Volume 85, Issue 7 March 12, 2010

By Lexi Wyse Mariah Skiles is

one of the two Kiwanis Students for the month of March.

She has been doing for tennis for six years, and band for eight years. Mariah has been in many of our school musicals such as Seussical The Musical and Oklahoma. She was also in choir for a year in high school.

“Musicals are one of the most fun things to do”, she claims.

She has been in Foreign Language Club for all four years of high school and keeps herself busy with Calculus and Spanish 4. In her Spanish four class, there are only three people, including herself.

“It’s weird but also nice that it’s a small class”, stated Mariah.

Mariah has done her share of community service too. She has worked the Burger Battles for two years, and has made blankets at HOBY seminar. Also, Mariah did Interact, Relay for Life, and a Rib-off for a year. She loves to volunteer anywhere she can when she has the time.

Mariah is no stranger to the work force. Besides babysitting for about six years, she has worked at Debbie’s Dairy Freeze for three years, and has worked at Marco’s Pizza for two years. At Marco’s she is both a pizza maker and a driver.

“The tips are nice when I get to go on deliveries”, said Mariah.

She is going to Ohio State University, and is going to major in Animal Sciences. Her goal is to become a veterinarian. She has wanted to become one for a long time.

Mariah has three parents to share this award with. Wendy Stapleton, Steve and JoAnn Skiles. Also, Mariah has five siblings as well.

to become a high school U.S History or reading teacher. “Megan is one of my favorite students because she is always prepared, always has a positive attitude and fun to be around,” TRUST adviser Mrs. Miller commented about Megan. Megan has a younger sister Michie; her parents are Michael and Melinda Shilling who she shares her joy and success with.

By Molly Phonephomhom Megan Shilling is one of the Kiwanis Student’s of the month for March. “It’s an honor to be chosen as a Kiwanis Student, I was very excited when I found out,” Megan shared. She has been part of tennis all four years of high school, receiving the sliver racquet. Ran the Sarah’s house run through out high school, and was part of track, received the coach’s award, varsity letter and scholar athlete in both tennis and track. Megan was treasurer of her class her junior year and now the senior class president. She is part of National Honor Society, Foreign Language Club, TRUST and was a Hi-Life staff member her junior year. She was involved in the school musicals, like Oklahoma, and crewmember in Seussical. With many activities going on, Megan still has time to instruct the junior choir at her church, direct the children’s Christmas program at church last year and carols with her church every Christmas season. She also went on a mission trip the summer of 2009 to New Orleans to help out a teacher at a charter school to get ready for the upcoming school year. After high school Megan plans on going to Northwest State for two years then transferring to Bowling Green State University to major in education

Shilling serves in many volunteer activities Skiles involved in service, job, clubs

Kiwanis honors ladies involved in many activites

Both Megan and Mariah grace the airwaves of BHS every morning, doing the announce-ments, offering jokes and sharing the lunch menu with their fellow students. Shown here are Megan, left, and Mariah, right, reading the daily messages to students.

News March 5, 2010 page 2

By Austin Weigle Congressman Bob Latta visited BHS on Feb. 12 to talk about some key issues that need to be addressed to the younger population. The first issue

Congressman Latta discusses problems of today, future

Congressman Latta discussed was the rising cost of college tuition and how a person at age seventeen or eighteen has much difficulty getting a loan for that much money.

If students do get the money, they have a huge bill looking them in the face when they’re done with school. Mr. Latta also addressed the issue of national debt,

Left to right:Zach Hazlett and Ruthann Ewonus at the Bryan Senior Center during a TRUST site day; Rachael Wisler presents Valentines gifts to the seniors;Kayla Bostater, Andi Yahraus and Chelsea Ennen play orchestral mu-sic for the seniors during lunch.

TRUST students entertain Montpelier Senior Center for Valentine’s Day

which he said was over $3,000,000,000. This generation of high school kids will be responsible for paying back this debt. Mr. Latta told the audience that the way to

solve the problems of today is to vote, because it is up to the public to pick the officials who they want to deal with these problems.

The TRUST class traveled to Montpelier in Februaury to entertain the senior center by performing music, playing HEART bingo, and serving lunch. This annual event is a hit with both the Montpelier seniors and the BHS seniors.

