Washington Catholic Athletic Conference

Top teams St. John's (33-2), Good Counsel (29-5), Holy Cross (26-7) Top players G Lindsay Allen , St. John's, 5-7, Jr. G Katie McCormick, St. Mary's Ryken , 5-9, Sr. F Lanay Montgomery, Holy Cross, 6-5, Sr. G Faith Randolph, Good Counsel, 5-10, Sr. G Mooriah Rowser , St. John's, 5-9, Sr. Skinny Allen, Randolph (Virginia) and Rowser (Memphis) are returning first-team All-Mets. Montgomery (West Virginia) was a second-teamer and McCormick...

Archbishop Carroll has named Tim Fudd as its new boys' basketball coach. Fudd replaces Reggie Williams, the former Georgetown standout who resigned in February after clashing with parents and administrators. Fudd will take over a team that went 3-24 last season, including a 1-17 mark in Washington Catholic Athletic Conference play. The Lions will also graduate their two top scorers in Antwan Haskins and Mauri Winfree. "I look at coaching at Carroll as a unique opportunity in that you get to go up against some of the...

[Girls' Player of the Year] Maria Fuccillo Holy Cross Jr. The repeat Player of the Year won her third consecutive Washington Catholic Athletic Conference title and has yet to lose a conference match. Ranked No. 1 in the USTA Mid-Atlantic Region 18s. Favorite piece of equipment: Her racket. "You're always with it," Fuccillo said. "During the match it never changes, so you always have to be able to count on it. "

DeMatha senior third baseman Devin Beverly and his teammates spent a lot of time in the batting cage Saturday and early Sunday before facing McNamara in the second game of the best-of-three Washington Catholic Athletic Conference championship series. Even after the game began Sunday afternoon, the second-ranked Stags looked like they were still in the cage, banging out 17 hits against three pitchers and scoring a run in every inning but one in rolling to a 12-2 win at Shipley Field...

Archbishop Carroll has named Tim Fudd as its new boys' basketball coach. Fudd replaces Reggie Williams, the former Georgetown standout who resigned in February after clashing with parents and administrators. Fudd will take over a team that went 3-24 last season, including a 1-17 mark in Washington Catholic Athletic Conference play. The Lions will also graduate their two top scorers in Antwan Haskins and Mauri Winfree. "I look at coaching at Carroll as a unique opportunity in that you get to go up against some of the...

Washington Catholic Athletic Conference powers St. John's and Paul VI, which met in last season's conference title game, could have 15 Division I recruits between their respective rosters. Team (2007 record) 2007 rank 1. St. John's (D.C.) (23-6) 3 2. Paul VI Catholic (27-4) 2 3. Oakton (23-4) 8 4. Spalding (27-10) -- 5. St. Albans (22-2) 7 6. Madison (21-3) 9 7. Gaithersburg (14-9)

Jay Mulieri Gonzaga, Sr. He placed third in the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference tournament, shooting 152 to finish two strokes behind the winner. Playing the No. 1 seed, he was 6-2 in match play during the WCAC season and led Eagles to a second-place finish in the league. He will join his older brother Michael on the golf team at Loyola (Md.). Rob Theriaque Gonzaga Kirk Benson, Sidwell Friends, Jr. Garrett Fitzgerald, Gonzaga, Jr. Ryan McCarthy, Gonzaga, Sr. Chris Miller, St. John's, Sr. Colin St....

Junior guard Mara Celis scored 13 points and senior guard Laura Hart added 12 points and six rebounds to lead Bishop Ireton to a 49-42 victory over McNamara in the first round of the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference tournament on Thursday in Forestville. Bishop Ireton, which snapped a 70-game conference losing streak earlier this season , trailed 23-20 heading into the fourth quarter, but scored 29 points in the final eight minutes to earn the win. "The momentum changed and we started being the...

For the first time in decades, the D.C. City Title basketball game will not pit the top Catholic league team against the D.C. public school champion. In the D.C. State Athletic Association's ongoing effort to create a championship format integrating public, private and charter schools within the District, a new eight-team tournament format will be rolled out in March to decide the city champ. The new structure replaces a championship that dates from 1957 and has been contested...

The Bishop O'Connell boys' basketball team concluded its 2012-13 season by winning the Alhambra Catholic Invitational on Saturday in Frostburg, Md., capping a campaign that included a Washington Catholic Athletic Conference tournament championship and bringing to a close the tumultuous senior season of forward Junior Etou . Since a Jan. 22 Deadspin.com report , Etou's age and eligibility have been the subject of controversy. While the WCAC was satisfied with the Congo...

