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Volume 16 Issue 9 710 S. Rose Hill Road, Rose Hill, KS 67133 April 28, 2017

THE ROCK-IT NEWSRose Hill High School

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Band performs at Silver Dollar City in BransonTSA is A-OKAY

TSA wins four championships at state conference in Salina

05.02.17Golf @ CheneySwimming @ DerbySoccer @ Goddard Eisenhower05.04.17Baseball vs. WellingtonSoftball vs. Wellington Soccer vs. McPherson

05.05.17Track @ Goddard05.08.17Baseball @ BuhlerSoftball @ Buhler

05.09.17Golf @ League Rock-It Vocal concert 05.11.17 Soccer @ Derby

05.12.17AVCTL Track @ Clearwater 05.15.17 Softball Regionals Baseball Regionals 05.17.15Baseball Regionals.

On !ursday April 20 the Rocket band set o" for Branson, Missouri on a trip full of music and fun. !e students raised a total of $375 each for the trip, not including extra spending money.

!e band performed in a festi-val associated with Silver Dollar City. Both the regular and jazz band performed songs includ-ing a medley of tunes from Phantom of the Opera, God of Our Fathers, and with the color guard playing a medley of songs from !e Wizard of Oz.

“!e band enjoys Phantom of the Opera a lot because they recognize the tunes,” said band director Todd Shults of the band’s favorite songs to play. “!ey also like God of Our Fathers because I believe the see the value in the music, it is a tough piece and is very powerful to play and listen to.”

When they were not perform-

Micah StreeterReporterSophomore

For the second con-secutive year the Technol-ogy Student Association (TSA) club attended the state conference in Salina. !e group participated in Career and Technical Education (CTE) re-lated events on March 28 through March 30. !ree members helped to win four State Champion-ships.

“It [placing #rst] was great,” said senior Henry Mann. “It was really nice to see our work and be able to show it o", along with receiving an award.”

Seniors Mann, Noah Baden, and Kelby Dinkel placed #rst in Coding, Video Game Design, and a Technology Bowl Tour-nament. !ey also quali-#ed for nationals in Video

Game Design using a software called Unity 3D.

Mann placed #rst as an individual in the Technol-ogy Bowl Written Test, while Baden took second. Scores from Mann, Baden, and Dinkel were com-bined to give the group a #rst round seed for the Technology Bowl Tourna-ment.

“Just being around ev-eryone and getting the chance to compete with each other and do dif-ferent events was a lot of fun,” said Mann.

Mann, fellow senior Bre-Ana LaFever, and three members from Industrial Technology teacher Ryan Hill’s Architectural Draft-

Brandy VaughnEditor-in-Chief ReporterSenior

Seniors BreAna LaFever, Noah Baden, Kelby Dinkle, and Henry Mann work on coding events. Photo by Ryan Hill.

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ROCKET OPINION April 28, 2017Page 2The Rock-It

News !e Rock-It News is the o"cial publication of

Rose Hill High School, located at 710 N. Rose Hill Rd, Rose Hill, KS. !e newspaper is pro-

duced by Rocket Productions. !e newspaper is published monthly from September to May. Con-tact Rocket Productions sponsor Matt Browning at mbrowning@usd394.com for advertising infor-

mation.2016-2017 Newspaper Sta#

Brandy Vaughn • Editor-in-Chief• Layout Editor• Sports Editor

• SeniorLathe Cobb• Reporter

• SophomoreSammi Waddell

•Reporter• Cartoonist

• SeniorKoby Campbell

•Reporter•Freshman

Kaylee Rogers•Reporter•Junior

Micah Streeter • Reporter

• SophomoreAnna Koch•Reporter•Freshman

Matt Browning• Sponsor

DIY: String LightsSammi WaddellReporterCartoonistSenior

A Day in the LifeBrandy VaughnEditor-in-Chief ReporterSenior

Although this is not the last editorial I will have the opportunity to write, the end is near.

Soon, one lucky student will be !lling my editor position and man does he have a lot in store.

Despite his bright future in leading this paper to more success, the responsibilities of this position are endless. But oh so worth it.

From the !rst day of school, editors are plan-ning and organizing how they and their sponsor want the year to go. "e !rst week is spent getting to know new members of the sta#, or in my case meeting the new advisor that I dreaded meeting.

