Congratulations JW North HS

Certainly a highlight of this past week was the Girls Basketball State Championship game held at the Power Balance Pavilion in Sacramento.  After last Saturday’s game, we needed to get the girls and their supporters to Sacramento.  As such, we set about raising funds and raised something in the neighborhood of $4,000 in fairly short order from a very supportive community.

As to the game itself, it was a great game – though we came out of the bottom side of the scoring being down by two points when we finished.  Our team has nothing to "hang their head over" though, as they totally reversed their last season (from a 4-21 season to 30-6 this year).  They played a team that was very experienced in post-season playoffs and championship games.  Our team played hard, played well, and “left it all on the court.”  We received again very nice coverage (front page of Sports section and callout on front page) from the Press Enterprise as well as mention from the SacramentoBee and others.

What is probably most exciting is that they are only losing 2 seniors off of this team and there are 3 junior starters + 1 regular player (Junior) – all of whom are anticipated to return to next year’s team. 

What is also of interest, but not a huge surprise is the article/statements in the Sacramento Bee regarding the basic unfairness of private and parochial schools in the CIF competition – weather it be for football, basketball, etc.  While taking nothing away from the performance of Archbishop Mitty, this has been a long-standing problem in the CIF.

Great job JW North and Girls Basketball team!!