It's a winning week for the Cooper Dragons

THE WOODLANDS, Texas-- VARSITY VOLLEYBALL Dragons Continue Winning Streak

8/28 vs St. Pius X WIN (first home game)

8/31 vs Frassati Catholic WIN

Season record: 14-2

Next up for Dragon Volleyball:
Sept. 4 at Bay Area Christian, 6 p.m.
Sept. 6 vs. Lutheran High North, 5:30 p.m.
Sept. 11 at Northland Christian, 6 p.m.
Sept. 13 vs. St. Agnes, 5:30 p.m.





VARSITY CROSS COUNTRY Varsity Boys finish 1st, Girls 2nd

9/1 hosted Cooper Dragon Invitational, Burroughs Park

Boys’ Team: CHAMPIONS

Dragon TOP FIVE: Mitchell Shannon, Eli Araya, Will McDermott, Erik Burns, Cadan Hanson

Girls’ Team: Runner-Up

Dragon TOP FIVE: Katie Drake, Madison Breaux, Ava Minarovic, Amber Navarra, Uche Oguchi



From Coach George Dohner:

Cooper hosted their 21st annual Dragon Invitational at Burroughs Park on Sept. 1. “After Hurricane Harvey canceled the event a year ago, It was great to finally host the event again,” said meet director Matt Bohan. “With over 1,000 runners hitting the 3200-meter course throughout the morning, the day was a huge success.”

“We would like to thank the many volunteers from the parent body and from Cooper’s Interact Club for spending their Saturday morning with us,” Bohan added.

The Cooper boys ran really well taking the Championship title scoring only 19 points. Mitchell Shannon took home the first place medal with a time of 10:05. This was the third best time ever run on this course. Scoring points for Cooper were Eli Araya (3rd), Will McDermott (4th), Erik Burns (5th) and Cadan Hanson (6th).

“We are really proud of the boys’ effort today,” said Coach George Dohner. “They came out with a purpose and did a great job.”



The girls’ team also ran well, putting seven runners in the top 30 spots to take second place behind SPC-rival, Kinkaid. Katie Drake once again led the team with a third place finish in 12:18. She was followed by Madison Breaux and Ava Minarovic who battled for 15th and 16th place. Amber Navarra finished in 20th followed by Uche Oguchi at 24th, Rebecca Melin at 28th, and Caroline Courtney at 30th.
“We had some girls really step and gave Kinkaid a bigger challenge than they were expecting. This is going to be an exciting year in SPC and we can’t wait to see what these girls can do,” said Coach George Dohner.

Also of note is that the Cooper boys’ JV team took home the JV Championship trophy and the girls’ JV team won second place in their event.



Next up for Dragon Cross Country:
Sept. 20 at the Willis Wildcat Invitational at Misty Meadows Girl Scout Camp, 5:30 p.m.

Sept. 29 at Nike South Invitational at Bear Branch Sports Park, 8 a.m.

VARSITY FOOTBALL Dragons Win First Game of the Season

8/17 vs Frassati Catholic • 42-13 WIN

Cooper is 1-0 on the season.

Offensive stats:

Passing:

Evan Minarovic was 6-7 for 171 yards and 4 TD passes

Rushing:

Cameron Reed had 2 carries for 31 yards

Evan Minarovic had 1 carry for 8 yards and a TD

Matt Krehbiel had 1 carry for 9 yards and a TD

Receiving:

Logan Leax had 1 catch for 71 yards and a TD

Daniel Gerber had 2 catches for 55 yards and 2 TD’s

Matt Krehbiel had 2 catches for 30 yards and 1 TD

Thomas Elkhoury had 1 catch for 14 yards

Defensive stats:

Matt Krehbiel had 8 tackles and one interception

Cameron Reed had 7 tackles and one sack

Jake Peterson had 5 tackles

Will Corson had a fumble recovery

From Coach Brent Landrum: I am very proud of this team. From the starters to the subs, they completely dominated this game. That was great to see. We’ve been where Frassati is, young program and learning, and they will get better. It just takes time. We will face a stiff challenge this coming Friday when we travel to Magnolia’s Legacy Prep. They lost in the TAPPS state finals last year and they return a talented team. We will have to play perfect football to win. I think this group has it in them though. As for this past Friday night, I was very impressed woth our play on all three sides of the ball. Special teams had a great night. The crowd was awesome as well.

Next up for Dragon Football:

Sept. 7 at Legacy Prep, 7 p.m.

Sept. 14 vs. Bay Area Christian, 7 p.m.

Sept. 21 vs. Fort Worth Country Day, 7 p.m.



UPCOMING VARSITY SPORTS ACTION AT HOME

Thursday, September 6
5:30 p.m. Varsity Volleyball vs Lutheran High North

Thursday, September 13

5:30 p.m. Varsity Volleyball vs St. Agnes

Friday, September 14

7 p.m. Varsity Football vs Bay Area Christian

For more information contact:

Lynn Boeding, Sports Communications

lboeding@johncooper.org • 281.367.0900 ext. 2455 • cell: 281.748.1447