Crusader News

Tom Convery March 5th, 2010

Our Annual Athletic Raffle will kick off this week with a goal to raise $7,000.00.  The format for this year’s raffle remains similar to past year’s raffles with prizes of 25% of total ticket sales, 15% of total ticket sales, and 10% of total ticket sales–if our Dads’ Club members and athletes put forth their best effort there should be cash prizes awarded in excess of $ 7,000 .  Ticket pricing is once again $5.00 each or 3 for $10.00.    Tickets will go on sale this Friday, February 5, 2010.  See any Dads’ Club member or parish athletic participant to buy yours today!!  or Click Here to contact our Raffle Sales Representative.   Don’t delay… Drawing will take place on …..

Give our cheerleader something to excited over by selling your tickets and pushing the thermometer toward its goal of $14,000 in raffle sales!

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Tom Convery February 27th, 2010

Our Annual Basketball Banquet will begin at 6:20 p.m. sharp. Begin arriving at 5:45 for uniform turn in. {Please bring clean, folded uniforms-unbagged. We will check them in in the small meeting rooms and bag them up.)
Varsity player families are asked to bring a dessert to share. Junior Varsity families are asked to bring a side dish or salad to share. (Have both a JV & a Varsity player?? Bring a side dish or salad). Intramural families, bring your favorite side dish or dessert to share.

We will supply pizza, pop, and the program!

5:45 p.m. – 6:25 p.m.     Arrival/Uniform turn-in

6:30 p.m. – 6:40 p.m.     Introduction/Intramural Player Recognition – Todd Diffenderfer

6:40 p.m. – 6:44 p.m.     Invocation/Grace

6:45 p.m. – 7:10 p.m.     Dinner.  Pizza brought to tables;
Release by tables to salad, side dish, bread etc. table

7:10 p.m. – 7:19 p.m.     Dessert Served

7:20 p.m. – 7:33 p.m.     Thanksgiving.  Season Recap.

7:34 p.m. – 7:41 p.m.     Coach Goerss

7:42 p.m. – 7:49 p.m.     Coach Convery

7:50 p.m. – 7:57 p.m.     Coach Moscone

7:58 p.m. – 8:05 p.m.     Coach Ottinger

8:06 p.m. – 8:11 p.m.     Program & Player development notes

8:12 p.m. – 8:20 p.m.     Coach Dykstra

8:21 p.m. – 8:29 p.m.     Coach Dulzo

8:30 p.m. – 8:38 p.m.     Coach Dulzo

8:39 p.m. – 8:43 p.m.     Todd Diffenderfer, Athletic Director

8:44 p.m. – 8:46 p.m.     Closing Comments from Basketball Directors

8:47 p.m.                      Closing Prayer

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Tom Convery February 25th, 2010

Saint William Varsity Boys #1 Basketball team will be competing in the CYO Playoffs beginning with District Competition this weekend.  Our Crusaders will take on the ‘Arrows’ of St. Sebastian at St. Sebastian in Dearborn Heights at 1:45 p.m. this Saturday, February 27, 2010.  Make plans to don your Crusader apparel (or just find a kelly green shirt) and travel to Dearborn Heights to cheer our boys on to victory.

For directions or a map, click here:

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Tom Convery February 23rd, 2010

For excitement, drama, and a great test of our skill and progress, you can’t hope to do much better than finish the final week of the CYO regular season at home against St. James.  Winning 3 out of 7 is not what we had hoped for, but the games were all extremely competitive and all of our coaches and players should be justifiably proud of everything that they have accomplished this season.  Those teams not in post-season play can get some well-deserved rest before coming back to the Activity Center on Tuesday, March 9 to celebrate at our Basketball Banquet from 6:30 pm to 8:30 p.m..

Varsity boys #1 will be in the playoffs.  The first round of games will be on Saturday February 27, 2010  against St. Sebastian at 1:45 p.m. at St. Sebastian.  The second round will take place on Sunday, February 28, 2010.

Coach Ottinger’s JV Girls #1 will be in a post season tournament at St. Raphael in Garden City at 5:30 on Sunday, February 28.

