Central Catholic
High School


Home of the Bluejays
"To prepare all students to reach their fullest potential by learning and leading through Christ."
Central Catholic High School
419 E Decatur Street
West Point, NE 68788
Phone: 402-372-5326
Fax: 402-372-5327

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January
Schedule

Sunday-22th
6:00 Life Night

Monday-23th
4:30 JrHi WR@ Oakland-Cr

6:30 Fr GBB/BBB@ Wisner

6:30 School Board Meeting

6:30 School Board meeting

Tuesday-24th
7:00 Gr.2 - reconciliation

Wednesday-25th
8:20 Mass-Freshman

8:20 School Mass - Freshman

Thursday-26th
6:15 BBB vs Norfolk Catholic

Friday-27th
11:45 Gr. 3 Parent Lunch

3:00 WR @ Logan View - Ea

Saturday-28th
9:00 Fr GBB/BBB - Bluejay

 

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Central Catholic Bluejays
Boys Basketball
2011 Class D1 State Champions


Strong inside game helps Bluejays win Class D-1 title
fremonttribune.com

LINCOLN - West Point Central Catholic used its quickness inside to full advantage Saturday night at the Devaney Sports Center in a 73-63 win against Howells in the Class D-1 championship game.
Led by a pair of burly 6-foot-5 juniors, Brian Bayer and Jordan Brichacek, top-ranked Howells (24-3) had dominated the glass 77-40 in its first two state tournament games. But the Bobcats were schooled on the boards 43-29 Saturday by the second-ranked Bluejays, who were led by a more slender inside threesome of 6-4 Nathan Ulrich (11 rebounds), 6-5 Alex Stieren (eight) and 6-2 Anthony Ridder (eight), all seniors. The Bluejays (21-8) also blocked seven shots, including five by Stieren.
"We've got four keys to victory and the second or third of them, depending on what day it is, is rebounding," said Central Catholic coach Derek Ippensen. "We went after it, and it was all we could hope for."
The Bluejays' rebounding advantage was never more evident than in the first half, especially at the defensive end, where they had a 19-2 edge to build a 28-14 halftime margin on the glass.
Keeping the Bobcats off the offensive boards was the key factor in a 13-0 Central Catholic run over a nearly eight-minute stretch in the first half, allowing the Bluejays to overtake Howells after the Bobcats jumped to a 10-6 lead in the first 3:41.
"They were running some different cutters through, we weren't blocking out very well, and they were getting an extra body down there on the glass," said Howells coach Scott Lamberty. "There were a couple of times Stieren turned around to take a shot and we didn't turn to block him out. We turned to go to the glass, and the ball came right back to him. Those kind of things hurt, because we had a 10-6 lead and we were playing pretty well. Then we gave up a couple of easy baskets, and that allowed them to stretch it a little bit.
"We missed a couple (shots) and we missed a couple free throws, and we didn't do anything to stop the run."
Trailing 22-12, Howells regained its footing with an 8-0 rally midway through the second quarter that cut the Bluejays' lead to 22-20 with 3:28 left in the half. But Central Catholic closed the half with a 10-3 spurt for 32-23 lead at intermission.
The Bluejays extended the lead to as many as 19 points on two occasions in the fourth quarter and went on to nail down their third state title and the first since back-to-back Class C-2 championships in 1998 and 1999.
"The most important (lead) was the one we had at the end," Ippensen said. "But if we can play from the lead, we have an opportunity to make the other team screw up. Making the other team play faster than they want to is what we pride ourselves on, and we were able to. You saw in the first half and I think throughout the second half, we did it, and that's pretty exciting."
The win gave Central Catholic its second state championship in 2010-11, following the Bluejays' triumph in Class D-1 football in November -- and came, Ippensen said, despite some questions early and late in the season.
"The season started late because of football and there at the beginning we were a little bit nervous about how it was going to affect us," he said. "As the season went on, we kept gaining some momentum, and we kept feeling things were going to come our way. But we went through a four-game losing streak there at the end (all to Class C-1 teams, including three state qualifiers) and it just scared the living heck out of us. But we told our players we needed to go on a seven-game winning streak to do our jobs, and we were able to. It's just amazing."
Central Catholic shot 50 percent from the field (24-of-48) and had six players score at least eight points, led by Stieren's 15. The Bluejays' defense held Howells to 38.7 percent shooting (24-of-62), despite 21 points from Bayer and 19 from senior guard Sam Schlautman.
The Bobcats were going for their first boys state basketball title since 1983 and were also hoping for a football-basketball double after winning the Class D-2 title last fall. They also came up short in attempt to duplicate the state title won by the Howells girls basketball team seven days earlier on the same floor.

Howells 10 13 11 29 -- 63
West Point CC 17 15 16 25 -- 73