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.

This was a fun game played by two teams of boys in the same grade at the same school that are obvious classmates.  It was evident in the way they treated one another.  Great example of sportsmanship throughout the game.  First Class Coaches as well.  It looked to this writer like these boys play basketball against each other often and on any day the game could go one direction or the other.  Today the score tipped in the direction of the white team.

Great players in the fourth grade class at St. Anthony!

St. Ignatius and St. Matthew played a very good fourth grade girls finals game for third place today.  The game featured two groups of girls with a lot of passion for the game and indicators of some very good talent in the future.

Highlights: St. Ignatius had the height and St. Matthew had the hot hands today.  These teams met last year for the CYO championship.  We will continue to expect some great things from these girls.

St. Pius X School, Cedar Mill, Oregon

CYO Third Grade boys from Cathedral and Holy Trinity played for third and fifth place in the annual CYO City Basketball Championships.  By a 1 point lead, Cathedral won the contest over Holy Trinity.  Both teams are sure to provide exciting basketball action in future CYO competitions.

Highlights: Holy Trinity led at halftime with a score of 16 to 12.  Cathedral came out of the halftime break on fire and led by a margin of 6 points until the close of the game when Holy Trinity’s Point Guard, Lang, provided some opportunities for the team. The game could have gone either direction several times but today it went Cathedral’s direction.

Both teams showed excellent progress from the beginning of the season through the championship tournament.