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CARDINAL MOONEY STUDENT ATHLETES SIGN LETTERS OF INTENT TO PLAY FOR YSU

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(February 8-Youngstown, OH)-During this week’s National Signing Day, two Cardinal Mooney Cardinal Football players signed their Letters of Intent to play football with the Youngstown State University Penguins.

Jason Santisi was offered a preferred walk-on position with the Penguins to play running back.  He is the son of Monique and Richard Santisi of Youngstown.  Jason hopes to pursue a major in Mechanical Engineering.

Cheriff Jamison will be playing defensive end at YSU.  He is the son of Cherea Fordham of Youngstown.  Cheriff will pursue a major in Business.

BIG DOGS OF THE VALLEY WEEK 10 WINNERS ANNOUNCED

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With OVER 70,000 votes cast between Sunday at 7 PM and Wednesday at midnight, the Week 10 Winners have been chosen for Baird Brothers’ Big Dog of the Valley.

 

Congratulations to Salem’s Josh Young (20,103 votes) whose 24 Points against East Liverpool to earn the Week 10 reward.

PHOTO CREDIT: GARY LEININGER

 

Congratulations to Cardinal Mooney’s Conchetta Rinaldi (23,052 votes) who posted 17 Points in her game against Louisville, and got the Week 10 nod for the ladies.

PHOTO CREDIT: MOLLY MURPHY KAY

CARDINAL CONCERTO

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con·cer·to
/kənˈCHerdō/
noun
1. a musical composition for a solo instrument or instruments accompanied by an orchestra, especially one conceived on a relatively large scale.
The Cardinal Mooney Lady Cards are playing some sweet music on the court these days.  The team is currently 8-3 overall and is making some noise in local power polls as we head toward the home stretch of the campaign.

PHOTO CREDIT: LEONA SCAVINA

While the Lady Cards are linked together like a steel chain, one of the Senior Cardinals is especially helping when it comes to tuning up this band.  Conchetta Rinaldi, Mooney’s senior standout has taken this season personally and knows that in her grand finale on the hardwood, she wants to leave everything out on the floor.  She’s known for her defensive ability, and strength in keeping other teams best players off the scoreboard, but has also shown the scorer’s touch when called upon.
This Lady Cardinal intends to fly at the next level as well, as Rinaldi has inked her letter of intent for Youngstown State to continue her softball career.  While we’re certainly looking forward to softball season, our Nate Keiper sits down with Conchetta for this week’s Cardinal Mooney Basketball Player Profile: CARDINAL CONCERTO.
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FIRE AND ICE

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The Mooney Super-Athlete, Anthony Fire has made a career for himself by making it very difficult to take him out of the game.  In football, he serves in all three phases of the game: offense, defense, and special teams.  Much of the same in basketball as Fire is known to play the entire length of the court.

Anthony is a young man known for the fire in his heart, and the ice in his veins.

The Cardinal Mooney Senior Standout sat down with YSN’s Nate Keiper to discuss what he feels he brings to the team, how he goes about transitioning from season to season, as well as so much more!

We bring you this week’s Cardinal Mooney Basketball Player Profile: FIRE AND ICE!

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CARDINAL MOONEY BASKETBALL COACH’S CORNER WITH CAREY PALERMO

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In our first installment of Cardinal Mooney Basketball Coach’s Corner with Carey Palermo we get inside the huddle to find out what this Cardinal team is all about.  What serves as their heartbeat?  What is the potential?

Coach Palermo talks with YSN’s Nate Keiper about the good and bad of starting the majority of your games at home to kickstart your campaign.

Also, the discussion of the DNA of this year’s Cards.

All that and more on this week’s Cardinal Mooney Basketball Coach’s Corner with Carey Palermo!

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CARDINAL MOONEY FOOTBALL COACH’S CORNER WITH PJ FECKO (EP 8)

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If you’ve ever been inside the gymnasium at Cardinal Mooney, it serves as a constant reminder of rich winning tradition everywhere you look.  Quite literally, the walls are blanketed in championship banners from pillar to post.

