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The Booster Club would like to offer congratulations and thanks to boys’ basketball coach Matt Harris as he leaves Notre Dame Prep to become the athletic director and basketball coach at Rancho Solano Prep.

Coach Harris has provided more than six years of leadership to the NDP basketball program including a State Championship in 2006. We are grateful for his service and wish him well.

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NDP SPORTS COMPLETED ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL YEAR

Did you see the Arizona Republic today? Page 2 of the Sports Section had a full page article on the success of NDP Sports. With this weekends BOY'S STATE TRACK CHAMPIONSHIP, NDP has 19 State Championship banners in our short history. Incredible!!!! Congratulations to all the student-athletes and coaches for their hard work, dedication and efforts to create the success and reputation of NDP sports programs. Thank you to all the NDP families and fans for their support.

TRACK AND FIELD - BOYS WIN STATE CHAMPIONSHIP

Congratulations to Coach Fox and the Boys Track and Field Team who took home the State Title. Congratulations also to the Girls who finished 6th in State!

The finals for the 4A2 division were Saturday at Mesa Community College. The boys team wins 1st in state with a score of 82 points beating out Higley with 70 points and last year’s defending champs Queen Creek with 59. The girls finished 6th with 30 points.

Patrick Foley led the Men’s Team scoring 35 points for the team. He won first place medals in the 100, 200 and 400 Meter Dashes and placed 6th in the 4 X 400 Meter Relay.
Blair Tushaus took 1st place in the Discus with a throw of 147’10” and places 3rd in the shot put.
Alex Digaudio took 2nd place in the 300 Meter Hurdles and 6th in the 110 M High Hurdles.
Alex Caniglia placed 3rd in the 110 M High Hurdles.
Joe Forster finished 4th in the 110 M High Hurdles.
The 4 x 800 M Relay Team made up of Bryce Bergevin, Jack Griffin, Garrett Budnick and Chris Guise finished in 3rd place.
The 4 X 100 Meter Relay Team comprised of Falabi Solanke, Bryce Bergevin, Marty Mlachak and Taylor Malenfant placed 4th.
The 4 X 400 Meter Relay Team run by Garrett Budnick, Jack Griffin, Bergevin and Foley finished 6th.


The Lady Saints had some impressive performances.

Melissa Dragoo took home three medals. She received 2nd place in both the High Jump and the Long Jump and placed 3rd in the Triple Jump.
Freshman Marcella Cartledge finished 3rd in the 1600 Meter Run with an amazing time of 5:12. She also came in 7th in the 800 Meter Run.
Kelli Lafferty also took home an 8th place medal in the 100 Meter High Hurdles.

The boys beat out 28 teams while the girls competed against 26. This was the first State Title for Coach Fox and it comes in his last year of coaching. Congratulations Coach Fox and thank you for helping build this great program.

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BASEBALL

Saturday's State Championship game did not go as we had hoped. Our Saint's lost to Mingus 7 - 4. We had a great crowd on a very hot day at Phoenix Municipal Stadium. Our #2 nationally ranked baseball team just couldn't answer our rivals from Mingus. Hat's off to Mingus for a strong game. It is to bad that a championship is awarded in a one game format. For the suggestion box, we should have the best of three series. Congratulations to all the boy's for a tremendous season and for thier contributions building our program over the past several years. There are many players on this years team that will go on and contribute to their respective college teams on the next level. Hold your heads high you are all winners!

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Rank 2
Notre Dame Prep, Scottsdale, Ariz. 27-1

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Notre Dame Prep center Blair Tushaus is busy this week throwing the discus and shot in the Class 4A Division II track and field championships.

But it hasn't stopped a rush of college football coaches to come through coach Scot Bemis' office, asking about the 6-foot-3, 273-pound junior....>>>>>>

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YEAR END BOOSTER CLUB MEETING - NIGHT OF CHAMPIONS

Outstanding attendance for the Night of Champions Booster Club Meeting last Monday. Pro Bowl Football Player Seth Joyner was an outstanding special guest speaker. Everyone enjoyed his "believe in yourself" message. Also, thank you to Booster Club President, George Krueger and his board (vice president/president elect Phil Hugus, Treasurer Mark Yachera, Secretary Mary Slawsby and Membership Cathie Cuda) for their great efforts this year. Also, thank you to Mike Harvey and Marie Stevens who worked with all of the parent-reps all year to gather the information that goes out weekly. Thank you Parent-reps for all the time you put in to report how our NDP teams are doing. This is a collaborative effort of great people. THANK YOU FOR MAKING NDP A GREAT PLACE for all.

