Bishop Ireton High School | Archive | December, 2010

The fall 2010 Washington Post All Met selections for high school sports included Bishop Ireton’s senior Dan O’Keefe as an honorably mentioned soccer player.

The lanky senior was Ireton’s sole representative on the fall edition. O’Keefe led the Cardinals with 11 goals and captained the 2010 Ireton boys’ soccer team. Earlier the WCAC coaches selected him to the all conference first team.

“Dan was our leader on and off the field,” praised Cardinal head coach, Jon Norem. “I am proud of Dan and very happy he was recognized.  He is a talented player and a great representative of our program and school.”

O’Keefe is headed to Radford to play Division I soccer in the fall.

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Senior Elliot Mondragon became Ireton’s first wrestler to be ranked #1 in the most recent Washington Post individual rankings released Tuesday. 

 The three-year letterman has a perfect 8-0 record in the current season including Ireton’s first Northern Region individual championship at 102 pounds since 2002.  Mondragon was the only NOVA champion to record a pin in each of his matches enroute to the title at Fairfax High School on Dec 11th.

The Cardinals and their top-ranked 103 pounder will host the annual Ireton Invitational Wrestling Tournament this Saturday in Fr Godley Gym. Wrestling begins at 9am.

Senior Elliot Mondragon pins his DeMatha opponent in 2009

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Happy Cardinal swimmers celebrate the 2010 Alexandria City championship

Few of Coach John Gullickson’s swimmers and divers had any idea the Pohanka Automotive Alexandria City Swim and Dive Championship cup is a travelling trophy awarded to the overall winning team annually at the City Championships held at the Chinquapin Park Recreation Center on King Street.  For the sixth straight year, the Cardinals topped  both TC Williams and St Stephen’s & St Agnes School to capture the team title and return the Cup to the Fr Godley gymnasium  trophy cases.

The Ireton girls won their competition while the Saints of St Stephens edged the Cardinals. TC Williams finished third in the competition in both boys and girls events.

In the diving event, Sarah Fyffe won the girls event with Elizabeth Schaefermeier second and Alex Barhnam third.  Cameron Wallace grabbed a 2nd and Nick Attillis 3rd for the Cardinals male divers, important points to push the Cambridge Road school to the overall victory.
 
Bishop Ireton won the following relay events: Women’s 200 Medley Relay: with  Saskia Kroesen, Allison Wulff, Liz Collins and Laura Becht
and the Women’s 200 Freestyle Relay with Saskia Kroesen, Allison Wulff, Emi Quinn, and Kelly Palmer swimming for Ireton.
 
Individual swimming champs included:
 
Brian McGinty – 200 Individual Medley
Liz Collins- 200 Individual Medley and 100 Breaststroke
Kevin Grant- 50 freestyle and 100 freestyle
Saskia Kroesen – 100 Fly and 100 Backstroke
Kelly palmer – 500 Freestyle
Allison Wulff – 100 Freestyle
 
Ireton now breaks for the holidays, but returns in early January for an exciting new northern Virginia Catholic Challenge, featuring northern Virginia’s Catholic High Schools, from Seton in Manassas to PVI, DJO, BI, and John Paul the Great.

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Junior Helena Barber is a workhorse on defense and anchors the 2010-11 Cardinals

14th ranked by the Washington Post, Georgetown Visitation (5-0) proved to be the toughest opponent in three outings as Bishop Ireton (2-1) fell in Washington Tuesday night.   While the Cardinals played a better second half, it was a 34-15 halftime hole of which the visiting Ireton could not climb out.

The Cubs Kate Gillespie led all scorers with 17 points, Maddy Williams added a dozen. No Cardinal managed double figures as junior Helena Barber led Ireton scorers with 8 points, senior Laura Hart chipped in 7, Alyssa Nevis added 6, Jamine Conkright and Reeme Lghzaoui both contributed 4.  The Cardinals managed only 14 field goals on the evening but were plagued by poor shooting from the free throw line, where Ireton managed to connect on  only 8 of 19.

