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Incarnate Word Academy Began Girls 3-Peat Hoop Quest March 3
By Jim Wieners
Incarnate Word Academy began their quest for their third straight Class Four Girls State Basketball Championship March 3 against Soldan International Studies in a District Six game at Normandy Collaborative High Viking Hall
IWA or Soldan plays Friday, March 6, 5 p.m. against the winner of the other March 3 game between Jennings and Riverview Gardens. The Class Four, District Six winner plays the District Five winner March 10, 7:45 at Parkway West and that winner plays the District Seven winner or the District Eight winner March 14, 2:45 at Francis Howell High. IWA had a bye on Feb. 28 while Soldan-International Studies defeated Sumner 40-11, Jennings defeated Normandy 77-17 and Riverview defeated McCluer South-Berkeley 53-48.
IWA Girls Basketball is trying to be the second team at the school to win three straight titles. Girls Volleyball won five straight from 1982 to 1986 and three-peated 2003-2005. IWA won three out of four in 1993, 1994 and 1996.
Girls Basketball has won six titles since 1995 but won five of them since 2006 and since 2010 has won four titles, two in Class Five (2010, 2011) and the last two in Class Four. The only blemish in the last five years took place in 2012 where Columbia-Rock Bridge defeated IWA in the Class Five Semifinal and the Red Knights ended up settling for third place. Since then IWA has not lost a game to a Missouri high school and defeated Rock Bridge Feb. 7 in the Webster Groves Winter Challenge championship game, 53-50 in overtime while Rock Bridge has won three consecutive Class Five State titles and is seeking a four-peat.
CLASS FOUR, DISTRICT SEVEN — McCluer was to play March 2 against Fort Zumwalt East at St. Charles West and the winner plays Thursday, March 5, 6 p.m against St. Charles High followed at 7:30 as St. Charles West plays the winner of March 2 game, St. Dominic or Liberty. Thursdays winners play Friday at 6 p.m and that winner plays the District Eight Champion March 10, 7:45 at Francis Howell Central.
CLASS FIVE — McCluer North hosts DISTRICT SEVEN and will play Thusday, 7 p.m. against Ladue-Horton Watkins after St. Joseph’s Academy battles Hazelwood East at 5 p.m. The winners play Saturday, March 7 at 3 p.m. and the district champion plays the District Eight Champion March 11, 7:45 at Lindenwood University. On Feb. 28 Hazelwood East, with a 14-6 third quarter, defeated Ritenour 50-44 as Cearrah Huddleston scored 14 points and Destiny Williford added 11.
DISTRICT SIX at DeSmet Jesuit opened March 2 as Hazelwood Central played Hazelwood West and Parkway North battles Pattonville and the winners play Thursday, 7 p.m. for the right to play the District Five winner March 11, 7:45 at St. Charles West.
The March 11 winners play in the Quarterfinal March 14, 2:45 at Lindenwood University.