Coah Moscone’s JV #1 Boys will be playing in Our Lady of efuge’s tournament on Friday, March 5 at 8:00 p.m.

Practice for the next two weeks will be as follows:
Mon/Wed          4:00 to 5:45       JV Girls #1
Mon/Wed          5:45 to 7:15       JV Boys #1
Mon/Wed          7:15 to 9:00ish   Varsity Boys #1

Note that we do have available gym time for Tuesdays and Thursdays should an extra practice session be necessary to prepare for post-season play.

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Tom Convery February 23rd, 2010

Party / Dinner-Dance

Saturday, March 13, 2010

from 6:30 p.m. to midnight

• Catered Dinner
• Live Irish Band
• Open Bar (Beer-Wine-Liquor)
  
• Door Prizes & Raffle

Saint William Activity Center

Walled Lake, Michigan

$25.00/person  or $45.00/couple
Table of 8 only $170.00

Buy your tickets today:

Contact Tim McClorey at (248) 310-0052

Or  order your tickets on-line now

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trudofski February 15th, 2010

The first Fish Fry of the 2010 season is this Friday, February 19th!

As always, we are looking for kids 3rd grade and up to work – it is a lot of fun and a great service opportunity!  Ultimately, this is for the kids – and the kids are what makes this so special.

This is how it works:

     - 3rd and 4th graders – they help the adults set and re-set the tables and bus the dirty tables

     – 5th and 6th graders – they are our servers

     – 7th and 8th graders – they are our hosts and hostesses and beverage servers

     – High schoolers  – various kitchen and/or floor duties, carry out (we will sign off on service hours!)

     – Adults – we need help supervising the floor, working in the kitchen, cleaning up at the end

Once again, the sainted Dennis Goebel is in charge of the entire Fish Fry.  He can be found in the kitchen every Friday afternoon, evening and night.

This year, the primary floor supervisors will be Scott Ziegler, Randy Rice, and Tom Rudofski.  You can find at least one or two of them will be there every Friday night.  See one of the floor supervisors at the host stand to check your kids in.

Kids can work either shift, and if they are really good workers, possibly both – but most kids do run out of steam at some point.

First shift is from 3:30 to 6:30, Second Shift is from 5:30 to 8:30 (these are really just guidelines – we realize not everyone can come and go according to this schedule).  The Fish Fry runs from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

All kids must be willing to work, must be walked in by a parent to sign in, and will be given a worker meal.  We would be more than happy for them to sit with their family when they arrive to eat.  If they are just eating with the other kids, we just ask that they do so when it is slower (the busiest time is generally 5:30 to 7:00)

Parents of kids that are misbehaving or kids that are not signed in will be asked to pick up their children. 

This year the kids will be wearing color coded (by job) aprons that must be turned in every night to be laundered for the next week.  They will get their share of the tips when they turn in the aprons.

Please understand that from time to time we may have experienced workers help up or down a level to get the job done.  We also select older kids to man the pop station.  All this is at the discretion of the adults in charge!

Any questions?  Call or email Tom Rudofski as follows: 248.756.6605, trudofski@comcast.net

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Tom Convery February 9th, 2010

With our first winter storm approaching, we want to make certain that everyone understands our ‘snow day’ policy.  We DO  NOT  AUTOMATICALLY  CANCEL  PRACTICES  WHEN  WALLED  LAKE  SCHOOLS HAS A SNOW  DAY.  Our basketball program is not a school program and is not shut down as the school programs are in the event of a ‘snow day’.  If Walled Lake Schools has a ‘snow day’, our athletic director will make a decision as to whether or not to have scheduled practices or games after evaluating the situation with the basketball director.  Generally, we will wait until late morning to evaluate the storm, clean-up progress, and passability of the roads.  Traffic for our evening activities is always better than rush hour/morning traffic, roads are usually clearer, and conditions generally better so more often than not we will maintain our schedule even in cases where the school system has cancelled.  We DO NOT take safety issues lightly though, so please check e-mail and the web site throughout a ‘snow day’ (after noon) and check your phone answering system for messages as we will ‘fan out’ and attempt to contact all affected families in the event that our regularly scheduled practice/game is cancelled.  It is also possible that a late day storm which did not affect school would cause us enough concern to cancel a practice so if the snow is flying check your answering machine/e-mail/website before going out.

