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The Sports ● Fall Sports

Schedules and Scores

● Special: Lady Vikings Soccer Excels

 

The Times ● Dances, Games,

Clubs, Events, and Activities

 

The Writings ● Stories and Opinions

From the Minds of Students

 

The Colors ● News from TADA and

highlights from STHS artists

 

          

           

Mr. Viking Leading the Charge at Homecoming 

Image courtesy: Frank Schulenburg

Visit us online at sths.ltusd.org/Vikings/the_viking_longship_newsletter 

 

Vikings Triumph at Homecoming -by Daniel Sandborn 

The South Tahoe Vikings proved victorious against the Wooster Colts in both the Junior Varsity and Varsity matchups on Friday, October 2nd. First on the field strode the exuberant JV athletes at 4:30 in the afternoon following the spectacular Homecoming Parade. A prolonged two-hour battle with their Wooster counterparts found them leaving the field ecstatic, having soundly defeated the Colts 54-18. Next in the Stadium On The Hill came the Varsity team, jogging down onto the turf to the cheers of the assembled crowd of supporters. As the remainder of the sunlight faded, the team captains, joined by honorary team captain Kevin Sullivan, Viking Class of 1984, conducted the coin toss, subsequently won by South Tahoe. Mr. Sullivan joined the Vikings as the second in his class to be diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS), and the evening’s sales of t-shirts funded a scholarship in his honor. The Colts received the ball first, but lost possession to the Vikings after only three scoreless minutes; South Tahoe quickly followed up with a touchdown after only one minute. Following a brilliant interception in the opposing team’s endzone midway through the first quarter, the Vikings drove the Colts back through several

changes of possession and held them without score until the ball returned to South Tahoe after an interception by Dylan Gooding in the final minutes of the quarter. A penalty against Wooster opened the second quarter, driving the Vikings to their second touchdown of the game after a few short minutes. A subsequent two-point conversion stood as the final points derived from the first half before the buzzer rang out, and the crowds headed for the concession stand. After performances by the dance and cheer teams, and homecoming festivities, play resumed, Vikings with the ball. A punt to Wooster concluded the first drive, after which South Tahoe pushed the Colts

relentlessly back to their own ten yard line; the ball was relinquished soon afterwards. The Vikings’ Jackson scored a third touchdown halfway through the third quarter, followed by a clean point-after-touchdown, bringing the score to 21-0. Wooster fumbled the ball soon into their drive; South Tahoe recovered the pigskin and steadily gained yards through to the final quarter to complete a field goal at the south goalposts. Three consecutive penalties on the Vikings helped the Colts in their drive for a touchdown and conversion with five minutes to go in the game, after which South Tahoe held tightly to their lead and finished the game with a final score of

    

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The Sports Fall Sports Schedules 

The staff of the Viking Longship cannot vouch for the accuracy of the below dates, which were obtained from the NIAA website. Events Subject to Change – Please send in any corrections, changes, or additional events to sthslongship@gmail.com. 

Football Boys Tennis Girls Tennis Girls’ Golf Cross-Country Girls Soccer Boys Soccer Volleyball

8-28 vs. El Dorado (V) 32-35 L

9-1 @ Truckee 8-10 L 9-1 vs. Truckee 1-17 L 9-2 @ Ruby View 8-28 Class Races @ Douglas 8-29 vs. Montgomery 1-6 L

9-11 @ Elko 1-1 T 9-1 vs. Wooster 0-3 L

9-5 vs. Spring Creek 27-33 L

9-4 @ Incline 12-6 W 9-4 vs. Incline 8-10 L 9-3 @ Spring Creek 9-4 Twilight @ Sparks Boys Varsity — 1st Place

9-9 vs. Spring Creek 7-2 W

9-12 Spring Creek 6-2 W

9-11 vs. Elko 3-2 W

9-11 @ Fernley 24-33 L 9-8 vs. North Tahoe 15-3 W

9-10 @ Sparks 1-17 W 9-14 @ LT Golf Course

9-11 North Tahoe Kiwanis Inv. @ North Tahoe

9-11 vs. Elko 2-1 W

9-18 @ Lowry 9-12 vs. Spring Creek 3-0 W

9-18 @ Churchill 9-10 vs. Sparks 18-0 W 9-15 vs. Churchill 4-14 L

9-15 @ Squaw Creek Resort

9-18 Dayton Inv. @Dayton HS

9-18 vs. Lowry 4-0 W

9-19 vs. Churchill 9-15 vs. Incline

9-25 vs. Lowry 9-15 @ Churchill 13-5 W

9-17 @ Truckee 9-22 @ Fallon Golf Course

9-24 Roadhill Inv. @Fernley 9-19 @ Churchill 0-0 T

9-23 @ Dayton 9-18 vs. Lowry

10-2 vs. Wooster 24-8 W HOMECOMING

9-17 vs. Truckee L 9-22 @ Incline 9-23 @ Dayton Golf Course

9-26 Stanford Inv. @Stanford 9-23 @ Dayton 3-0

9-26 @ Sparks 9-19 @ Churchill

10-9 @ Dayton 9-22 vs. Incline W 9-24 vs. North Tahoe 10-1 @ Wild Creek Golf Course