“Visitation is a good team that could really shoot three’s well, but Coach Campbell was not happy at halftime”, commented Barber on contest “and we did play better in the second half.”   While the Cards did not connect from beyond the arc, five different Cubs drained three-pointers including Gillespie with a game high 3 and Williams with a pair.

Ireton returns to action with their WCAC home opener against Archbishop Carroll in Fr Godley Gym on Friday.

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DeMatha’s Stags, led by Georgetown-bound Mikhal Hopkins’ game high 18 points, jumped out to a 17-4 lead in the opening quarter of Tuesday night’s WCAC opener for the Cardinals and things looked bleak.   The Washington Post’s top ranked team was fresh off an 11 point win over Lebron James’ alma mater, St Vincent/St Mary’s and looked well on their way to running the hosts out of the gym early.  “Credit Bishop Ireton with playing hard.  They are only going to get better as the season progresses, I am glad to be able to get in here a get this conference road win.” commented Stags’ head coach, Mike Jones following the game.

But there doesn’t seem to be any quit in this year’s edition of Ireton basketball and the host squad went on a 7-0 run to pull the redbirds back to 17-11 midway into the second quarter.  The Bishop Ireton match up 2-3 zone was effective for the Cardinals and made DeMatha work for shoots and gave up few open looks.  The Stags did work Ireton hard inside when they could capitalize on mamouth sophomore BJ Anya, who made a number of layups early and shot well from the free throw line when given the opportunity.  

Ireton went to intermission down 28-21 and closed the margin to 30-24 when junior Marcus Hayes made a three at the 6:30 mark in the third.  But sophomore Garius Lyles responded with a three of his own, Ireton’s Patrick Hanafin made a layup, but Hopkins and Anya both dropped in a layup with Anya adding the “and one”, Lyles chipping in a pair of free throws to push DeMatha up 14 at 42-26 at the 3:23 mark. 

Hayes and senior Matt Barnwell came out of an Ireton timeout to ignite a Cardinal run of 8-2 and draw the lead down to 44-34.  Anya ended the third period with a layup off an inbounds play and DeMatha extended the lead to 49-36 after three periods.  The Ireton duo continued to carry the Cardinals offensively through the final period as the Cardinals made jump shots and the Stags responded with free throws. The Cards held DeMatha without a field goal until the 3:10 mark left in the contest.

For the game, Bishop Ireton limited the Stags to only 16 field goals, but DeMatha converted on 28 of 35 opportunities from the charity stripe while the Cardinals were only 7 of 12 from the line. It was the 20 Ireton field goals, including 6 from beyond the arc, that kept the home town team close.  Marcus Hayes led Coach Neil Berkman’s squad with 18 points, Hanafin had a dozen, Barnwell, Rouse, and Westbrook all added 6, Davon Wiley 5.  Hopkins with 18 led the Hyattsville visitors, Anya contributed 17, Bell came off the bench to chip in 11. Check the Washington Post video report at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2010/12/15/VI2010121500194.html

The Cardinals take a break for semester exams, returning to play on Dec 22nd when they host Don Bosco, Cristo Rey in Fr Godley Gym  before the Christmas holiday.  Bishop Ireton will travel to Sanford, NC, for the Chatlee Shootout host by Lee County High School over the holidays before returning to conference play with a date to meet Bishop McNamara on Jan 4th.

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WUSA, Channel 9’s Brett Haber presented Bishop Ireton junior Matt Krause and two other high school sports correspondents with awards and scholarships for their work in the station’s inaugural Campus Correspondent program with HighSchoolSports. com Monday at headquarters of the CBS affiliate in Washington. 

In addition to the silver trophy presentation, a scholarship worth $3,000 was presented to the Alexandria native, son of Mr. & Mrs. Lincoln Krause.   Also recognized was Mitchell Brown of Stonewall Jackson High School and overall winner Annabel Russell of Westlake High School.  Krause had the program’s video clip of the year, noted Haber, who played Krause’s video of  the Bullis 60-yard touchdown run that was nullified by a whistle when the Bulldogs executed such a great fake that not only did the Cardinals bite on it, but also the officials who blew the play dead while the quarterback was streaking untouched down the sideline.  The sports anchor commented the video was  elevated to the news desk from sports at their station and soon became a national YouTube hit.

