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Philadelphia City Champs Recap
The St. Joe's Prep ultimate team finished
their season yesterday at the Philadelphia City Championships.
Their first opponent - Delaware Valley Friends School,
came out strong, keeping the score at 1-1, and 2-2 at
the start. But the Prep's solid defense led by efforts
by Tom McCabe '07, and relatively tight offense prevailed
and led the Prep to a 13-3 victory over DVFS. Tom McCabe
scored the game winner from a long huck from Greg Owens.
Next up was CB East, the hosting team for
the tournament, had a visible homefield advantage. The
game quickly became a contest of speed pitting on more
than one occasion Prep's Matt McCabe '05 against CB East's
Eddie Peters. The game seesawed back and forth until 10-9.
At which point the Prep scored 3 straight and played incredibly
tight defense, again led by efforts of Tom McCabe '07
and layouts by Bill Easton '05. On offense the Prep's
superior handler in Mike Panna '05 became evident with
quick deep hucks to Matt McCabe '05. The last point was
a long ball to sophomore (and next year's captain) Joe
Kruse '07 - leading them to a 13-9 victory and putting
them in the semifinals for the Philadelphia title.
Their opponent - Cheltenham high school,
whom they had faced and lost to two times previously the
same season. Even given the odds against them the prep
put up a hell of a fight. Layout Ds by the likes of Bill
Easton '05 and Joe Kruse '07 kept the prep in a tight
match. On offense the in-cuts of Ben Kruse '05 and Bill
Easton '05 steadily moved the Prep up the field, and the
deep threats of Greg Owens '07 and Matt Paparone '07 provided
a consistent huck option for handlers Panna and Jim Ionata
'07. But in the end the experience of Chelt's squad (twelve
out of the thirteen being seniors and four year veterans
of phuel) paid off and the Prep lost 13-8.
This brings the Prep's total record for
the Spring season to 15-4. The Prep started their team
less than two years ago, only participating in 3 full
PHUEL seasons - (Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Spring 2005)
with a combined record of 28-16.
Congratulations to our graduating seniors
- Terry Casey, Dan Corse, Bil Easton, Ben Kruse, Luke
Matthews, Matt McCabe, Garrett McInnes, Mike Panna, and
Brian White - Good luck in college and thank you for an
awesome 2 years of Prep Ultimate!
Anyone Prep students interested in joining
the team are more than welcome to. Information about tryouts
for the spring season will be availiable sometime around
the beginning of the 2005-2006 school year. For any additional
information please talk to any current members of the
team.
| Saturday, May 21, 2005 |
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The national and state rankings have
been updated - and the Prep has moved up! To 22nd
in the nation and 3rd in the state! Congratulations.
The Prep team has one more set of games left in
the season - the PHUEL City Championships on May
28th @ CB East high school in Doylestown. More details
to come soon. Come out and wish the Prep seniors
a fond farewell in their last games as Preppers. |
| » Posted by Matt
McCabe // 1:19 pm |
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| Wednesday, May 3, 2005 |
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Congratulations! The
following 15 players from the Prep team were selected
to go to the State Championship
tournament and compete on behalf of the Prep...
Corse, Dan '05
Easton, Bill '05
Ionata, Jim '07
Kruse, Ben '05
Kruse, Joe '07
Lebrun, Alex '06
McCabe, Matt '05
McInnes, Garrett '05
Owens, Greg '07
Panna, Mike '05
Paparone, Matt '07
Pennacchia, Dan '06
White, Brian '05
Alternates
Bauer, John '07
Fennimore, Harry '06
To all who were selected you must bring in the
following forms tomorrow, signed
and completed - they can be downloaded here.
You need to have the medical authorization,
and waiver. In addition you must
also register to become a UPA member, which you
can do by going here.
(you only need a junior's membership which costs
$20) |
| » Posted by Matt
McCabe // 7:33 pm |
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| Wednesday, April 20, 2005 |
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More Downloads
now availiable!!!
