TENNIS DISTRICT 2008

O'HARA TENNIS TEAM IN MIDDLE OF THE PACK In District 6 Class 1, the O'Hara girls tennis team finsihed in 7th place among 12 teams. Notre Dame de Sion won the District with 33 points and were followed by Pembroke Hill and Barstow. O'Hara scored 7 team points which was higher than the schools from Ruskin, Hickman Mills, Center, Clinton, and Nevada. The three other schools scoring above the Celtics were Harrisonville, Bolivar, and Lamar. O'Hara's head girls tennis coach is Mr. James Allen.

V O L L E Y B A L L

O'HARA DEFEATS 9TH RANKED VOLLEYBALL TEAM On Monday, the O'Hara volleyball team defeated the KC Metro #9 ranked team from Notre Dame de Sion 25-20 and 25-23. Lindsey Hanaway led the team with 21 assists while Tori Hurtt had eleven kills. Emily Tyler, Janell Jordan, and Jordyn Wyatt each had three kills in the victory. The freshman team from O'Hara won First Place in the Raytown South 9th Grade Volleyball Tournament over the weekend.

Cross Country K C Metro

O'HARA'S MAX STORMS AMONG BEST IN METRO CROSS COUNTRY On Saturday, October 4th, at the Kansas City Metro Meet held at Raymore-Peculiar, the top cross country runners challenged each other for top honors. Present were the are's best competitors and are expected to vie for the All-State title later in the season. Maksim Korolev from Harrisonville, Kevin Colon from Lee's Summit West, and Max Storms came in in that order, but the times were very close. Korolev was timed at 15:36 for the 5K race. The other two runners came in just over 15:40, but he fourth place runner was a ways behind at 15:59. Max Storms is the defending 2-A State Champion but O'Hara High School has been moved up to the 3-A level for the present year. Harrisonville had been moved up a year ago. CIMG2051.JPG CIMG2055.JPG

Football: OHARA 51 CHRIST PREP 23

CELTICS OVER PATRIOTS 51-23 The O’Hara football team brought their record to 4-2 with a decisive 51-23 victory over Christ Preparatory Academy in a rare Saturday afternoon game. Seven times the Celtics scored touchdowns against the Patriots along with an early field goal. Of the three touchdowns scored against the Celtics, two were realized during the late fourth quarter while the O’Hara starters were on the side line. In the first quarter, the Celtics scored twice. A quick 47 yard pass play from TJ White to Aaron Stubblefield helped bring the ball close enough for a 27 yard field goal by Bryce Scovill. The next time O’Hara got the ball on a punt on the 15 yard line, TJ White lifted a pass to Danny Hernandez for an 82 yard gain! It was easy for James Tillman to score on a 3 yard run. In the second quarter, the Celtics scored three touchdowns and gave up one. From midfield, TJ White again found Danny Hernandez for a long gain of 36 yards. The TD was recorded by Donnie Criswell on a 10 yarder. The Patriots ran ten plays in their ensuing series and brought the score to 17-7 with Zach Hadley accounting for six points on a short line plunge and Christian Jones obtaining the extra point. In two plays, O’Hara answered with a touchdown. Joe Pepple caught a nine yard pass from TJ White and Raphael Spenser sped 51 yards for O’Hara’s second TD of the quarter. The third TD of the quarter was scored with less than 30 seconds on the clock. After the Patriots yielded possession on downs, TJ White connected with James Tillman for an electric 54 yard scoring pass. The halftime score was 31-7. O’Hara got the ball back on the third play of the second half on a fumble. Three plays later, Danny Hernandez caught a pass from TJ White for a touchdown that covered fifty yards. The Patriots had the ball for the next ten plays after which they failed on a fourth down attempt. In the Celtics’ first play, James Tillman outran the Patriots’ defense for a lengthy 82 yard score. Bryce Scovill kicked his seventh extra point of the game to make a score 45-7 and making the game one of a running clock since the margin was 38 points. O’Hara began to empty its bench to give other team members game experience. The Patriots took advantage of this and scored their first TD of the second half. Lenard Manuel plunged for the points and Evan Bauer ran a two-point conversion. With the margin of the score less than 35, the running clock was discontinued until O’Hara scored for their last points of the game. Quarterback Josh Stazen completed a ten yard pass to Larry Liggett for the TD. O’Hara elected to go for two points but was stopped short of the goal line, but the 51-15 score now had the necessary margin to return to the running clock. With time running out, Lenard Manuel gave the Patriot fans a thrill with a 46 yard scoring run and Colin Keedy scored the two-point conversion.

Softball Team Go into Final Week of Play

LADY CELTICS WIND DOWN THEIR SEASON with just the Helias-Jefferson City Tournament and games with Saint Pius (senior night) and Smith-Cotton remaining before the competition begins for District. O’HARA SOFTBALL TEAM’S SUCCESS AT THE HELIAS TOURNAMENT The Lady Celtics won 16-6 over Notre Dame de Sion, lost 4-5 to St. Joseph from Saint Louis, and defeated Saint Teresa 6-2 in the Helias Softball Tournament held in Jefferson City over the weekend. The tournament was won by the host team Helias. The Celtics scored in every inning in the game with Sion. Caitlin Croker and Andi Davis pounded out four hits apiece. Not far behind, Jesse Smith, Kellie Bachkora, and Alex Paulakovich each contributed three hits. The big blast came from Patrice Jackson, a triple with two base runners on. In their only loss, the Celtics got two first inning runs on a two run homer by Patrice Jackson, and pushed across two more runs in the fourth inning from doubles by Patrice Jackson and Kellie Bachkora along with a sacrifice fly by Alex Paulakovich. Unfortunately in the close contest, the Celtics gave up two first innings runs, two third inning runs, and a singleton run in the fifth. Errors in the first and third innings proved costly to the Celtics. O’Hara opened the scoring in the game with Saint Teresa with a first inning run behind singles by Jesse Smith, Andi Davis, and Patrice Jackson. They added a second inning run with a double by Alex Paulakovich and a single by Melissa Batiz. Both squads scored two fourth inning runs. Surprisingly O’Hara had six singles in their fourth Inning but came up with only two runs. Saint Teresa got their two tallies on three singles. Adding icing on the cake, the Celtics scored twice in the 6th inning.Jesse Smith and Andi Davis had consecutive singles and Lindsey Davis brought them both home with a double.

COACH ALLEN REPORT ON TENNIS

TWO BIG WINS: The girls’ varsity tennis team played Clinton on September 30th and won 8-1. Winners in singles and or doubles were Briana Rainey, Megan Billings, Alyssa Kerfeld, Meaghan Kimbrell, Taylor Fennesy, Kaitlyn White and Rachel Pembrooke. The girls’ tennis team played Center on October 2nd and the Varsity won 9-0. Winners in singles and/or doubles were Briana Rainey, Megan Billings, Alyssa Kerfeld, Meaghan Kimbrell, Taylor Fennesy, and Kaitlyn White. Also the JV won 3-1 with Rachel Pembrooke, Laura Hayes, and Anna German winning their matches. This information comes from Coach James Allen

O'HARA WINS OVER SION IN SOFTBALL

SOFTBALL TEAM SCORES 19 RUNS IN ONE GAME The softball team won a 19-5 victory over Notre Dame de Sion. Patrice Jackson had a grand slam and 7 rbi's. Jesse Smith and Andi Davis each had 4 hits, Patrice Jackson and Lindsey Davis each had 3 hits, and Caitlin Croker, Kellie Bachkora, Alex Paulakovich and Chelsey Buseck each had 2 hits to lead the Celtics with a 22 hit attack. Melissa Batiz pitched for another win in her column.