Central Catholic 1A State Football Champs Again!!!

CC defends state title

Back to back state championship titles for our Central Catholic Knights. A great game played by both teams. Fountain Central played a good strong game & the game was closer than the score reveals as FC fell apart in the 4th quarter. My son Nick & his baseball team are currently on a back to back state title run also. Gosh, I'm ready for baseball already! LOL

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS • November 26, 2010
INDIANAPOLIS — Danny Anthrop rushed for 93 yards and a touchdown to help Central Catholic defeat Fountain Central 31-6 in the Class A football final Friday at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.

The Knights (15-0) won their second straight championship and extended their winning streak to 30 games.

Andrew Mitchell rushed for 56 yards, passed for 56 yards and intercepted two passes as a defensive back for Fountain Central (13-2).

Central Catholic won last year’s final between the same two teams 52-0, but the Knights found the going more difficult this time. Central Catholic led 7-6 at halftime, then got its offense going in the second half.

There was a 10-minute delay after a power outage with 4:16 remaining in the game.

Join Sam King for live updates from today's Class A football state championship between Central Catholic and Fountain Central at Lucas Oil Stadium.

Central Catholic football team going back to state finals!!!

Big third quarter sends CC back to state finals

By NATHAN BAIRD • nbaird@jconline.com • November 20, 2010

When Churubusco's Kyle Mathewson crept into the end zone for a two-point conversion run early in the second quarter, Central Catholic's football team found itself in an unfamiliar position.

For the first time in two full seasons, the Knights trailed. But as usual, Central Catholic was not shaken. Nathan Baird's blog

"We knew this was a good team coming in; we knew they were going to bring their 'A' game," CC senior receiver and kicker Niall Noonan said. "Our main thing tonight was, 'think about the next play,' and that's what we did."

Behind another dominant third quarter, Central Catholic pulled away for a 42-14 victory over Churubusco to repeat as Class A semistate champion and earn a return trip to Lucas Oil Stadium for the state championship game.

The top-ranked Knights get a rematch with Fountain Central, which they defeated 52-0 in last year's title game.

"You work from June when we start lifting weights, and you go through two-a-days, you go through hardships," CC senior linebacker Devin Morgan said. "We just came together and it feels great to get where you want to go."

Brad Schrader rushed for 120 yards and a pair of touchdowns in the second half. The Knights executed three third-quarter touchdown drives of 50 or more yards, pulling away from a 14-8 halftime lead and keeping the ball away from Mathewson (37 carries, 182 yards).

The Knights have outscored opponents 215-7 in the third quarter.

"We knew they score a lot of points in the third quarter, and we tried to stop it, and unfortunately we couldn't and they got ahead of us," said Mathewson, who caught a 15-yard touchdown pass in the first quarter and threw a 9-yard TD pass in the fourth.

Cody Christopher's 2-yard touchdown run with 35.9 seconds left in the first half gave the Knights a six-point lead. The momentum carried over to the start of the second half, where Schrader's 26-yard touchdown run capped a four-play, 65-yard scoring drive.

CC baseball vs CC baseball from Burlington, WI.

Anyone claiming our Central Catholic Knights schedules cupcake opposition for their sport teams only need to look at their baseball schedule each year. The supposedly easier schedule in football is because of conference games only, not enough games to schedule otherwise, this is changing as we move to a new conference. (3A) This year it gets a bit more challenging in baseball as we will play another CC team from Burlington, WI, a class 4A school that according to this article has won the state baseball title 2 of the last 3 years. My son Nick has said they have 4 titles in the past 5 years.

Last year we played several top ranked 4A schools with convincing wins over Lafayette Jeff, Kokomo & McCutcheon. Most of our varsity baseball schedule includes 2A, 3A & 4A schools. Our only roadblock the past 2 years is 4A Indy Cathedral who beat us 6-0 in 2009 & 14-0 in 2010. Both years Cathedral put Dillon Peters on the mound, a top national recruit going to Texas for baseball. Nick pitched against him both years, relieving 5 1/3 innings in 2009 giving up 1 earned run in the 7th, entering in the 2nd inning with bases loaded, 2 outs & down 5-0, we lost 6-0. In 2010 Nick got the start, again facing Peters but this day turned out to be one of those days as Cathedral scored 6 runs off him in the 1st 2 innings, some unearned.

The past 2 years we have not had an answer for Cathedral. Cathedral was runner-up for the 4A state title last year in one of the most intense pitching duels I've ever seen, including our 2009 war with Cowan in the regional finals that had Taylor Glaze (our ace) against 1st round draft pic (Tampa Bay) Justin O'Conner. They battled to a 1-1 tie at the end of 7, a 2-2 end of 9 innings.

In the state final game (4A) both Peters and the opposing pitcher went 9 innings of scoreless baseball. 3 hits given up by Peters, 2 from the opposing pitcher from Carroll (not the one in Flora, IN). Carroll squeezed a run in in the top of the 10th, Cathedral couldn't score, a 1-0 thriller!!!

In receiving this information from Nick, he sounds excited already, long wait though!!!

Burlington Catholic Central wins Division 4 baseball title

By Todd Rosiak
Grand Chute - For the second time in three seasons, the Burlington Catholic Central Hilltoppers are state champions.

Propelled by a 13-hit attack and helped by seven Chippewa Falls McDonell errors, Catholic Central beat the Macks, 14-4, in five innings on Thursday morning at Fox Cities Stadium in the WIAA spring baseball Division 4 title game.

Third baseman Mackenzie Shepherd went 4 for 4 with 5 RBI for the Hilltoppers (21-10), who were knocked off by McDonell (22-5) in the semifinals at last year's state tournament.

Catholic Central broke the game open with five runs in each of the fourth and fifth innings.

Tyler Floyd struck out six to pick up the victory for the Hilltoppers, who also won the Division 4 title in 2008.

Nick batting during the 2009 class 1A baseball stat

Nicks only at bat against Vinncennes Rivet during the 2009 class 1A baseball state championships!