The Cougar Fall Athletes continued their quest for MHSAA hardware as the Cross Country team and Football team continued their post season runs. Though not all the Cross Country runners will be heading to state, the Cougars will send 4 to compete. The Football team will host the District Finals on Friday 11/3, and there has been some Boys Golf Breaking News as well.

⛳️   Even though Boys Golf is a spring sport, a commitment to continue academic and athletic pursuits to a college university is deemed Weekend Update worthy.

Congratulations to Senior Matthew Sokorai who has committed to play golf and further his academic career by attending Grand Valley State University upon graduation this spring. Matthew has been a key contributor to the varsity golf team the past 3 seasons, helping to lead CC to 2 State Championships (2021 and 2023) along with a runner-up finish in 2022. The 2023 Finals Medalist followed that up with All-State honors and he has been named All Conference in each of his three years of competition.

"I’m extremely excited to start a new chapter of my life at Grand Valley, but I still need to get the job done in the spring with the guys," noted Sokorai. "I wouldn’t be in this position today without my family, teammates and coaches."

The Catholic Central community wishes you the very best as you head to Allendale in the fall of 2024. CONGRATS Matthew!!!

🏈  The Varsity football hosted the Benton Harbor Tigers in the first round of the MHSAA Division 5 Playoffs. The Cougars scored early and often in the first half of the game with the score 42-6 at halftime.

After recovering a fumble on the first offensive play of the game, the Cougars scored two plays later on a Connor Wolf to Kellen Russell-Dixon connection of 23 yards. On the next offensive possession, Connor Wolf found Jamison Williams for 43 yards on the first play. However, the Cougars were not finished and scored on a Raef Goosen 13 yard catch from Connor Wolf to bring the score to 21-0 at the end of the first quarter. On their first possession of the 2nd quarter Wolf found Goosen again, this time for 10 yards for his second TD of the night. Wolf would add two more passing touchdowns in the first half, both of them to Senior Ace Natte, who scored his first two career touchdown passes. The first was from 8 yards out and the second was from 16 yards out.

With the win, the Cougars advance to 9-1 on the season in preparation for the District Final next Friday at the CAT against Berrien Springs. The game is scheduled for 7:00 PM kickoff on Friday, October 27. Since we are in the playoffs - tickets will go to the digital phase through GoFan. The link will be posted on the Catholic Central Athletics website and social media sites shortly.

🏃‍♂️ 🏃‍♀️ Regional Final Cross Country Round Up

The Cross Country team had 4 state qualifiers, Emily Tomes (2nd overall - 17:56.54), Claire Marosi (21st overall - 19:32.05), Jeb Hillary (7th overall - 16:04.66), and Ian Richthammer (20th overall - 16:45.76). Both the boys and girls team finished 7th in the MHSAA Regional Championships.

These four runners will move on to compete at the MHSAA State Finals meet next Saturday (11/4) at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, MI. The girls are set to race in the D2 finals at 1:30pm and the boys are set to race in the D2 finals at 2:50pm.

Good luck to our runners!