NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The Yale University baseball
team celebrated its year-end banquet on Monday, electing third
baseman Chris Piwinski (Folsom, Calif.) as captain for the 2013
season while also honoring seven players with team awards.
“Chris is a great choice for captain,” Yale head coach John
Stuper said. “Since his sophomore year he has shown excellent
leadership qualities.”
Piwinski also received the Paul Sortal Award, which goes to the
player who makes the most of his ability.
Alan Menken and Howard Ashman’s popular chamber musical “Little
Shop of Horrors” has always thrived on cheeky simplicity. The
story of a Faustian bond between an otherworldly plant that feeds
on human blood and the unassuming florist shop worker who
nurtures it provides comic guilty pleasure. The new, easygoing
Sacramento Theatre Company production serves up this theatrical
dessert with neither surprise nor disappointment.
BOSTON — The Red Sox will welcome a familiar face back into the
clubhouse on Monday in Minneapolis, when first baseman/outfielder
Lars Anderson is promoted from Triple-A Pawtucket.
Anderson spent time on the Major League roster the last two
seasons, hitting .175 with no homers and four RBIs in 40 at-bats.
The prospect has been knocking on the door for a couple of years
and had a big Spring Training, hitting .343 with one homer and
eight RBIs.
Vinnie Catricala says he “kind of flew under the radar a little
bit” early in his minor league career.
That’s not the case anymore. Not after the Jesuit High School
graduate was named the Seattle Mariners’ Minor League Player of
the Year in 2011, hitting a combined .349 with 25 home runs and
106 RBIs between Class A and Double A.
Jesuit High School’s tradition of winning has made its way to
Sacramento State’s baseball field this season through three of
its players.
The trio of senior Trevor Paine, sophomore Justin Higley and
freshman Rhys Hoskins all chose to stay close to home, turning in
their red and gold Jesuit uniforms into green ones.
Second-year head coach Reggie Christiansen wasted no time
recruiting Higley and Hoskins to solidify the outfield.
Matt Wiesenfarth has been selected to participate in the U.S.
Under-20 National Team training camp in Portland, Ore., joining
24 players from both Major League Soccer club teams and some of
the top collegiate programs in the country.
Wiesenfarth, the reigning Big West Conference Freshman of the
Year, will train for a week alongside eight professionals, 10
collegians and six development academy players.
Former Jesuit High School standout Justin Higley hit a two-run
homer and backed a complete game by Brennan Leitao as visiting
Sacramento State defeated Louisiana Tech 2-1 Saturday in a
Western Athletic Conference baseball game, Sac State reported.
The Hornets (15-16, 1-1) ended a three-game losing streak with
their win over the Bulldogs (16-15, 1-1) in Ruston, La.
Higley’s two-out homer in the third inning scored Hunter Adrian,
who had a leadoff double.
By Jeff CaraskaFormer Jesuit infielder Vinnie Catricala didn’t
make the Seattle Mariners’ roster to start the season, but the
23-year-old certainly seems to be in the team’s short-range
plans.
Last season, Catricala was the Mariners’ Minor League Player of
the Year. Between Class A and Double A, he hit .349 with 25 home
runs and 106 RBIs. Catricala, who opened eyes this spring in
Arizona by hitting .313 with two homers and seven RBIs, is
assigned to the Tacoma Rainiers, the Mariners’ Triple-A team.
Chris Blees, The Bee’s 2007 boys basketball Player of the Year
while at Jesuit High School, capped a stellar career at Claremont
McKenna College in Southern California by being named to the
National Association of Basketball Coaches All-America Third Team
for NCAA Division III.
The 6-foot-5, 230-pound Blees, a forward, also was named to the
NABC Western District First Team.
Former Jesuit High School player Stephen Ostapeck was named the
Big East Pitcher of the Week today, marking the second time this
season that the Villanova junior has won the award.
Ostapeck is coming off a three-hit shutout in an 8-0 victory over
St. John’s on Saturday afternoon.
Ostapeck retired 13 consecutive St. John’s batters at one point
and allowed two walks and hit a batter in addition to the three
hits.
SAN FRANCISCO — Acting Army Chief of Engineers Maj. Gen. Merdith
“Bo” Temple promoted South Pacific Division Commander Col.
Michael C. Wehr to the rank of Brigadier General, March 15, 2012
in a ceremony at the San Francisco War Memorial Veterans
Building.
Finding a spot in the everyday lineup for freshman Rhys Hoskins
is a good problem for Sacramento State baseball coach Reggie
Christiansen.
