Ryan Murken

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City High won a Mississippi Valley Conference divisional title and qualified for the Class 4A state tournament last month.

On Monday the Little Hawks were rewarded by sweeping the individual MVC awards when the league announced its postseason honors.

Senior Jack Dancer was named MVC Valley Division athlete of the year, junior Ben Borger-Germann was named keeper of the year and Jose Fajardo was honored as coach of the year after the Little Hawks went 15-2-3 while posting a perfect 7-0 mark in Valley Division contests.

City High had 10 players earn MVC honors including four players that landed on the Valley Division first team.

Seniors Jonah Bowen-Burt, Alexander Chappell and Jackson Nichols-Lindsey joined Dancer as first-team all-Valley Division selections.

Dancer had a single season school record 21 goals and four assists on his way to player of the year honors while Nichols-Lindsey had six goals and two assists.

Bowen-Burt had six goal and an assist while Chappell had a team-high 12 assists for the Little Hawks.

Seniors Lucas Riley, Tatum Born and Josh Borger-Germann were all second-team all-Valley Division picks.

Born had two goals and an assist and Borger-Germann had two goals and four assists for City High.

Riley had a goal and two assists.

Senior Gabe Egeland and senior Noe Semabia were both honorable mention selections for City High.

West High senior Daniel Fuentes was named Mississippi Division athlete of the year to highlight a list of nine Trojans to earn all-divisional honors.

Liberty High senior keeper Conley Sundblad was named Mississippi Division keeper of the year as the Class 3A runner-up Lightning had seven players earn all-division honors.

Fuentes led West High with 10 goals and added an assist on his way to earning first-team all-divisional honors.

Seniors Henry Lu, Liam Teghanemt and junior Tiago Gonzalez all joined Fuentes on the Mississippi Division first team.

Teghanemt had three goals, Gonzalez had nine goals and two assists and Lu had a pair of assists for the Trojans.

Seniors Azaam Guama, Caden Crabtree and Christian Kim all earned second team all-Mississippi Division honors for West High.

Kim had four goals and two assists and Guama had a goal for West High.

Juniors Jack Eastvold and Adam Salem were each honorable mention selections for the Trojans.

Sundblad led the all-division picks for Liberty High earning first team all-Mississippi Division honors after collecting 55 saves while allowing just 14 goals.

Senior Japhet Bogo joined Sundblad on the Mississippi Division first team after leading the team with eight goals and adding three assists.

Junior Finn O’Toole, sophomore Tayson Cho and senior Roman Riggs all were named to the Mississippi Division second team.

Riggs tied with Japhet for the team lead with eight goals while O’Toole had five goals and two assists.

Sophomore Sam Lieu and junior Collin Weis were both honorable mention picks for Liberty High.

Mississippi Valley Conference Boys Soccer Teams

Mississippi Division

First team – Daniel Fuentes, Sr., West High; Henry Lu, Sr., West High; Liam Teghanemt, Sr., West High; Tiago Gonzalez, Jr., West High; Vincent D’amico, Jr., Cedar Rapids Xavier; Will Dybvig, Jr., Cedar Rapids Xavier; Ty Weiss, Soph., Cedar Rapids Xavier; Conley Sundblad, Sr., Liberty High; Japhet Bongo, Sr., Liberty High; Max Cassidy, Sr., Linn-Mar; Joel Sheets, Jr., Linn-Mar; Danny Rothert, Sr., Dubuque Senior; Jeremy O’Rourke, Sr., Dubuque Senior; Isaac Schmidt, Sr., Cedar Rapids Kennedy

Second team – Azaam Guama, Sr., West High; Caden Crabtree, Sr., West High; Christian Kim, Sr., West High; Thomas Cavin, Jr., Cedar Rapids Xavier; Olivier Pino, Fr., Cedar Rapids Xavier; Jean Ngoma, Sr., Cedar Rapids Xavier; Finn O’Toole, Jr., Liberty High; Roman Riggs, Sr., Liberty High; Tayson Cho, Soph., Liberty High; Abbas Romero, Sr., Linn-Mar; Owen Sieren, Sr., Linn-Mar; Alex Karr, Sr., Cedar Rapids Kennedy; Jace Popenhagen, Jr., Cedar Rapids Kennedy; Ethan Callahan, Sr., Dubuque Senior; Leo Clemens, Sr., Western Dubuque

