2012

5th Grade Boys City Championship

St. Pius X vs St. John Fisher

Two teams that show a lot of athletic ability and with height that will come soon they will both be forces to be reckoned with!  Looked like a slam dunk early in the contest but St. Pius X rallied in the fourth quarter bringing the score within 1 at 30 seconds to go.  With 11 seconds in the game, St. Pius X trailing, fouled St. John Fisher #1 who converted for 1 of 2 to lead by 2.  Pius X with one opportunity, missed the shot to tie. It’s in the record book as a GREAT GAME!

q 1 –  5 – 7 (St. John Fisher)

q 2 – 15 – 11 (St. John Fisher)

q 3 – 27 – 19 (St. John Fisher)

q 4 – 34 – 32 (St. John Fisher)

St. John Fisher 5th Grade Boys CYO City Champions 2012

St. Pius X 5th Grade Boys CYO City BXB Second Place 2012.

CYO STARS DIVISISION – Holy Family Sixth Grade Girls led the entire game until the last three minutes of play when Holy Cross went on a 14 point scoring spree to end the game with a score of 35-29.

By Quarter:

Holy family – Holy Cross

Q1 – 14-2

Q2 – 21-11

Q3 – 25-21

Q4 – 29-35

6 GIRLS STARS CHAMPIONS 2012 HOLY CROSS

6 GIRLS STARS SECOND PLACE HOLY FAMILY

The CYO 5th & 6th Graders are finishing their two-week tournament on Sunday March 4th with Championship games at Valley Catholic School.  Semifinals concluded on Saturday around the City in various locations depending on gender and grade.  Tomorrows results will be available through my blogs on Facebook both sports and camp.  Results will also be available through Twitter.  Photos of first and second place finishers will be available.

Ben Robbins from Holy Trinity practices his layup.

Bill Fogarty, Camp Howard Summer Program Director is on his way out the door headed for Chicago!  Why you might ask?  He is heading to an intense four day Workshop to become Certified as a Camp Director.  Camp Howard is a member of the American Camping Association which means we hold ourselves to to the highest standards in the industry to achieve certification through this organization.  One of the important elements is that the Camp Director has become certified.  See you in a week, Bill!

Camp Howard Director, Bill Fogarty leaves for Chicago to take in the Camp Director Certification Class.

Basketball tournament is almost finished (two weekends to go) and then it will be time to direct attention to Track and Field and Lacrosse.  Juliette Friel, CYO Director of Football and Lacrosse is getting the gear ready for coaches.  She will be handing material out at a coaches meeting on Sunday.

Getting gear ready for Lacrosse

The CYO Championship games will be held all over the city this weekend with 5th & 6th grade City Championship games at Valley Catholic on Sunday afternoon.

Tee shirt sites will be at St. Pius X gymnasium and Valley Catholic Athletic Center lobby.

See you this weekend!

Chuck Cunning shows sample of 2012 CYO Championship Shirt Design

St. Pius X 4th grade boys played St. Pius X 4th grade boys team for the City Championship this year.  Chances of this happening is very rare but it does occasionally happen.

Highlights:  Reports were that the boys scrimmage each other practically every day of practice and it was very similar to a regular scrimmage for them except the bleachers were full of spectators cheering on both teams.  In this writers opinion, all the fourth graders at St. Pius X are pretty special ball players

2012 Fourth Grade City Champions St. PIus X

St. Pius X Fourth Grade Boys 2nd in City Championship

St. Thomas More wins the 2012 City Basketball for 4th Grade girls in a contest that thrilled the spectators!

Highlights:

St. Thomas More and Our Lady of the Lake played a close game all the way to the end of the game when St. Thomas more extended the lead to win by a margin of 6 points. Final score: STM 25 – OLL 19

St. Thomas More 4th Grade Girls Champions 2012

Portland Christian trailed for three quarters in the City Championship for 3rd grade boys before coming from behind to win the game and the overall championship for 3rd grade boys 2012 in the CYO programs.

Highlights:

Q1 – St. Francis (Sherwood) led 10 – 4, Q2 – St. Francis led 22-11, Q3 – St. Francis led 28-23.  Q4-Portland Christian came from behind and won 37-32!

Fantastic game!  Two very well matched teams who brought their games to the big dance!  St. John Fisher girls vs St. Pius X.

Highlights:  Tied 4 to 4 at the end of first quarter.  Tied 10 to 10 at halftime.  St. John Fisher pulled ahead in the third quarter with a score of 10 to 17.  Fourth quarter belonged to St. John Fisher who finished it with a score of 25-14.  St. Pius X was in the game to the end.