Cleveland St. Ignatius Wildcats

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JJHuddle.com - Cleveland St. Ignatius escapes Queen City with dramatic 24-20 win over Cincinnati LaSalle

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St. Ignatius grabs tough win

Saturday, October 27, 2007
Mike Peticca
Plain Dealer Reporter

St. Ignatius was playing for playoff positioning and St. Edward, maybe, for its playoff life. Yes, it's a cliche, but it was an appropriate time for St. Ignatius coach Chuck Kyle to say it.

"When you play this game, throw the records out," Kyle said after the Wildcats edged St. Edward, 19-14, in Friday night's nonleague football game before more than 10,000 fans at Lake- wood Sta dium. "You play this game and you know it's going to be a battle to the last second.

"They are a very, very good team. I hope they still make the playoffs, because they deserve to."

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Ignatius sends another player to the Big 10...

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St. Ignatius 23, Northmont 3.

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Powerful offense, stingy defense give Wildcats edge over St. Edward - cleveland.com

The offensive line has become fool's gold for the St. Ignatius football team.

"Just this week, we had 'FOOLS' T-shirts made, for 'Fraternal Order of Offensive Linemen,' " lineman Jarrod Kedzior said after St. Ignatius routed St. Edward, 37-0, in Saturday night's first-round playoff game before about 6,000 fans at Byers Field.

"It's just a little more bonding," said Kedzior. "We're one unit."

The excellence of that "one unit" was contagious. Every position group played near-flawless football for the Wildcats, The Plain Dealer's second-ranked team. St. Ignatius (10-1) will play first-ranked Glenville (11-0) on Saturday night in a Division¤I regional semifinal game at a site to be determined.

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High School Newswatch: SI names St. Ignatius Ohio's top athletic program - cleveland.com

by Plain Dealer staff
Tuesday July 21, 2009, 11:22 PM

Winning the Division I football and boys soccer state championships aren't the only laurels St. Ignatius captured the past school year.

Sports Illustrated has named the all-boys parochial school on Cleveland's near West Side the state's top athletic program.

The results were based on "sifting through state tournament results for the 2008-09 school year, contacting athletic directors from top programs, examining all-around success rates as well as weighing the importance of producing star athletes and teams that excelled on the national level," according to Sports Illustrated's Web site.

The Wildcats also placed third at the state golf tournament, fourth at the state wrestling tournament and were a final four qualifier in baseball.

Meanwhile, University School won the Ohio High Cup, which is presented by Ohio High magazine. The Ohio High Cup is patterned after the Directors' Cup for colleges, with schools accumulating points by finishing in the top four at Ohio High School Athletic Association state team championships.

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Cleveland High School Sports - cleveland.com

In light of the tragic event that took place on Saturday involving the accidental death of Dan Murphy in an ATV crash, I don't feel this is the time to discuss our game at Mentor.

Instead, I would like to extend my thoughts and prayers to the Murphy family at this time. While I didn't know Dan personally, Ignatius is a tight knit community; we will all mourn his death. I also pray for a full and quick recovery for Daniel Loyke, who was also involved in the accident.

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St. Ignatius rises in national football poll
Plain Dealer staff reports, October 05, 2009 6:36 p.m.

Thanks to its 26-21 victory over previously unbeaten Massillon, defending Division I state champion St. Ignatius moved up from sixth to fifth in the recent National Top 25 Prep Poll.

St. Ignatius also remained the top-ranked team in the Midwest Region Top 10, followed by Glenville, Cincinnati St. Xavier, Cincinnati Moeller, Dublin Coffman and Massillon in fourth, fifth, sixth, ninth and 10th, respectively.

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St. Ignatius outscores Inkster in football: High school roundup
Plain Dealer staff reports, October 17, 2009 11:18 p.m.

St. Ignatius showed a Michigan opponent why it's the top-ranked football team in The Plain Dealer and in Division I when Inkster (Mich.) paid a visit Saturday evening for a nonleague game.

The defending state champion Wildcats, ranked No. 5 in the National Prep Top 25, remained unbeaten by taking a 21-0 first-quarter lead and never looking back for a 49-20 victory.

Junior running back Bobby Grebenc gaine 140 yards and scored four touchdowns and senior quarterback/Pitt recruit Mark Myers was close to perfect, clicking on 13 of 14 passes for 199 yards and two touchdowns.

Senior end Pat Dowd registered two sacks and senior safety Kory Gillissie's diving interception set up the Wildcats' fourth touchdown to spark the defense.

Inkster QB Devin Gardner, who is considered one of the top recruits in the country and is orally committed to Michigan, had a 71-yard touchdown run and threw a 21-yard scoring pass.

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Cleveland High School Sports - cleveland.com

Well that went the way I thought it would.

Devin is a terrific QB, but Inkster's team just isn't that good, particularly the defense. If they couldn't beat Ann Arbor Pioneer and East Kentwood with the defense giving up about 90 points in those two games combined, did anybody really expect them to beat a team like St. Ignatius?

Inkster just isn't that good of a team. I don't know if it's coaching, lack of talent, maybe both, but there was no way they were going to win this game.

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St. Ignatius remains fifth in national football poll - cleveland.com

Defending Division I state champion St. Ignatius remained fifth in the National Top 25 Prep Poll after Saturday's 30-21 victory over visiting Cincinnati St. Xavier but Cincinnati Moeller has moved up from 25th to 15th after its 40-10 win over St. Edward.

St. Ignatius is still the top-ranked Midwest Region Top 10 team, followed by Moeller, Glenville, St. Xavier and Dublin Coffman in second, fifth, sixth and ninth, respectively.

National volleyball poll:Magnificat moved up from No. 65 toNo. 51 in the latest PrepVolleyball.Com Century National Top 100 Poll and is the lone area school in the rankings.

Other Ohio teams to be ranked are Cincinnati Ursuline (No. 2), Dublin Coffman (No. 7), Lakota West (65th), Toledo St. Ursula (66th), Maria Stein (69th) and Cincinnati Mount Notre Dame (82nd).