Sports
Hockey The Wildcat Hockey team went to Trenton, Michigan over the weekend to face the top two teams in Michigan at the MIHL Showcase. On Friday night, the Cats fell down 2 goals after one period to #2 Orchard Lake St. Mary’s before the Cats fired back to even up the game off the sticks of Eric Lile and Bain Kurtz. OLSM came back right after and took the lead back and did not relinquish it. The Cats fell 4-2 in a close game which the Cats had a goal disallowed to tie the game late (it was 3-2, and an empty net goal followed.) On Saturday, the Cats faced #1 Detroit Catholic Central. Andrew Denk scored for the Cats first before the Shamrocks tied it up heading to the locker room. The Wildcats took back to back penalties and DCC capatalized taking a 3-1 lead. A late second period goal made it 4-1. The Cats kept fighting including multiple grade A chances but couldn’t find the net while the DCC onslaught made it 6-1. The 23-6-1 Cats head back North for the Barrow Tourney this weekend.
Basketball The ‘Cats were in action for two games since the last update, first on Thursday evening and second on Saturday. On Thursday, the ‘Cats defeated Senate League semifinalist John Marshall by a score of 77-44. Seniors Jon Barnes and Josh Ozanne had 13 and 11 points, respectively. Fellow senior Luke Wiskes played a great game, finishing with 11 points, five rebounds, and four assists. On Saturday night, the team travelled to Benedictine High School for a matchup with the Bengals. The Bengals handled the Wildcats, who’s record dropped to 10-5 after a 76-68 loss. Junior Nate Hubbard had a good night statistically, finishing with 15 points on 6 of 9 shooting to go along with nine rebounds. Senior Luke Wiskes again played a nice game with 14 points and seven rebounds as well as four steals. This week, the Wildcats will hit the road to take on that school on Detroit on Friday night at 7:30pm and will be back at home for senior night against Beechwood on Saturday night at 7:00. The team is going to a loud student section for both games, so SHOW UP AND BE LOUD. Tickets for Friday night will go on sale on Wednesday morning at 7:30. There is a very limited supply and a limit of one ticket per student so be sure to get their early and GO CATS.
Wrestling The Mat Cats went 1-1 over the weekend—beating Woodridge in a nail biter and losing to CVCA. They are back in action on Friday vs. North Royalton and North Canton Hoover for Senior night! Go support Michael Drobnick, Aidan Gill, Zach Tomford and the rest of the team in one of the last home duals of the year!
Swimming The Swim Cats had a great JV Championship meet yesterday at Canton McKinley High School. Divers Alex Claus, Kian Carmichael, Will Claus, and Noah Keim will be competing at sectionals tomorrow. Swimming sectionals will be held at Cleveland State this Saturday.
Miscellaneous
Speech and Debate This Saturday, the Cleveland District Speech and Debate Tournament was held at Berea-Midpark High School to determine qualifiers for the state tournament in March. Debaters Matt Conway and Vasly Alexoupolous, and speech team members Jermaine Leonard, Prester Pickett II, Daniel DeVenney , and Cam Cupar will join John Conway, Elais Najm, Leonardo Villa-Forte, Henry Wade, and Jarred Meyer, who had previously qualified, in Toledo. freshmen John and Alex Daoud were named alternates. In addition Congressional debate representatives have yet to be determined. The next tournament will be held at St. Ignatius in two weeks to determine Cleveland’s representatives at the national tournament in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
Science Olympiad Science Olympiad just returned from the second largest and one of the toughest competitions in the country, with teams from six states (Eight of which attended Nationals last year). They placed 16th out of 64 teams beating the ED Varsity team by a whopping 370 points. The JV Team didn’t fair quiet as well, but still managed to beat many local Varsity teams including Rocky River, both Olentangy Orange teams, Avon Lake and the ED Junior Varsity team. Here are this week’s placements:
- Source Code (Trial Event) – 2nd Place: Robert Pafford ’20 and Josh Frank ’19
- Disease Detectives- 8th Place: Matthew Borden ’18 and Isaac Smith
- Helicopters – 6th Place: James O’Meara ’18 and Tyler Cox ‘19
- Herpetology – 7th Place: Sam Pike ’19 and Anthony Bogar ‘19
- Mission Possible – 8th Place: Caleb Palagyi ’18 and Alex Rambasek
- Rocks and Minerals – 1st Place: Matt Borden ’18 and Isaac Smith ‘18
- Towers – 8th Place: Danny Mullen ’18 and Andrew Passow ‘19
A special shout out to Isaac Smith ’18 and Matthew Borden ’18 who brought home our first gold medal of the season. They faced some incredibly difficult competition and performed incredibly well. Please be sure to congratulate them on their success. Next week both teams will be traveling out to Sylvania Northview High School for their invitational.
Model UN SIHS Diplocat delegation competed at the University of Chicago Model United Nations conference this past weekend. Seniors Gabe Oliss and Jack Showman were the winners at MUNUC ‘18 Conference our of 1800 students at the Palmer House in Chicago.
Jeff Outcalt Had a great visit to tOSU this weekend. Was also great to see the Bucks play against CSU in lacrosse. Also, I had Citizen Pie for the first time, I would highly recommend it.
C.A.T. Meeting The Christian Action Team, or CAT, provides students opportunities to fulfill the mission of the school by practicing the Corporal Works of Mercy. CAT meets every Thursday in room 227 at 3 p.m. and is open to all grade levels.
