CEDAR RAPIDS — The two smallest schools provided the two best teams at the Cedar Rapids Xavier Invitational girls’ track meet.
Dubuque Wahlert and Benton Community, the only two Class 3A schools in the eight-team field, stood atop the team standings last night at Saints Field. Wahlert won it with 125 points; Benton was next with 97.
“We came here for the competition,” said Benton’s Molly Rinderknecht, who led a 1-2 Benton sweep in the 400-meter hurdles. “We didn’t expect to be up at the top. I’m really surprised with how we …

The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union released its preseason soccer rankings, and Cedar Rapids Xavier and Cedar Rapids Kennedy find themselves in a familiar spot.
Defending champion Xavier is rated No. 1 in Class 1A. Xavier has the 47th highest enrollment in the state, but enough sharing agreements are in place to drop the Saints to No. 54. The top 48 teams are 2A in soccer, leaving the Saints as small-school favorites once again.
Kennedy is No. 2 in 2A, behind West Des Moines Valley. Again. Valley beat the Cougars for …

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CEDAR RAPIDS — Dubuque Wahlert has owned the first two distance events at the Cedar Rapids Xavier Invitational girls’ track meet.
Lauren Rusch held off Linn-Mar’s Brooklyn Kascel to capture the 3,000-meter run, and the Golden Eagles breezed to the title in the 4×800 in 10:01.47, a fine time for this early in the season.
Wahlert leads the team race through five events.
Kristen Huebsch of Cedar Rapids Kennedy is the first Metro champion. She cleared 5 feet 1 inch to win the high jump. Emmy Thompson of Benton Community won the long …

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Sarah Eggena’s typical track and field season picks up the pace usually closer to the middle of May and the state championships.
Eggena’s efforts, though, have been far stronger this earlier in the season than in season’s past — something Charles City girls coach Darren Bohlen and the Comets like seeing at this stage of the season.
Eggena had the Comet girls’ lone first place effort of the evening Thursday as both the Comet girls and boys kicked off the outdoor portions of their respective schedules at the Waverly-Shell Rock …

EARLY BIRD QUAD- Wednesday
at Waterloo
(Memorial Stadium)
Team scores – 1. C.R. Washington 150, 2. C.R. Kennedy 86, 3. Waterloo West 72, 4. C.R. Jefferson 62.
Long jump – TJ Mitchell (CRK), 18-2 1/2;
Shot put – Shaun Allbee (CRJ), 46-5;
Discus throw – Collin Hennessey (CRW), 114-5;
High jump – Keenan Davis (CRW), 6-0.
3,200 – Spencer Holten (CRK), 10:48.88;
3,200 relay – Waterloo West 8:45.12;
Shuttle hurdle relay – C.R. Washington 1:02.02;
100 – Ronnie Henderson (CRW), 11.01;
400 – Shay Hoffman (CRJ), 52.77;
800 relay – C.R. Washington 1:30.92;
110 hurdles – Larry Johnson (CRW), 15.20;
1,600 – Lewi Mani-rumva (CRW), …

Story Created: Apr 2, 2009 at 8:32 PM CDT
Story Updated: Apr 2, 2009 at 9:03 PM CDT
Williamsburg Senior shot putter Rachel Curry broke a 30 year old school record last week. Rachel threw 42′4″ to place second at the (all class) state indoor meet. The old school record was 42 feet.