Bishop Ireton High School | Archive | March, 2010

The 2010 edition of Cardinal lacrosse (0-1, 0-0) debuted on Friday afternoon in a steady rain, falling to The Potomac School (1-0, 0-0) of McLean, Virginia, in a hard fought 7-3 defensive contest.  Senior Dom Puglise of Woodbridge opened the scoring for Ireton in the first period, a lead the redbirds nursed through the first half.  Potomac countered in the second to knot the score, but junior David Souliotis gave the lead back to the Cards with his first goal of the season.

The second half of a defensive struggle saw the Panthers open up their offense and pulling out to a 4-2 lead in the third period. Puglise would score Ireton’s lone goal of the second half as the more experienced navy and orange visitors gained the advantage.  Tommy Kestermann and the Cardinal defense were strong throughout the game, but the inexperienced offense found the weather and Panther defense too much to handle on Fannon Field.

It was the opener for both squads. The Cardinals travel to The Heights Tuesday for a 4pm start.

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Ireton junior Patrick Hanafin, with an 18 point per game average in WCAC play, was selected to the Conference’s third team it was announced in Washington DC.  The Arlington native, with teammate junior Antonio Rouse recognized as the Cardinal’s lone honorable mention awardee, return next season along with 86% of the Ireton offense from the 2009-2010 season.  The squad played 16 of their 26 contests against squads ranked in the Washington Post’s top 20. Ireton earned three wins (Good Counsel, Glenelg Country, Georgetown Prep) while losing a pair of contests in overtime to ranked foes (#1 Gonzaga, Episcopal).

Sarah Baldwin, a senior, was the lone honoree from the women’s squad in 2009-2010.  She led the Cardinals in scoring for the campaign, as well as three-point field goals, logging over 30 points in a non conference game and ending the regular season with a 28-point night at St Mary Ryken. The Alexandria native is a two-year varsity starter for Coach Mike Hutton.  She is one of five seniors graduating this year, each a member of the School’s National Honor Society.

Champion DeMatha led the selections on the men’s teams, with three first team selections, while powers St Johns, Holy Cross, and Bsihop McNamara each landed a pair of women on the league’s ten-player first team.  The Stags Quinn Cook was the player of the year for the men and his coach, Mike Jones was the coach of the year.  Elizabeth Seton’s Tyuanna Marshall earned player of the year honors and “Jazz” Perazic of the Roadrunners was the women’s coach of the year.





First team Honorees

Men:    

Cedric Lindsay – Gonzaga
Tyler Thornton – Gonzaga
Quinn Cook – Dematha
Victor Oladipo – DeMatha
Mikael Hopkins – DeMatha
Kendall Marshall – Bishop O’Connell
Chris Martin – St Johns
Ben Hazel – Good Counsel
Treveon Graham – St Mary Ryken
Brandon Coleman – Bishop McNamara

Coach of the Year – Mike Jones, DeMatha

Women:

Gillian Abshire – Good Counsel
Nequoiah Anderson – Archbishop Carroll
Akilah Bethal – Holy Cross
Taylor Brown – Bishop McNamara
Michea Bryant – Bishop McNamara
Blair Koniszewski – Paul VI Catholic
Tyuanna Marshall – Elizabeth Seton
Lanay Montgomery – Holy Cross
Mooriah  Rowser – St John’s
Nicola Zimmer – St John’s

Coach of the Year – Jazz Perazic, E. Seton

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It may not feel like football season, but while many Cardinal football players are competing for Bishop Ireton’s spring sport teams they are also taking steps to improve upon the program’s 7 – 3 record from 2009. 

One of the first steps is conducting player/parent/coach meetings during February and March.  Defensive Coordinator Matt Shea and Offensive Coordinator Ed Malinowski oversee discussions that bring new and returning players face-to-face with coaches for a frank discussion about academic standing, individual and team goals, balancing other sports, and preparing for the summer and fall season. 