Once you’ve learned the personalities of the sta# and the year kicks o# with the !rst major event, which is normally Party at the Turf, stories start $ying in.

As the editor, every article goes through you

at some point before it is published, which is both good and bad.

Chances are your writ-ing style is completely di#erent than a “newbies” and you are forced to be both open minded and critical.

It is a tough balance, and most of the time you end looking at the article three times be-fore they turn it in. Even after it has been turned in you will probably take it home and make more changes to it.

As nerdy as this is, lay-out is where it really gets fun despite how tedious the work can become.

Your work ranges from simply changing the dates on the pages to placing stories so they !t perfectly with each other.

Not only do you have the power to make !nal changes to the paper but also you create the entire layout. And after awhile you even get sick of look-ing at the same layout pages for weeks.

Becoming the editor does have its perks, as you are basically running the

show so you have a lot of freedom. But once again with freedom comes responsibility.

Typically you become the sponsor’s aid. With my weird senior schedule, I only had one class time available to be an aid, and unfortunately for Mr. Browning, that was his plan period.

While at the beginning of the year I was dreading the second semester, now I know how lucky I am to have this opportunity.

I have gotten the chance to get to know the “not so serious” Browning and a very serious Browning. "is has given me a chance to become closer with not only Browning but also Mr. Hill.

Without going into to much detail of the ran-dom moments and all the laughs, I have learned so much in this past year from both of them.

"is past year has been amazing for not only the paper but Rocket Pro-ductions as a whole and I am blessed to have been apart of it.

With spring having !nally arrived (not to mention receiving al-most a foot of rainfall in the process), it is prime time to do some spring-cleaning. But before you tuck away the string lights deep within the catacombs of your attic or garage, know that those holiday string lights are not just for Christmas time. "ey can make super cool room decor for year round awesomeness. Get creative with your string lights and try some of these neat DIY light-ing ideas.

Lit-up bed canopyDi%culty level: Easy,

but harder if you are a perfectionist

Time to make: ~30 minutes (+10-15 if you are a perfectionist)

Total Cost: $10"e materials you will

need for this project are nails, a hammer, white sheer fabric (5m x 2m), fairy/ Christmas lights, and scotch tape. Use the scotch tape to secure as many fairy/Christmas lights to the ceiling or walls surrounding your bed in a design of your choice. For maximum prettiness, use icicle lights as a sort of headboard de-sign and secure them to the ceiling directly above your pillow. Do NOT forget to plug them into an outlet before proceed-ing! Once you are satis-!ed with the placement of the lights and have plugged them in (or at least put the wire near an outlet), begin secur-ing the white sheet fabric

into each corner of the ceiling with the nails and hammer. Work your way around your bed, making sure to drape the fabric along the way. Continue to nail the fabric into the ceiling and onto the walls until all of the lights are covered by at least one layer of the fabric. Any leftover fabric can be draped as you wish or simply folded back over the lights.

Make a Hula-Hoop chandelier

Di%culty Level: Me-dium, requires patience

Time to make: ~15 minutes (allow up to 48 hours to let paint dry)

Total cost: $15"is project is super

fun and looks really cool in the end. "e materi-als you will need are a hula-hoop (preferably one without sand or beads inside), black or

white spray paint, duct tape, an extension cord, icicle lights (to avoid having to plug in, use battery powered lights), and twine or plastic pole tubing. Allow up to 48 hours after painting the tubing and hoop to begin assembling your chande-lier. Once the paint is dry, join the strands of icicle lights together. Tuck any excess wire underneath and tape with the duct tape. You want a seam-less, continuous strand to wind around the hoop. Lay the icicles around the edge of the hula-hoop so you can determine the placement before you

secure them. Make sure the entire hoop is covered and icicles are draping downward o# the hoop. Wind the tape around in a circular motion, cover-ing the wires but NOT the lights. Smooth out any bubbles or bumps along the way. Tie the twine forming a cross and hang it up on a hook. For a towered chandelier, use multiple di#erent-sized hula-hoops and tie them together with more twine, repeating all of the above.

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Several instrumental soloists and ensemble members attended the Kansas Music Educators Association (KMEA) Regionals Solo and Ensemble Festivals on April 8th.