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By Kara Flesher We, regular Americans, recognize Saint Patrick’s Day as a day for people to pinch those not wearing green, and drink green tinted beverages while eating something made with potatoes. However, there is much more to this seemingly pointless holiday than meets the eye. Shrouded in mystery, Saint

Patrick is known for ridding Ireland of snakes. This story is all a myth. In fact, the saint just brought Christianity to the mostly pagan country. The snakes represent the evils of the pagan lifestyle fleeing Ireland in fear of Christianity. And now we celebrate his life by participating in stereotypical Irish traditions. Ways to celebrate include

the obvious drinking of green beer. However, since we students are all underage, we can drink green kool-aid instead. One can also indulge by reading classic Irish literature such as Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. But, I highly doubt students will want to read in order to celebrate a wild and crazy holiday. So instead, how about a

marathon of Irish movies or movies starring hot Irish actors/actresses {see featured list}. Or maybe, to go really crazy, you can break it down to some traditional music by singing Irish karaoke, i.e. Flogging Molly. And, with the increasing popularity of dance parties, an DP with an Irish theme might be a mildly entertaining way to celebrate. River dancing,

jigs, clogging, and reels are all possibilities. Living in Ohio, most everyone is Irish. The Midwest is where all those hearty immigrants settled. Why someone would choose a place so cold is a mystery. Even if you’re not Irish, still celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. What else do you have to do?

St. Patrick’s Day, what it is, how to celebrate

Cead Mile Failte ~ A hundred thousand welcomes.Erin Go Bragh ~ Ireland ForeverKiss me I’m Irish!They’re after me Lucky Charms!Magically Delicious!If you’re lucky enough to be Irish, you’re lucky enough! Beagán agus a rá go maith.~ Say little but say it well. Beidh lá eile ag an bPaorach.~ We’ll live to fight another time.Is binn béal ina thost~ Silence is golden.Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin~ There’s no place like

Traditionaland Stereotypical

Irish Sayings

Top Ten Ways to Make Spring Break Interesting1. Go to New Jersey and relive your favorite mo-

ments of the MTV classic.2. Spend the week in a abandoned shack in

northern Canadia.3. Chase and try not to get mauled by a moose

while in Canadia.4. Take several friends and go to any and all ran-

dom Florida beach.5. Avoid being slashed to bits by a murderous

psychopath while in Florida.6. Have fun avoiding drug cartels and their guns

while in Mexico.7. In Mexico, search for the legendary Chupaca-

bra.8. Spend as much time as possible at Wal*Mart.9. Sleep and dream interesting dreams.10. Two words: Road Trip.

Feature March 12, 2010 page 4

Clunker of the Month: Dan Gilbert’s Ford Ranger

Last minute spring break ideas for vactionless

Waiting for his owner’s return, Dan Gilbert’s 1994 Ford Ranger sits way out beyond the bus barn in the cold, accompanied by many other trucks. (Photo by Molly Phonephom-hom)

By Molly Phonephomhom A 1994 white rusty Ford Ranger has been named as March’s Clunker of the month. The truck is owned by junior, Dan Gilbert, and one can say it totally deserves the award bestowed on it. To start off, the truck has around 160,000 miles. It also has rust all along the bottom of the body and the doors. According to Dan, the inside looks a lot better than the outside. The air conditioner, however, doesn’t work.

So, the summer heat can be overwhelming. The radio is okay sometimes. It just cuts out at random times. Despite its unpromising and rickety appearance, Dan’s car is a reliable source of transportation. “I got the truck from my dad’s friend. Even though the car looks really horrible, it runs smoothly,” Dan commented about his truck.

By Misha Cooley Finally, the week we’ve all been waiting for since, well, Christmas break. Spring break. But maybe you and your family aren’t hitting the hottest vacation spot. Maybe your spring break year after year consists of you sitting at home in Bryan waiting for the day your friends return from Europe, Cancun, or their cruise to the Bahamas. That doesn’t have to be you this year. Let’s say you and a few friends who are stuck in Bryan

for the week are seeking adventure, or a mini vacation of your own. What can you do, you ask?

Get a group! Have everyone pitch in for gas and take a mini road-trip. Go to a bigger city for a day and hit the

malls, the museums, and restaurants. A lot of museums have student discounts or are free for students on certain days. Just be sure to google your destination and plan ahead. Not into long car trips? Head to a hotel within a fifty mile radius and stay overnight. Take full advantage of the pools, the hot tubs, the gyms, and no parents. Not into spending that much cash? Go to any media store, such as FYE, and check out the sales.