Hoskins, a Jesuit High School graduate, went 3 for 5 with a grand
slam, a double and five RBIs in the Hornets’ 11-3 rout of
visiting Dartmouth on Thursday. It was the opener of a five-game
series against the Big Green, with a doubleheader scheduled for
noon today after Friday’s game was postponed because of rain.
During the recent 2012 Columbus Grand Prix competition — the
fourth stop on the 2011-2012 USA Swimming Grand Prix Series –
Arden Hills swim athlete and University of Southern California
(USC) sophomore Nick Johnson successfully made his 400-meter free
Olympic trials cut on Saturday, March 10. The 2012
Columbus Grand Prix took place March 9-11 in Columbus, Ohio.
Chico State senior point guard Jay Flores, a 2007 Jesuit
graduate, has made the Capital One Academic All-West Region team
for his excellence in the classroom and on the court.
Only athletes with cumulative GPAs of 3.30 or higher who have
played in at least 75 percent of their team’s games are eligible
for Academic All-Region honors.
Flores, a business major, is now eligible for Academic
All-America honors as well. That announcement will come on Feb.
22.
TUCSON, Ariz. – For New Mexico’s John Catlin, it was pretty much
like taking a calm stroll in the park.
For host team Arizona, it was an intense, nail-biting,
down-to-the-wire thriller in the desert.
When it was all said and done, Catlin and the Wildcats walked
away from Arizona National Golf Club on Tuesday carrying the
first-place trophies from the 32nd Arizona Intercollegiate.
BERKELEY – Former California All-Americans Blaine Scully and
Colin Hawley have accepted contracts funded by the United States
Olympic Committee to train full-time at the Olympic Training
Center in Chula Vista, Calif., with the U.S. National 7s Team.
By accepting these contracts, Scully and Hawley have placed
themselves among the first-ever players to sign such deals with
USA Rugby.
It’s Colin O’Connor, Patch’s Teacher of the Month for December.
O’Connor is a 2004 Jesuit graduate and is in his third year at
Jesuit, teaching English to freshmen and juniors. He is also an
assistant coach for the Marauders varsity water polo and swimming
teams.
“It made it very comfortable for me,” O’Connor said of returning
to teach at Jesuit. “I knew the educational model and it’s a very
supportive administration.”
This is right around the time of the year when Dudley Adair’s
side business starts to get busy.
The Carmichael native and his wife, who moved from Carmichael to
Lincoln about four years ago, are weight loss coaches with Take
Shape for Life, a company whose “coaches” sell meal replacements
and provide weight loss plans and advice.
“We talk to people starting now with the holiday season upon us,”
Adair said. “People seem more willing to listen at this time of
the year than any other.”
Throughout our history, Jesuit alumni have traditionally contributed to the Annual Fund at a 5% participation rate. Previously, we have leaned on our relative youth as an institution to justify our modest numbers. Today, as we wind down our first half-century as the preeminent high school in our region, we must turn the page on our organizational adolescence. It is time to ring in a new era and begin participating at a higher level.
Picture Aretha Franklin timidly answering a cattle call for
“America’s Got Talent” or Robert De Niro deigning to do community
theater.
That, at first blush, seems to be what former Olympic middle
distance runner Michael Stember will be doing when he pins on a
race bib for the 18th Run to Feed the Hungry in Sacramento on
Thanksgiving.
As captain of the Yale football team, Jordan Haynes ’12 knows
what is required of him this Saturday as the Bulldogs face the
Crimson.
Entering his junior year at Jesuit High School in Sacramento,
Calif., Haynes had little idea Ivy League schools even supported
football programs. But now, more than five years later, Haynes is
prepared to leave his mark on the conference’s most-storied
rivalry as he leads his teammates into the 128th edition of the
Harvard-Yale football game.
Coming from a private high school in Sacramento, Ian Donahue
knows a thing or two about small class sizes.
The 21-year-old UC Merced senior who attended Jesuit High School
has been having flashbacks to his high school days lately,
especially in courses for his materials science and engineering
major, which often have as few as 10 students per class.
The small size of the newest UC campus was a major reason for
Donahue’s decision to attend UC Merced, as well as the people on
campus.
Just as our academic success hinges upon the diligence of our
students and teachers, so too, our students and teachers depend
upon the alliance of alumni, parents – current & past, and
friends who continue to support the school and our mission with
their generosity.
To meet our needs, we invite all
of our supporters to consider a gift to the Jesuit Annual
Fund.