Among the stu-dents who took on a solo were seniors Erin Barlett (oboe), Alyssa !omison (clarinet), Luke Treiber (trum-pet), Anna Fiegenbaum (marimba), with juniors Kaylian Scott (clarinet), Clayton Adkins (alto saxophone), Makayla Webster (trombone), Kolton Huckaby (bari-tone), Christian Arndt (tuba), Cav Newman (snare), and Gage Wright (snare). Sopho-mores include Julian Isbel (snare), Gracie Vaughn ("ute), Grace Gregg ("ute), Bre-anna Herrera (baritone saxophone), and Emily Maddux ("ute) supple-mented by freshman Olivia Barnett ("ute).

Ensembles include a "ute choir, clarinet quartet, clarinet trio, trombone quartet, freshman brass, and a

percussion ensemble.Soloists Scott, Cook,

Adkins, Barlett, !omi-son, Webster, Huckaby, Arndt, Herrara, Gregg, Fiegenbaum, New-man, Isbel, and Wright received I ratings, while Barnett, Vaughn, Treiber, and Maddux received II ratings.

!e trombone quartet received a I rating, and the percussion ensem-bles also received I rat-ings on both songs that they performed: Iden-tity Crisis by Michael Aukofer and Centrifu-gal by Chris Crockarell.

!e "ute choir, clarinet quartet, and freshman brass earned II ratings, while the clarinet trio came home with the only III rating.

A total of 14 solo-ists will be continuing to state on April 28 at Chapman High School. !e percussion en-semble and trombone quartet will also be par-ticipating in the event.

!e Rocket Band as a whole earned a I (superior) rating after performing two pieces of music at the Central Plains League Music Festival held at Trinity Academy on Wednes-day, April 12.

Nearly 30 bands performed that day, but

Band receives top rating at KMEA regional

only nine I (superior) ratings were given. Sev-eral II (excellent) rat-ings and just as many III (good) ratings as I ratings were also dis-tributed by the judges.

Shults conducted Festivo, a percussive piece written by Vaclav Nelhybel, someone that Shults claims is a “glut-ton for punishment.”

“I think the perfor-mance went really well,” said senior baritone player Kaitlin Milli-gan. “But the baritones de#nitely could have improved on a section in Festivo had we held sectionals more often.”

Villareale conducted Nobles of the Mystic Shrine by John Philip Sousa, an acrobatic-style march in cut time.

“We could have done a lot better with our articulation, balance, blend, and intona-tion [in Festivo],” said Shults. “All those little things that require extra of the students outside of band rehearsal, in the way of attending sectionals, focusing in band rehearsal, and let-ting themselves be out of tune during rehearsal is where we got the II rating from one of the judges.”

Sammi WaddellReporterCartoonistSenior

!e drama depart-ment hosted their #nal play for the school year, “You Can’t Take It With You,” on Fri-day, April 7th and Saturday, April 8th.

Seniors Tiger Pol-lock, Lauren Diaz, Kennedi Sills, Joshua Farrar, Madysen Baker, Kelly Bailey, Kelby Dinkel, Elizabeth Johnson, and Savanna Renollet, with the help of 10 underclassmen (and art teacher Ward Hilgers’ portrayal of a gunman in act two) enacted the play in 90 minutes. A very special guest was a ball py-thon named Jasper, a cherished pet of Pol-lock that happened to be the perfect prop for the show.

Originally written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, the play is set in the 1930’s home of Mar-tin Vanderhof in New York. Alice Sycamore (Sills) falls in love with a Wall Street broker’s son Tony Kirby (junior Riley Isbel). However, Alice’s plan to receive a blessing from her rich-minded in laws falls to pieces when both she realizes that the couple’s respective families are incompat-ible.

Alice’s family in-cludes grandfather Martin Vanderhof (Pollock), Alice’s balle-rina sister Essie Car-michael, (Baker), and absent-minded candy salesman Ed Carmi-chael (Farrar). !e play spanned a week-long time period over three acts, with an intermis-sion between each act.

!e crew contained stage manager and program designer Elizabeth Johnson, student director Mi-cah Streeter, and cos-tume designers Julie Woydziak, Dockers, and Rachel Wright. Special thanks were given to Ryan Hill and the shop class, Davis Cunningham, Carl and Jesse Poston, Jerry Treat, Ward Hilgers, Bill Wright, Jim Linot, and Lara Pollock.

