The graduating seniors bid farewell to their school and classmates
The Lake Catholic seniors bid farewell to their school and classmates during their graduation ceremony Thursday evening. The class of 2012 earned more than $11 million in scholarships and they are headed to 48 different colleges. Before they leave, however, keynote speaker Cheryl O'Brien offered some suggestions: Congratulations to the Lake Catholic class of 2012!
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Seniors bid Lake Catholic High School farewell and juniors take the torch during ceremony Wednesday
The seniors of Lake Catholic High School handed the reins to the juniors during the annual torch-passing ceremony Wednesday morning. The seniors, on their final school day, also gave the juniors a series symbolic gifts to help them survive their senior year. These gifts included sticky notes, tape, binders filled with spirit rally ideas, more tape, Red Robin gift cards and tape. (The new seniors would need a lot of tape to make sure their signs stuck to the school walls, outgoing Senior Vice President Hannah Skrbis warned.) The ceremony ended with each class accepting their new roles: the freshmen became sophomores and leaders of unity; the sophomores, juniors and leaders of community; the juniors, seniors and leaders of Lake Catholic; …
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Cougars' playoff run ends at state semis
Sometimes Goliath wins. The Lake Catholic boys basketball team played hard but still fell to the unbeaten juggernaut Dunbar of Dayton 75-60 Friday morning in the state semis. Despite Dunbar's size advantage, the Cougars were able to keep the game close for 3 1/2 quarters. With 6:28 left in the fourth quarter, Dunbar only led 47-42. Senior Mike Whalen kept Lake Catholic close through the top half of the quarter, scoring eight of the Cougars' points consecutively. But the Wolverines went on 13-5 run, which gave them breathing room that they had not enjoyed all game. Creighton commit Andre Yates led Dunbar (27-0) with 26 points. However, the Cougars never folded. They closed the gap to 61-53 with two minutes left after a three from Joey …
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Boys basketball team is two wins away from the school's first Division II state title
In a season full of shattered records, awards and a potential state championship, Lake Catholic boys basketball coach Mark Chicone remembers his team’s lowest point total as the apex of the year. “I really thought that was probably the most important win in our season,” Chicone said of a 39-35 victory over Walsh Jesuit in February. “It really became a drag-down, sock-it-out fight for every rebound and every possession. It was a very physical game on the road against a very good team.” The head coach hopes his team will recall that win and more Friday when it faces Dayton Dunbar in the Division II state semifinals at 10:45 a.m. Friday at the Jerome Schottenstein Center in Columbus. Since Dunbar is undefeated and ranked No. 1, a low-scoring …
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The Cougars celebrated their boys basketball team's first final four appearance in school history
Lake Catholic High School congratulated the boys basketball team on its first regional championship with a spirit rally Wednesday afternoon. They will play Dunbar of Dayton in the state semis this Friday morning in Columbus. The team and Coach Mark Chicone thanked the students for their support throughout the season. Frank Soria noted that no Lake County team has ever won a state basketball championship. "We're going to be the first," he told the students to enthusiastic cheers. I originally misidentified Frank Soria as Rick Koenig -- both in the story and the video. My apologies for the error.
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Cougars knock off SVSM, head to Columbus
St. Vincent-St. Mary guard Treyvon Crater seemingly had a clear lane to the goal with precious few seconds remaining and intentions of crushing Lake Catholic’s long-held dream, the school’s first Final Four in boys’ basketball. But Cougars senior forward Dan Schweikert quickly closed on Crater and seemingly flew out of the Canton Memorial Civic Center’s rafters boldly swatting away the Irish guard’s threat and preventing the Region II final from being any more complicated than it needed to be Saturday. Cougars head basketball coach Mark Chicone let out a victory yell, squeezed his assistant coaches and junior forward Mark Baniewicz canned a pair of free throws with 1.5 seconds left as Lake Catholic found itself headed to Columbus after …
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The Cougars advance to the regional final this Saturday
There are no weak teams in the OHSAA regional tournament. No, the lesser teams are all weeded out during the regular season and early rounds of the sectional tournament. So Lake Catholic's boys basketball team not only won Thursday, 68-39, to advance to the regional final, they did it against a strong team. Looking at the final score and how easy Lake Catholic sometimes made it look, it is easy to forget that. The Cougars played a compete game and had a comfortable 11-point lead at the end of the third quarter. But in the fourth quarter, the game shifted into a blowout with Lake Catholic outscoring Struthers 27-9. Mark Baniewicz led the team's scoring with 23 points but contributions came from throughout the lineup. Seniors Mike Whalen and…
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Joey Vuyancih helps Lake Catholic win the regional final with 31 points, game-winning shot
Big players make big plays, right? That's the motto. Well, Joey Vuyancih must be a big player then because his shot just won the Lake Catholic boys basketball team the regional final against John Hay Saturday night. With about 10 seconds left and the game knotted at 69, Senior guard Vuyancih sank a jump shot that was the difference. Vuyancih, the top scorer in his school's history, had a hot hand all evening. He led Lake Catholic and all scorers with 31 points on the team's way to a 71-69 win. "Everything for me tonight seemed to be going in," Vuyancih told cleveland.com. "I could have thrown that up backwards and it would have gone in." While Vuyancih led the charge, he didn't do it alone. Junior Mark Baniewicz posted 14 points and Senior…
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Both the Cardinals and Cougars won their district semifinals by a margin of two points
It wasn't easy for either but both the Mentor High and Lake Catholic boys basketball teams are playing in their respective district finals. The Cardinals and Cougars both won their games by a margin of two points. Mentor beat East Tech 71 to 69 Thursday. Brothers Brandon and Justin Fritts scored 18 and 16 points, respectively, and Danny Wallack scored 13 of his 18 points in the fourth quarter to lead the charge for Mentor. The Cardinals will play Lyndhurst Brush 7 p.m. Saturday for the district championship in Euclid. Meanwhile, Lake Catholic beat University School 54-52 Thursday. The game was not always as close as its ending. The Cougars never trailed and led by as much as 11, but the game still came down to a final missed three by …
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Jason Lea
11:38 am on Thursday, March 22, 2012
Ugh. Shame on me. I'll correct that immediately. My apologies. more ›