Tammy Dorge, spokesperson for the DarCars, who with Toyota, sponsored this year’s campus correspondent program presented each winner with a pen, to “write down” their thoughts, their dreams, their goals.  Haber, in his remarks to the students, encouraged them to pursue their passion in journalism and, borrowing from Ms Dorge’s theme, advised them at that using their new pens to “write a note to potential employers, interviewers, or people you meet, because that note makes a powerful impression that can separate you from others with just those few moments of your time.”

WUSA’s campus correspondence program attracted more than 50 reporters in its first year and its success surprised even the most ambitious supporters of the initiative at WUSA. “We recorded more than 200,000 hits a month on our HighSchoolSports.com website and our “game of the week” polls attracts more 20,000 votes some weeks according to Haber.

Accompanying Krause and his mother was Bishop Ireton principal, Tim Hamer, AD Bill Simmons, varsity cheerleaders Whitney Cook, Lizzy Spooner, and Margaret Gray, as well as the Cardinal mascot, MJ Foster.

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Playing their second ranked opponent in as many days, Bishop Ireton (2-2) gave the visiting Maroon of Episcopal (3-0)  all they could handle Tuesday night in a nailbiter, 55-50, a game that wasn’t decided until the final six seconds.

Patrick Hanafin took the Cardinals on his shoulders early, scoring 8 of the team’s first 13 points and dominating the defensive boards as Ireton built a 13-4 lead.  Episcopal’s Arnaud Adala Moto  and Sadiq Abubakar each drilled three pointers in the final 40 seconds of the first period to pull the favored visitors to 14-10.

That duo opened the second in a similar fashion and EHS had their first lead at 15-14, Ireton’s scoring drought lasted until the 5:03 mark when senior Matt Barnwell’s jumper pulled Ireton to 21-16. Antonio Rouse hit a lay up and Marcus Hayes scored on a layup and converted a free throw to push Ireton back into the lead at 22-21.  The Cardinals worked the paint hard and converted free throws down the stretch to build a 29-24 halftime advantage.

Both teams battled throughout the third period with Ireton holding a 38-35 advantage entering the final round.  Adala Moto drained a pair of free throws to close to 38-37, but Rouse’s attacks to the hoop sent him to the line and he responded with four free throws to give the redbirds a 42-37 advantage.  The boarding school on Quaker Lane rallied immediately and took a 48-46 when Kethan Savage made a pair of free throws.  Rouse worked his way to a layup at 1:05 left and closed the gap to 50-48.  Abubakar took control of the glass at this point, with a put back at the :30 mark, only to see Rouse hit the last of his 18 points on the evening with :08.2 remaining and Ireton down 52-50.

Savage was fouled with :06 left but missed the front end of the one-and-one.  One final, critical time, Abubakar fought his way to the rebound, made a put back layup and converted the free throw to deliever a knockout 55-50 with four seconds remaining.

Ireton finishes its three-game home stand Friday with a tripleheader with Georgetown Prep. Frosh start at 4pm, JV 5:45, and varsity tilt at 7:30.

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Senior captains Tommy Gallinaro and Anthony Rivers were among a group of six Cardinal football players recently honored by the Virginia Independent School Football Association Coaches for their gridiron performances this past fall. 

Rivers, chosen as a first team defensive back, was the leader of the Cardinal’s secondary and the team’s second leading tackler behind junior standout Richard Walker.  Gallinaro was selected first team tight end based on the strength of his 40 receptions, 4 touchdowns, and outstanding blocking.  Their all state honors come on the heels of the recognition they received as the team most valuable player (Rivers) and most outstanding offensive player (Gallinaro) at the teams 4^th Annual Awards Banquet on November 29, 2010. 

