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St. Pius Weekly Sports Recap

The varsity football team crushed Benedictine over the weekend 35-0.

All five fall teams were in action last week and over the Labor Day weekend as the Golden Lions continued their early season success. Volleyball, riding a 14-game win streak, retains its stranglehold on the top spot in the Georgia Athletic Coaches Association AAA poll. Boys’ cross country also sits atop the ga.milesplit.com AAA poll while the lady harriers are ranked third. Football climbed one spot in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution AAA poll to No. 4.

The Golden Lion football team traveled to Savannah to take on Benedictine and returned with a 35-0 victory to push its record to 2-0. Senior quarterback Trey White rushed 11 times for 177 yards and three touchdowns, including a 77-yard option keeper in the third quarter. Jake Delaney and Nick Ruffin scored one rushing TD apiece as St. Pius amassed 486 rushing yards and outgained the Cadets 566 yards to 109. Joseph Crochet anchored the defense with 13 tackles while Jacob Hambrick added eight stops. The home opener versus North Hall will kickoff at 7:30pm Friday at George B. Maloof Stadium.

The top-ranked volleyball squad improved to 22-2 with seven more wins last week. In the current 14-game win streak only one match has gone to three games, a 2-1 victory at Oconee County (No. 5 AAA) last week. The Golden Lions also traveled to Savannah over the Labor Day weekend where they knocked off several schools at the Savannah Christian Prep play-date before traveling across town to defeat St. Vincent’s Academy. St. Pius entertains Centennial this afternoon, before hosting a play-date Saturday with three teams ranked in the top ten of their respective classifications’ polls, including No. 3 AAA Columbus High School.

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Both boys’ and girls’ cross country teams competed in the Berry College Invitational last Saturday. The boys’ squad was the top finishing AAA school and finished fourth overall in all classifications. The male harriers were paced by a seventh-place finish by Austin Sprague, and 16th-place showing by Calvin Tirrell. The ladies finished as the second-highest AAA finisher as Devon Dabney finished seventh to pace five Golden Lions in the top 30.

The softball squad won both of its games last week, a come from behind victory over Wesleyan, 11-9 and opening up Region 5-AAA play with an 11-0 win over Druid Hills. Trailing Wesleyan 5-1 after three innings, the Golden Lions rallied for five runs in the fourth to take the lead. Seniors Liz Schneider and Trish Feeney went a combined 6 for 9 from the plate with Schneider driving in five runs. St. Pius was led by juniors Sarah Rawls and Natasha Sherrod combining to go 5-8 and knocking in five runs against Druid Hills. The squad improves to 4-5 and has seven games this week including a region meeting with North Atlanta on Thursday.

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The competition cheer squad continues to perfect its routine before the first meet at Mill Creek on Sept. 17.


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