“My favorite part to perform was dur-ing the government raid. I pulled out a gun and [a gunman] Cole Sta$ord tackled me to the ground and then we wrestled for the gun,” said Elizabeth Johnson, who acted as the patriotic Grammy Kirby. “I also liked to watch the scene when Gage wrestled Michael to the ground, because that was hilarious.”

“I feel like the show wasn’t appreciated as much as it could have been. It turned out really well for the ter-rible week that we had before. Every rehearsal was just god-awful,” said Johnson.

Drama sponsor Mark Blauser directed the play, working in col-laboration with Tanya Dockers for a little over one month in the #eld of groundwork for the production.

“I’m going to miss [drama] a lot actually. !at was my last high school production ever. I almost cried a lot Saturday, but surpris-ingly I didn’t,” said Johnson. “A lot of us seniors have spent tireless and ridiculous hours in this depart-ment and it’s crazy to think that it’s all over.”

Drama department springs to action for the last time

Sammi WaddellReporterCartoonistSenior

ing Class took second place in Architectural Model. !e group worked to prepare the project several weeks in advance.

Also placing second and qualifying for nationals were seniors Anna Fiegenbaum and Madison Par-tridge in Music Pro-duction.

Baden also placed third in Flight En-durance with help

from Hill’s Drafting/CAD Group consist-ing of junior Garret Guinn and sopho-more Austin Brewer.

Taking fourth place and being a national alternate was Par-tridge in Engineering Design. She received help from Drafting/CAD members in-cluding junior Jarrett Grier and sophomore Ian Schmidt. !e group worked to pre-pare the project sev-eral weeks in advance.

Story continued from page 1 Sophomore Dakota Morgan and Partridge placed #fth in De-bating Technological Issues.

A group consist-ing of Baden, Dinkel, Feigenbaum, LaFever, Morgan, and Par-tridge placed #fth in On Demand Video becoming a national alternate.

!roughout the three-day event, members were in-volved in business meetings, interviews,

TSA competition

ROCKET FEATURESApril 28, 2017 Page 5

Freshman Anna Koch is in her !rst year on the Rock-It News Sta".

After taking Intro-duction to Industrial Technology in the !rst semester, newspa-per adviser Mr. Matt Browning invited Koch to be on the Sta".

“It was exciting to be invited to the sta",” said Koch. I though it would be cool to be able to contribute.”

Koch at RHHS is involved in various activities such as she Color Guard for band, and as manager for the girls’ softball team.

She likes newspaper so far because she can

Julie Woydziak, the Rose Hill High school secretary, has worked as a secretary at Rose Hill for 18 years.

Woydziak has had many previous jobs such as in high school she worked on the Air Force Base near Chi-cago, IL and a window and outdoors manu-facture. Once married she then worked for a moving company.

Koby Campbell ReporterFreshmanAnna Koch

ReporterFreshman

Meet the Press: Anna Koch

write her own stories about di"erent topics going on in our school or community. She also sees it as hobby and something else she can do in free time.

When she is not writing for the news-paper there are other things she likes to use her free time for. She enjoys reading and watching di"erent TV shows, mainly anime.

#is year Koch has also enjoyed the tran-sition from middle school to high school.

“#is year they give you more freedom, and you’re able to do things your own way and how you want to do them.” Said Anna.

“I like how you’re able to pick your own classes and they aren’t already picked for you.”

“It is fun to be a sec-retary because I get to talk to teenagers,” said Woydziak

In her free time Woy-dziak likes to read, sew and when on vacation snow ski. She also likes to visit her grandson Spencer.

For 25 years Woyd-ziak has been the presi-dent of the Rose Hill Community Assistance (RHCA). She and others have been help-ing and raising money for people in need of money, food, and any

utilities.With this Woydziak

has helped multiple families through the Community Christmas program and the Adopt a Family program to get families presents for Christmas.

“#e Adopt a Family helps get young people to go and help families in need,” said Woydziak

For a long time Woy-dziak was a Girl Scout Leader of a Rose Hill troop and also taught Sunday school at her local church.

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Every month busi-ness teacher’s vote on a student that has made an impact while also taking majority of the business classes.

For April, the award winner is senior Cora Kimble.

Kimble has taken the following busi-ness classes: Com-puter Applications, Business Essentials, Business Economics, Business Marketing, Accounting one and two.

