Brutal 2012 baseball schedule! Bring it on!!!

I, for the 1st time just looked at our upcoming varsity baseball schedule, it looks brutal. We play only one 1A school this year, that being Frontier who is typically ranked #1 in the state. As has been in the past, wins are expected & these bigger schools have not intimidated CC whatsoever in the past.

Hard to believe this will be Nicks last varsity season! But, not likely his last baseball season...hopefully. Franklin College is interested, he had a campus visit 1 month ago & he could be playing college ball, a dream he had since age 12.

Fabulous Art Show!!!

I spent a Friday evening with my best friend Jerry at a local church art show on the west side. Many incredible & unique items were on display & for sale. I wanted to share a short list of websites (below) to visit that will provide information on the many items on display & the types of art each artist does. Some of these would be excellent Christmas gifts. What astonished me the most were the low, low prices on these items.

As we browsed these items, music in two separate locations made for an enjoyable evening, well, the food did to. Many, many other forms of art were on display, I was unable to get all the business cards for each one.

Enjoy!!!

http://inspiredfire.com/
http://llauter.com/
http://kathrynabodine.com/
http://circleoffriendswestlafayette.org/
http://www.etsy.com/shop/beadcatcher
http://www.glennchangphotography.com/

Bordenet to Hall of Fame!!!

CC baseball coach headed to Hall of Fame

Written by
STAFF REPORTS

Central Catholic's Tim Bordenet will be one of five inductees into the Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in January.

A 1987 graduate of Central Catholic, for whom he earned Indiana All-Star honors, Bordenet then played baseball at Evansville and Purdue. In 16 years as a head coach, including two stints totaling 14 seasons with the Knights, Bordenet has compiled a 355-149-1 record.

Central Catholic has won five Class A state championships under Bordenet, including three straight and four in the past five years. His Knights teams have also won nine sectional, eight regional and five semistate championships.

Bordenet, who also coached two seasons at Muncie Central and was a Benton Central assistant for two seasons, served as IHSBCA president in 2007-08. For the past six seasons he has served as Central Catholic's athletic director.Highland coach Dan Miller, Western coach Ty Calloway, southern Indiana American Legion coach Jim Haaff and former San Francisco Giants infielder Bruce Miller are the other inductees.

The induction ceremony will take place on Jan. 20 as part of the annual baseball clinic awards banquet.

CC rolls to another sectional victory!!!

No letdown for No. 1 Central Catholic

Written by
CLYDE HUGHES
For the Journal & Courier

Top-ranked Central Catholic scored six touchdowns on its first seven possessions on the way to a 56-6 victory over North White at LaRocca Field in a Class A, Sectional 34 semifinal Friday night.

The Knights (11-0) host Caston for the sectional championship next Friday. North White finishes its season 4-7.

In extending its winning streak to 41, Central Catholic looked every bit like a two-time defending state champion. The Knights limited North White to two first downs in the first half and 153 yards in total offense, 13 through the air.

Knights coach Kevin O'Shea was worried his team could have come out flat after emotional victories the past two weeks over West Lafayette and No. 2 Pioneer.

"Sometimes your emotional tank can get a little empty," O'Shea said. "I don't think this was our best game but we came out and did what we had to do. Game time, our kids usually show up and play. A lot of these kids have been around the block and they understand it's one and done if you don't show up and play."

Central Catholic erased any doubts early, holding the Vikings to minus-2 yards on their first drive. After a short punt, CC scored on two Danny Anthrop running plays.

Anthrop, who didn't play beyond the first drive of the second quarter, scored three times: on a 13-yard run on the opening drive, on a 15-yard shovel pass near the end of the first quarter and on a 3-yard run on the Knights' first drive of the second quarter.

He finished with 82 yards rushing on four carries and another 34 yards on three receptions.

"The good thing about tonight was a lot of the younger kids got a chance to play," O'Shea said. "Our plan was to give Danny about five or six touches and get him out of there."

Brad Schrader scored on an 8-yard touchdown run between Anthrop's first two touchdowns to give Central Catholic a 21-0 first quarter lead.