9-30 Retro Relays @South Tahoe HS – 1st Place Boys

9-24 vs. Douglas 9-30 @ Truckee

9-23 vs. Dayton

10-16 @ Elko 9-24 @ North Tahoe W

9-26 @ Spanish Springs

10-7 @ Winnemucca Golf Course

10-9/10 Clovis Inv. @Clovis 9-26 vs. Sparks 10-3 vs. Fernley 9-26 vs. Sparks

10-23 vs. Sparks 9-26 @ Spanish Springs 17-1 W

9-29 vs. Sparks 10-8 @ Winnemucca Golf Course

10-16 Sparks Railroaders Inv. @Sparks

9-30 vs. Truckee 10-9 vs. Elko 9-30 @ Truckee

10-31 @ Truckee 9-29 @ Sparks W 10-1 @ Churchill Postponed

10-15 @ Fernley Golf Course

10-20 JV Champs @Golden Eagle

10-3 @ Fernley 10-10 vs. Spring Creek 10-3 @ Fernley

10-1 vs. Churchill Postponed to 10-7 W

10-5 to 24 Regionals and States TBA

10-19/20 @ Boulder City Golf Course (State)

10-31 Regionals @Rancho San Rafael

10-9 @ Elko 10-16 vs. Lowry 10-9 @ Elko

10-5 to 24 Regionals and States TBA

10-10 @ Spring Creek 10-17 @ Churchill 10-10 @ Spring Creek

Janez Demsar returning a hit 

10-15 @ Lowry 10-21 vs. Dayton 10-13 vs. Churchill

10-17 vs. Churchill 10-24 vs. Sparks 10-15 @ Lowry

10-21 vs. Dayton 10-27 @ Truckee 10-21 @ Dayton

10-24 @ Sparks 10-29 @ Fernley 10-23 @ Sparks

10-27 vs. Truckee 11-2 vs. Incline 10-27 vs. Truckee

10-30 vs. Fernley 10-30 vs. Truckee

10-30 vs. Incline

 

 Dillon Lemons  (left) and Orion Maxwell (right) racing South Tahoe’s annual Retro Relays. 

STHS Dance Team (below) 

 

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The Times  

Please listen to me, underclassmen. You don’t want to be a Senior. Turning seventeen was the worst decision I ever made – because with such advanced age comes a host of duties,

expectations, and responsibilities that I never expected. College applications take over your life, closely pursued by a barrage of scholarships, each begging to you (or is it your wallet that’s doing the begging?) Please! Just write a quick 1,000 words for me! It’ll be easy! What… is your full,

legal name? What… is your academic quest? What... is your collegiate color? And just like Monty Python, should you

take one misstep, you’re flung into an abyss of misery and

rejection letters. College tours are the worst, however.

One moment the officers down at UC Dream School

are saying, “Hey! This is our beautiful campus! You’re going to love it here!” and the next they’re demanding the $200,000 in tuition accrued over four years. Being a Senior Citizen at STHS does have its advantages, though:

off-campus food, ignorantly blissful Senioritis, and strikingly handsome t-shirts. Whether anything can make up for the torture of the twelfth grade, however, is debatable. So please,

underclassmen, take my advice. Don’t grow up to be a Senior. Anything but that. -Daniel Sandborn

Clubs and Club Meetings: ● Key Club: Mondays at lunch in Ms. Berry’s room, C-7 ● Order of the Ictus: Mondays at lunch in the TADA Music Room ● S. Club: Tuesdays at lunch in Mrs. Tilson’s room, B-8 ● Gen Green: Tuesdays at lunch in Bedwell’s room, ST-1 ● Interact Club: Tuesdays at lunch in B-5 (Note: subject to change to Monday in the coming weeks) ● National Honor Society: Wednesday at lunch in Mrs. Miller’s room, A-9 ● Strategy Club: Wednesdays and Thursdays after school from 3-4:30 in Bedwell’s room, ST-1 ● Ally Club: Thursdays at Lunch in Ms. Heidel’s room, B-1 ● Computer and Robotics Club: Thursdays at lunch in Mr.

Smith’s CAT-201, ● Creative Writing Club and the Newspaper Board meet

Mondays and Tuesdays in Berkshire’s, B-4. We welcome new writers and journalists willing to communicate, learn, have fun, and contribute to the Viking Longship.