The 2018 Cardinals have been tasked with adding to those walls under one of the toughest schedules in the state of Ohio.  They have yet to blink.  Sure- they want to win, but humble warriors in defeat are the most dangerous of all.

As the Cards wrap their 2018 campaign, they’re looking to play spoiler to Austintown Fitch in Week 10 on the road!

Head Coach PJ Fecko sits down with our Steve Leslie to discuss the opportunities ahead for the Cards in this week’s Cardinal Mooney Coach’s Corner!

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TOMMY BOY

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We seemingly talk about it every week.  The rich tradition and heritage of Cardinal Mooney and their football program.

The Cards continue to churn out player after player into the next level, but the school continues to mold young minds into great leaders, and representatives of Youngstown, Ohio.  This week we caught up with Senior Linebacker and Tight End, Tommy DeCesare.  Not only does he exemplify the previous statements, but has great vision on and off the field.

Being a natural optimist has helped DeCesare battle his way to the top of the mountain in and out of the classroom, and a mindset that he’s pushing to his teammates with two weeks to go in the season.  As Mooney looks to find their place in Week 11, Tommy DeCesare is already raising the State Championship Banner in his mind.

This week our Steve Leslie caught up with DeCesare in our newest edition of Cardinal Mooney Player Profile: TOMMY BOY.

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LADY ROCKETS LIFTOFF AGAINST MOONEY

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BELOIT, OH-  The Cardinal Mooney Volleyball team’s season came to an end on Thursday night with a 4 set loss to Streetsboro in the West Branch sectional final (25-16 13-25 16-25 21-25)

In the first set, the Cardinals came out aggressive and efficient. Katie Hough showed right away that she’d be a force to be reckoned with rallying 5 kills in the set. Mooney only committed 2 attack errors in the set and hit .313 in the set.

The second and third sets were a completely different story as Mooney could not get any consistent offensive flow. They hit in the negative for both sets which is a big reason why they fell in those sets 13-25 and 16-25. Hough stayed strong however tallying 7 more kills in those two sets, even after briefly exiting the match with a bloody nose and switching jerseys.

In set 4 Mooney tried to get some rhythm back in their offense by letting Marissa Landers set and putting usual setter Sydney Reider in a defensive specialist position. And it worked. Mooney got their attack percentage back into the positives. They also were able to get middle blocker Megan Petty back involved who didn’t collect a kill in sets 2 or 3. She had a stretch of 3 consecutive kills and a block to put Mooney up 13-10. But Streetsboro at this point had too much momentum and was just clicking on offense. They played clean and collected through Mooney’s improved play and took set 4 21-25.

Katie Hough recorded a double-double with 16 kills and 10 digs. Sydney Reider closed out her career with a double-double with 20 assists and 11 digs. Marissa Landers also recorded a double-double with 11 assists and 10 digs. Megan Petty had 10 kills 5 blocks and 4 digs. Caitlyn Sapp had 10 digs.

THERE’S A NEW CHERIFF IN TOWN

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Leadership is influence, and influence is leadership.

For Cardinal Mooney Senior Cheriff Jamison, he’s leading by example.  Taking each practice, each game, and even each snap one at a time.  Jamison has made his impact on the end of the line playing defensive end on defense, and tight end on offense.  A game changer on and off the field, Jamison hopes to take flight with the rest of the Cardinals this week against the Irish of Ursuline.  We caught up with him just prior to the Harding game last week and our Steve Leslie chats him up in this week’s Cardinal Mooney Player Profile: THERE’S A NEW CHERIFF IN TOWN

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CARDINAL MOONEY FOOTBALL COACH’S CORNER WITH PJ FECKO (EP 7)

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If you’ve ever been inside the gymnasium at Cardinal Mooney, it serves as a constant reminder of rich winning tradition everywhere you look.  Quite literally, the walls are blanketed in championship banners from pillar to post.

The 2018 Cardinals have been tasked with adding to those walls under one of the toughest schedules in the state of Ohio.  They have yet to blink.  Sure- they want to win, but humble warriors in defeat are the most dangerous of all.

Head Coach PJ Fecko sits down with our Steve Leslie to discuss the opportunities ahead for the Cards in this week’s Cardinal Mooney Coach’s Corner!

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