October 30, 2023 River Region Sports Wrap

Girls’ Volleyball

JACKSON – Second seed Saxony Lutheran lost to Ursuline Academy three sets to one, 25-21, 22-25, 21-25 and 22-25, in the Class 3 State Tournament held at Saxony Lutheran Saturday.

The Crusaders end the season with a 25-8-2 record.

Varsity football

STE. GENEVIEVE – Ste. Genevieve defeated Fredericktown 48-6 in the Class 3 District 1 Tournament.

“The Varsity Dragons got it done, in the rain, the first week of District playoffs. They beat the Fredericktown Blackcats 48-6 advancing to the semi-finals next Friday at Dexter. Way to go, Dragons!”

CHESTER – Chester lost at Red Bud 7-0 in Round 1 of the Illinois playoffs.

“It rained the entire first half. Wind, temps dropped 20 degrees Score was 0-0 until the final 33- seconds when Red Bud scored.”

CHS is eliminated from the 2023 IHSA Class 2A State Football Playoffs

PERRYVILLE – Perryville fell to Sikeston 36-14 in Round 1 of Class 4 District 1 played at Perryville.

The loss ends the Pirates season at 4-6.

STE. GENEVIEVE – Valle plays Caruthersville in the Class 2 State Tournament Friday.

Caruthersville defeated Kelly 49-7 Friday night.

PERRYVILLE – St. Vincent plays Russellville in the Class 1 District round one Friday.

Russellville defeated Fayette 32-28 Friday night.

Cross Country

STE. GENEVIEVE – The Ste. Genevieve High School boys cross country team competed in the Class 3 District 1 meet,

The boys did not score as a team.

Individually:

57 Gavin Zerwig 19:40.20

60 Adam Oder 19:53.64

66 Gavin Gegg 20:09.54

70 Simon Fritsch 20:50.42

The Ste. Genevieve girls team finished fifth overall

Individually:

6 Hollyn Zangaro 20:46.92*

25 Kayden Huck 22:39.56*

27 Laurie Parker 22:42.02*

38 Sophia Fritsch 24:09.36

48 Brianna Mitchell 24:46.95

70 Cecilia Mooney 27:42.98

* State Qualifiers reported by team

STE. GENEVIEVE – Valle Catholic boys came in fourth in the Class 1 District 1 cross-country meet. cross country meet.

Individually:

7th Austin Ringwald 17:54.67

15th Garrett Shortt 18:13.04

38th Thomas Varga 19:25.37

40th Dominic Griffard 19:35.28

49th Oliver Griffard 20:24.64

66th James Braun 21:18.50

72nd Truman Tucker 21:55.74

Valle did not have enough female runners for a team.

Individually:

1 Madelyn Griffard 20:18.94

44 Lillian Ringwald 24:16.29

89 Nicole Gegg 31:01.06

PERRYVILLE – St. Vincent came in third in the boys Class 2 District 1 cross country meet:

Individually:

5th Carter Hennemann 17:26.48

8th Jackson Unterreiner 17:33.46

33rd Ethan Hotop 18:54.02

42nd Braden Pech 19:30.11

79th Noah Winschel 21:43.62

101st Jake Layton 23:59.75

St. Vincent came in fifth in the girls Class 1 District 1 cross country meet:

Individually:

17th Abigail Kirn 23:13.42

18th Reagan Meyer 23:17.39

39th Cailyn Prost 25:55.09

40th Kennedy Sutterer 25:56.56

52nd Audrey Amschler 28:07.56

57th Sybina Nations 28:57.07

58th Sybelle Nations 29:02.13

JACKSON – Saxony Lutheran came in eighth in the boys Class 2 District 1 cross country meet.

Individually:

35 Jesse Schupp 19:10.11

44 Nicholas Chambless 19:38.26

48 Seth Mueller 19:45.30

49 Mark Richey 19:51.11

51 Matt Chambless 19:53.69

60 Gabe Hendon 20:30.98

62 Jonas Hohenadel 20:31.83

Saxony Lutheran did not have enough females to compete as a team.

Individually:

13 Myra Roth 22:07.71

25 Faith Dreyer 23:01.29

53 Addelyn Thomason 25:14.40

58 Adalyn Brandhorst 25:49.23

PERRYVILLE – Perryville High School came in 11th in the Class 4 District 1 cross county meet Saturday.

Individually:

37 Bair Hopkins 16:51.40

41 Clayton Bauwens 17:00.40

56 Porter Johnson 17:41.80

84 Marcas Smith 18:18.90

91 Ezekiel Pyland 18:38.0

The Perryville girls came in 13th.

Individually

74 Lucy Blythe 22:22:30

77 Gwynivere Newbrough 22:49.90

83 Olivia Iffert 23:29.80

84 Makayla Iffert 23:30.50

98 Anna Rehagen 25:03.20

106 Katie Baggett 27:45.70

108 Eloise Bollinger 28:50.30

Soccer

PERRYVILLE – Perryville plays Saxony Lutheran today at 4 p.m. in the Class 2 District 1 Tournament in St. Louis.