"They're an outstanding football team," North White coach Jim Davis said. "I'm not sure anybody will be able to handle them. We're undermanned in a lot of different ways and we were just trying to hold on as long as we could. They just have too many weapons on both sides of the ball."

Jake Churchill scored on a 19-yard shovel pass from Munn and Nick Zak added a 5-yard TD in the second quarter to give the Knights a 42-0 halftime edge.

North White junior fullback Kolton Linback rushed for 119 yards on 29 carries, but most of that came in the second half.

"We've been working on some new stunts and blitzes, and they worked out this week and plugged up all the holes," Central Catholic linebacker Ross Corcoran said. "We came out pretty well prepared. Coach helped with our focus because he's on you all week no matter what the other team's record. He makes us get better every day."

Schrader scored his second touchdown when he returned the second half kickoff 80 yards down the left sideline.

North White got its only score on a 14-play drive that used up 8:50 of the clock between the third and fourth quarter. On a first-and-goal at the Knights 7, Linback gained six yards before fumbling into the end zone but wide receiver Haden Williams fell on the loose ball.

"Linback's a bowling ball," O'Shea said. "He gave us a problem last year. In the first half I thought our defensive line did a good job of pinching him off. For our younger kids, he was a load."

Ty Schrader closed out the scoring in the fourth quarter, converting a screen pass from backup quarterback Hayes Cronk into a 26-yard score.

Central Catholic Football vs West Lafayette

West Side offense sputters after strong start

Written by

SAM KING

West Lafayette senior quarterback Sean Busch sighed, looked to the ground, then came up with the only explanation he could as to why his team was on the losing end against Central Catholic Friday night.

"I don't know what else to say but that I blew it in the fourth quarter," said Busch, whose two interceptions late in the fourth quarter set up CC's tying touchdown and then provided Travis Smith's game-winning pick-six.

The heavily hyped game between unbeaten top-ranked teams in front of an estimated 4,000 fans couldn't have started any better for the Red Devils or any worse for the Knights.

The ending, however, was the complete opposite as CC's defense stopped penetration and ended the game with 15 tackles after a gain of one yard or less.

"We didn't make many adjustments," CC linebacker Matt Burks said. "We started playing harder, playing to the whistle. Only one first down (by WL) in the second half, that shows what a great coaching staff we have."

After opening on a 74-yard scoring drive, the West Lafayette offense never got in the end zone again. A blocked punt was returned for WL's only other points.

"We couldn't get yards on first and second down, leaving us with third and long," Busch said. "You can't build a drive like that, so we just never got a drive going. Turnovers killed us. I had four of them. That's all I need to say."

Amen Galley had a 48-yard run on the opening drive. Maurice Woodard had three straight first-quarter carries that went for a combined 38 yards and three first downs.

From there, the offense sputtered. The Red Devils turned the ball over five times and lost a 14-0 lead in the fourth quarter.

Busch finished 5 of 16 for 33 yards and three interceptions.

"CC's defense is obviously the best we've seen all year ..." senior Ben Thomas said. "With a team as good as CC, you can't be playing CC and playing against yourselves at the same time."

Other than Woodard's 38 yards on three straight carries, the sophomore had just 16 yards on 10 carries. Other than Galley's 48-yard run, he had just 24 rushing yards on 15 carries.

"They are very fast. We could not get outside," WL coach Marshall Overley said. "Every time we tossed it outside, they came up hard. It's not just Anthrop, there's a lot of speed on that team."

Early in the game, it was the Knights who could not move the ball. Because of CC's offensive woes, the Red Devils felt once Thomas scooped up a punt blocked by Tyler Beyer that the 14-0 lead would hold up.

"We definitely thought that was game," Busch said. "I think even some people on their team thought that was it. We gave them room to come back. They are a great fourth-quarter team and we couldn't give them an opportunity in the fourth quarter. I did and they capitalized."

While CC won its 39th game in a row, Friday's loss was just West Lafayette's fourth regular-season loss in the last five seasons.

Turnovers and offensive struggles led to the Red Devils' first loss of 2011, but they hope it will be their only setback.

"I'd rather not lose at all, but it was a great team to lose to," Beyer said. "If there is any team I'd want to lose to, it's CC. They had an all-around really good football team."

