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BY JIM WIENERS

High School, or Prep, Fall Sports in the Florissant Valley area has come to an end thanks to McCluer North’s loss in Missouri Class Five Football (Nov. 17) but the Fall season in Missouri, as well as Illinois, ended last Saturday with the crowning of state football champions.
For the first time since The Independent News began publishing in 1987 no North St. Louis County high school won any state title, regardless of state affiliation to that sport. McCluer North got the highest state finish among Missouri State High School Activities Association members in North County with a semifinal trophy in Class Five Football. North County Christian took third in Missouri Christian Girls Volleyball and Boys Soccer.

Let us take a look back to the fall season.

FOOTBALL — For only the sixth time since The Independent News began publishing no North St. Louis County high school played in the MSHSAA state finals (a.k.a. Show Me Bowl) and it was the third time since the now Edward Jones Dome has hosted the event. While Suburban North Conference champion McCluer North lost to eventual Class Five runner up Kirkwood in the semifinals Hazelwood Central, who lost to eventual Class Six runner up CBC, and Lutheran North, who lost to eventual Class Three runner up Owensville, were eliminated in the Quarterfinal round. Also Jennings, a Class Four Sectional Qualifier and Suburban East Conference Champions, lost one of their two games in 2006 to eventual Illinois Class 4A runner up Breese-Mater Dei.

CROSS COUNTRY — McCluer North senior Mary Goldkamp wrapped up her senior season with a seventh-place finish in the Class Four Girls State event on Nov. 5. Goldkamp was a top 12 finisher in each of her four years of participating in state and her highest finish was her freshman year, 2003, taking fifth. The highest North County finisher in state was Normandy senior Anthony Allen (29th) while the highest area finisher was Hazelwood East sophomore

BOYS SOCCER — Archdiocesan Athletic Association champion Trinity Catholic, despite moving from Class Two to Class One, had their hopes of returning to state halted at home in the Class Two finals to John Burroughs, eventual runner up to Whitfield-a four-time champion. Hazelwood Central, who defeated Suburban North Conference champion Hazelwood West in the District Two final, lost to eventual Class Three runner up Lafayette in the Class Three Quarterfinal.

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL — Incarnate Word Academy, MWAA champion and former 11-time state champion, was denied a return trip to state, for the third time since 1990, losing in the Class Four, District Five final to Parkway West, who defeated Hazelwood Central in the Sectional round in route to a fourth-place State finish. Trinity Catholic qualified for Class Three Sectionals before losing to Visitation. North County Christian enjoyed a 40-9-3 season.

SOFTBALL — Incarnate Word Academy, MWAA Champions, and Hazelwood Central, second to Ritenour in the Suburban North Conference were each Class Four Sectional Qualifiers. Incarnate Word lost to Semifinalist Rockwood-Marquette while Hazelwood Central lost to Quarterfinalist Fort Zumwalt South.

BOYS SWIMMING — Hazelwood West won their fourth straight Suburban North Conference meet, Nov. 2 as the sport moved from the winter to the fall. In the MSHSAA Championships, Nov. 11 at the St. Peters Rec-Plex, Hazelwood West junior Ben Solari took ninth in the 200-yard Individual Medley and 100-yard Breaststroke while Hazelwood Central sophomore John Krause took ninth in the 50-yard Freestyle.

GIRLS TENNIS — McCluer North went unbeaten in Suburban North Conference play, with an 7-0 mark and, after finishing fourth in Class Two, District Three, was 11-4 overall after losing in the Team Regional round to eventual state champion St. Joseph’s Academy.

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