West Newsmagazine 11-7-18
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24 I SPORTS I<br />
November 7, 20<strong>18</strong><br />
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By WARREN MAYES<br />
High school softball<br />
For the first time since 2014, the <strong>West</strong>minster<br />
Christian Academy softball team<br />
won a district championship.<br />
<strong>West</strong>minster, the No. 2 seed, faced topseeded<br />
Incarnate Word Academy for the<br />
Class 3 District 4 title. <strong>West</strong>minster scored<br />
a 7-5 victory over the Red Knights. Incarnate<br />
Word, a Final Four team in 2017, finished<br />
at 13-10-1.<br />
“Incarnate Word is an excellent softball<br />
team and was coming off a trip to state last<br />
season,” Wildcats coach Dan Petke said.<br />
“They can pitch, play defense and hit very<br />
well. We are fortunate to be playing our<br />
best softball at the right time and were able<br />
to beat a very good team.”<br />
The Wildcats were thrilled to win the<br />
championship.<br />
“The girls were very excited,” Petke<br />
said. “They have become a family over the<br />
course of this year, and it is great for us<br />
to see them believe in themselves and pick<br />
The <strong>West</strong>minster Wildcats, District 4 softball champions<br />
each other up in difficult games like this.”<br />
<strong>West</strong>minster’s season ended in the sectional<br />
round. The St. Louis Notre Dame<br />
Rebels scored a 14-1 victory in five innings<br />
over <strong>West</strong>minster. The win was the second<br />
for Notre Dame over <strong>West</strong>minster this<br />
season. Back on Sept. 14, the Rebels won<br />
10-5 at <strong>West</strong>minster.<br />
The Wildcats ended their season with a<br />
13-12-1 record.<br />
High school boys cross country<br />
The Parkway Central Colts cross country<br />
boys team are district champions for the<br />
Parkway Central Colts, District 3 cross country champions<br />
first time in 47 years.<br />
The Colts won the Class 4 District 3 race<br />
that Parkway Central hosted. Parkway<br />
Central finished with 31 points.<br />
“The kids had an amazing regular<br />
season,” coach Brian Guilfoyle said. “As<br />
a coach, I am very proud of the boys. They<br />
all worked together to accomplish a team<br />
title in a sport that emphasizes individual<br />
times and places.”<br />
Senior captain Gottlieb Gerstenecker<br />
was the medalist with a time of 16 minutes,<br />
47.93 seconds.<br />
“This was his best time on our course,”<br />
Guilfoyle said. “He ran very relaxed and<br />
tried to help the other kids on the team with<br />
pace.”<br />
Colts teammate Andrew Ahrens came in<br />
second in 17:03.30.<br />
“This was a fantastic race for him,” Guilfoyle<br />
said. “He showed tremendous grit.”<br />
The other top 10 finisher for Parkway<br />
Central was junior Jackson Sniff. He came<br />
in sixth at 17:30.60.<br />
High school girls cross country<br />
The Parkway <strong>West</strong> Longhorns captured<br />
the girls cross country district championship<br />
and senior Chloe Hershenow won<br />
medalist honors with her best time ever.<br />
The Longhorns won the District 2 meet<br />
at Francis Park in south St. Louis. Parkway<br />
<strong>West</strong> finished first with 69 points. Hershenow<br />
was the medalist with a winning time<br />
of <strong>18</strong> minutes, 33.46 seconds.<br />
Eureka was second with 72 points. Marquette<br />
wound up third with 76 points and<br />
Nerinx Hall came in fourth with 107.<br />
It was the 10th district title in Parkway<br />
<strong>West</strong> history.<br />
“We have won two times out of the last<br />
three years,” coach Charlie Cutelli said.<br />
“Before that, we had not won a title since<br />
the early ‘90s.”<br />
Hershenow ran well to lead everyone in<br />
the meet.<br />
“Chloe is rounding into form as we roll<br />
into the end of the season,” Cutelli said. “I<br />
know she was eager to compete on Saturday<br />
and she ran her style of race and came<br />
out on top. It [her score] is her PR [personal<br />
record] for her four-year high school<br />
career.”<br />
The Longhorns’ Claire Smout was seventh<br />
in 19:21.44.<br />
“Claire ran great. I think she sometimes<br />
gets lost in the shuffle, but we would not<br />
be where we are as a team without her,”<br />
Cutelli said. “She has been our No. 2 or No.<br />
1 in every meet she has raced in this year<br />
and always comes up big when we need<br />
her.”<br />
High school girls golf<br />
The St. Joseph’s Academy Angels won<br />
their third consecutive Class 2 state championship.<br />
The victory ended an undefeated<br />
season for the Angels in dual matches,<br />
regular season tournaments and three postseason<br />
tournaments.
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