Preliminary forecasts lead us to believe that the roads will be in pretty good shape by late tomorrow afternoon.  We do not foresee any cancellations of tomorrow afternnon/evening practices unless the weather is more severe than expected.  Please drive safely tomorrow and give yourself plenty of time to get where you are going.

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jbeck January 25th, 2010

As in past years, we are planning to organize St. William based (school and parish) baseball teams for the Lakes Athletic Association (LAA) baseball league. If interested send 1) completed LAA registration, 2) payment (checks to “LAA”) and 3) copy of birth certificate (only for new players to league) by February 15, 2010 to Jim Beck. Team divisions and age cutoff’s are as follows:

Division Date of Birth / Age (Registration Fee)

T-Ball 5/1/03 – 4/30/06, Ages 4 – 7, no playoffs ($70.00)

Pinto 5/1/01 – 4/30/06, Ages 4 – 9, coach / player pitch ($80.00)

Mustang 5/1/99 – 4/30/03, Ages 7 – 11, limited stealing ($85.00)

Bronco 5/1/97 – 4/30/99, Ages 11 – 13, full baseball ($90.00)

Pony 5/1/95 – 4/30/99, Ages 11 – 15, inter-league play ($95.00)

Colt 5/1/93 – 4/30/97, Ages 13-17, city-wide competition ($195.00)

Palomino 5/1/90 – 4/30/95, Ages 15-20, city-wide competition ($195.00)

• Click Here to download your LAA Registration Form

• Please Read and sign the “Parent/Guardian Code of Conduct” and return with your registration

• - LAA registration forms can be returned to Jim Beck or to the Dad’s Club mail slot, “Attention Jim Beck” in St William school office or rectory.
• - Extra registration forms in school office.
• - LAA registration forms will be collected and teams created on a first come basis.
• - The coaches will register all players for their respective team. You do not need to attend any of the LAA registration dates or mail in registration.
• - If you have already registered your child with LAA and are interested in being on a St. William based team, just notify Jim Beck and we will have your registration reallocated to a St. William team.
• - The LAA registration forms contain important information that should be reviewed. Additional league information and forms found at: http://www.lakesareabaseball.com/
• - St William based CYO baseball is also planned for 5 / 6th and 7 / 8th graders. CYO interest flyer sent separately. Playing CYO and LAA in same season is allowable. Contact Mark Wolters for CYO questions.
• - Instructional, indoor baseball clinics are planned for K-garden thru 4th grade school and parish kids in the month of March. Information flyer to follow.
• - Coaches, managers and assistants are needed for LAA teams and planned clinics. Interested parents please contact Jim Beck.

For questions or additional LAA registration forms (copies are OK) please call Jim Beck at 248-960-7227 or email at anjjl@comcast.net.

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Joe Dulzo January 24th, 2010

The Varsity Boys #1 team kept their record unblemished (6-0 league, 9-0 overall) by cruising to a 36-3 road victory over St. Joseph. Despite a relatively slow start, the game was never really in question with the Crusaders leading 15-3 at half time, and then holding St. Joseph scoreless in the second half. All Crusaders contributed to the victory with every member of the team getting into the scoring column.

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Tom Convery January 24th, 2010

Few of the fans who have followed our JV Boys (#1) through the season will probably note the improved style of team play which they have developed.  Their team play is paying dividends in the second half of the season as their offense is increasingly consistent in productivity.  Saturday’s commanding 35-16 win over their hosts, the Jaguars of St. Joseph improves their division record to 7-1 as they prepare for what will be a tough road game against Our Lady of Victory.  The Cougars were only narrowly defeated at home in the first half of the season and will look to defend their home court and unseat the Crusaders who currently  top their division.  Come out to OLV in Northville next Saturday at 5:45 p.m. to cheer them on to another win.

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