Sometimes you can find a really good deal on new or used movies and CD’s. If you can find a good deal, buy your favorite movies, or even a season of your favorite TV show and invite some friends over for a movie day. Make sure to have snacks or order a pizza. Of course, if you aren’t into movies you can always extend your knowledge and pick up a book that you’ve always been meaning to read but never got bored enough to touch.

You would be surprised at the fun you can have without going on vacation.

Editorial March 12, 2010 page 5

By Kara Flesher For many students, reading classic literature can be a bore. But the publishing company, Quirk, has rewritten old novels adding zombies, sea monsters, ninjas, and mildly inappropri-ate jokes. The most famous Quirk novel, a New York Time’s Best Seller, is Jane Austen and Seth-Gra-hame-Smith’s Pride and Preju-dice and Zombies. Take one of the most well known love sto-ries of all time and enhance it with the flesh-eating corpses of zombie, the awesome ninja moves of all the Bennets, and blatant innuendos, and you have one of the funniest and most enjoyable books ever. Another spoof of Austen’s work is Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters recreated by Ben H. Winters. Three sisters and their mother are evicted from their home after a giant shark killed their father/hus-band. They move to a sea shack where ferocious sea creatures attack for pleasure. Filled with oversized killer lobsters, a man with a tentacle face, an under-water version of London, and a tribe of crazy natives, this novel is filled with strange happen-ings that make this rather bor-ing novel actually interesting. I suggest reading Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters first. Though it is well written and quite amusing, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is far more entertaining than the tale of sea beasts, and one should always save the best for last. If Austen’s work is not to one’s liking, or perhaps the thought of seafood and corpses does not sound diverting, Quirk publications is currently work-ing on Android Karenina by the Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters writer, Ben H. Winters. For the little free time that

can be had, I highly suggest reading any Quirk publication. The books may have begun as classics, but they are no longer some “boring” English lesson. By Lexi Wyse Today it’s hard to find any kind of teenager reading books. If a book doesn’t capture a person’s attention right away, many just quit reading and go facebook, or watch movies. If you enjoy laughing hys-terically, then check out Abso-lutely Positively Not by David La Rochelle. In this book a boy named Steven DeNarski doesn’t want to believe that he is gay. Throughout the book, he finds support, as well as betrayal, but it has many quirky characters that maybe you could iden-tify yourself with. Absolutely Positively Not has won many awards including the Sid Fleis-chman Humor Award. Maybe your more of a roman-tic kind of person, so try Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Nick was just dumped and de-cides to go to a club on to find his ex-girlfriend there with her new boyfriend. Panicking, Nick asks a girl beside him, Norah, to be his girlfriend for the next five minutes. Her response, kiss him. Throughout the book, these two people are having an adventure they call their “first date” all night. David Lev-itham and Rachel Cohn are the authors of this book and an in-teresting fact on how this book was written was that Levitham wrote Nick’s part and Cohn wrote Norah’s part. Even if reading isn’t your first choice of fun, you should still try it. It might make your parents praise you and they might get something for you that you’ve been wanting as a reward. You never know.By Molly Phonephomhom No Place Like Home by Mary Higgins Clark, centers around Celia Kellog, a woman haunted

by her past. Celia, known as Liza Barton when she was younger, was ac-cused of shooting her mother. She was trying to shoot her abusive ex-stepfather for self-defensive but missed. Now the place is known as “Little Lizzie’s Place.” Many years later, she decides to go back to her hometown, New York City, to attend a fash-ion institute, where she meets her first husband Larry, who she has a kid with, but Larry later dies leaving her with a promise to not tell anyone about your past to save their child. She later meets Alex Nolan, who becomes her new hus-band. He wanted to start a new life with her, so he bought her a house for her birthday. She is shocked when she sees the house, since its known as Little Lizzie’s Place, but chooses not to tell Alex about her past yet. The book becomes very myste-rious, a group of people around town started to vandalize her house and prank calling her knowing she was Lizzie. Celia tried to get away from it and wanted to come clean about it. She went to a lawyer to tell ev-eryone in town the truth. While she was on her mission the prank calling and vandalism started to get worst. No Place Like Home is a very suspense-ful because she soon figures out who it was, someone who she didn’t expect. If you want to find out who it is and what is going to happen, go to the pub-lic library or the school’s library and check it out. By Misha Cooley Upon attending Chrysalis a few months back, I was intro-duced to the book, The Shack by William P. Young. At first, I’ll admit I was skep-tical, just another Christian book to make me feel like a terrible person. The same story, same message: Find God or be

