Monday, December 31, 2012
John Burroughs boys, Ladue girls, and MICDS girls all were perfect over the break, and will head into the new year with sparkling new tournament titles.
Now that the holiday high school hoops season is over, and most teams have completed the 2012 portion of their schedules, it's time to take a quick look back at what the eight Ladue-Frontenac-Olivette area teams did during the break. Just about everybody played in some type of holiday hoops event or tournament, with three of the local teams going perfect run and winning the tournament they were playing in. The most surprising of the tournament championship wins was turned in by the girls from Ladue High, who pulled off one of the great upsets of the first half of the season, by knocking off previously unbeaten and No. 8 ranked Ritenour High, last Friday afternoon in the championship game of the first ever Ritenour Holiday Tournament. The …
Saturday, December 22, 2012
The Meramec boys' and Viz girls' tournaments might be the traditional headliners, but in this neck of the woods, the two outstanding MICDS events, along with the Chaminade Tournament, appear to have their own must-see basketball action.
Here's a quick look at some of the local holiday high school basketball tournaments that will be featuring some of the Ladue-Frontenac area teams: MICDS Girls Holiday Tournament -- 12/21-12/29 Teams (listed by seeding): 1. Westminster Christian, 2. Parkway Central, 3. MICDS, 4. Francis Howell, 5. Oakville, 6. Clayton, 7. Villa Duchesne, 8. Triad. Ranked teams participating: 3 -- Westminster (small schools No. 6), Parkway Central (large schools No. 11), MICDS (small schools No. 7). Top Players: Sadie Stipanovich - C, Westminster; Christie Bergesch - F, Parkway Central; Chelsy Gibson - F, Parkway Central; Emily Kyman - G, MICDS; Aaryana Cook - G, Oakville; Lacei Sams - F, Clayton; Grace Lombardo - G, Villa Duchense. Tourney format: …
Thursday, December 20, 2012
An inside look at what went down this week in local high school basketball, along with a look at what's coming up next week.
As the Missouri high school basketball season passes the quarter pole, two things have become crystal clear. The John Burroughs boys team is really good. And so is the St. Joseph's Academy girls team. Those points have been driven home emphatically, as both teams have begun the new season with unblemished records. The JBS boys are 7-0, following a sensational 56-45 win over O'Fallon Christian at the Terrell Ramey/Midwest Showdown Shootout at Lindenwood University last Saturday. That victory capped an incredible week for the Bombers, who won all three games they played, adding in triumphs over Brentwood (65-31, back on December 10) and Clayton (60-59 on Decmeber 13). Senior guard Foye Oluokun has been stuffing the stat sheet all year for …
Monday, December 17, 2012
Representatives from all five Ladue-Frontenac-Olivette-area high school's made this week's Athlete of the Week candidate list. Fans can vote for a winner through 5 p.m. Thursday.
Now that the winter sports season is in full throttle, with basketball, wrestling, and girls swimming all going hard, it's getting more and more difficult to narrow down just who should represent each school in our weekly Patch MVP voting contest. This week, we have our first appearances by some of the area's top swimmers, along with a couple of basketball and hockey stars that have been lighting it up all season. The Patch MVP Athlete of the Week voting is officially open, and we'll keep the ballots open until 5 p.m. Thursday, before we finally settle on a winner. So we encourage all fans to make sure they vote in this week's poll, and check back on Sunday morning to find just who took home the Winter Week 4 Patch MVP Athlete of the Week …
Monday, December 10, 2012
Representatives from all five Ladue-Frontenac-Olivette-area high school's made this week's Athlete of the Week candidate list. Fans can vote for a winner through 5 p.m. Thursday.
We've scoured the stat sheets and news wires and found deserving Athlete of the Week candidates from all five local high schools, and now we've officially opened up the voting to let the fans tell us, who should get this week's honor. We'll keep the ballots open until 5 p.m. Thursday, and we encourage all fans to make sure they vote in this week's poll. Here are this week's Patch MVP Athlete of the Week nominees:
Friday, December 7, 2012
An inside look at what went down this week in local high school basketball, along with a look at what's coming up next week.
The Missouri high school basketball season in barely two weeks old, and with red-hot starts by the Ladue boys, St. Joe girls, and both John Burroughs teams, the 2012-2013 campaign is shaping up like a mighty fine year on the hardwood for the local teams. The team that's looked the best two weeks in -- and it's really no surprise -- is the St. Joseph's Academy girls, who are 3-0, with three 30-point wins this season. The most impressive win might've come on Tuesday, when the Angels, ranked No. 2 in the city in most local girls basketball polls, dismantled third-ranked Ursuline Academy by the score of 74-44. The Bears are a really good team, but they were just no match for a St. Joe squad that got 20 points, 16 rebounds, and eight blocks …
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Representatives from all five Ladue-Frontenac-Olivette-area high school's made this week's Athlete of the Week candidate list. Fans can vote for a winner through 5 p.m. Thursday.
Once again, we've scoured the stat sheets and news wires and found deserving Athlete of the Week candidates from all five local high schools, and now we've officially opened up the voting to let the fans tell us, who should get this week's honor. We'll keep the ballots open until 5 p.m. Thursday, and we encourage all fans to make sure they vote in this week's poll. Here are this week's Patch MVP Athlete of the Week nominees:
Monday, November 26, 2012
Representatives from all five Ladue-Frontenac-Olivette-area high school's made this week's Athlete of the Week candidate list. Fans can vote for a winner through 5 p.m. Thursday.
We took a week off from the Patch MVP voting to honor or Male and Female Patch MVPs of the Fall (Ezekiel Elliott of John Burroughs football and Natalie Gower of St. Joe volleyball). But it's time to bring back to weekly battle royale, as we ask fans to vote for their favorite local Athlete of the Week. Once again, we've nominated deserving representatives from all five local high schools, and we've opened up the voting to let the fans tell us, who should get the nod. Our friends over at Villa Duchesne have made this award all their own this month, by making sure each of our November votes went to the Saints' nominee. This week's vote marks the last time anybody from Ladue, John Burroughs, St. Joe, or MICDS will get a chance to keep Villa …
Monday, November 19, 2012
Saints lose seven seniors from last year, but believe new team chemistry will keep team on winning track.
A fairly humorous moment occurred at Villa Duchesne girls basketball practice recently, when head coach Jane Ellen Kuenzle tried to name all the players on her team off the top of her head. The coach tried as best she could to remember everybody on the roster, and even named several players twice, but even a veteran coach like Kuenzle couldn't remember all the new names on her team without taking a look around Villa's beautiful Kenefick Gymnasium to remind her who was actually on the team this year. "We have a lot of new girls up on varsity this year," Kuenzle said. "I think we've only got four girls coming back that have played for me before, and one of them was injured last year. So, this team is a whole lot different than last year." …
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Junior three-sport standout took ninth at Class 1 state golf tournament, helping the Saints finish second overall as a team.
Well the voters seem to love Villa Duchesne, because this is the third straight week that a Villa student-athlete has won our Patch MVP Athlete of the Week award. Field hockey star Maggie Grzeskoviak was the first, then cross country phenom Hannah Deines made it two in a row. And now, thanks to a landslide victory in the voting, golfer Morgan Gast is this week's Patch MVP of the Week. The Villa Duchesne junior is a three-sport standout for the Saints, who also plays basketball and soccer. But it was her performance on the links this season that earned her a Patch MVP nomination this week. And Gast was at her best in the biggest tournament of the year -- the Class 1 state meet at the Meadow Lake Acres Country Club in New Bloomfield, MO, -- …
Ping Qiao
8:17 am on Tuesday, December 18, 2012
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