Picnic Saturday

Saturday, we will have a special event at the picnic.

We will have a one day game of Survivor, like the TV show, with games and competitions. For anyone participating, (coach or student), there will be a vote out and one person will be named the picnic sold survivor.

WINNER: Pair of Lower Level Warriors Tickets!!!

NOTE: PAIR MEANS TWO!!!

3 Stars of the Weekend

***3rd Star
Zachary
Zach pitched 3 scoreless innings in relief over the weekend. He struck out 4 and looked really sharp in his first outing of the season. He will more than likely start the next game.

**2nd Star
Beverlyn
Beverlyn scored a career-high 14 points in her team's victory this Saturday, including a beautiful NBA-like drop step. She has been consistent game in and game out and has drastically improved her game over the course of the year.

*1st Star
Vivian
Vivian scored the game-winning basket in the 8th grade's nail-biting victory. With less than 10 seconds on the clock and her team down one, she made a pressure packed lay-up giving her team their 4th victory of the season.

STANFORD ADVANCES TO THE FINAL FOUR
The Stanford women will be going to the NCAA Final Four for the second straight year. A huge win tonight over Iowa State, as they await the winner of Arizona State and U-Conn.

Brackets will be updated on Thursday and full results on the blog as well.

MID-SEASON REVIEWS
This week, we will look at the 6th grade season.

PRACTICES TOMORROW
3rd/4th, 6th and 7th

A solid start for the baseball team

The baseball team lost their first game 8-2, but it was by far, above and beyond better than the showings last season.

After a shaky first 2 innings, the team shutout their opponent for the next 3 innings and had a lot of good defensive plays.

This definitely had a look of an actual baseball team, something that could not be said very often in our first season last year.

There were a lot of positives that came from this afternoon, and the team should look to build on this for the rest of the season.

WEEKDAY PRACTICES
Baseball
Monday - 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. @ Moscone
Friday - 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. @ Moscone

BASKETBALL
Tuesday - 3rd/4th, 6th and 7th
Wednesday - 6th and 8th
Thursday - 7th and 8th

6th grade wins big

The 6th grade girls put together a complete game, doing it on the offensive and defensive end. For their effort, they won 24-9, a game they dominated from start to finish.

This win was the definition of a team effort as each of the 5 girls that were there today scored. They were aggressive on defense, getting steals and creating numerous fast break opportunities.

Beverlyn led the scoring with her new career-high of 14 points, including a beautiful NBA style drop step that led to a bucket late in the 4th quarter.

With the victory, their confidence should be at an all-time high. The girls are (3-2) on the season.

7th grade
The 7th grade might've looked past their opponent today. Having beaten them in all of the previous three meetings, this looked like an easy win. But a 4th quarter dominated by the opponent where they outscored the 7th grade 15-3.

The final score was 23-17.

After leading by 6 at the end of three quarters, everything just went south. Their defense completely collapsed and their shots that went in during the 3rd quarter were no longer falling.

With the loss, the girls are back at .500 with a record of (2-2).

SUNDAY PRACTICE AT NDV
8th grade – 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
6th grade – 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
7th grade – 12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
3rd/4th grade – 1:15 p.m. – 3 p.m.

BASEBALL
3 p.m. @ West Sunset (41st Ave and Quintara)

The low of lows become the high of highs

This time, the lead was gone.

The 8th grade girls blew a 10 point lead and found themselves down a point, 26-25 with less than 20 seconds remaining in the game.

With about 4 minutes left in the fourth, the girls were up by 10 points, only to see the lead slip away little by little. Then with less than two minutes in the game, the other team hit back-to-back three-pointers to tie the game.

On the following inbounds, the 8th graders turned the ball over right back to the other team. A girl drove to the basket and was fouled, setting up two free-throws for the opposition with the game tied.

She made 1-of-2 from the free-throw line and the 8th grade trailed by a point.

With 20 seconds left on the clock, Vivian somehow found herself wide open in the front court. The ball got to her and she made the go-ahead lay-up, putting the 8th grade up 27-26 with 6.7 seconds left.

Following a timeout, the other team threw up a 3-pointer that never reached the rim and time expired. The 8th grade escaped with a 27-26 win.

BRIEFLY: With the win, the 8th grade girls are now (4-1). They did a great job from the free-throw line, hitting 13-of-24.

SATURDAY PREVIEW
Girls Basketball
7th grade, 12 p.m. @ St. Monica
6th grade, 1 p.m. @ St. Monica

(24th Ave and Geary Blvd)

WATCH BOTH GAMES!

Boys Baseball
4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. @ West Sunset

Full Bracket Update...Tomorrow Night's Game

Tomorrow night the 8th grade will be the only team playing. Tip-off is at 8 p.m. from St. Emydius.

NCAA MEN'S BRACKET

LEADER: Bryan - 66
Tom - 59
Daniel - 57
Justin - 55
Gavin - 54
Kelvin - 50
Willard - 49
Miles - 49
Kevin - 48
Brandon - 45
Mark - 43
Derek - 42
Gary - 38
Timothy- 36
Michael - 29

NCAA WOMEN'S BRACKET

LEADER: Bryan - 52

Katlyn- 48
Michelle - 48
Mayfield - 43
Emily - 38
Olivia - 28
Priscilla - 26
Shari - 25

In my 6 years of CYO, these are the worst refs I have ever seen

So I stood there by the free-throw line after calling what seemed like foul #60 of the game. It was a 7th grade girls division 2 game. And usually 7-2 means pretty skilled. And don't get me wrong, the players definitely were, but just way too aggressive.

The score was 21-18. The team at the free-throw line had only 4 players left, as 2 of them had fouled out previously in the quarter. The losing team had a chance to cut the lead to just 1 with less than 2 minutes left in the game.

Then someone, sitting in the front row, yells across the gym to the coach, "Coach, in my 6 years of CYO, these are the worst refs I have ever seen."

I heard it and gave that fan's team an unsportsmanlike technical foul. My partner heard it too and immediately ended the game.

It wasn't even the worst crowd I have ever been part of. In fact, it probably wasn't even close. But the moral of the story is that one idiot fan can ruin the game for everybody.

In the first quarter alone, we called 10 team fouls on one team. These weren't little chippy fouls either. These were blatant shoves, leaning and hovering over another player, holds, etc...If I wanted to let some of it go, I couldn't.

Second quarter, different story. The team learned their lesson and just played defense with their hands straight up. The result, no fouls (maybe just 1) and a clean 2nd quarter.

But the 4th quarter came, and the same things they did in the 1st, they did again in the 4th.

What happens when the crowd gets a technical? The referee (my partner) warns the coach and tells the coach to tell his crowd to keep their cool. That happened in the game. The coach was a class act, complete professional, cool guy who knows that his team was very rough. He didn't complain to me one time the entire game.

About a minute after the warning, my partner T'd up a fan in the crowd. And then a few minutes later, it was my turn to do the same thing that happened just minutes ago. You would think grown adults would learn the lesson and behave.

I've done my share of games where I know I have been shaky, but this definitely was not one of them.

And even if we were terrible, people should know that after the first technical, we were serious. They needed to keep their composure whether we were good or stunk.

Instead, one clown ruined the game for everybody.

And can you believe this moron actually said, "This game is for the kids," as he left the gym.