Torrey Making Mark On Chaminade Football Program

The school's new head coach is putting an emphasis on offseason strength work, and talks about plans to travel to Notre Dame this summer.

Earlier this week, Chaminade held the school's annual "signing ceremony" recognizing Senior student athletes who are getting ready to play sports at the college level. Among the parents and coaches in the crowd to take photos with their athletes was Antoine Torrey, the assistant hired to become the school's next head football coach.  Torrey's first game will come in the fall, but he's wasted no time putting his stamp on the program. Offseason strength workouts at 6:15 a.m.? Check. Filling out his coaching staff? Working on it. Torrey said he has candidates in meeting with school administrators this week, including former head coaches at other area programs, with hiring expected in the next few weeks. Plans are also firmed up for the …

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New Year's Day Bowl Game Schedule

We've got the remainder of your January bowl game schedule, leading up to the BCS title clash between Notre Dame and Alabama. (All times Eastern)

Heart of Dallas Bowl, Purdue vs. Oklahoma State Jan. 1, 12 p.m., ESPNU TaxSlayer.com Gator Bowl Northwestern vs. Mississippi State January 1, Noon, ESPN2 Parkway Central grad Brandon Sheperd gets his first taste of bowl action for the Cowboys against the Big Ten Boilermakers. Capital One Bowl, Georgia vs. Nebraska Jan. 1, 1 p.m., ABC Who do you have in this battle of current and former Mizzou foes? Outback Bowl, Michigan vs. South Carolina Jan. 1, 1 p.m., ESPN Former Ladue Horton Watkins product Jehu Chesson redshirted this season, but the extra month of practices should help the receiver get a head start on 2013. Rose Bowl Game presented by Vizio, Stanford vs. Wisconsin Jan. 1, 5 p.m., ESPN Timberland grad Montee Ball looks to end his …

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Bowl Season Kicks Off With Famous Idaho Potato & Gilden New Mexico Bowls

The college football bowl season starts Saturday and ends next month with the BCS National Championship game as Notre Dame takes on Alabama.

2012-2013 Bowl Schedule: Alabama vs. Notre Dame For The BCS Title

We've got your complete list of NCAA Division I football bowl games coming up in December and January featuring plenty of players from the St. Louis and Creve Coeur area.

The University of Missouri may not be going to a postseason bowl game for the first time since 2004, but there are plenty of intriguing football bowl games on the schedule this year. We've got your complete list here, along with notes on teams featuring players who played their prep ball in and around the Creve Coeur area. If we've missed out on any of the local connections, tell us about it in the comment section. (All times Eastern.) BCS National Championship Game, Notre Dame vs. Alabama January 7, 8:30 p.m., ESPN De Smet Jesuit's Andy Bauer, a junior offensive lineman, and one of the top prospects in the class of 2014, has been heavily recruited by the Crimson Tide. He was a guest of Alabama at the Iron Bowl game vs. Auburn last week. …

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De Smet Opens 2011-2012 Hoops Season With Win Over Sumner

The Spartans are playing in the Whitfield Tournament in Creve Coeur.

The biggest news for the De Smet Spartan basketball squad in the offseason may have been the news that Nolan Berry made an oral pledge to play college ball for the Butler Bulldogs beginning in 2013. Monday, Berry started his junior campaign against the Bulldogs. The Sumner Bulldogs. Berry had 20 points one minute into the third quarter as De Smet cruised past Sumner 69-37 in opening round play at the Whitfield tournament Monday night. The Spartans worked their motion offense featuring plenty of backdoor cuts in addition to taking advantage of the squad's overall height advantage. De Smet will face Cardinal Ritter, led by Notre Dame signee Cameron Biedscheid on Wednesday. Ritter defeated the host Whitfield Warriors Monday night. Watch …

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Berry Chooses Butler

De Smet junior standout gives verbal pledge to the school which has played in the last two NCAA Basketball Championship games.

Nolan Berry won't graduate from De Smet until the spring of 2013, but the Spartan standout forward knows where he wants to be in the fall of the same year. De Smet varsity basketball coach Kevin Poelker confirmed Berry has made a verbal pledge to play at Butler University. The move was first reported by HighSchoolSports.net. Poelker said Berry made the decision in person Sunday during a trip to the Indianapolis campus after he also made a visit to Boston College. Patch previously reported Berry also had scholarship offers from the University of Missouri and Purdue, among others, and that he made unofficial visits to Stanford, Santa Clara and Notre Dame. The verbal pledge is non-binding until Berry signs an official letter intent. He could …

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6:10 pm on Monday, September 26, 2011

We talked with Berry this afternoon. He told Patch that the visit to meet Butler's players was a big factor in his being able to make a decision now, even saying that a month ago he couldn't have seen himself making a decision. He also said "I don't see him leaving," of Butler head coach Brad Stevens. Stevens has become a hot commodity in the coaching business off of the team's run in the NCAA …   more ›

Tennis Over Harvard Part Two

Pattonville's Strode marches on in bid for spot on the court instead of a spot in one.

Blake Strode elected to attend the University of Arkansas over other schools such as Marquette, Notre Dame and Brown after he graduated from Pattonville High School. He earned degrees in international economics and Spanish and once again flourished on the tennis court. (Read Part one of this story: please click here.) In his four years as a Razorback, Strode amassed a 98-48 singles record and a 71-55 doubles record. During his stellar senior season, he went 27-12 in singles competition and made it to the semifinals of the NCAA tournament before losing to the eventual national champion. During the early stages of his senior year at Arkansas, Strode was determined to try to make it as a professional tennis player. Just so he’d have a post-…

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DeSmet's Agnew and Neal: Taking the Next Step in Football

Senior, Agnew looks forward to the "family atmosphere" at Oregon State. Junior, Neal has his pick of Division 1 schools.

Creve Coeur Patch caught up with a pair of DeSmet track sprinters who are using the track and field season to gear up for football season. Senior Malcom Agnew is  signed and sealed to play next fall at Oregon State. His Spartan teammate Durron Neal, a Junior, could join him. According to rivals.com, the Beavers are one of 20 schools known to have made the all-purpose sensation a scholarship offer. Agnew liked the "family atmosphere" on his two visits to OSU. He said there were several reasons why he picked Oregon State. (Head) "Coach (Mike) Riley  is a great man," he said. "They saw a lot in me, and they really made me feel welcome when I went up there...going to be a great time," he said. Agnew said he met players James Rogers (senior …

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Student-Athletes And Families Happy Recruiting Process Is Over

Creve Coeur area schools produced large number of college-bound football players.

Families around the St. Louis area have a huge collective load off their shoulders, and it has nothing to do with shoveling, or snow days. Wednesday was the first day high school seniors in a variety of sports, but primarily football, could sign their college letters of intent to play at the college level. College recruiters have been beating down a path to the Creve Coeur area for years, and this was no exception, as players from Chaminade, De Smet and Parkway North attracted attention from BCS conference programs from around the country. This year, there were no last-minute high profile defections of Creve Coeur products from one school to another. That's not from a lack of trying on the part of college coaches though. Christian Suntrup …

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