Head Coach Tony Verducci initiated this program last winter as a means to “make sure our staff shared a common vision with each student-athlete and family.”  Verducci believes that the intimate nature of the meeting helps players understand and acknowledge their responsibility and role in contributing to the team.  The meetings also respect the important role that parents play in supporting their children, our program, and Bishop Ireton.  Off-season coaching responsibilities involve much more than attending winter and spring games and attending the player/parent coach meetings. 

Coach Verducci and several other members of his staff recently completed an intense 25 hour seminar with Tony Franklin, offensive coordinator at Louisiana Tech and architect of the potent spread offense that helps the Cardinals fly.  Coach Franklin, and members of several other schools that run “The System”, exchanged detailed information about being a fast-paced, dynamic football team.  The training energized the Ireton coaches, who are busy making plans for introducing some new concepts during the Bishop Ireton High School Football Clinic and Middle School Fundamental Clinics this summer. 

Information on these and all other Bishop Ireton Summer Sports Camps is available on the school website.  “This offense is extremely fun to play and coach in” explained Coach Verducci, “our team has a strong command of the concepts, so it’s time to turbo-charge and make the jump from good to great.” 

The Cardinal coaches look forward to March 20, 2010 when they welcome incoming members of the Bishop Ireton class of 2014.  Coach Joe Blaszkow, moving up to the varsity after two highly successful seasons as head coach of the junior varsity program, noted that “It’s always exciting to meeting young men who will join the program, most of whom have very little, if any, organized football experience.”  The summer camps and activities provide new students with a great orientation to Bishop Ireton as well as the Cardinal football program.  Those who want more information about the summer camps and football program can contact Coach Verducci at Verducca@bishopireton.org.      

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The Bishop Ireton Crew Team is off to a great start on the 2010 Spring Crew Season and hopefully grabbed a little – luck o the Irish –  on Saturday as they participated in the 2010 Alexandria City St. Patrick’s Day Parade. 

The team was decked out not only in their BI Crew gear but also in a whole lot of green, even green hair, to show their Irish spirit!  The Bishop Ireton Cardinal mascot—wearing his Leprechaun hat—was a huge favorite with the kids. 

Ireton’s rowers were a hit with all the parade spectators, as they showed off one of their racing shells, the Ted Keany and handed out strings of St. Patrick’s Day beads to the crowd!  As the team passed the reviewing stand, the Mayor announced the BI Crew Team and proudly recited a number of BI’s distinguished graduates, including the new governor of Virginia, Governor Bob McDonnell. 

The team’s season will officially kick off on March 20th with their first regatta, the Anacostia Regatta, where they take on DeMatha and Elizabeth Seton.  Come out and show your school spirit as you cheer on the Cardinals in what promises to be a very exciting day of races on the Anacostia River.  This year’s BI Crew team returns with a host of veteran rowers who know how to win and a group of novices that are hungry for a win in their first regatta! Go Cardinals!

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RE Lee Electric, of Newington, Virginia, arrived early Thursday at Luckett Field to complete the installation of the long awaited new scoreboard for Alexandria City’s Luckett Field.  The City field is the current home for the Cardinals varsity softball team. 

Funded by the Bishop Ireton Athletic Booster Club in the spring of 2009, the NEVCO board was delivered at the end of the school year last spring, but also in the middle of a financially difficult time for all city agencies. As  a result of this unbudgeted installation expense of the Ireton gift, the boosters went back to the drawing board and earmarked additional funds to partially defray the installation costs. With City Council approval this winter, installation moved ahead.

“Our goal was March 1st, but the February weather set us back,” explained Mac Slover, from the city’s youth division of Parks and Recreation.  “There was also some unrelated construction in the vacinity of the ballpark,” noted Slover.  The City is improving the entire area with the eventual addition of a transit bus maintenance facility, police substation, and significantly for the Cardinals, the addition of two, side-by-side soccer fields covered with artificial turf. 

Those fields, and a new natural turf softball field are part of the City’s Witter Project, constructed with VDOT as another component of the overall Woodrow Wilson Bridge construction program, are located between the railroad right-of-way, the Telegraph Road overpass and the McDonalds on Duke Street west of Bishop Ireton. Those additional fields could offer the Cardinals a possible much needed area for practices for soccer and lacrosse.