The current fiscal year runs from July 1, 2011 until June 30,
2012. Please consider making a gift to the Jesuit Annual
Fund this year. Every gift ~ no matter what size ~ makes a
difference in the lives of our students every day.
On a beautiful, sunny Sunday morning, Kyle Lackner and Katherine
Abdolhosseini ran to victory at the 11th annual Lake Natoma Four
Bridges Half Marathon in Folsom.
Lackner, a 21-year-old Folsom resident, who graduated from Jesuit
High in 2008 and currently runs cross country at Sac State,
finished the 13.1-mile race before anyone else in 1 hour, 17
minutes and 33 seconds.
“It’s a good course and it’s good to win, but I’m not really
pleased with my time,” Lackner said. “I was hoping to run under
1:10.”
The Alumni Office of Jesuit High School is seeking young alums in
the Sacramento area to work as Alumni Relations & Development
interns for a 2, 5 or 7 month period. Please take a moment to
look over the position’s description, requirements and benefits
laid out below.
Middle Tennessee State rode quarterback Logan Kilgore’s red-hot
start to a 38-14 win over Florida Atlantic on Saturday night.
Kilgore, a sophomore, completed his first 19 pass attempts,
breaking the school record of 15 consecutive completions set by
Wes Counts in 2001.
Kilgore passed for 161 yards to 10 different receivers just in
the first quarter before hitting a lull. He finished 28-of-39
passing for 218 yards, three TDs and two interceptions in three
quarters before being relieved by backup Jeff Murphy.
Ken O’Brien wasn’t just on the Carson Palmer bandwagon – he was
steering it.
O’Brien, the former Jesuit High School [class of 1978] and UC
Davis quarterback who had two Pro Bowl seasons with the New York
Jets, worked out Palmer in recent months to keep the “retired”
quarterback’s joints from rusting.
After learning of Palmer’s acquisition by the Raiders, O’Brien
beamed and said he backed Raiders coach Hue Jackson’s claim that
Oakland had pulled off “the greatest trade in football.”
CHULA VISTA, Calif. – The 12-man rugby sevens squad heading to
Guadalajara, Mexico on October 24 to join Team USA at the 2011
Pan-American Games, will be engrained with a mantra that will
help it maintain focus in the quadrennial tournament: ‘Play in
the moment.’
U.S. Rep. Dan Lungren’s chief of staff will run for a political
seat of his own next year.
Peter Tateishi, who has worked for the Gold River Republican for
about five years, said he plans to seek the newly drawn 8th
District Assembly seat stretching from Citrus Heights to south of
Wilton.
Nine goals by Aaron Salit helped lead UC Davis to victories
Sunday in the Aggie Shootout men’s water polo tournament at
Schaal Aquatic Center, UCD reported.
The No. 9 Aggies (14-3) defeated Occidental 19-4, La Verne 18-9
and Fresno Pacific 15-3. The Aggies were 6-0 in the tournament.
Salit scored four goals against Occidental, sat out the match
against La Verne, then scored five against Fresno Pacific.
Andrew Susac isn’t exactly the Giants’ catcher of the future. Not
in an organization featuring Buster Posey.
But Susac, who grew up in Sacramento a Giants fan, still is an
elite prospect after being chosen in the second round of the June
draft, and he’ll put his talents on display in the instructional
league, which begins this week in Arizona.
“I try to emulate my game after Buster Posey’s,” said Susac, who
was in attendance Tuesday with fellow draftees Kyle Crick
(sandwich pick) and Ricky Oropesa (third round).
The winner of Harvard’s 2011 Freshman Talent Show last Tuesday
was Christopher Eur ’15 from Sacramento, Calif. For his act, he
beatboxed—which he learned by watching YouTube videos—while he
performed an improvised jazz piece on the piano. “You can do most
of the sounds without your hands,” Eur said, “except for some
scratching sounds.” His 14 freshmen competitors showcased a
diverse range of talents, from Chinese sword dancing to a piano
and saxophone duet.
Tyler Lantrip didn’t put life on hold while he waited for his
shot at quarterbacking Nevada’s offense. He earned his degree in
finance and economics, got married and started working toward an
MBA.
It was a long wait.
Lantrip has spent the last three seasons in a backup role as the
Wolf Pack’s dual-threat star, Colin Kaepernick, slung and
scampered his way into program lore.
Searching for perfection in a Woodland field, Tom Heaton spends
countless hours in the sun. Where else would he be? He’s devoted
his life’s work to a flower that’s synonymous with bright summer
days.
“Isn’t that pretty?” Heaton said with obvious pride when he
spotted a luminous white flower edged with pink. “A lot of things
out here you’ve never seen before.”