doomed to hell, right? After having received the book for Christmas, I buck-led down and read it. I’m not much of a reader, but I spent the entire Saturday locked in my room. This book answers many questions for those who have found themselves asking “Where is God in times of un-speakable sadness?” Mackenzie Phillips, a man who is grieving after the disap-pearance of his young daugh-ter, Missy, receives a note from God, who invites him to the shack where Missy was alleg-edly murdered. Upon returning to the run-down shack on a cold, wintery night, Mack finds no one and tries to leave. As he is leaving the shack, it is turned into a cottage. The snow disappears, and the shack that once was the place of his “great sadness” was turned into one of the most beautiful places he had ever been. What Mack experiences at the shack will change his life forever. If you are struggling with grief, seeking unanswered questions about God, or just looking for a new insight and a good read, I highly recom-mend The Shack.By Austin Weigle Not on my watch: the 21st century combat medic co-authored by Joshua Fansler and Joshua Peters is the tale of two army combat medics who served tours in Iraq during Op-eration Iraqi Freedom and Op-eration Enduring Freedom. The book starts out with Fansler’s stories of the horrors of war he witnessed and the way the war has affected him during and after his tour. One excerpt from his tale reads, “I move inside the aid sta-tion where I continue treat-ment with the soldier who was

the through and through gun-shot wound. As I irrigate the wound with a saline solution he tells me that the soldier who was killed was hit by an RPG (rocket propelled grenade) in the chest. ‘The strange thing,’ he tells me, ‘was that he and I had just switched seats in the back of the Humvee just be-fore he was killed.’ The unbe-lievable luck that this soldier escaped with only a gunshot wound strikes me hard. ‘It should have been me,’ he says with the same nonchalant tone as before.” This passage shows the ef-fects of war on soldiers and how soldiers rely on the medics for not only physical wounds, but mental wounds as well. The second part of the book is written by Peters, and it tells of the terrors he saw when the CH-47 Chinook was shot down. Peters was awarded an Army Commendation Medal with a Valor device for his ac-tions during the attack. “I see what I believe to be a blood soaked duffle bag on top of the wreckage that is in the way of my reaching this man with air. As I try to reach my hand around the object to move it, I feel my hand get warmer and sink through the object. What I thought was a bag is in actuality the abdo-men of one of my fallen broth-ers…” Peter’s words display the atrocious sights seen during war, yet he displays his de-termination to leave no one behind, which is the Army’s motto. I give the book a 10/10, as it has become my new favor-ite book since Harry Potter, I suggest it to anyone, and es-pecially to anyone joining the military, as it will give you a new outlook of an American soldier.

Hi-Life recommends books to read over Spring Break

Editorial March 12, 2010 page 6

Hi-Life

Bryan High School150 S. Portland St.Bryan, Ohio 43506

Staff: Sumolly Phonephomhom, Misha Cooley, Logan Frank,Austin Weigle, Lexi Wyse

Editor: Kara Flesher

Advisor: Claudia Miller

The Hi-Life exists to enlighten, inform, and provoke thought not only for stu-dents in the Bryan City Schools, but also the whole community. It is the vehicle

by which students can express views and ideas to the general audience.

The newspaper welcomes and encourages any letter to the editor, but asks that specific requirements be met. Letters must be 300 words or less and signed

when submitted. Authors names will be withheld on request, and their ano-nymity will be protected. Editors reserve the right to limit length and edit for

appropriate content.

We as members of the Hi-Life acknowledge and respect the laws by which we are governed. We will not invade the privacy of others, nor print any obsceni-ties. We believe in upholding moral and ethical standards set in the protection

we have under the first amendment within the limits of the Supreme Court ruling of Hazelwood vs. Kuhlmeier.

The Hi-Life is published at Bryan High School at least 12 times each school year.

Hot Irish Actors Colin Farrell: best known for the remake of Miami Vice and generally being hard-core.

Pierce Bronson: best known for committing mayhem and wooing numerous women as James Bond aka 007.

Jonathan Rhys Myers: best known for his role as the oversexed King Henry VIII in the Showtime series The Tudors. He is also famous for the movie August Rush. Stuart Townsend: best known for his portrayal of Anne Rice’s vampire Lestat in The Queen of the Damned, and as Oscar Wilde’s cursed Dorian Gray in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Cillian Murphy: best known as the crazed terrorist in the film Red Eye, as well as the Scarecrow, the villain in Batman Begins.

