The Cougar Winter Athletic season continues to climb while facing tough competition. This past weekend continued the trend as many of our teams faced Top 10 competition or competed in large events in which many teams from the area are typically some of the strongest competition we will face. Check out the updates below for each sport from the weekend packed schedule.

🏒 The Catholic Central Hockey team hosted two very tough opponents at Southside over the weekend. On Friday evening, it was the Sailors of Mona Shores who came to town. After a scoreless 1st period, it was Senior Braylen Outwater who netted a powerplay goal to put the Cougars up 1-0. Mona Shores would tie the game with a goal of their own, and it was a battle of the goaltenders for the rest of the way until Senior Nate Sova buried the puck into the back of the Sailor net with just over 1 minute to play in the third period. Senior Max Moore answered the bell for the Cougars, stopping shot after shot from the Sailors in route to picking up the win.

On Saturday, the Cougars and the Byron Center Bulldogs played in the Battle for Southside. Byron Center kept their season rolling with a 5-3 win over the Cougars. Catholic Central netted THREE powerplay goals but it wasn’t enough for the high powered Byron Center team.

The Cougars record now stands at 7-2 and will be back in action this coming weekend with one game on Friday against the Hudsonville Eagles. The Eagles come to Southside for a 7:30 P start time. 

🤼   On Saturday the Cougar Grapplers traveled to East Kentwood for the EK Kent County Wrestling Classic in which Lee Braun won his weight class while Dale Gant also won his weight class as well.

The Cougars will compete in their last dual before Christmas Break when they travel to Martin High School on Friday for the Clipper Classic. The event is scheduled to start at 9:00 A.

🏀  Girls Basketball - The varsity girls team traveled to Belleview to compete in the Best of Michigan event against Ann Arbor Gabriel Richard. It was a tough matchup from the start as the Cougars were down 15-10 after the first quarter of play. They stayed close until about midway through the second quarter when AA Gabriel Richard went on a 14-2 run for a 36-19 halftime advantage. In the end, the Cougars fell 56-42.

Leading the way for the Cougars was sophomore Hailey Durland with 12 points, Junior Grace McKinneyw with 9 points and 7 rebounds, Senior Kate Passinault with 8 points and 11 rebounds, Junior Emily VanTimmeren with 6 points and 7 rebounds, and Junior Lauren Meerman with 6 points.

The Lady Cougars record now stands at 1-1 and they will be home on Tuesday, December 19th to host Grand Rapids Christian. All three levels will be playing with the Freshman game starting at 4:00, the Junior Varsity game starting at 5:30 and the Varsity game tipping off at 7:00pm.

  📣  In their first meet of the season the Cougars competitive cheer team traveled to Grandville for the one of the bigger invitationals of the season.The Cougars finished in 4th place in the Division 3 bracket behind Ludington, Whitehall, and Pickney. After the first round the Cougars were in 3rd place, but unable to make up ground in the 2nd round with some unfortunate penalty points.

The cheer team will be off of competition for much of break but will return to the mat on January 6th when they travel to Comstock Park for the Comstock Park Invitational. The event is scheduled to start at 10:00 A.