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2012 High School Season

Central Catholic WTAE Operation Football Game of the Week – video clip 9-7-2012

WPIAL Class AAAA preview: Northern 8 Conference, excerpt, August 24, 2012, By Mike White / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Central Catholic — The Vikings, who moved from the Big East Conference, must replace a number of key players who graduated and only four starters return on both offense and defense. Senior Leo Loughery will be one of the conference’s top linebackers. Junior Luigi Lista-Brinza was the team’s second-leading rusher. Other top returnees are WR-LB David Urso, WR-DB Garrett Vrbanic and linemen Zack Troy, Zack DeLuca and Steve Wood.

CTK 2012 – WPIAL AAAA Northern Eight Conference Preview, excerpt, 13. Aug, 2012   |   by Staff

The Class AAAA conference with Northern suburban teams will have a little city flavor this season. Pittsburgh Central Catholic moves into the Northern Eight for 2012. Instead of heading east from Oakland for conference games this season, Central Catholic will head North. This is not something totally new to Central Catholic. The Vikings actually played in the Quad North in 1998 and ’99, and did not make the playoffs either year. But Central Catholic is not the only new team in the Northern Eight. Fox Chapel also moves in after more than a decade of playing in a few different conferences. But Fox Chapel also played in the Quad North in 1998 and ’99 along with Central Catholic.
While Central Catholic and Fox Chapel are new to the conference, Erie McDowell dropped out and is playing in District 10 again.

PITTSBURGH CENTRAL CATHOLIC VIKINGS:

The Vikings won the Big East Conference the past two seasons and they lost only one game in each year, falling in the semifinals both times. Central Catholic lost a number of key players from last year’s team and might not be as strong as the past two years. But coach Terry Totten’s team still figures to be good enough to challenge for a conference title.

Four starters return on both offense and defense. Quarterback could be a key. The starter could be J.J. Consentino, a transfer from Kiski Area. He was Kiski Area’s starter last year as a sophomore, but suffered a knee injury early in the season. Consentino was first ruled ineligible by the WPIAL for transferring for athletic intent, but the PIAA recently overturned that ruling.

Consentino could be challenged for the job by sophomore Graham Adomitis.

In the backfield, Damion Jones-Moore has graduated after playing varsity for four seasons and rushing for more than 4,000 yards. Luigi Lista-Brinza, a 5-9 junior, was second on the team in rushing last year with 363 yards. Niko Thorpe, a junior, is another transfer worth watching. He led Shaler in rushing last season.

Leo Loughery figures to be one of Central Catholic’s top players. He is a 6-2, 230-pound senior fullback and linebacker who was a second-team all-Big East Conference linebacker a year ago.

David Urso is a promising senior receiver-linebacker, and Garret Vrbanic returns at receiver-linebacker-defensive back.

Returning starters on the line are Zack Troy, Zack DeLuca and Steve Wood.