A Win in Our Hearts

By: Taylor Stevens

After about 20 minutes of waiting, Madison’s Wrestling team was placed 2nd in the WRC Tournament. The team was only half a point behind Riverside who took 1st. As heartbreaking as it was the team still was very successful in this tournament, with lots of wrestlers placing in there weight classes and making pin after pin. The day was long but very exciting.

As the tournament started, Madison dominated. Douglas Bailey won his 1st match, Shayne Magda won his 1st match with a pin, Brody Arrundale won his 1st match with a pin, and Logan Blough won his 1st match with a pin. Lots of wrestlers won their first matches putting Madison in a great spot from the beginning. Shayne, Douglas, and David won their second matches.

After the short lunch break finals started. David, Shayne, Douglas, and Derick Zirkle were competing for 1st or 2nd place. Brody and Dom Zirkle were competing for 3rd or 4th.

David Thompson placed first in his weight division, this was his first time placing first place in WRC. Shayne Magda placed 1st in his weight division, and Derick Zirkle also won first in his weight division.

Brody placed third in his weight division, winning the match with a pin. At this point in the tournament it came down to Dom. Dom had to win his match with a pin. As the only match left going everyone in the gym was going crazy cheering on Dom as he wrestled a Mayfield wrestler. Dom pushed himself as hard as he could and won the match with a pin. The gym went crazy, the score had to be counted up still but everyone knew it was going to be close.  

With the final score being 187.5, Riverside took 1st with 188. As upsetting as it was Madison still won. Every coach, fan, anybody from Madison is so unbelievably proud of these boys. Up next for the team is the Perry Match. Then they have sectionals. With little season left the team is going to push as hard as they can to bring home as many victories as possible.

Pushing her Hardest

  

By: Angel West

As the girls get ready for their Sectional Meet on Saturday at Spire, I interviewed Jena Parks who swims for the team. When interviewing her I asked what she expects from the meet and what are some goals she wants to achieve. She said for her goals she would really like to PR in her events and for what she expects from the Sectionals meet is she hopefully wants to be able to move on to the districts which is at the next meet.

Jena's favorite memory is when she swam in the Viking invitational earlier this year. The girls have fought hard through this season and they have made so many fun and memorable memories with the team. As the season starts to come to an end the girls will never forget all the amazing memories they have made and they will never forget all the hard work they put in every meet. They always give it their all in the pool and they push as hard as they can to beat the other teams.

All About Auburn

By: Michael Smith

Auburn career center is a place for those students that want to further their education and get practice and experience in a job they maybe want to get involved in after high school. Auburn career center is a two year program.

Auburn is most popular for there wide variety of careers that you can major in such as Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services; Engineering; Biological and Biomedical Sciences; Health Professions and Related Programs; and Communication, Journalism.

Auburn is wonderful place for young students to go and learn about the careers that they want to pursue in in life, mean new people and make new friends.

Auburn is a public university so anyone who goes to a high school near by can go to it.

Auburn career center not only just helps you with your career that you want to pursue in life but also life itself once you graduate high school when you get out on your own.

Another great thing about auburn is that you can get jobs from going to auburn there are lots of companies that will higher students right out of Auburn.

Back-to-Back

By: Sydney Guyer

On Saturday, February 2nd the Varsity Girls Basketball team had their Senior Night against the Willoughby South Rebels. The Lady Blue streaks honored three seniors (Brannigan Cramb, Zara Fedele, and Jess Schafer) who have been playing with each other for years where they formed an unbreakable bond with each other.

The two teams previously faced off last month at South in an intense game that unfortunately added another loss to the Lady Blue Streaks record. While the previous game hadn't ended the way the girls wanted it to, they fought back on their senior night looking for revenge. The girls came out firing in the first quarter and continued to carry that same fire throughout the game. The Lady Blue streaks didn't back down against the Rebels and sealed their win with a final score of 65-44.

This past Wednesday, February 6th the Lady Blue streaks had another game against the Riverside Beavers and were looking to continue their winning streak. The Blue streaks previously beat the Beavers at home with a score of 53-47. Riverside honored their seniors before the game for Senior Night and it helped fuel them to put up a fight against the Blue streaks.