“The Booster Club has taken another significant step in upgrading the facilities used by our athletes.” praised athletic director Bill Simmons.  “From Frank Mann Field to Luckett Field, from the Iver Magnussen wrestling room to Father Godley Gym, the boosters have worked with us tirelessly to make the Cardinals’ athletic experience the best it can be.  We are very grateful to our Boosters for another facility improvement.”

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Monday, March 1^st, saw the Stone Bridge Bulldogs come calling at the Mount Vernon Rec Center in the long-awaited battle of the top 2 teams in the NVSHL.  The game, finally rescheduled after being postponed due to the snow, was the season finale for both teams, with bragging rights at stake for finishing the league schedule undefeated.  Unfortunately for Stone Bridge, their hopes were dashed early.

The Ireton team had the offense in high gear from the opening drop of the puck, jumping out to a 5-0 lead in the first period and never looking back.  An undermanned Stone Bridge team were back on their heels early and never recovered.  In all, the Cardinal machine pumped 49 shots on the Bulldog goalie, cruising to a surprisingly easy 11-3 win, and claiming the NVSHL JV Division title with a perfect 9-0 record.

The offensive production was led on this night by Dave Souliotis who, with 4 points, notched his first hat trick of the season and added an assist.  Leading scorer Reid Yager chipped in 2 goals and 2 assists, and Tom Cyrnak was next with 2 and 1.  Rounding out the scoring were Allen Boelke, Nick Tangora and William Chastain, each with a goal and an assist, and Jimmy Smith with a single assist.  Robert Chastain stopped 16 of 19 Stone Bridge shots in net for the victory.

For the Ireton Ice Hockey team, a perfect end to a perfect season.

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Seniors Alina Hall and Angus MacDonald earned third place finishes at the Washington “Metros” to pace the Cardinals to top half finishes (11th boys, 13th girls) to close the 2009-10, one of the most exciting in years.  Coach John Gullickson’s swimmers broke school records in 8 races, leaving a legacy of five new standards for the Alexandria school.

Ireton saw records fall in the men’s 100 yard freestyle, 100 yard butterfly and back strokes by MacDonald, while the men’s 200 and 400 free style relays set marks in those events. The women’s 200 medley relay posted a record time for the Cardinals as well.  Junior Liz Collins won the state independent schools championship in the 100 ****** stroke, while MacDonald took the gold in the 100 backstroke. 

Collins grabbed a 6th place in 100 breaststroke at Metros, Sam Ellis a 7th place in the 100 free.  Alina Hall earned 3rd in the 100 free and a 4th in the 200 IM. Saskia Kroesen was 11th in the 100 butterfly and MacDonald 3rd in the butterfly.  Diver Mandy Imbrigglia continued a family diving tradition in the 1 meter diving event with a 5th place Metro finish.

Five school records were eclipsed at Metros, including the 100 butterfly in an automatic all American time and notched a all American consideration performance in the 100 free style.  Joining MacDonald in all American consideration is the women’s quartet sophomore Mattie Ziegler, Collins, Hall, and junior Saskia Kroesen, setting 200 medley relay record for the Cardinals. The 200 freestyle relay record was shattered by 1.5 seconds on the men’s side with sophomore Michael Clark, junior Ryan Doughtery, and seniors MacDonald and Sam Ellis, edging DeMatha for third, just short of Gonzaga and Georgetown Prep.

The final record was the 3:18.23 performance in the men’s 400 freestyle relay was recorded by seniors Carey Natoli, MacDonald, Ellis, and junior Doughtery.

The season ending awards banquet is scheduled for Sunday, March 7th at the Springfield Country Club at 7pm.

The new School records:

Women 200 Medley Relay 1:50.30 ( M. Zeigler, L. Collins, A. Hall, S. Kroesen)
Men 200 Freestyle Relay 1:28.54 (A. MacDonald, S. Ellis, R. Dougherty, M.R. Clark)
Men 400 Freestyle Relay 3:18. 23 (A. MacDonald, S. Ellis, C. Natoli, R. Dougherty)
Men 100 Butterfly :50.92 Angus MacDonald
Men 100 Freestyle :46.55 Angus MacDonald

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