 

School Events: 

● October 8th-11th: Lake Tahoe Marathon — Multiple clubs and sports volunteering.

● Tahoe Word Wave Writers’ Convention at Valhalla: Free, Saturday October 10th 10:00-4:00

● Senior Make-up Pictures: Monday October 12th ● General Make-up Pictures: Thursday October 15th

● October 29th and 30th: Midterms Note: Minimum Days

● October 31st: HALLOWEEN

   

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The Writings  

The Poets’ Café  Excerpts from the Poetic Among Us

 Shattered Porcelain  

-Submitted to the Longship Anonymously 

We are all porcelain dolls.

So fragile, so careful.

Everyone's being careful of something- Of not letting others too close,

for fear of being shattered. Of not stepping on toes and shaking things up,

for fear of knocking someone off the shelf. Of not letting our true selves show,

for fear of being crushed. So we put up walls

To protect ourselves from breaking- But the walls are nothing more than tissue paper.

And someone always breaks through.

There are moments in life when you can feel all of this. When you're not careful enough,

When you let the tissue paper fall away, When you let down your guard.

There are those certain moments when something happens: Someone says a word, moves a muscle.

Someone hurts you. This isn't a long drawn out gesture. It's one moment-

And in that moment you can feel yourself crack.

And so you rebuild the walls, Coat yourself in tissue paper,

Protect yourself from further harm.

Life is all about balance. About learning where to stop in each direction.

Protect yourself,

Until you can no longer find the true you Hidden beneath all the tissue paper;

Or be open, and do your best to live with the cracks,

until nothing is left but the hollow air from inside

and shattered porcelain.

The Writers Weigh In:  Words of Wisdom From those Claiming to Have It.

Either write something worth reading or do something

worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin

 

Silence isn’t Silent -Daniel Sandborn

I fantasize about silence, in order to have less.

I fantasize about the silence of a scintillating dewdrop on a leaf. The rustling of

infinite pine needles in a gale. The noise of a careful predator creeping through

reeds. The heavy footfalls of an ant that shake the ground. The inexplicable beauty

of a foggy, overcast, muggy day. The sunburst of a sudden realization that

Silence is not quiet.

A man strolls down an alley, completely unaware of

The balcony above him, where a woman cries about

The man that has forgotten her existence

Only to focus, instead,

On nothing.

A woman sits outside a fragrant cafe

Watching the populace stroll onward

But not seeing them.

Only to focus, instead,

On nothing.

A family eats dinner

Talking about their respective days

But not saying anything at all

The television blares through the room

The loudest occupant of the house, and perhaps the most intelligent

But filled with absolutely nothing, which its owners prefer

To silence, the subtle.

Silence is the loudest object in the universe.

What speaks louder than emptiness? Physical emptiness, emotional emptiness,

spiritual?

Each screams out – Fill Me Up!

Not with the purified, cleansed, filtered nothing that you have been extracting from

within.

Fill me up with silence!

In order to let the world fill you up with itself.

 Do You Want to Write! 

Write On! Do you want to develop your poetic genius? 

Write On! Do you want to pen the next bestseller? 

Write On! Join the STHS Creative Writing Club! 

Meeting in Berkshire’s B­4 on Mondays and Tuesdays  

  

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The Theatre  –  The Colors  –  The Brush 

 

Announcements for Cinderella! From R&H: A very meek and obedient Cinderella, with never a moment's

complaining, but an enormous talent for wishing hard for 'impossible things to happen'.

The first rehearsal for Cinderella will be on Monday, October 12th at 3:00pm. If you are in the cast and do not show up you will be dropped! This also applies to anyone who has signed up to be part of the tech crew! Schedules and Contracts will be handed out at this meeting.

 

Cinderella Performances will be held January 15th, 16th, 22nd, and 23rd at 7:00pm. There are also two Sunday matinee performances on the 17th and 24th at 2:00pm.

The Sounds

● Order of the Ictus meets Mondays in TADA-1 at lunch.

● The STHS Band will be playing with the Sonoma State

Band on Monday, October 19th! Our band will be playing their own song called Winter on Emerald Bay, then joining forces with the Sonoma State Wind Ensemble featuring some former STHS alumni! Come support our musicians! The concert will be held in the Blue Gym at 7:00pm.

● Honor Band audition season is coming up! Make sure you audition soon to be a part of the action!

● Coming Soon in the Viking Longship: Recordings of the Viking Orchestra, Symphony, Jazz Band, and More! 

Photography All students at LTCC were invited to attend the Bishop Paiute Pow Wow and Yosemite to take photographs on September 25 - 27. This was an opportunity for students to learn first hand about American culture as tribes from throughout the Southwest gathered to celebrate the fall.