St. Patrick’s Day HoroscopesAries: A leprechaun will come and kick you in the kneecap. Punch him and the face and steal his pot o’ gold.

Taurus: Avoid following the rainbow. At the end, there is no treasure, at least not for you. In-stead, midgets will rob you.

Gemini: Avoid green food. The chances of it being “just dye” and not mold are slim for you. You can celebrate the day with-out food poisoning.

Leo: Go frolicking in the clo-ver. Perhaps you’ll find one that has four leafs, or maybe just more snow.

Virgo: Do a jig or a reel in cel-ebration of St. Patrick’s Day. All the ladies/gentlemen will be impressed. Well, at least all the Irish ones.

Libra: Avoid green tinted beverages. One, you are most likely underage and can’t drink the most famous of all green beverages, and two, it’s actu-ally leprechaun pee.

Scorpio: Since you are the an-griest sign, use this day to vent all your anger, and then blame the Irish in you, even if you have none.

Sagittarius: Think St. Patrick’s day is pointless; use this day to plan your spring break while everyone else is partying. Save your craziness for Cancun or Key West. Capricorn: Don’t try to taste the rainbow. It’s not a pack of Skittles and tastes quite dis-gusting.

Aquarius: Stay at home on St. Patrick’s Day. If you don’t, you be will attacked by a group of leprechauns who are avenging themselves on society.

Pisces: Change all your money into gold and put it in a giant black pot. Bury or hide it from the world, and then start using Irish sayings {see featured list}. Instant leprechaun.

Cancer: Maybe you should not pinch those who do not wear green. The stars’ alignments predict a punch in the face be-cause of it.

Sports March 12, 2010 page 7

By Austin Weigle The Bryan wrestling teams season is winding down to the final three weeks. Last year the Golden Bears sent six wrestlers to the district tournament last year, with two of them falling in the final match of the tournament, to be state alternates. Dylan Zedaker was one of those two district placers. Zedaker is the only district placer from last year returning, but fellow senior Cory Wiles, is the only other returning district qualifier. Coach Savage commented,

“ We want to send six or seven kids to the district tournament this year, and we really would like to get at least one or two kids down to the state tournament. We haven’t had anyone there since Matt Dominique did it in 1992, when he placed fourth, and we really feel this year we can get kids down to the Schott,” he concluded. Dylan Zedaker says he is focused for this upcoming tournament run. “I’m just going out there and taking it one match at a time. I don’t think about who I have to wrestle, I don’t think about what his record

is or if he qualified for state last year, I’d really just prefer not to know, because anything can happen on the mat. I’ve beat kids who were state qualifiers and state placers, just by not letting them get in my head and wrestling my match,” Zedaker commented. The team sent 8 wrestlers to districts this year, which is a new record for the team. The district tournament is being held at Marion Harding high school, featuring teams from the Shawnee, Shelby, and Wauseon sectionals.

Wrestlers end good season, place wrestler at district tournament

Olympics 2010: The Vancouver GamesBy Logan Frank As we all know, the Olympics are a gathering of many nations from around the world. They come together with respective teams are compete in various sports depending on the season. Naturally, winter sports were played at the Winter Olympics. These included snowboarding, figure skating, luge-ing, among many others. The opening ceremony featured giant ice totem pole robots, breaking ice with running bystanders, whales, and a fiddler playing against his reflection on the moon.

As per usual, it was a stunning performance. The whole display went on without a hitch until the very end. Four Canadian athletes were supposed to light four separate rising pillars, but the last pillar never rose due to technical difficulties. Nonetheless, it was all still very impressive. The American Evan Lysacek managed to swipe the figure skating victory from Yevgeny Plushenko of Russia. Take that, U.S.S.R! The Cold War’s

never over! Not only did he end Russia’s reign of figure skating dominance, but Evan is also the first figure skater since 1994 to claim gold without presenting a quad jump. Shaun White also took a gold medal for the U.S. in the Men’s Snowboarding Half pipe. Popular comedian Stephen Colbert sponsored the U.S. speedskating team when their original sponsor went bankrupt and filmed

his show at the Olympics for the first week of the games, stirring up much controversy in his wake. After mockingly calling the Canadians a bunch of

“syrup suckers,” Shani Davis told reporters, “He’s a jerk.” Jerk or not, Stephen Colbert raised over $202,000 for the speedskaters. The closing ceremony was very nice overall. It started with a mime mechanic raising the fourth and final pillar in a nod to the malfunctions from the Opening. After that, most of the performance was done by Russia, as they gave us all a “preview” of the 2014

games in Sochi Russia. They showed us more ice dancers, the Moscow Orchestra, and an opera singer on top of a giant, electronic troika. In the end, The United States went home with a total 37 medals as the winner of the Vancouver games. We won 13 bronze, 15 silver, and 9 gold medals. Canada, however, made a record of 13 gold medals from one Olympics. In a way, you could say that Canada was the true winner of the games, since they had the most gold medals, but it really just boils down to your own perception.