Below are the 30 NDP student-athletes who have received college scholarships, to date, to play at the next level. The scholarship season is not over and we will update with the additional awards. Congratulations to all! Outstanding job!

GIRLS’ TENNIS FOLLOWS UP INDIVIDUAL TITLES WITH TEAM STATE TITLE

THEY DID IT! This past week, the girls proved themselves once again taking the 4A–II State title for the third year in a row. In round two of team state the girls defeated Bradshaw Mountain high school who, going into the match, was undefeated in the 4A-II division. In the semi-finals, the girls defeated Verrado putting them in the finals on Saturday against undefeated Buckeye high school. The girls defeated all of their opponents with strong 5-0 victories. We are all so proud of the girls and received many compliments about the girls’ talent, composure, and respectfulness. The girls did a wonderful job and represented Notre Dame well.

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4A-II girls tennis: Notre Dame wins 3rd straight title

4A-II girls tennis: Buckeye, Notre Dame meet

BOYS’ TENNIS BOWS OUT IN SEMI-FINAL

In a semi-final match for the state team championship featuring Ben Slawsby, Zak McNeil, Bryce Cashman, Ryan Hogan, Bo Oelkers, and John Blumenreich, the Saints came up short losing to Palo Verde. Palo Verde, the eventual state champions won in a very close match 5-4. The Saints battled hard and we are proud of all of them.

It was a great season for all the players finishing with a regular season 12-3 record. The team also included varsity player, Robby Breece and JV players Wesley Green, Shane Lubold, Douglas Wong, Benjamin Bass, Trevor Jones, and team manager Barrett Sellars. A special thank, to Coach Varela, his assistant coaches and all the parents who provided support to the boys.


BOYS WIN REGION CHAMPIONSHIP - TRACK AND FIELD

The Men and Women participated in the Black Canyon Regional Meet which began Wednesday and finished Friday at Greenway High School. The men’s team came in 1st place with an impressive score of 166 points. The second place team was Greenway with 88.5.

In the Shot Put Ian Montague took 1st place while Blair Tushaus took 3rd. In the Discus, Tushaus came in 1st , Mike Foley – 5th , and Ian Montague- 6th. In the Long Jump Taylor Malenfant took 4th place and Martin Mlachak placed 6th. Mlachak took 3rd in the Triple Jump. Brett Prather took 4th in the Pole Vault and Brandon Dombrowski tied for 2nd in the High Jump while Kevin Collins placed 5th. In the 110 High Hurdles, Alex Diguadio took 2nd, Alex Caniglia took 4th and Joe Forster took 5th. In the 300 Hurdles Diguadio came in 2nd and Caniglia took 4th. Patrick Foley took 1st place in the 100, 200 and 400 Meter Runs while breaking the meet and school records in the 200 and 400. Jack Griffin scored 2nd in the 1600 Meter Run and 3rd in both the 800 M and the 3200 Meter Runs. Bryce Bergevin took 2nd in the 800 and 3rd in the 400 Meter. Freshman Dylan Audsley scored 5th in the 200 Meter and 6th in the 100 Meter Dash. The 4x8 Relay team comprised of Garret Budnick, Bergevin, Chris Guise and Griffin took 1st place. The 4x100 relay team made up of Falabi Solanke, Mlachak, Diguadio and Malenfant took 2nd place and although the 4 x 400M team with Digaudio, Bergevin, Budnick and Foley took 1st, they were disqualified.

The Lady Saints took 3rd earning 119 points. Greenway was 1sr with 161 and Washington was 2nd with 134.5. Highlights for the girls included outstanding performances from Melissa Dragoo and freshman Marcella Cartledge. Dragoo took 1st place in the High, Triple and Long Jumps, breaking a meet and school record in the High Jump with a jump of 5’5”. Cartledge took 2nd place in both the 800 Meter and 1600 M Runs and was part of the 4th place 4X4 team. Leah Stevens took 3rd place in the High Jump and Alexandra Polasko took 6th in the 400 M Run. Other outstanding performances were from the Hurdle Crew. Kelly Lafferty took 1st in the 100 High Hurdles, while McKenzie Bemis came in 2nd and Shelby Haugen took 3rd. in the 300 Meter Hurdles, Haugen took 2nd and Lafferty 3rd. the 4X100 Relay team made up of Blair Buckley, Laffert, Haugen and Dragoo took 2nd place. Finally, the 4X400 Meter Relay team ran by Haugen, Maddie Sinclair, Polasko and Cartledge took 4th place.

