Basketball

Basketball

 
St. John’s School is a proud member of the Orange County Parochial School League (“OCPSL”), an association of eight parochial schools located throughout Orange County. The OCPSL is run by voluntary members and includes a Commissioner, a Cheerleading Director, and several basketball League Directors. Further information about the OCPSL can be found at its website address: www.ocpsl.org.
 
Beginning in fifth grade, our students have the opportunity to represent the school by playing basketball games against other OCPSL teams. St. John’s fields four basketball teams: fifth and sixth grade students comprise the Junior Varsity (“JV”) teams (a girls JV team and a boys’ JV team), and the seventh and eighth graders comprise the Varsity teams (a girls’ varsity team and a boys’ varsity team). For each of the four teams, the OCPSL is broken down into two divisions and, at the end of the regular season, the best team from each division play against one another in what is called the “Banner Game”. The winner of the Banner Gamer receives the OCPSL’s championship banner, which is then hung in the winner’s gym. As you can see by visiting our gym, St. John’s has had a great deal of success over the years. For example, our teams have won eight banners in the last five seasons. In addition to the Banner Game, each OCPSL team is eligible to participate in the post-season playoffs with the final games taking place at Mount Saint Mary College in mid-March. Since the 2003-2004 season alone, St. John’s teams have won a total of eight league championships.
 
For those students in the third and fourth grade, St. John’s also offers an intramural basketball program which runs from late winter to early spring each year. This program is designed to accomplish three main goals: first, to teach basic fundamental skills and rules of the sport; second, to prepare the children for St. John’s JV basketball teams that begin in fifth grade; and lastly, and most importantly, to encourage teamwork and good sportsmanship.  We encourage all students to give the intramural program a try and every effort is made to insure everyone gets equal practice and playing time.
 
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact Tom Gough (St. John’s Athletic Director) at 845-590-1960.
 
 
Thanks to everyone who came out all season long to support the RED HAWKS!!!  We  were treated to some great basketball and cheering with a SUPER effort from all our teams!
 

 Congratulations to all of our SJS teams who competed for the Championships at Mount St. Mary's College!

Saturday afternoon our Varsity Girls, the first of the SJS teams to play at the Mount over the weekend lost a tough one in the consolation game, placing 4th in the overall league~ great season girls!!

Saturday eveningour Pep Squad participated all together as an exhibition team during the evening and was just fabulous!! The JV Cheerleaders received a 2nd Degree of Excellence in the OCPSL's Cheerleading Competition.  Our Varsity Cheerleaders received 1st Degree of Excellence and were the Grand Champions on the varsity level~ Way to go ladies!!

Sunday afternoon,our JV Boys’ & Varsity Boys' basketball teams both finished undefeated seasons by winning the Championship games to take home the 1st place trophies~ Way to go gentlemen!!

Congratulations to Katie Biagi, Brian Gillen and Michael Weiss, all of whom were named to the All-Tournament Team based on their hard work and efforts in this weekend's tournament!  Also, one of three OCPSL Scholarship Awards was presented to Brianna Pironti, a senior at John S. Burke Catholic High School and SJS Alum--way to go Brianna!

And finally, congratulations to SJS All-Stars and Academic All-Stars (listed below) and to Brian Gillen, SJS 8th grader and Varsity player who was named the Varsity Boy's League MVP!   

Basketball ALL STARS:

JV Girls~

All-Stars:  Rosemary Smith, McKenna Smith and Jenny Lawless

Academic All-Star: Rosemary Smith

JV Boys~

All-Stars:  Matthew Ehret, Jacob Pawliczak and Max Horrego 

Academic All-Star: Jacob Pawliczak

Varsity Girls~

All-Stars:  Katie Biagi, Katie Smith and Alyssa Kuehner

Academic All-Star:  Veronica Peronio

Varsity Boys~

All-Stars:  Brian Gillen, Brendan McMahon and Michael Weiss

Academic All-Star:  Michael Weiss

Cheerleading ALL STARS:

Pep Girls~

All-Stars:  Erin Fleming and Leonora Narkaj

Academic All-Star: Sarah Higgins

JV Girls~

All-Stars:  Megan Geissler and McKenna Smith 

Academic All-Star: McKenna Smith

Varsity Girls~

All-Stars:  Makayla Davies and Alyssa Kuehner

Academic All-Star:  Deirdre Lahiff

NOTE:  2012 OCPSL All-Star games will be held next Saturday, March 17th at Sacred Heart Newburgh:  JV Girls at 10am; JV Boys 11:30am; Varsity Girls 1pm and Varsity Boys 2:30pm.

All of our SJS players & coaches should be very proud of a great 2011-2012 season!

 Download the St. John's Basketball 2011-2012 Schedule

GO RED HAWKS!!