washington boys rolled over Jefferson 56-41 Friday night in the J-Hawk gym.
The long-limbed 6-foot-6 first-year starter, who scored 17 two weeks ago in a loss to Kennedy, had a career-high 19 points on a variety of slick inside moves and even one 3-pointer.
“He's consistently getting better and better,” Warrior Coach Adam Sanchez said of the athletic stringbean. “He's starting to understand how he can become a really good player.”
You might call them the Ying and Yang of Washington Warrior basketball. Danielle Franklin and Aleena Hobbs seem to go together like peanut butter and jelly. Or something like that.
Friday night at the J-Hawk gym the long-time best friends combined for 51 points in a hard-fought 67-59 Warrior win over the up-and-coming Jefferson J-Hawks in Mississippi Valley Conference girls play.
No. 10 Washington moves to 6-2 overall and Jefferson drops to 3-6.
Hobbs, a drive-to-the-basket-slashing forward, had 23 points and eight rebounds. Franklin, a silky-smooth shooter, had 28 points and seven rebounds, despite getting into early foul trouble.
IOWA CITY - Christian Hindt had the lanes dialed in Friday with a 442 series that led the Jefferson boys past Iowa City High, 2865-2529.
Hindt fired games of 228 and 214. Austin Kluth shot a 226 game and 418 series. Tyler Fowler had a 212 game.
The J-Hawks built a 344-pin lead in the first round.
IOWA CITY - Rylea Bennett had the line Friday with a 349 series that paced Jefferson past Iowa City High, 2335-2265, in girls bowling.
The J-Hawks built a 111-pin lead in the first round and withstood a 51-pin advantage for City High in the Baker round.
JEFFERSON (2335): Abbi Stastny 126-146=272, Holly Miller 129-152=281, Rachel Daugherty 124-138=262, Savannah Fowler 125-170=295, Laura Hemphill 154-145=299, Rylea Bennett 150-199=349
IOWA CITY HIGH (2265): Maddie Vanginkle 120-121=241, Emma Gingerich 149-116=265, Mackayla Highly 170-144=314, Shyniece Cirillo 165-138=303, Britnee Price 118-119=237, Liz Goss 137-125=262
Jefferson 1496+839=2335
City High 1385+880=2265
The Jefferson J-Hawks climbed to No.9 in the high school wrestling rankings this week by The Predicament and the Iowa Wrestling Coaches Association.
The J-Hawks are ranked ninth in both Class 3A polls, giving the Metro three teams in the top 10.
Linn-Mar is ranked No.4 by The Predicament and No.5 by the IWCA. Prairie is ranked No.6 by The Predicament and No.4 by the IWCA.
Three Metro wrestlers are ranked No. 1 in Class 3A with Brenden Baker of Jefferson at 106 pounds, Alijah Jeffery of Linn-Mar at 120 pounds and Ross Lembeck of Linn-Mar at 152 pounds.
Morgan Breitbach has some pretty good basketball bloodlines. And she’s a pretty good player in her own right. It showed Tuesday night.
The junior Xavier point guard made key plays and led her No.2-ranked 4A team to a gritty 62-61 come-from-behind Mississippi Valley Conference win at the Jefferson J-Hawk gym.
The Saints moved to 5-2 overall and 3-2 in the MVC, while Jefferson dropped to 3-5 overall and 2-3 in the league.
Breitbach scored 12 points and had four assists, including a pair of free throws with 28 seconds left that sealed the win.
DUBUQUE - Luke Hummell captured the 50 freestyle and Paul Hummell claimed the 100 breaststroke for Cedar Rapids Jefferson Tuesday night during a 107-62 loss to Dubuque Senior in a Mississippi Valley Conference swim meet in Dubuque.
The Hummells teamed with Austin Schmuecker and Nate Homan to win the 200 medley relay.
Adam McDermott proved himself to be a clutch performer when he got his opportunities last season as a sophomore.
But nothing he did as a 10th grader could match what the Xavier guard pulled off to win Tuesday night’s game against Jefferson at the Ron Thillen Gymnasium.
Jefferson’s Brandon Wiederin split a pair of free throws with 2.3 seconds remaining that gave the J-Hawks a two-point lead.
Xavier got the ball in to McDermott, who weaved through a wave of Jefferson defenders to let a shot go at half court, just ahead of the final buzzer. It banked in off the glass, lifting the Saints to a 36-35 victory.
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