The team will participate in the State Meet on Wednesday the 13th and Saturday the 16th at Mesa Community College.


BOYS’ VOLLEYBALL WRAPS UP SEASON WITH BANQUET

The Boys’ Volleyball team held their banquet this past week on Thursday evening. Joey Versen and Wil Barton were selected co-MVP’s by their teammates. Juniors Jack Donovan and Tanner Leyva were awarded the Matt Arnold teammate award. Wil Barton earned the most improved player award.

The team was much improved from last year, more than doubling their win total from a year ago. Without any seniors on the team this year and everyone coming back, the team should be even stronger next year.


BOY'S BASEBALL

won their first round playoff game on Saturday 13 -0. Our Baseball team is one of the finest in the country and they are rolling!

May 9,2009

Tucson Amphitheater 0
Notre Dame 13

Jordan Luvisi(10-1) threw a 3 hit complete game shutout helping Notre Dame win their playoff opener. Luvisi was dominating on the mound as he struck out 12, walked none and pounded the strike zone with 67 strikes out of the 90 pitches he threw, breaking the Notre Dame school record with his 10th win of the year.

The Notre Dame offense was led by Tayler Scott who drove in 5 runs with a double and a triple.Tony Piazza also added a pair of hits and drove in 2 runs as well.Eric Knight drove in a run with a 2 for 2 effort at the plate. The final blow came when Casey Upperman belted his second grandslam of the year to end the game early in the bottom of the 6th inning.

Notre Dame(28-1) moves on to the quarterfinal round this Wednesday at 7pm at the Peoria Sports Complex.

May 5,2009
Notre Dame 12
Seton 1

- Casey Upperman dominated Seton allowing 1 unearned run on only 3 hits while striking out 14 in another run rule shortened 5 inning game for the 27-1 Notre Dame Saints.For the second day in a row Tony Piazza came up big as he blasted a grand slam home run in the third inning to blow the game wide open. Piazza finished with 2 hits and 5 rbi's on the night.Six other Saint players added 1 hit a piece to the offense. It was senior night and Notre Dame played only seniors for the entire game which officially ended their regular season schedule.

May 4,2009
Notre Dame 10
Glendale 0

Jordan Luvisi (3 inn), Eric Knight (2 inn), and Nick Barber (1 inn) combined to pitch a 1 hit shutout. Glendale got their only hit when they were 2 outs away from being no hit for the second time this year by the Saints pitching staff.Tony Piazza hit his first home run of the year,added another single and had 3 rbi's to lead the Saints offense. Matt Ozanne, Drew Ozanne and Eric Knight added 2 hits a piece. Knight also collected 3 rbi's and Drew Ozanne collected 2 rbi's. Notre Dame improved their season record to 26-1 with this 6 inning run rule victory

Jordan Luvisi wins 4A Dual Region Home Run Derby

May 1,2009 - Jordan Luvisi competed Friday night at the high school home run contest...........He was chosen to represent Notre Dame and ended up winning the 4A Dual Region Home Run Derby hitting 12 homers in his 2 rounds. The contest was held this year at Greenway High School.

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BOYS LACROSSE won their first round playoff game last night and will be playing in the semi-finals of their state tournament this Saturday (5/9) against Horizon. Game time 6:00 pm at Chaparral High School.

There will be a $5.00 charge for admission. Come on out and support one of the best Lacrosse programs in the state....your NDP SAINTS!!!!!


BASEBALL also is beginning their state championship run with a first round game this Saturday (5/9) against Amphitheatre. Game time is 11:00 am at NDP. Come on out and support one of the best baseball programs in the country.......your NDP SAINTS!!!!!

SOFTBALL also is beginning their 2009 state championship run on Saturday (5/9) against Seton Catholic. Game time is 1:30 at Seton Catholic. This is where dreams happen.......good luck girls!!!!

So to recap.....start your day off at NDP at 11:00 am to support the NDP Baseball team. Grab a quick lunch on your way to Seton Catholic to cheer on your NDP Softball team. You will have a bit of a break before the NDP Lacrosse game at 6:00 pm at Chaparral High School. Sounds like a great little Saturday to me!

Please remember since these are state playoff games, everyone will be charged $5.00 – only children under 5 and those with AIA passes will be admitted for free.

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