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Walton leads J-Hawks by Waterloo

WATERLOO – Riley Walton had a 158 game and a 311 series to lead the Jefferson boys bowling team to a 2,058 to 1,934 win over Waterloo East on Friday at Cadillac Lanes.

JEFFERSON: Riley Walton 153-158=311, Hunter Sturtz 133-147=280, Chaise Donner 145-123=268, John Gardner 107-148=255, Tanner Bennett 96 -127=223, Logan Miller 108-88=196.

WATERLOO EAST: Bryce Staver 148-146=294, Tannis Morgan 94-184=278, Braden Smith 117-139=256, Trevor DeWiece 123-119=242, George Bowser 107-130=237, Devon Rowe 120-69=189.

Jefferson: 1,337-721=2,058.

Waterloo East: 1,307-627=1,934.

J-Hawks stop Lilly from netting 500

It wasn’t a thing of beauty, but the Jefferson girls got their wish with a 38-36 win on Xavier’s home floor Friday night.

"Before this week, our motto in the locker room was, ‘All we want for Christmas is two big wins,'” J-Hawk point guard Avery Guy explained. “We won both games, so now we’re over .500 (at 5-4) going into the break.”

The Saints, on the other hand, are now 3-5 and must wait awhile longer to give veteran coach Tom Lilly his 500th career victory.

“I don’t even want to talk about that,” Lilly said. “What I’m interested in is what we have to do to play with the intensity we showed in the last four and a half minutes.”

Up to then, it was a ragged affair as both teams had trouble holding onto the ball. Xavier had 18 turnovers for the game, Jefferson 16. And, at times, they had trouble putting the ball in the hoop.

In a woeful third quarter, the J-Hawks outscored the Saints 3-2 and went into the final stanza ahead just 24-19.

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Wennermark helps Prairie pin J-Hawks

New Cedar Rapids Prairie wrestling coach Kane Thompson has been preaching a "team championship lifestyle" to the Hawks since taking over the squad this season.

Trenton Wennermark embraced the concept Thursday night.

Wennermark rallied from a 9-0 deficit and pinned Brenden Baker in the biggest upset of the match as the sixth-ranked Prairie Hawks topped No. 7 Jefferson, 42-30, in a Mississippi Valley Conference showdown at Jefferson.

Wennermark lost all three of his matches against Baker last year and was headed for a fourth straight defeat when he turned the tables in the third period. He got a reversal to draw within 9-4, then put Baker on his back and pinned him in 4 minutes, 33 seconds.

Thompson and all the wrestlers on the Prairie bench jumped in the air in celebration. Baker, a senior, is ranked No. 2 at 120 pounds by The Predicament wrestling magazine and Wennermark, a sophomore, is ranked No. 8 at 120. They wrestled a weight higher at 126 and Wennermark gave the Hawks a 21-9 lead with his precious victory.

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Jeff swimmers fall to Rams

The Jefferson boys swimming team won two events in a 116-52 loss to Dubuque Senior on Tuesday at Jefferson.

Luke Hummell won the 50-yard freestyle in 23.83 seconds for the J-Hawks and Paul Hummell won the 100 breaststroke in 11:04.03.

DUBUQUE SENIOR 116, JEFFERSON 53
200 medley relay - Dubuque Senior (John Dalton, Andrew Breitfelder, Jacob Hansen, John Colin) 1:44.45
200 freestyle – Will Colin (DS) 1:57.85.
200 individual medley – J.Colin (DS) 2:07.68.
50 freestyle – Luke Hummell (J) 23.83.
100 butterfly – J.Colin (DS) 55.36.
100 freestyle – Dalton (DS) 52.50.
500 Freestyle – W.Colin (DS) 5:20.43.
200 freestyle relay – Dubuque Senior (J.Dalton, Brandon Sindt, Nick Topping, W.Colin) 1:35.29.
100 backstroke – Dalton (DS) 1:00.76.
100 breaststroke - Paul Hummell (J) 1:04.03.
400 freestyle relay – Dubuque Senior (J.Colin, Sindt, Dalton, Topping) 3:34.06.