Week 2 of Football

Two Catholic schools on Staten Island — Msgr. Farrell and St. Joseph by-the-Sea — will compete for their first win of the season in Week 2 of the season at 2 p.m. Saturday at Msgr. Farrell.

Msgr. Farrell is coming off a Week 1 loss to Cardinal Hayes, and St. Joseph by-the-Sea lost a week ago to St. Peter’s.

Here is the Week 2 schedule:

Friday, April 23

Moore Catholic at Xaverian, 7 p.m.

Saturday, April 24

Holy Cross at Cardinal Spellman, 1 p.m.

Cardinal Hayes at St. Peter’s, 1:30 p.m.

Nazareth at Mount St. Michael, 1:30 p.m.

St. Joseph by-the-Sea at Msgr. Farrell, 2 p.m.

St. Francis Prep at Christ the King, 6 p.m.

Basketball Season Opens for CHSAA

The CHSAA boys basketball season kicked off on Monday night with two games at Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains.

All games this season will be played at Stepinac as games played in the five boroughs of New York City must be played outdoors. Games in Westchester County may be played indoors. All games will be streamed on LocalLive.

Monday’s results

Msgr. Scanlan 69, Fordham Prep 57

Bishop Loughlin 65, Archbishop Molloy 60

Today

Ray Nash Division

Christ the King vs. Holy Cross, at Stepinac, 5 p.m.

Kevin Pigott Division

Cardinal Hayes at Stepinac, 7:15 p.m.

One Season Ends; Another Begins

The Long Island and Westchester County Catholic schools had their high school football season end with bowl games over the weekend while NYC Catholic schools began their season.

Here are the bowl game results

Holy Trinity 27, Kennedy Catholic 7

St. Anthony’s 22, Chaminade 21

Kellenberg 35, St. John the Baptist 25

Here are Week 1 results for NYC Catholic schools

Xaverian 34, Cardinal Spellman 0

Cardinal Hayes 24, Msgr. Farrell 13

Moore Catholic 35, Nazareth 0

St. Peter’s 50, St. Joseph by-the-Sea 18

Annual Nun Run/Walk Goes Virtual

The 2021 Nun Run/Walk 5K is going virtual in 2021.

The event, held since 2015, is hosted by the Sisters of St. Dominic of Blauvelt.

Registration is open with cost being $20 for adults and $15 for children under the age of 18.

With the event being virtual, runners and walkers may choose the time and location to complete their five-kilometer run/walk before the registration deadline of 11:59 p.m. on May 15.

Email Katie Beckmann Mahon at kbeckmann@opblauvelt.org with any questions or visit https://tinyurl.com/2021NunRunWalk5K to register and learn more about the event.

CHSAA Boys Basketball Starts Next Week; All Games at Stepinac

The Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Brooklyn will be having a shortened spring boys basketball season with games beginning next week.

All games will be played at Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains.

Teams will broken up into four divisions — Ray Nash Division, Kevin Pigott Division, Rich Tricario Division and Tom Murray Division. The Catholic schools competing are from New York City and one–Stepinac–from Westchester County.

Only essential game personnel, athletic trainers, school officials and accredited members of the media will be admitted into the gym.Spectators will not be permitted, All games will be streamed on LocalLive.

Basketball was listed as one of the high-risk sports in New York State during the Covid-19 pandemic. Governor Andrew Cuomo announced high-risk sports may begin Feb. 1 with final approval from local officials. Long Island and Hudson Valley officials gave their schools the OK to start competing. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and the New York City Department of Health waited till March to make any announcement.

When an announcement was made, the mayor and the department of health said all high-risk sports competitions held in New York City must be played outdoors.

Click here for the complete basketball schedule.

Week 1 of NYC in CHSFL

Msgr. Farrell High School hosts Cardinal Hayes at 2 p.m. Saturday to highlight the first week of Catholic High School Football League action for Catholic schools in New York City.

Cardinal Hayes is perennially one of the top teams in the league and a former league champion.

Click here to read a story about the CHSFL in the current edition of Catholic New York.

Here is the complete schedule for Week 1:

Friday, April 16

Christ the King at Holy Cross, 6 p.m.

Saturday, April 17

Xaverian at Cardinal Spellman, 1:30 p.m.

Cardinal Hayes at Msgr. Farrell, 2 p.m.

Moore Catholic at Nazareth, 6 p.m.

St. Peter’s at St. Joseph by-the-Sea, 6 p.m.

Mount St. Michael, St. Francis Prep, byes

Lyons Signs with Sacred Heart

Our Lady of Lourdes High School senior Lizzie Lyons signed a National Letter of Intent to row at Sacred Heart University in the 2021-2022 school year.

Lyons will major in coastal marine sciences and secondary education at Sacred Heart, located in Connecticut with an NCAA Division I program.

Lyons did not compete for Lourdes during her junior year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

“COVID definitely put a damper on my Junior rowing season for both my high school and club teams as there were no regattas for me to compete in,” she said in a press release from the school. “These races were something I really looked forward to attending, both for the competition and the time spent with my teammates. But I wasn’t going to let this get in the way of my goal of rowing in college.”

Rivals Meeting in Bowl Game

Iona Prep will host rival Archbishop Stepinac at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in a Long Island/Westchester Bowl Game as it looks to complete an unbeaten spring season.

The Gaels (5-0 overall) are coming off a 56-7 victory over perennial CHSAA state power Canisius. Stepinac is 2-2 overall after a 42-19 win over Chaminade.

Long Island/Westchester Bowl Games

Friday, April 16

Kennedy Catholic at Holy Trinity, 4 p.m.

Kellenberg at St. John the Baptist, 4:30 p.m.

Chaminade at St. Anthony’s, TBA

Saturday, April 17

Stepinac at Iona Prep, 1:30 p.m.

Registration Starts for Golf Event

CYO Staten Island will hold its annual Dr. Theodore A. Atlas Memorial CYO Grammar School Junior Golf Tournament on Monday, June 28 at Silver Lake Golf Course on Staten Island.

Tee times start at noon.

The nine-hole tournament is open for boys and girls in grades six, seven and eight with exceptions being made for fifth graders if a school’s coordinator feels they can make the team. There is a $40 participant fee due by June 11.

Click here to learn more and register.

Registration Open in Westchester

Boys and girls in grades three through eight are eligible to sign up for the Westchester Putnam CYO Spring Basketball League.

Season begins April 24 and concludes in June 27. Games will be played on Friday nights, Saturdays and Sundays at Holy Family, New Rochelle; Immaculate Conception, Tuckahoe; and St. Patrick, Armonk.

Click here to register.