Posted on 28 June 2010 by .
Fresh off a successful effort in the University of Virginia’s Cavalier Shootout, the Cardinal football team traveled to Dumfries on June 26 for John Paul the Great High School’s inaugural 7on7 tournament. Ireton seemed to sleep-walk through their first game, dropping a contest to St. John’s High School (Frederick, MD). A game against rival Bishop O’Connell and inspired play by captains Theo Daubresse and Tommy Gallinaro’ got the team headed in the right direction. The Cardinals stuck together and showed off a talented receiving corps in Sean Boldaji Moses Webb and Merid Merid, topping the Knights in a close game. They were less fortunate against the host team, losing Tommy Gallinaro to an injury that left the Redbirds with a 1-2 record at the lunch break.
Junior Moses Webb looked forward to the afternoon, noting, “”We just need to pick our heads up and realize that we still have a good opportunity to have success.” The Cardinals road his back to a victory against Palotti School in which P.J Zingler, Sean Boldaji, Ned Curry, and Zane Bush showed great ability and effort. Excellent catches by Boldaji, Webb, and Merid helped lead the Cardinals to a 2-2 record, which qualified the team for the playoffs.
The playoff game started with a scoring drive by Bishop O’Connell. Ireton came back with a beautiful drive lead by quarterback P.J. Zingler and wide receiver Merid Merid. The Cardinals defense was tough in the middle, led by Patrick O’Connell, Jacob Ramey, Robert Banez and Kevin Moreno. A great interception by Jonathan Frischkorn sparked a Cardinal offensive drive highlighted by Bush, Boldaji and Andrew Bladen. The Knights answered back with a deep pass, but a stout Cardinal defense stood firm at the goal line when Webb shut down star receiver Justin Trimble. Ireton sophomore QB P.J. Zingler delivered a beautiful ball to Moses Webb in the end zone for the Cardinals’ playoff victory as time expired. It was clear that the Cardinals were determined to win as they entered the championship game against host John Paul the Great. Ramey got the Cardinals defense off on the right foot by picking off a Wolve pass. Riley Walters put the Cardinals on top with a touchdown reception and the Cardinals held a slim lead when the Wolves scored, but missed an extra point play. Cardinals were then lead down the field by P.J Zingler and Andrew Bladen. The game was sealed a short time later when Moses Webb made an acrobatic touchdown catch. The Cardinals never looked back as they won the Pope John the Great 7on7 tournament.
“We started off cold and were not at the top of our game, but we picked up the pace and won it all thanks to our hard work,” said rising junior receiver, Merid Merid.
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Posted on 24 June 2010 by .
The sports medicine team at Bishop Ireton, lead by certified athletic trainer Matt Horton and team physician, Dr. Kathleen McHale, have made concussion prevention and treatment a sports medicine priority. The use of programs such as imPact, a computer-based database, establishes a baseline and then test athletes when a possible injury occurs. Other less glamorous initiatives include simple issues like making sure the helmet fits the player.
INOVA Fairfax has tapped our program in their new podcast. Check out the newly released podcast at www.inova.org/healthykidspodcasts. Note Aubrey Gartlan, Dom Puglise, and Mike Larrabee starred in the INOVA podcast along with Dr. McHale and Mr. Horton.
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Posted on 22 June 2010 by .
The officials tryouts for the following sports are as posted below:
Girls Volleyball 9am Sat Aug 14
Girls Soccer 8am Mon Aug 16
Boys Soccer 10am Mon Aug 16
Girls Tennis 3:30pm Monday Aug 16
Cross Country (boys and girls) 7:30am Mon Aug 16
Football Varsity 5pm Aug 10
Football JV 5pm Aug 11
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Posted on 16 June 2010 by .
Commissioner Jim Leary announced Wednesday the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference (WCAC) approved changes in the conference schedules during the semiannual meeting of the Schools’ presidents and principals. Beginning in the spring of 2011, boys tennis teams will play each member school once a season. Previously, the schools had played a home-and-home schedule for both boys and girls. The shorter spring season especially cramped the schedule when weather plays a critical part of the outdoor sport. While the girls season has more time, the overwhelming consensus of the coaches was that twice a year followed by a tournament was simply too much; hard logistically, too much time out of class, and court time hard to come by.
A more contentious issue for coaches was the decision to reduce the WCAC schedule in soccer, beginning in the 2011 season. While coaches were split over the benefits of the reduction, the athletic directors and School heads were convinced that the impact of widespread club soccer during the season put too much physical strain on the players themselves. The issue simmered for two years as the WCAC discussed and debated the merits of the reduction. In the end, the wellbeing of the student athlete was the deciding factor. “It came down to many of our teams simply resting players on Mondays as a result of Club soccer all weekend. Tuesdays and Fridays are game days in the WCAC, so there is very little time to practice and teach.” said the conference’s soccer chairman, Bill Simmons of Bishop Ireton. “Because we have such competitive teams in the league top to bottom, those Tuesday, Friday games are often hard fought contests. This move will give the athlete more recovery time, coaches more teaching time, we felt as administrators was best for the kids in the long run.” Coaches opposed to the move cited the difficulty in finding non conference opponents and competitive opportunities outside the WCAC.
The reduction in soccer will drop the boys from an 18-game conference season, 16 for girls (Archbishop Carroll does not play varsity soccer), and a 25-game overall limit, back down to a nine-game (8 for the girls) conference regular season and a 20-game overall limit. The conference championship tournament will remain a single elimination tournament as before.
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Posted on 08 June 2010 by .
On May 27th Bishop Ireton Rowing traveled to the Scholastic Nationals in Saratoga, New York. As the team pulled into the camp ground to go out for a swing row of the course, you could see that this year the men and women were focused on making a statement.
The first day of racing was an early one for the Lady Cardinals. The junior woman’s eight comprised of (Cox-Julie Roth, Stroke- Lilly Ramey, Sarah Morgan, Olivia Babiec, Carmen Fox, Meredith Ramey, Sarah Young, Katherine Aust, & Bow- Jasmine Conkright) were first to race. They had a tough heat with only three boats advancing to the semi-finals of four heats. The lady Cardinals took third posting a time of (5:26:59) This marked the first time that Bishop Ireton had advanced to the next day of racing at nationals, making it one step closer to the grand final. The junior eight knew they would need to have the race of their lives to make it out of the semi-final with only three boats advancing to the grand final.
The Lady Cardinals had the toughest semi-final draw, while coming in sixth place, the top three crews from their semi-final would go one, two, three in the grand final. The girls came off the water with their heads held high knowing they gave it their all, little did they know that they finished the regatta ranked 10th in nation!
The men’s team decided to break away from the eight they had raced all season to stack a varsity four comprised of (Cox-Amanda Krauss, Stroke-Patrick Walsh, Garrett Hulfish, Thaddeus Babiec & Bow-Joseph Morgan.) The varsity four is hands down the hardest race at the national level and has the most entries, but the boys rowed hard in their heat posting a time of (5:18.928) which got them into the reps later that day.
The men would have liked to finish in the top two of the rep to make it to the semi-finals the next day. The men’s second race was a little out of reach as they finished in 6th place. The men showed great grace knowing that they had only practice that boat a couple of times before heading to Saratoga. The men also made Bishop Ireton history by becoming the first men’s crew to make it out of the heat on the national level.
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