Honorable mention – Isaac Davis, Jr., Cedar Rapids Kennedy; Gaafar Osmanali, Jr., Cedar Rapids Kennedy; Athony Trotta, Soph., Cedar Rapids Xavier; Ryan Kelly, Jr., Cedar Rapids Xavier; Merrick Hull, Jr., Dubuque Senior; Jose Rubio, Sr., Dubuque Senior; Sam Lieu, Soph., Liberty High; Collin Weis, Jr., Liberty High; Jack Eastvold, Jr., West High; Adam Salem, Jr., West High; Mason Grant, Jr., Linn-Mar; Seth Comer, Sr., Linn-Mar; Brody Staner, Sr., Western Dubuque; Zander Ehlers, Sr., Western Dubuque

Athlete of the year – Daniel Fuentes, Sr., West High

Coach of the year – Sho Takaoka, Cedar Rapids Xavier

Keeper of the year – Conley Sundblad, Sr., Liberty High; Jean Ngoma, Sr., Cedar Rapids Xavier

Valley Division

First team – Jack Dancer, Sr., City High; Jackson Nichols-Lindsey, Sr., City High; Jonah Bowen-Burt, Sr., City High; Alexander Chappell, Sr., City High; Colin Moyle, Sr., Cedar Rapids Prairie; Drew DeSmidt, Sr., Cedar Rapids Prairie; Sam Dahlem, Jr., Cedar Rapids Prairie; Garrett Eskelson, Sr., Cedar Falls; Michael Perez, Sr., Cedar Falls; Luke Welbes, Sr., Dubuque Wahlert; Connor Walsh, Jr., Dubuque Wahlert; Jacob Klein, Sr., Cedar Rapids Washington; Logan Barton, Soph., Cedar Rapids Washington; Bo Tee, Jr., Waterloo West; Mitch Tackney, Sr., Dubuque Hempstead

Second team – Lucas Riley, Sr., City High; Tatum Born, Sr., City High; Josh Borger-Germann, Sr., City High; Owen Kahler, Soph., Cedar Rapids Prairie; Ryland McMaster, Jr., Cedar Rapids Prairie; Caleb Eckert, Jr., Cedar Rapids Prairie; Jesus Alonzo, Sr., Cedar Falls; Elvin Bajrektarevic, Fr., Cedar Falls; Tate Schope, Sr., Dubuque Wahlert; John Berning, Jr., Dubuque Wahlert; Lewis Foster, Fr., Cedar Rapids Washington; Aidin Bajramovic, Jr., Waterloo West; Bryce Roling, Sr., Dubuque Hempstead; Jiles Aklassou, Sr., Cedar Rapids Jefferson

Honorable mention – Dalvin Ross, Jr., Cedar Falls; Cael Harms, Jr., Cedar Falls; Jonathan Rubio, Sr., Cedar Rapids Jefferson; Emmanuel Olivier, Jr., Cedar Rapids Jefferson; Kolten Switzer, Fr., Cedar Rapids Prairie; Kaleb Peterman, Jr., Cedar Rapids Prairie; Aiden Erickson, Jr., Cedar Rapids Washington; Vande Mzaliwa, Soph., Cedar Rapids Washington; Denver Reisdorf, Sr., Dubuque Hempstead; Jack Berg, Sr., Dubuque Hempstead; Ted Kann, Sr., Dubuque Wahlert; Charlie Thole, Jr., Dubuque Wahlert; Noe Semabia, Sr., City High; Gabe Egeland, Sr., City High; Aziz Salihovic, Sr., Waterloo West; Alen Dedic, Jr., Waterloo West

Athlete of the year – Jack Dancer, Sr., City High

Coach of the year – Jose Michel Fajardo, City High

Keeper of the year – Ben Borger-Germann, Jr., City High

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