“I was very excited to receive this award out of a lot of stu-dents, ”said Kimble.

Kimble plans to at-tend Emporia State after high school to major in elementary education.

#e other award giv-en out for the month was the Student Citizenship Award, given to Seniors Tyler Proctor and Jessica Strawn.

Proctor was very surprised he received this award not expect-ing to get it. He has gone to Rose Hill since 8th grade and while the time he

has been here he has participated in both football in track.

Proctor plans on go-ing to Emporia State to play football after this year.

Strawn was sur-prised that she had gotten the award and she was very honored to receive it. She plans on attending #e University of Nebras-ka Lincoln where she will major in nursing.

While at the high school Strawn has participated in NHS, Debate, Forensics, Drama Club, Vol-leyball, Kay Club, and FCCLA.

Lathe CobbReporterSophomore

Proctor, Kimble, Strawn take home senior awards

Freshman Anna Koch works on a story in Digi-tal Productions. Photo by Matt Browning.

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It is very interesting how a single two-min-ute video can a!ect the entire world in such a way.

Of course by the world I mean the In-ternet, but in the age of social media those two words are basically synonymous.

"ese days when a trailer for a new movie comes out the Internet descends into a frenzy of reaction and specula-tion. "is is especially true when it happens to be the #rst trailer for a highly anticipated fran-chise sequel, and even more true when that #lm happens to be Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

"e trailer was care-fully packaged and designed to build antic-ipation. "e marketing and advertising folks over at Disney/Lucas #lm know how to make a good teaser.

Let us dissect:"e #rst shot of the

trailer is abstract – at #rst we think we are in space looking at a strange asteroid or ship. "e soundtrack de-scending chords, creat-ing an instant atmo-sphere of dread. "en a hand enters the shot with a jarring chord of music and we realize that it is our old friend

Rey. She’s a little upset about something.

What follows is a series of similar teases, some new, some excit-ingly familiar. "ere is the island we left Rey on with Luke, a voice speaking calmly, care-fully that we recognize just enough to be the chosen one himself.

A connection is made, Rey is being trained in a remote location separate from the other characters who, as the next few images reveal, are in grave danger. Sound a bit famil-iar?

Indeed just like "e Force Awakens recalled many story points of the original Star Wars #lm (A New Hope as the cool kids call it,) the darker, dreadful feel of this teaser suggests that "e Last Jedi will be similar in tone and structure to "e Empire Strikes Back.

In the end this new trailer shows us ev-erything and nothing about the new Star Wars #lm. It sets a tone and teases a story that will no doubt be #lled to the brim with shocks and reveals that may attempt to trump even the most insane revela-tions of its predecessors (“I am your father!”).

But for now we have a trailer, just two min-utes and 13 seconds, but hopefully enough to hold us over until the next trailer.

Micah StreeterReporterSophomore"e 2017 prom is

going to be A Red Carpet Evening. Prom will be held at "e Ville at St. Vin-cent DePaul Catholic Church in Andover and all juniors and seniors plus their dates are welcome, even if they do not at-tend Rose Hill High School.

Tickets cost $25 each, with seniors get-ting in free. Juniors and out of school dates have to pay the $25. In January, juniors conducted a fundraiser to raise money for tickets and

for every ten items sold they would get a free ticket.

Some of the main restaurants that stu-dents go to before Prom are Red Robin, Applebee’s, Olive Garden, and PF Chang’s.  Dresses, tuxedos and suits prom were purchased at places like Von Maur, JC Penny’s or Parrot-fa-nalia.

“We are going to Bricktown Brewery for dinner,” senior

Anna KochReporterFreshman

A Red Carpet Evening Is the force with you?Kelly Bailey said. “I

chose that restaurant because of their na-chos.”

Perhaps the most important aspect of the evening are the royalty candidates. "e king candidates are Kelby Dinkel, Cayden Gregory, and Lane Sadler, "e queen candidates are Mady Baker, Lauren Diaz, and Anna Van Driel.  "e junior royalty princesses are Jenna Lasher and Danyel  Yardly and the princes are Nolan Ast and Nathan Ast.

Besides dancing and hanging out with friends, students will also be able to take photos in a photo booth and eat a vari-ety of snacks.