During the duration of the game, the Beavers and Blue streaks had multiple lead changes but neither of them could hold it for a very long time. The game ended up in a tie at the end of regulation and forced the Blue streaks to head into overtime.

The Blue streaks started overtime with a scoring run and it looked like they were going to win it all, but then the Beavers fought back and forced the game into a double overtime. Throughout overtime the teams fought back and forth to try and seal the win, but Freshman, Riley Montagner helped push the Blue streaks to victory with her very clutch free throws to beat the Beavers 47-46.  

The Lady Blue streaks moved to 8-11 this week with three more games left in the regular season. They were able to earn the seventh seed for the tournament and host Riverside at home on February 16th at 1pm.

Past Battle

By: Kennedy Rochford

 

This past Friday, the 8th, the boys varsity basketball team has a game against Willoughby South on their home court. When playing them last they had a very close aggressive game but ending losing in the end. This game is going to be a tough challenge they have a defensive team they are also tall and athletic which is going to make them put up a fight throughout the whole night and not give up on the game. The boys are going to have to bring consistency to the court on Friday.

  Some key players to help them win their game is Chris Blauman and Ryan Bowers which both players bring offense to the court. On the other end Marcus Horton brings the defense to the game which helps us to win and keep the other teams points down.

  After fighting the whole night in the end the whole game is about how much they play and grow as a team. Also about the scoreboard how close they come or how hard they fight no matter what the score says. It also is about how hard they fought to win the game.

 

Also the boys have a back to back game on Saturday the 9th against Wickliffe they are hopefully going to take an easy win against this team. They will have to be well rested from their game on Friday and not give up and play the game. They don’t know what they are walking into they have not played Wickliffe yet this year.

Sharky Marky

By: Jordan Pasalaqua

Mark Hribar is a Sophomore at Madison High School, he has been on the Madison Boys swim team for two years now, and also participates in Soccer and Track. On Saturday, February 2nd the boys team went to another WRC meet at Perry. Mark came in second place in the 200 free with a time of 1:57. He also competed in the 500 free with a time of 5:24, came in first for the 200 IM, first for 200 medley relay, and lastly he came in first in the finals with a time of 52.8 seconds.

Before every race Mark likes to slam the block to pump himself up and get hyped. One of his favorite quotes from his fellow teammates Collin Douglas is, “The only person stopping you from success is yourself”. This year Mark has earned 3 WRC medals for all the WRC meets they’ve competed in. Another thing that makes Mark stand out is that he is very interested in Eclectica, he loves singing and playing piano for the Eclectica group.

Marks High School goals are to beat some of Greg Pristov’s records before he leaves, and to score very well on the ACT. His High school highlight is when he first performed in Eclectica, he said that it was a very special moment for him. Freshman year the Eclectica group made it to Sectionals and that has pushed Mark every since to make it to Sectionals for swimming.

In the future Mark wants to go to Case Western and pursue a career in engineering. On his free time he likes to play many video games, play piano, and the guitar. Marks favorite movie to watch is Thor Ragnarok and he also loves watching the Indians.  

Living to Cheer

By: Jillian Jeschenig

Caitlin Barnicoat is a two-year member of the JV football and basketball cheer teams. She cheered throughout middle school and is very involved in the community. Caitlin is a captain for the JV cheer team this year and is enjoying her time on the team.

Being on the team has been a great experience for Caitlin and she can’t wait to continue cheering as she finishes out her next two years of high school. She has also been on the competition team for two years now. However, cheer is not the only way Caitlin is involved in the community. She is also a member of Show Choir and apart of Key Club.

Caitlin won Miss Grapette this past year as well. She cares greatly about her academics, she currently has over a 4.0 GPA and received an award for top of her class for history last year. She hopes to graduate high school with a 4.0 or higher GPA and an honors diploma. She would also like to go into post-secondary to get a head start on college.

Caitlin doesn’t know where she would like to go quite yet but she plans on going to college to become a pediatrician. Her favorite memory of high school so far was walking into homecoming after winning Miss Grapette and having all of her friends screaming to congratulate her and hugging her. Some fun facts about her are her favorite movie is How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days and her favorite class is biology with Mr. Pira. Caitlin encourages everyone to stop out and support the boys basketball team as the season comes to an end.