CC's unbelievable comeback!

Late rally propels CC past WL in battle of No. 1 teams

Written by

NATHAN BAIRD

When Travis Smith's heroic moment arrived, it felt nothing like what the Central Catholic senior had imagined."I really cannot feel anything in my body right now," Smith said. "It's very intense. I'm so tired. It's been such a long game."Friday's taut, raucous Hoosier Conference championship game between Class A No. 1 Central Catholic and Class 3A No. 1 West Lafayette might have been even longer if not for Smith.The safety's leaping interception and 55-yard return for touchdown in the final 30 seconds lifted Central Catholic to a 21-14 comeback victory in front of an estimated crowd of 4,000 at LaRocca Field.

"I wasn't really sure if he was going to take it back at first," said fellow CC senior Danny Anthrop, whose own fourth-quarter interception set up the game-tying touchdown. "And then I saw him get this speed out of nowhere. I don't know how he did it. That's probably the fastest I've seen that kid run in his life."Central Catholic (9-0, 6-0 Hoosier Conference) trailed 14-0 entering the fourth quarter and 14-7 with less than six minutes to play. It appeared the Knights' 38-game winning streak, the third-longest streak in state history, might come to an end.But Knights senior and Purdue recruit Danny Anthrop's interception set up his second touchdown run, which tied the game with 2:56 to play.

West Lafayette (8-1, 5-1) drove to midfield, but Smith's interception -- the third thrown by Sean Busch and the Red Devils' fifth turnover -- completed the startling comeback."We will definitely use this as motivation as a team and me personally," said Busch, who guided a 74-yard touchdown drive to open the game, capped by a 10-yard touchdown pass to Brian Bangs."We'll come out harder than we would have for sure. We're just happy we've still got games to play."As in its 17-7 victory over Tipton on Sept. 16, West Side could not sustain its early offensive success. But the Red Devils defense became the first to contain and Anthrop and kept CC off the scoreboard into the third quarter.

In the final two minutes of the third, Tyler Beyer blocked Munn's punt, and Ben Thomas picked it up and ran 24 yards for a touchdown that made it 14-0 West Lafayette."I saw two CC guys fall over and everyone was on the ground with no one near me," Thomas said. "We always practice scooping and scoring. I just scooped it and scored it."Munn, who had completed 67 percent of his passes coming in, connected on 6 of 16 before the punt block. But the Knights' offense began to click as he led a 64-yard touchdown drive, capped by Anthrop's 4-yard run.Anthrop's interception and return to the West Lafayette 10 with five minutes left led to his fourth-and-goal plunge from 1 yard out. With 2:56 to play, the game was tied 14-14."For me the momentum shifted after that first score," CC senior linebacker/receiver Matt Burks said. "After that, things started rolling, things started clicking and we started realizing, hey, we're still in this game.

We can win this."Amen Galley's legs carried West Lafayette from its own 36 to the CC 49. When Busch tried to go to Galley through the air, Smith read the play and pounced."I was just hoping I could get down the field a little bit and make sure the offense could score," said Smith, who also intercepted a pass in the first half. "No way I thought I was going to score."After two incompletions, Busch completed a pass underneath to Galley, which set off a series of laterals. But soon the Red Devils were only going backward until Busch was finally taken down.Anthrop, who came into the game averaging 17.5 yards per offensive touch, carried 16 times for 56 yards and added 42 on three receptions.Despite a stellar defensive game, West Lafayette managed just one first down in the second half. After piling up 159 yards on its first three possessions, the Red Devils totaled 44 yards the rest of the game."We couldn't get yards on first and second down, leaving us with third and long," said Busch, who finished 6 of 17 for 84 yards. "You can't build a drive like that, so we just never got a drive going. Turnovers killed us. I had four of them.

That's all I need to say."Players from both sides agreed the first meeting between the county rivals since 2000 -- and the first meeting between two top-ranked Tippecanoe County teams -- lived up to the hype.In its first season back in the Hoosier Conference since 1994, Central Catholic ran the table."Once they blocked that punt, people were starting to second-guess themselves," Munn said. "Our motto is, 'Next play.' Every game we come out and show them what CC pride is. We never stopped."