High school roundup: St. Vincent defense fails to slow Herky in football showdown

The St. Vincent football team struggled to stop the run Friday.

The Indians surrendered 293 yards and four touchdowns on 11 carries by Herculaneum's running back as the Black Cats rolled to a 48-14 victory.

Herculaneum cruised to a 28-0 lead at the intermission before St. Vincent's offense scored a pair of touchdowns after halftime.

"They were killing us with the run," St. Vincent coach Paul Sauer said. "We had third-and-long on a couple occasions and they'd break off 80-yard runs for touchdowns. It seems like any time we had them third-and-long, they'd break off a long run."

Junior Taylor Sauer hooked up with senior Ryan Boxdorfer for a 20-yard scoring pass, and junior Derek Joggerst added an 80-yard rushing touchdown for the Indians (1-3).

Sophomore Trent Elders started at quarterback for St. Vincent and went 5 of 11 for 50 yards with one interception, while Sauer completed 4 of 9 passes for 49 yards, a touchdown and an interception.

Joggerst led the rushing attack with 10 carries for 114 yards and a score.

Boxdorfer was the Indians' leading receiver with four catches for 38 yards, while Adam Winkler hauled in three passes for 40 yards.

Joggerst caught one pass for 19 yards and Nathan Comte snared one for 2 yards.

The Indians return to action Friday when they host Festus St. Pius.

SWIMMING

Parkway West meet

Kristian Troxel and Ryan Gibson posted state-cut times while helping Jackson score 40 points in a third-place team effort.

Troxel won the 200 individual medley in a state-cut time and added a first in the 100 breaststroke.

Gibson won the 100 butterfly in a state-cut time.

Team results -- 1. Parkway West 89, 1. MICDS 89, 3. Jackson 40

200 individual medley -- 1. Kristian Troxel 2:06.63

100 butterfly -- 1. Ryan Gibson 56.02

100 backstroke -- 3. Gibson 1:03.33

100 breaststroke -- 1. Troxel 1:07.90

400 freestyle relay -- 3. Jackson (Gibson, Landon Beck, Kelton Burgi, Troxel) 3:54.44

Diving -- 2. Chris Sell 149.30

SOFTBALL

Oran 25, Saxony Lutheran 0

Amanda Williams went 3 for 3 and drove in five runs to lead the host Eagles to the lopsided victory.

Courtney Scheeter walked four times and scored all four times, while Taylor Nenninger and Addie Kielhofner both drove in two runs.

Kelsey James collected both hits for the Crusaders.

Saxony 000 -- 0 2 8

Oran (12)(13)0 -- 0 0 0

WP -- Courtney Scheeter. LP -- Sydney Rapp. 2B -- Amanda Williams (O). Multiple hits -- Oran: Williams 3-3; Saxony Lutheran: Kelsey James 2-2.

VOLLEYBALL

Tri meet

Eagle Ridge won a pair of matches behind a combined 14 kills from Lyndse Hamby.

The Eagles defeated Liberty 25-18, 25-20 and Berean 25-4, 25-10.

Shelby Howell collected 28 service points, four aces and three digs in the two matches to help Eagle Ridge improve to 6-4.

-- From staff reports