Malcolm Westbrook, who established a new single season reception record with 46 catches, was one of only two juniors selected first team all state.  He, along with Gallinaro, owes much the offensive linemen and quarterback who allowed them to make plays.  Junior center Eddie D’Antuono, chosen as a second team all state offensive lineman, anchored a group that will return no fewer than six starters in 2011; including juniors Patrick O’Connell and Jacob Ramey as well as sophomores Jimmy Keegan, Jacob Bisnett and Josh Reed.  Sophomore QB P.J. Zingler, the only sophomore selected for all state recognition this year, will look to improve upon his school record-setting season that included completing almost 70% of his passes, throwing 18 touchdowns, and accumulating more than 2,000 passing yards. 

Senior Anthony Rivers was one of 6 Cardinals recognized for all state honors in 2010

Junior standout Moses Webb was honored as a special teams performer as a second team punt returner.  A threat to score running, receiving, and returning kicks, Webb led the Cardinals offense in rushing, scoring, and all-purpose yards.

In addition to all state honors, Head Coach Tony Verducci announced that senior linebacker/kicker Theo Daubresse was the team’s Cardinal Award winner, senior defensive lineman Eddie Busch was the most outstanding defensive player, Zayne Bush was the 12^th Man Award winner, Eddie D’Antuono was the most outstanding special teams player, and Kevin Moreno (defense) and Riley Walters (offense) were the most improved players.  Coach Verducci noted, “Our coaches and players are pleased to learn of these individual accomplishments, but our focus will necessarily remain on team events and preparation.”  The all state honorees will be recognized before a Cardinal basketball later next month.

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On Friday and Saturday  Cardinal grapplers participated in the Northern Virginia (NOVA) Regional Classic Wrestling Tournament at Fairfax High School. With over 30 schools, public and private,  from throughout Northern Virginia participating, it was an arduous but exciting two days for the Ireton wrestlers.

 The 9th place finish made the Cardinals  the highest placed private school in the tournament and topped some of the areas biggest public schools, such as Oakton, Madison, Fairfax.   Despite not having wrestlers in four weight groups (119, 145, 152, and 285 pounds),Ireton wrestlers improved upon their performance by returning ten places higher than last year to finish in the top ten and by bringing home three medals, one of which was for a tournament champion.

Senior Elliot Mondragon’s 2010 championship at the 103 pound weight class was the Cardinals’ first NOVA champion since Brendan Pauls, Ireton’s all time leader in match victories, won in 2002.  Also placing in this year’s NOVA Tournament was senior Ricky Baier, who placed for the first time in this tournament at fourth place, junior Andrew Lutterloh, who improved upon his sixth place from last year, by placing third in his 215lb weight class.

“We had a great weekend of wrestling.  We started shorthanded but the boys wrestled well, I am so proud of them. And, of course, thrilled for Elliot to win a championship. He is a hard worker and very deserving of  a championship.” commented Bishop Ireton head coach, Don Dight.

After a Tuesday dual with DeMatha, the Cardinals return home for the annual Ireton Invitational Wrestling tournament in Godley Gym on Saturday. Preliminary rounds begin at 9am.  This year’s lineup includes St Stephens, John Paul the Great, DeMatha, JEB Stuart, among the nine team field. 

Ireton battles the best public and private schools in the Northern Region wrestling tournament in Fairfax Dec 11,12

 Admission is $5 at the door, no advance ticket sales are anticipated.

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Seniors Elliot Mondragon and Ricky Baier advanced to the quarterfinals in the prestigous Northern Region Wrestling tournament at Fairfax High School Friday.  Junior Andrew Lutterloh, the 201o WCAC champion at 189 was still to wrestle as of this writing with a chance to join Mondragon and Baier in the quarterfinals. The finals are held Saturday.

Darcy Gomez and sophomore Nick Womack remained alive in the consolation round and will continue wrestling on Saturday for the Cards.

Ireton battles the best public and private schools in the Northern Region wrestling tournament in Fairfax Dec 11,12

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