March Madness approaches In just a week,

the college bas-ketball tour-nament many know as March

Madness will begin. In our area, the University of Dayton will once again host the first round, beginning on March

16. The Final Four will be hosted in Indianapolis, April 3-5. Getting tickets will be a prob-lem for most. The lottery for this year’s tickets went on sale after the end of the tourney last year. There are still some tickets avail-able for the first rounds, but get-

ting them will be tough. Several web sites show tickets by private sales, starting at $90 each. From the Big Ten, Ohio State and Purdue both are potential number one seeds. Other popu-lar teams, making likely appear-ances are Kentucky, Villanova, Butler (Indianapolis), and Mich-

igan State will all be seeded. Fans can watch games broad-cast on CBS all day, from noon to midnight. Free live streaming on demand is available through NCAA, so the games will be easy to watch. The draw for the tourney will be this Sunday.

Sports March 5, 2010 page 8

Baseball team works for winning seasonBy Lexi Wyse Baseball season is soon com-ing and our Bryan boys are super pumped up this season. Many of the seniors stated that their main goal is to go to state again and become champions like they did a few years ago. Taylor Rhoades stated, “We have a really well rounded team, and I think we can go far if we do our best.” The team practices after school in the gym upstairs, working on their batting or their throwing. According to senior Zach North, the team has been doing three hour practices in the BHS gym. They have also been con-ditioning at the field house. “I’m really looking forward to be playing Lima Shawnee,”

said Garrett Bell. “They’re hard teams, but if we beat them then that makes us a more stronger team.” Colton Ponscak stated, “The team as a whole is working on the mental aspects of the game.” Coaches Roebuck and Miller both agreed that the team is strong physically, but they need to become mentally tougher. There’s a lot of senior lead-ership for this years team with a total of eight seniors: Zach North, Colton Ponscak, Taylor Rhoades, Garrett Bell, Alex Nossaman, Levi Fisher, Cody Keil, and T. J. Losby. All the boys are pumped of for this season and have high expectations this season.

By Logan Frank The swimming season started on Novem-ber 11th this year. “Overall, it was a pretty good season. A lot of new people, a lot of new swimmers and everyone improved and dropped their time. It was nice,” said Mrs. Spangler. The Dive Team and the Swim Team went to districts on Wednesday the 17th and Fri-day the 19th of February respectively. On Thursday the 25th, the divers went to state. Rachel Francis came in at 18th place in the girls 100 freestyle and in 19th place for the girls 200 free relay. The normal season officially ended on the first, but the teams managed to do well enough that they keep on competing right up to the end of the month.

Swim team advances five to state meet

By Lexi Wyse It’s a new year and a new season for this year’s softball team. There’s a lot of talent that is ready to be put to work. Seniors Darcie Held and Sarah Eickhoff are definitely looking forward to three games specifically, Archbold, Wauseon, and Evergreen. “They’ve been our toughest games in the past and I can’t wait to beat those teams since they’re in the NWOAL” claimed Darcie. When asked what did the softball team needs to work on the most, “hitting” was the answer. “Our fielding will be great this year, but hitting is what is killing us,” stated Sarah Goals for the 2010 softball team are mainly to have a fun season and to get a league

Softball expecting a lot this season

Top Left, Lesley Harsila stands on block as teammates Rachel Francis, Jen Frame, Aari-ka Alabata, Olivia Smith and Coach Luce look on and wait their turn for the relay at State. At top right, Rachel Francis gets set on the block for her race. Bottom right, Coach Luce gives directions before the race.

Softball girls practicing at the middle school gym. From the far right Andi Yahraus, Rachael Wisler, Darcie Held, Kirsten Wieland, and Haley Shook.

title for the first time. “I really want to get a ball for our schools softball banner this year,” said Andi Yahraus Kirsten Wieland, one of the seniors, believes that this

softball season is going to be a turning point for this years softball team. With a little bit of hard work and dedication, our softball girls will surely be great.