All Saints and St. Pius X 6th Grade Girls played for 3rd place in the CYO City Championship this morning. Both teams clad in green and white played a great game with a final score of 33-31 in favor of All Saints. Both teams played a great game and represented their schools well. Nice job girls!
St. Pius X 6th Grade girls take 5th in the CYO City championships
All Saints place third in the CYO City Championships for 6th grade girls
Paul Boileau, Track and Field Commission Chair, Rick Skayhan, Director of Officials and Mark Lee, CYO Director of Track and Field, spent Saturday morning training officials on the fine points of officiating track and field events.
CYO Track and Field officials training assembled at the long jump pit
Paul Boileau (right) conducts training at the long jump pit
Holy Trinity and St. Ignatius made their way to the Championship game which proved to be a contest that will be long remembered. Both teams showed a variety of talent but the Holy Trinity squad, on the verge of a growth spurt, showed remarkable shooting skills from the outside and agility and precision on drives. They owned the boards and came away with unbelievable rebounds.
A David and Goliath story where David wins again with a score of 37 – 26.
St. John Fisher and Our Lady of the Lake fifth grade girls provided ample excitement for the spectators this year as their game went into overtime with a score of 34 – 34 at the end of play.
With 2.6 seconds remaining on the clock, St. John Fisher was fouled and needed the two points to tie the game! The shooter scored the two shots and put the game into overtime!
Cool shooting free throws as the game came to a conclusion sealed the deal for St. John Fisher as they grabbed their third consecutive CYO title!
Valley Catholic won the fourth grade boys City Championship this year by defeating Our Lady of the Lake of Lake Oswego, This was Our Lady of the Lake’s first defeat in the championship that found five teams representing the school in the six games played over the weekend.
Valley Catholic won the contest with a 35 – 23 margin.
The Fourth grade game of the CYO City Championships was a rematch of the schools playing for the Third grade title! Our Lady of the Lake and St. Pius X made their way to center court to battle it out for first.
Our Lady of the Lake made their third statement of the weekend by taking home the blue with a 29 – 20 victory!
Our Lady of the Lake built a new gymnasium and it seemed to inspire some great basketball this year with the school finding 5 slots out of 12 in the third grade through fifth grade championship games. In other words, the school was represented in all but one championship game!
The 3rd grade boys defeated Christ the King for the championship this year.
MARCH MADNESS 2014 PORTLAND, OR
St. Pius X (Cedar Mill, OR) vs Our Lady of the Lake (Lake Oswego, OR). The third grade bracket this year featured 17 girls teams. St. Pius X met Our Lady of the Lake in February in a close regular season contest where St. Pius won 24 to 20.
Beyond the variety of small colorful basketball shoes, jerseys tucked in covering half the number on the back, matching socks (nothing like volleyball) the teams fought it out in a very athletic contest for third grade girls. Excellent coaching was obvious to this spectator!
In the end, Our Lady of the Lake won by a score of 23 – 11
Our Lady of the Lake CYO Champions 2014
St. Pius X Third Grade Girls take second place in the City Championships
Be ready to follow CYO third, fourth and fifth grade basketball championship action on Facebook, Twitter and my BLOG beginning tomorrow afternoon and finishing next weekend with sixth, seventh and eighth grade championships.
Lots of exciting action! Don’t miss it!
Nearly 600 high school youth participated in the CYO High School Basketball season this year with a snow storm forcing the end of season tournament to be moved to the following weekend. CYO Basketball Director, Jenna Bass did a masterful job of finding gym space to finish of the season for the men and women and “make it happen!”
In both boys and girls Championship play, the closing minutes of the games found the teams in very close proximity to one another and tied in several instances. Jesuit managed to pull it off with 5 of their 8 players with three missing due to their class retreat.
Central Catholic Men gave Jesuit a great game and it was anyones to have up to the end with a final score of 56 – 53 Jesuit.
Dulcich’s Jesuit Women’s team made it clear they came to play. After an 8 – 0 start, Petrusich’s Jesuit Women’s team came alive and tied the game. After a back and forth through out the game pattern, Petrusich’s Women went ahead by 5 and Dulcich Jesuit could not catchup. A great contest between two groups of senior women who enjoyed playing one another.
CYO Championships 2nd place Central Catholic Paddy Ellis 15, Joseph Wilson 45, Gunnar Vik, Cole Warner 22, Matt Hart 40, Michael Haines 24, Sam Gomez 25, Will Paustian 23, Cole Boileau 41, Dante Carnevalie. COACH Brian Vik, ASSISTANT COACH Jeff Paustian
CYO Championships 1st place Jesuit Tommy Kaempf 41, Nebea Fekede 14, Jack Tayler 12, Christian Thurley 20, Kaeden Klein 50, Brendan Rude 52, Justin Krack 25, Jack Hamburg 45. HEAD COACH Jim Kaempf, ASSISTANT COACH Dave Sebastian
Jesuit High School Girls CYO HS Championship team 1st place Molly Petrusich 35, Megan Wark 34, Robin Hackman 40, Megan O’Mara 43, Sydney Sirgy 33, Molly Donlon 45, Anne Shields 5, Lauren Brandt 3, Sarah Shank
CYO Championships 2nd place Girls team. Rachel Dulcich 20, Megan Furster 30, Abby Wachter 2, Frannie Orlando 55, Cece Wehrley 0, Alex Gill 44, Clare McCarthy 33, Mollie Handkins 1, Maddie Connall 21, Teresa Anctil 34, Julia Shafter 22, Maddy Mathews 32.
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