-Pictures from the Germantown Friends School
game (by Riverjoe)
-Pictures from the Penn Charter game (by Andrew
Czudak '08)
-Highlight reel from the William Tennent Game (by
Matt McCabe/Terry Casey)
-coming soon... Highlight reel from the Hip Hop
on Pop tournament, and the North Penn/Lancaster
doubleheader.
Other news -
The Prep Ultimate website has hit a new traffic
high, entertaining over 25,000 visitors
since we started counting last March. Thank you
to all who visit and take an interest in the Prep's
Ultimate team. Please feel free to link to us and
spread the word...
Upcoming Games
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May 1st - Prep vs. Cheltenham - place and time to
be determined
May 7th - Prep vs. Pennsbury - at Pennsbury, time
TBA |
| » Posted by Matt
McCabe // 10:47 am |
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| Wednesday, April 20, 2005 |
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Brand NEW Downloads!!
Brand new highlight reel filmed by Terry Casey and
edited by Matt McCabe, the video is now availiable
from the Prep vs. William Tennent game, it is availiable
on the downloads page.
Also availiable are over 80 new pictures from the
Prep vs Penn Charter game taken by Andrew Czudak
'08 - again on the downloads
page.
Hope to see you at the game today!!! |
| » Posted by Matt
McCabe // 10:47 am |
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| Wednesday, April 6, 2005 |
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Players are reminded that they MUST
turn in the league waiver by tomorrow,
otherwise they will not be allowed to play for the
prep this season. The waiver can be found on the
forms/information page of the PHUEL website. Click
here. If you do not hand in the waiver tomorrow,
please return your uniform to Mr. Conners in the
equipment office.
Upcoming events: there are no games this weekend
because of the all-star break. Players, families,
fans etc, are all invited to come watch Michael
Panna '05 and Matt McCabe
'05 compete on behalf of the Prep in the 2nd annual
PHUEL all-star game, it will be held at Edgely field
in fairmount park, and will start at 3:15pm. After
the league all-star game, the PHUEL players will
be combined to take on Regional and National Champion
masters team OLD
Sag (One Last Ditch Shot at Glory).
Next saturday - the 16th, is one of the biggest
tournaments of our seaons - Hip Hop on Pop. There
are 18 teams, and 3 divisions, we will play at least
three games in one day, hopefully more (depending
on how much we win). More details will come soon,
but it will be played at Edgely field. Fans are
invited to come for one, two or any amount of games,
we promise some high quality ultimate. |
| » Posted by Matt
McCabe // 8:47 pm |
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| Tuesday, March 29, 2005 |
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Over the past two days Prep ultimate
team members have logged more than 60 hours
of service, serving over 687 meals
to homeless men in the city of Philadelphia
at St. John's Hospice, and cleaning over
200 gallons of trash from the grounds and
surrounding streets of the Prep.
The past two days are just one more testament to
the positive impact the SJP Ultimate team makes
on the Prep community and the surrounding neighborhood.
The ultimate team invites all friends, family members,
extended relatives etc to come to our next game
- Saturday, April 2nd @ 12:00pm @ North Wales Fields
vs. North Penn high school. |
| » Posted by Matt
McCabe // 11:55 pm |
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| Saturday, March 19, 2005 |
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Congratulations...
To the Prep ultimate team for sealing a win over
O'Hara with a final score of 15-9 in their season
opener. Awesome game guys, Also, thank you to all
the fans who came out and showed their support and
Andrew Gangemi '06 for being the Hawk at the game.
If any parents or players have digital pics from
the game, feel free to email them to me and i will
post them online..
TO PREP ALUMNI - to any prep alumni
who now play ultimate for college or club teams,
we are having an alumni practice on this Monday
- March 21st at 3:00pm at Lemon Hill in North Philadelphia.
This is an open invite to any Prep alumns with significant
ultimate experience, come on out and help our team
develop.
TO CURRENT PREP PLAYERS - be at
practice on monday. |
| » Posted by Matt
McCabe // 11:41 pm |
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| Sunday, March 13, 2005 |
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Reminders...
