Cathedral – 6th Grade Girls
Head Coach Christian Buchholz, Assistant Coach Jenni Valentine and Eric Valentine. Team Members: Claire, Alison, Abigail, Ava, Scout, Meg, Aiko, Grace & Cierra.
The Cathedral 6th Grade Girls followed suit with the 5th Grade Girls and won the CYO Spike Championship for 2014
6th Grade Girls Champions for the CYO Spike Tournament CATHEDRAL
Cathedral – 5th Grade Girls
Head Coaches: Donna Lenz, Fergie Bush
Team Members: Elliott, Taylor, Abby, Madeleine, Maise, Courtney, Lily, Harper, Maggie, Cloe & Natalie.
The Cathedral 5th Grade girls won the CYO Spike Championship for 2014! Congratulations to all of the girls for the excellent job they did. It was an exciting game to watch.
Cathedral 5th Grade Volleyball team wins the CYO “Spike” Championship 2014!
The Fighting Dutch, a combination of one time fierce rivals St. Francis, Roy and Visitation, Verboort, won the third grade volleyball championship in 2013 and came back to play for the 2014 championship with a perfect record! Would they go on to clinch the Title as Fourth Graders? Yes!….sorry St. Joseph, Vancouver, well known as an all sport powerhouse from Vancouver, not this time though as the Fighting Dutch won a second championship.
Congratulations to both teams for the great job you do in CYO sports!
The Mighty FIGHTING DUTCH from West Washington County win the 4th Grade Girls CYO Spike Championship 2014!
One of Valley Catholic’s third grade volleyball teams went undefeated all season and got beat in the first round of the GREAT 8 bracket by Holy Trinity. The second Valley Catholic team had a couple of defeats during the season but in the GREAT 8 bracket they won their first game and worked their way to the Spike Championship. Holy Trinity won the first game, Valley Catholic the second and Valley Catholic the third!!!! GREAT game by all of the third grade teams.
Valley Catholic Third Grade Volleyball Team wins the Spike Tournament 2014 Head Coach: Arellano (Also a student of Sr. Krista when Sr. Krista taught at Valley Catholic – way to go team!
CYO West and CYO Vancouver met in the 2014 Championship game at Valley Catholic. Both teams played each other very evenly through the first half where the score was 26 to 29 going into the third quarter. CYO West overpowered the Vancouver Cougars in the second half outscoring them by some 30 points at the end of the contest.
CYO West “Knights” win the CYO Football Championship for 2014
CYO Vancouver “Cougars” play a tough game in the 2014 CYO Championship
The CYO West “Knights” took on the CYO North “Warriors” for the CYO Championship in November of 2014. Highlights included a 0 to 0 score at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter The West recovered an on side kick and finished the half with a 12 – 0 score. At the end of the third quarter, the Warriors had battled back and tied the score 12 to 12! (Josh Broderick blocked an extra point kick as well!) In the final quarter, the West Knights prevailed with a final score of 18 to 12. A great game to watch for sure!
CYO West “Knights” win the 7th Grade CYO Football Championship 2014
CYO North “Warriors” play a tough game against their opponents in the CYO Championship Game 2014
The CYO North “Warriors” took on the CYO Vancouver “Cougars” in a very competitive game where the score did not tell the whole story. Both teams played a tough season and had a great showing in the championship event. The final score was 16 – 30 in favor of Vancouver. Congratulations to both teams.
Vancouver “Cougars” Fifth and Sixth Grade win the CYO Championship for 2014
CYO Football has been under a lot of change these past two years. The goal has been to develop a seventh grade team separate from the eighth grade team. In order to do this, it was necessary of merge the regions to create more players and thereby have enough players to have the two age / grade groups stand alone. Therefore Region 1 Spartans joined the Region 2 Bishops and became “CYO North”. Region 5 Saints and Region 6 Knights merged to become “CYO WEST”. Region 3 Kings and Region 4 Eagles merged to become “CYO SOUTH”. Region 8 Stayton Rams continued on unchanged and Region 7 Vancouver Cardinals became “CYO Vancouver” and changed their nick names to the “Cougars”. There was a lot of give and take necessary for the changes to take place as CYO merged with the PYFL Portland Youth Football League and began playing games with them. In most cases it turned out to be a positive experience and CYO will continue down this road. The PYFL does not play an end of season championship so CYO continued the tradition playing for the CYO title at the end of the season.
In Third and Fourth grade the Stayton “Rams” played the CYO West where both teams were plagued by fumbles at the beginning of the game. Pre game jitters for sure! In the end after a well played and fun to watch game, the Regis Rams won with a final score of 24 – 6.
Stayton Rams make a trip to Beaverton for the 3/4 grade championship football game November 2014
CYO West Football from the Beaverton area play in the CYO Football Championships November 2014
You may wonder…”What happens after the summer programs and Outdoor School programs at Camp Howard? You might not know that Camp Howard is open all year round and people rent the camp for family events like weddings, family reunions, retreats, church picnics etc. During January and most of February we do a lot of interior work like painting walls and renovations. Right now Aldergrove Unit is being renovated on the interior. Bunks and walls are being painted, things are being spiffed up so that campers will come to the unit and really appreciate the new clean look.
During the winter we sometimes get strong winds. Generally nothing happens except branches might fall and litter the ground. But every so many years we get especially high winds and these extra strong winds take down trees that are diseased. We lost one tree to high winds this winter and it hit All Saints Cabin in Aldergrove. It knocked the cabin off its foundation and the porch came off. It was a pretty hard hit and I am really glad we did not have any campers in the camp when it happened.
You may be interested to know that most often the trees that come down in the wind storms are the Hemlocks. Camp Howard is made up of mostly Douglas Fir, Oregon’s most popular crop tree.
The photos below show the damage that was done. We are in the process of fixing the cabins and my next posts will show where we are in that process. Check out these photos of the cabin and let me know your thoughts or reactions.
All Saints Cabin in Aldergrove unit was built in 1995. It was hit by a tree this winter and knocked off it’s foundation.
The rootball of the Hemlock tree that fell can be seen here as well as the “shadow” of where it lay prior to being sawed into “rounds” and removed to be made into firewood. The shadow is the sawdust!
The front of the cabin shows the porch off to the right, the stairs upside down to the right and the porch sitting at an angle to the front of the door. “Light still works!”
The fascia board hangs from the building by a few nails and the building has a number of issues that must be addressed.
When the building was thrust against the tree and moved off the foundation, it continued its downward movement and part of the foundation came through the floor of the cabin.
Another area where the foundation punched through the floor
Even the garbage can did not escape a “crunch!” Wrong place wrong time!
CYO/Camp Howard 
