Montgomery Catholic Students Raise Funds for Car Seats for COPE

High School students at Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School raised $985.00 for their "Car Seats for COPE" drive. COPE, Counseling Outreach for Pregnancy Emergency, is a non-profit counseling center in Montgomery serving women in the River Region who face an unplanned pregnancy.

Lorie Mullins, Director of COPE, is pictured with Montgomery Catholic students Michael D'Argenio, Cleo Smith, and Molly McLaughlin.

Montgomery Catholic Students Celebrate 100th Day of School

Students at Montgomery Catholic's St. Bede Campus celebrated the 100th day of school throughout the campus on Monday, January 26 with a myriad of activity. Each class displayed works in every medium, up and down the hallways and in their classrooms. Many students drew self-portraits of what they thought they would look like when they were 100. Others counted 100 blessings, and still others brought displays of 100 items of every shape and size.

Kindergarten students in Mrs. Debbie Redden's class counted, measured, and ate everything in a hundred ways. Their snack for the day was a trail mix prepared by the students with each student having 100 pieces. The Kindergarteners counted out ten items from each of ten different ingredients, created a ladybug with a 100 dots. The students read Caps For Sale and constructed a tree containing 100 caps. A rainbow of 100 handprints was painted and hung in the classroom, and finally celebrated with a 100th Day cake. What a great day of learning!

Local Radio Personality Visits St. Bede

Local radio personality Greg Budell, of Q 96.1 in Montgomery, made a surprise visit to Montgomery Catholic's St. Bede campus!

Fourth grade students in Mrs. Riggles and Mrs. Nation's classes had the honor of the Q96.1 D.J. who brought prizes, played Greg's signature game "Truth or Baloney", and so much excitement!

Budell taught the children interesting facts such as mushrooms can grow in your throat and ears! He was very entertaining to the children of "Money City." The class was nominated for this special visit by Mr. Bednarz, a parent of one of the students.

Montgomery Catholic's Foran Completes First Half-Marathan

Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School freshman Megan Foran completed her first half-marathon Saturday, January 10th, competing in the Red Nose Marathon and Certified Half-Marathon held in Columbus, Georgia.

Foran completed the 13.1 mile course in 2 hours and 35 minutes.

Foran trained throughout the Christmas break to be ready for the event and has been a member of the Varsity Cross Country Team at Montgomery Catholic for two years.

Catholic boys gain major revenge on St. Jude

by Wesley Lyle, The Montgomery Advertiser

Two losses have been bothering the Catholic Knights this season. As Catholic rolled to 10 wins in its first 14 games, a pair of losses to St. Jude still stung.

Those losses don't hurt quite as much after an 86-44 win over the Pirates Tuesday night in the Capital City Conference Christmas Tournament championship. The 42-point win is the largest margin of victory in the 14-year history of the tournament.

"This felt good," Catholic sophomore Kenny Davison said. "We wanted to shock people and show who was the best team in the Capital City Conference. We're excited right now and I'm ready to go celebrate with my team." After losing 48-47 in overtime in November and 54-44 earlier this month, Catholic took no chances this time.

"Those losses left a bad taste in our mouth," Catholic coach Ken Klinger said. "We didn't want to lose three times to one team."

Catholic (11-5) set the tone early, building a 16-5 lead in the first quarter and 34-15 at the half. St. Jude (6-7) was held to five points in the first quarter and nine points in the fourth.
"In the Elmore County game, we had a similar start," Klinger said of the Knight's 65-57 semifinal win on Monday. "But in the second half, we started playing not to lose instead of playing to win.
"At halftime tonight, I told the guys to play like we're down by 20. We played to win tonight and that made the difference."

Davison, the tournament MVP, led Catholic with a career-high 30 points.

"Kenny was due for a big game," Klinger said. "He's led us in scoring this year, but he really hasn't had a great shooting night. He was on tonight. When he's on, he's hard to stop."
Butler Parker added 18 points for Catholic. Taylor Belsterling grabbed 13 rebounds and Landon Pickens had 12 boards.

"This could be a big momentum shift for us going into January," Davison said. "We came into this game with a lot of intensity and we want to keep it up." After a trip to Georgiana on January 2, the Knights travel to Montgomery Academy on Tuesday, January 6th.