After building a comfortable lead midway through the second quarter, top-ranked Gonzaga watched as No. 3 Paul VI climbed back into Tuesday night's game. The Eagles, who were in front by as many as four goals in the second quarter, led by only two at halftime. Frustrated by near-misses that would have preserved the first-half margin, Gonzaga emerged from halftime white-hot, ripping off five straight goals, three of which came before the Panthers' first possession of the half.

The Bishop O'Connell boys' basketball team concluded its 2012-13 season by winning the Alhambra Catholic Invitational on Saturday in Frostburg, Md., capping a campaign that included a Washington Catholic Athletic Conference tournament championship and bringing to a close the tumultuous senior season of forward Junior Etou . Since a Jan. 22 Deadspin.com report , Etou's age and eligibility have been the subject of controversy. While the WCAC was satisfied with the Congo...

No. 1 St. John's finishes as the Washington area's top-ranked girls' team, a season-ending perch that No. 6 Riverdale Baptist had held for the past four years . Paced by senior guard Lindsay Allen , the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference player of the year and the area's only McDonald's All-American , the Cadets finished 33-1 and won the WCAC and Bishop Walsh Girls Invitational Tournament titles. The dynamic Allen averaged 16 points, 8.0 assists, 6.5 rebounds and 2.5 steals...

Last Monday, after the Coolidge boys' basketball team had wrapped up the D.C. Interscholastic Athletic Association title in its own gym, Coach Vaughn Jones stood outside his locker room and pondered the week ahead. In previous years, the Colts would have had just one game remaining — the City Title game — and that would have been against O'Connell , the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference champion. It would have pitted two of the area's best teams and...

No. 1 St. John's over the weekend took home its third consecutive Bishop Walsh Girls Invitational tournament championship, no easy task given the competition and where the event falls on the calendar. The Cadets won the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference championship Feb. 26 and then were idle until knocking off the host team Thursday, IAAM-A runner-up McDonogh Friday and then-No. 2 Spalding Saturday, all in Cumberland, Md. Senior forward Tori Oliver , the...

Playing tough opponents is nothing new for teams in the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference. But as DeMatha , Gonzaga and O'Connell prepare for this week's Alhambra Catholic Invitational Tournament at Frostburg State, each respective coach admits that this year's field presents a daunting task. Joining the perennial WCAC contenders in the eight-team bracket will be La Lumiere (Ind.), the No. 9 team in the ESPN high school rankings, VISAA Division I champ Benedictine and...

St. John's baseball coach Mark Gibbs insists that his team's 10-game winning streak has been a collective effort. "The interesting thing is, nobody has been lights out," Gibbs said. "It's been different guys stepping up on different days, doing different things. As a whole, our pitching has been very good. " The scorebook backs up that point, though it also suggest that some players are putting together strong seasons. George Washington recruit Danny O'Donnell is 3-0 and has yet to allow a run in 19 1/3 innings.

Bryce Bevill, who led McNamara to four consecutive Washington Catholic Athletic Conference football playoff berths from 2006 to 2009 is out as the Mustangs' coach after three straight three-win seasons. McNamara Athletic Director Tony Johnson said he hopes to hire a replacement by mid-January. In nine seasons, Bevill's teams went 38-55 overall and 22-39 in the WCAC, including 0-22 against league kingpins Good Counsel and DeMatha . During that span against those two...

Tired, sore and fighting back tears, Chayla Lewis left the Friendly gym after the first day of basketball tryouts in November 2010 and soon called her two best friends, Janay Carter and Breanna Brown , for a pair of frank, heart-to-heart discussions. All three sophomores were expected to play important roles on the varsity team, but the first taste of life under Coach Carroll Holmes had them re-thinking the future. Brown said all the running made her feel like a member of the cross-country team.

No. 2 Spalding , the IAAM-A champion, scrimmaged No. 1 St. John's and No. 4 Good Counsel before the season. The Cavaliers hope they get to bookend the season by facing those teams this week in the Bishop Walsh Girls Invitational tournament from Thursday through Saturday in Cumberland, Md. Spalding (27-1) has been idle since defeating McDonogh in the IAAM-A final Feb. 17. The Cavaliers practiced twice last week and plan to practice Monday through Wednesday of this...