irish athletics
Softball
Girls Track & Field
The girls softball team finished 14-13 and lost 5-0 to eventual sectional champion Roncalli.
Girls Tennis Meredith Goshell and Caroline Combs advanced to the quarterfinal round of the state tournament in doubles, highlighting the Cathedral girls tennis season. Goshell and Combs won the Carmel Regional, then beat Columbus North in the first round of the state finals before losing in the quarterfinals to Macie Elliott and Brenna Wu Varsity Lady Irish girls tennis team of Evansville Memorial. Wu/ Elliott went on to win the state title. Goshell, a junior, and Combs, a sophomore, combined for a 24-1 record this season. As a team, the Irish went 14-3, losing to North Central 3-2 in the sectional championship match at North Central. Cathedral had six girls named All-District: Freshman Grace Koscielski (No. 1 singles), sophomore Abby Brady (No. 2 singles), Goshell/Combs (No. 1 doubles) and seniors Olivia Flynn and Simone Deighan (No. 2 doubles). The Irish finished No. 8 in the Indiana High School Tennis Coaches Association rankings.
Maddie Bryan and Katherine Free each made the state meet to highlight the 2013 Cathedral girls track and field season. Maddie Bryan and Katherine Free Bryan, a senior, finished 13th in a preliminary at the state meet at the Robert C. Haugh Track and Field Complex at Indiana University in Bloomington on June 1, running the 200-meter dash in 25.84 seconds. Free, a freshman, finished 15th in the 1,600-meter dash with a time of 5:08.40. Bryan qualified for state with a 26.68-second, 200-meter dash at the regional meet at North Central, good for a second-place finish, while Free qualified with a 5:09.66 1,600-meter dash. That was also second at the regional. Bryan finished third at the sectional with a :26.4 in the 200, and Free finished second at the sectional in the 800 with a time of 2:24.29. She also finished second in the 1,600 with a time of 5:12.45. The Irish’s girls 4x100 meter relay team of freshman Cienna Jordan, senior Lexxus Betts, freshman Olivia Sanders and Bryan finished fourth at the sectional with a time of :50.65. The 4x800 meter relay of junior Julia Niemczura, freshman Ellen Flood, senior Emma Macanally and free finished third with a time of 10:04.38. Jordan finished fourth in the long jump at 16-10.00, while the Irish as a team finished sixth with 51 points.
Spring/Summer 2013
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