Who knew you could toss spinach into a fruit smoothie and have no
one be the wiser?
Eric Olsen, for one. Olsen, vice president of finance and risk at
Ray Stone Inc., volunteered himself and the company’s management
team to take turns riding a stationary bike outfitted with a
blender to produce smoothies for winners of a company fitness
contest.
The smoothies were based on a recipe supplied by Partnership for
a Healthy California, which also supplied the bicycle.
John Catlin won the Northern California Golf Association Amateur
Match Play Championship for the second year in a row, defeating
Michael Weaver 5 and 3 in Friday’s final at Spyglass Hill.
Catlin, a 21-year-old rising junior at New Mexico, was 11 under
par in closing out the title match in 33 holes.
“That’s not bad,” Catlin said Tuesday from Albuquerque,
reflecting on his accomplishment before heading to class.
![Image of Piwinski ['09] Elected 2013 Captain](http://www.jesuithighschool.org/sites/main/files/imagecache/1Column/main-images/mewh1dvqrpwrwqls.jpg "Photo Credit: Sam Rubin '95, Yale Sports Publicity")
![Image of Catricala ['06] continues to rise in Mariners’ farm system](http://www.jesuithighschool.org/sites/main/files/imagecache/1Column/main-images/1nmbi2.xl_.4.jpg "Catricala, a third baseman for Tacoma, got his first taste of the major leagues this spring. Playing alongside well-known big leaguers \"was a little surreal,\" he said. Photo Credit: Paul Kitagaki Jr.")
![Image of Wiesenfarth ['11] Invited to U-20 National Training Camp](http://www.jesuithighschool.org/sites/main/files/imagecache/1Column/main-images/7251403.jpeg "Photo Credit: UCDavisAggies.com")
![Image of Ex-Jesuit player Blees ['07] completes brilliant career at Claremont](http://www.jesuithighschool.org/sites/main/files/imagecache/1Column/main-images/0038_pw2u9011.jpg_.jpg "Photo Credit: Bob Davies")
![Image of [Stephen Ostapeck '09] named Big East Player of Week for Villanova](http://www.jesuithighschool.org/sites/main/files/imagecache/1Column/main-images/ostaspeck.jpg)
![Image of Hoskins ['11] delivers hits despite shuffling jobs](http://www.jesuithighschool.org/sites/main/files/imagecache/1Column/main-images/y0pxp.xl_.4.jpg "Photo Credit: Bob Solorio, Sacramento State Athletics")
![Image of Swimmer Nick Johnson ['10] Makes the Olympic Trials Cut](http://www.jesuithighschool.org/sites/main/files/imagecache/1Column/main-images/5a2586cc4f4145f68ab779f4df736051_o.jpg "Photo Credit: Arden Hills Resort Club & Spa")
![Image of [John Catlin '09] cruises to victory at Arizona Intercollegiate](http://www.jesuithighschool.org/sites/main/files/imagecache/1Column/main-images/john-catlin-new-mexico-mens-college-golf_t620.jpg "Photo Credit: New Mexico athletics")
![Image of Scully ['06] and Hawley ['05] Get USOC Contracts](http://www.jesuithighschool.org/sites/main/files/imagecache/1Column/main-images/7092037.jpeg "Photo from CalBears.com")
![Image of Ryan Rodriguez ['06] of Antelope Selected for Peace Corps Youth Development Assignment in Ecuador](http://www.jesuithighschool.org/sites/main/files/imagecache/1Column/main-images/thanksgiving_2012.jpg)
To meet our needs, we invite all
of our supporters to consider a gift to the Jesuit Annual
Fund.
![Image of [David Grega '03] of Napa splits his time making wine and helping other veterans](http://www.jesuithighschool.org/sites/main/files/imagecache/1Column/main-images/4e88fb8d4a3cf.image_.jpg "Photo submitted to Napa Valley Register")
![Image of Ex-Jesuit QB Lantrip ['06] finally gets chance at Nevada](http://www.jesuithighschool.org/sites/main/files/imagecache/1Column/main-images/hhi4r.xl_.4.jpg "Credit: Doug Canham John Byrne/Nevada Media Services")
![Image of Woodland’s Tom Heaton ['69] is the king of sunflowers](http://www.jesuithighschool.org/sites/main/files/imagecache/1Column/main-images/1hpwcc.st_.4.jpg "Dr. Tom Heaton at his sunflower field in Woodland, looks at a variety of sunflowers that he grows. PHOTO CREDIT: Bryan Patrick")
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