Parents meeting and team dinner is THIS
WEDNESDAY at 5:30pm (after practice) in
the Prep's cafeteria. Please let me know how many
people are coming from your family so we can order
food accordingly. Also, freshman families are asked
to bring drinks and cups, sophomore families - desserts,
junior families - chips/snacks, and senior families
- napkins, plates, utensils etc.
We strongly encourage all family members of team
members to attend.
Prep's season opener is this Saturday against O'Hara
High School at O'Hara, from O'Hara's coach...
Directions
95 south to 476 North
take exit 3 off of 476 N
Make a right at the traffic light.
Follow down to Church Rd. make a right (there is
a white church on the
corner, if you hit krispy kreme you went one light
too far)
field is down on the right hand side, we will be
playing on whichever field
is open, hopefully the football field in the back
corner |
| » Posted by Matt
McCabe // 3:36 pm |
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| Sunday, February 27, 2005 |
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the 2005 Schedule is now online!
Rejoice Prep ultimate players, friends, family
and fans. The 2005 prep ultimate schedule is now
online. Just click the calendar
link or the game schedule
link to see the whole thing in its wonderous glory.
The season opener is March 19th @ 12:00pm vs. Cardinal
O'Hara High School
Message to fans - If you attend
every game this season you will win a St. Joe's
Prep custom made disc. Spread the word to friends,
free discs for anyone who attends every game.
Brief reminder for prospective team members
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March 7th - first information
meeting, absolutely mandatory if
you want to play on the team
March 8th - first practice / tryout,
again - absolutely mandatory.
. |
| » Posted by Matt
McCabe // 3:36 pm |
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| Sunday, February 20, 2005 |
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TEAM UPDATES -
The season is getting close guys, we have a few
dates for you -
February 27th - Mike and I will
be attending the PHUEL organizational meeting, so
that afternoon you i will be able to post the schedule
online. As well as email it to all of you.
March 7th - first team meeting,
anyone who wants to try out/play for the team must
attend this meeting, no exceptions. It is a Monday
after school, room will be announced later, and
hopefully will take no longer than 30 minutes.
March 8th - first day of practice/try-outs,
players will report to the locker room (ill tell
you which one at the meeting) immediately after
school. The team will leave from the locker room
for practice.
March 16th - parents meeting,
team pizza dinner. After practice - around 5:30pm
at the Prep we will be having a team pizza dinner
in the cafeteria. All team members are required
to attend, and all family members are strongly encouraged
to. There will be team information handed out at
this night, along with plans for the season, and
other necessities.
so those are the basic upcoming events, mark em
down, write em somwhere, tatoo em on your arm, whatever
you have to do, just dont forget them. For now,
peace and play ultimate! |
| » Posted by Matt
McCabe // 5:35 pm |
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| Sunday, February 6, 2005 |
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TEAM UPDATES -
-We now have jerseys for the spring season (Prep
retro soccer jerseys)
-Mark DelGuercio won the logo contest (you can
see the new logo by clicking
here)
-The logo will be used to print our custom discs
(made by Discraft),
which will be used by the team in years to come,
as well as for fundraisers at tournaments.
-We are working on getting a team locker room for
the spring season to alleviate the problem of changing
in hallways and the second floor lounge and leaving
bags in the foyer.
-the Indoor Ultimate tournament should be happening
shortly, talk to Terry Casey, '05, with questions.
There will be at least 7 teams included in the tournament,
each consisting of 6 players. the list of teams
can be viewed in the Prep's foyer or by clicking
here.
-the planning meeting for this year's PHUEL season
will be happening on February 27th, Mike Panna and
I will be attending to schedule our games.
-the team calendar has
been updated, it now is up to date with all scheduled
events known at the moment.
-Everyone planning on trying out for the team this
spring should already be signed up for the "Prep
Ultimate" yahoo group. (mailing list) This
will give you the quickest updates as to when tryouts
will be, practice schedule etc.
Thats all for now guys, get out there, stay in
shape, and play some ultimate. |
| » Posted by Matt
McCabe // 3:00 pm |
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