“The juniors did a great job with

the fundraiser,” said prom sponsor De-

nise Lasher.”Some of them even sold 20

items.”

ing, the band students toured the Branson and Silver Dollar City at-tractions. "ey watched a performance of "e Acrobats of China, which followed the band’s own perfor-mance. "ey also toured the Titanic exhibit in downtown Branson.

Additionally, the band members went on the Showboat Branson Belle, where the jazz

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band performed. "e students were all given noise-making duck masks, which they used to break out in an spir-ited impromptu rendi-tion of “Fight Song.”

All together, even though it was raining for most of the week-end, the band students proclaim they had a good time.

“It was really fun,” said sophomore Reagan Evans.

“It was a good end to the senior year for me,” said senior Anna Feigenbaum, a%rm-ing Reagan’s words. “Band did a really nice job both at Acrobats of China and on the Branson Belle.”

In the end band came home with two shining trophies and memories that can only be made on a high school band trip.

Band goes to BransonStory continued from page 1

ROCKET SPORTSApril 28, 2017 Page 7GolfAndover Invitational team: 9th (363)

Individual ScoresPeyton Austin 76Jonah Robson 88Broc Heiskell 99Tyler Collins 100

Augusta Invitational team: 7th (463)

Individual ScoresPeyton Austin 77Jonah Robson 88Tyler Collins 98

Wellington Invitationalteam score: 5th (352)

Individual ScoresPeyton Austin 75Tyler Collins 87Broc Heiskell 94Jonah Robson 96

Circle Invitational team: 3rd (342)

Individual ScoresPeyton Austin 74Tyler Collins 87Broc Heiskell 88Jonah Robson 93Noah Locke 98

!e Rocket baseball season started but not as soon as it should have, as their "rst few games got postponed.

!ey played Andale to open the season and dropped both games (2-1, 16-0), but bounced back to split two games against El Dorado (a 6-5 loss and a 5-3 victory).

!e Rockets played Clearwater next and won both games (7-4, 16-1) to extend their winning streak to three games.

However they dropped their next two games to McPherson (8-1, 12-1) and then played Wichita Collegiate at Wichita State where they dropped both games (12-11, 8-0).

As of April 17, three players were batting over .300, which were sophomore Braden Geer and seniors Gri#n McBride and

Nate Scantlin. McBride and Scant-

lin are the only play-ers on the team with a home run up to this point in the season, each of them hitting one.

Scantlin also leads the team in runs batted in (10), aver-age (.545), on base percentage (.621), slugging (1.000) and on base plus slugging (1.621).

McBride has pitched the most

!e Rocket soccer team struggled out of the gates with a record at press time of 0-8, while only scoring three goals.

While similar to last year with a re-cord of 2-6 there have been some juristic changes in the coaching sta$ and the rest of this season.

!e Rockets trav-eled on participate in the Goddard/Eisenhower Tour-nament March 27 through April 1. !e "rst matched o$ with the Goddard Lions, losing 6-1. !e "rst goal on the season from sopho-more Ashlyn Parky.

!e second game of the tournament was a 2-1 lost to the Buhler Crusaders. Junior Sarah Sissel

scored the lone goal. !e "nal game of the tournament was a 4-0 loss to Garden City .

League games re-sumed back at home facing the Augusta Orioles on April 6. !e Rockets lost 4-0 with two goals in the "rst and the rest in the second.

“It’s been a rough year but this last week we’ve started playing the ball to feet and started playing better as a team,” said Senior Cora Kimble. “It very frustrating with ten seniors we had higher expectations and hopes for the season”

On April 13 the Lady Rockets played at home against the Campus Colts where they lost 3-0. !e next week the Rockets faced o$ with the Circle !under Birds where they lost 3-0.

Lathe CobbReporterSophomoreKoby Campbell

ReporterFreshman

games and innings while carrying a 1.61 earned run average, while fellow senior Cayden Gregory was sporting a 3.00 ERA.

“We just aren’t clicking as a team right now,” said se-nior Hunter Forsberg about the team’s in-consistent play thus far. “As soon as we "gure out how to consistently work together, we can do great things.”

Junior Aaron Moore swings at a pitch against McPherson. Photo by Gina Geer.

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Unable to sustain wins, baseball team’s record drops to 3-7

Senior Bradly McAllister runs to !rst after put-ting the ball in play. Photo by Amy Bischler.

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!e Rockets’ softball team started its sea-son at Circle where they dropped their "rst two games, 10-6 and 5-2. After miss-ing two games due to bad weather they played Andale where they dropped another two games, 8-3 and

17-0. However after that

their play has greatly improved as they rattled o# "ve con-secutive victories, sweeping El Dorado (9-6, 9-7) and Clear-water (16-2, 14-0), and splitting games with McPherson (an 10-6 win and a 5-4 loss). !ey then lost to Augusta by one run in their next game, 7-6, but came back in the second and won by "ve, 8-3.

Koby Campbell ReporterFreshman

!rough games played on April 17, four players were hit-ting over .300: junior Megan Leach and sophomores Kylee Dunn, Sydney Adler and Emily Adler, who is leading the team with a .545 batting average.

From a pitching standpoint, Sydney Adler leads the team with a 5.60 ERA and a record 2-0. !e team as a whole has a 7.15 ERA.

Righting The Ship

!e Lady Rockets crowd home plate to celebrate junior Jenna Anderson’s home run. Photo by Rainey Adler.

Track leaderboardEl Dorado Varsity Track Meet team score: girls--1st boys--4thAthletes placing in the top three:Boy’s 400 Meter Dash: JJ Carney 2ndBoy’s 100 Meter Hurdles: Lathe Cobb 2ndBoy’s 300 Meter Hurdles: Cody Wallis 2nd, Cobb 3rdBoy’s 4x100 Meter Relay: JJ Carney, Wallis, Austin Brewer, Mason Lane 3rdBoy’s 4x400 Meter Relay: Wallis, Draven Kressly, Juan De Luna, JJ Carney 3rdBoy’s 4x800 Meter Relay: Braden Carney, Sage Nottingham, Corbyn Jones, De Luna 2ndBoy’s High Jump: Dylan Sapp 1st Boy’s Triple Jump: Lane 2ndBoy’s Javelin: Chandler Flanagan 3rdGirl’s 100 Meter Dash: April Carney 1st, Emma Rogers 2nd

Kingman Invitational team score: girls--2nd boys--8thAthletes placing in the top three:Girl’s 1600 Meter Run: A. Van Driel 2nd Girl’s 3200 Meter Run: A. Van Driel 1stGirl’s 4x800 Meter Relay: A. Van Driel, Emma Cunningham, Celia Pope, Witt 2ndGirl’s Long Jump: G. Van Driel 3rdGirl’s Shot Put: Janessa McMains 2ndGirl’s Discus: McMains 1st

Belle Plain Track Meet team score: girls--5th boys--3rdAthletes placing in the top three:Boy’s 100 Meter Dash: Sapp 1stBoy’s 200 Meter Dash: J.J. Carney 1stBoy’s 400 Meter Dash: J..J. Carney 1stBoy’s 1600 Meter Run: Braden Carney 2ndBoy’s 300 Meter Hurdles: Cody Wallis 2ndBoy’s 4x100 Meter Relay: JJ Carney, Wallis, Travis Jones, Sapp 1stBoy’s 4x800 Meter Relay: Nolan Ast, Tanner Williams, Kressly, De Luna 3rdBoy’s discus: Zach Blessant 2ndBoy’s javelin: Sapp 3rdGirl’s 400 Meter Dash: Emily Witt 1st Girl’s 110 Meter Hurdles: Sierra Thomas 2nd Girl’s 300 Meter Hurdles: Thomas 1st Girl’s 4x100 Meter Relay: Thomas, Witt, Stephanie Ma, Gracie Van Driel 3rdGirl’s Long Jump: G. Van Driel 2nd Girl’s Triple Jump: Witt 2nd Girl’s Shot Put: Janessa McMains 3rdGirl’s Discus: McMains 1st

Pre-State Varsity Track Meet team score: N/AAthletes placing in the top three:Boy’s 400 Meter Dash: JJ Carney 2ndGirl’s 2,000 Meter Steeplechase: Anna Van Driel 2ndGirl’s Discus: McMains 2nd

After losing first four games, Rocket softball gets back to .500

“Already through this point in the sea-son we have improved dramatically, hitting and con"dence wise,” said assistant coach

Ray Boese. “Right now it is a matter of hitting and nine girls being able to make a play at the plate.”