Students learned to use both digital and black and white film cameras. Here are a few of the photographs taken by students.

Annika Johnson’s black and white photograph of the Pow Wow Princess (top left). Jackson Kuzmik’s photograph of young dancer (top right).

Haley Chamarro’s photograph of photography instructor, Eric Harrod jumping over Yosmite Valley (bottom left). Kiva McCollum’s sepia toned photograph of a grandmother with her granddaughter.

Some of the Pow Wow photos will be entered in the National Nikon

Photography contest!

This Saturday, students will be developing their black and white film photographs at LTCC.  

 

The Sights ­Student Art Submissions 

    Art Courtesy of Sarah Cutter (Silverbloodwing)

  

 

 

Art Courtesy of Lacey Chappel (MothBud) 

    Are you an artist? Do you want your art to be 

seen? Submit your art now to 17lc0039@ltusd.org to see your art in The 

Viking Longship! 

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The Numbers Edited by Matthew Barnett 

New to this issue of the Viking Longship: The Viking Survey In this edition of Viking Longship, we invite our readers to complete the new survey. Each new edition from here onward will contain a novel and exciting poll. Always intriguing, and occasionally controversial, the poll will draw from suggestions given by our readers. Readers should write to Matthew Barnett (sthslongship@gmail.com) to recommend questions and to query about the process. In each new edition we will post the results from the previous survey. For now, the link to the current survey can be found at:

https://goo.gl/m8Mk9c  

Viking Crossword: Scattered    ­Created by Max Morgan 

Across  Down 

1. Road material 2. Eggs and feathers 3. Spidey ____ (plural) 4. Miles ___ Hour 5. Drunkard's Desk 6. He studied ______ (adj) 7. Tree's Blood 8. Religious virgin 9. Sally sells ___... 10. Healthy flowers ____ 11. Pioneer plaque creator 12. Spooky 13. Cell's blueprint 14. Fin 15. Spot 16. Where tricks are hidden 17. "an" Female name 18. Water worm 19. Consume food 20. Land of rented houses 21. Sun burn plant 22. Hung on walls 23. Walkers, Denters, Canes 24. Too much self confidence 25. Britain's coffee 26. Halt 27. On top 28. Religious table/stone 29. Yellow and black menace 30. Fights, Battles, Entertainment 31. Lucky color 32. Pants on fire 33. Western name for pop 34. The lightbulb (plural) 35. length x with 

1. To Clean 2. Crosses a gap 3. Above "Shift" 4. Football Throw 5. Ser = to ___ 6. What he does in school (plural) 7. Twinkle Twinkle 8. Type of flute 9. Help 10. Sound Receiver 11. Willing and 12. Odds and ____ (not even) 13. Living on the ___ 14. Female name (plural) 15. "Just __ It" ­Shia Labeouf 16. Photosynthesis sticks 17. Continent colored red 18. Foretelling sign 19. Brain is made of _____s 20. First Biblical Woman 21. West College Test 22. Building blocks of matter 23. Deal, or no deal? 24. Heavy metal 25.Camping house 26. Series of movies/books 27. Early math function 28. Cool/Interesting 29. Statistical "dough" 30. Writer before printer 31. Annual weather 32. Ajar 33. ___ and dear 34. Cave dwellers 35. Synonym for margarine 36. Ugly cake 37. The letter A's cousin 38. Weasley quote 39. ___­friendly (car, plastic) 40. Rats, Racoons, Bugs, Siblings 41. "Prison" 42. Chinese Weight system 

 Mr. Mason’s Maniacal Mathematical Mystery 

Successful Solutions sent to sthslongship@gmail.com will be featured in the Viking Longship  

There is a school with 1,000 students and 1,000 lockers. On the first day of term the headteacher asks the first student to go along and open every single locker, he asks the second to go to every

second locker and close it, the third to go to every third locker and close it if it is open or open it if it is closed, the fourth to go to the fourth locker and so on. The process is completed with the

thousandth student. How many lockers are open at the end?

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The Voices  

Letter to the Editor ­Ally Swain 

 

Senioritis. It seems like even the freshmen have it. Symptoms include procrastination, lethargy, and apathy. As a senior I can finally say that I have senioritis, but my problem thus far into the year is confusion. For instance, a friend recently sought out the “Letter of Recommendation Request” packet. It makes sense that we have to fill one out, I mean there’s two hundred and fifty of us or so that might be asking for a recommendation, yet this was the first I had heard of a form. Okay, they hadn’t told us about that but I mean college apps were only due in a few months and counselors have so much free time to write about how special we are. Not a big deal. Another thing is senior pictures; the ones just for the yearbook which are somehow different than senior portraits. I’ve been assigned a date… although I have no idea of who I need to talk to to change it or if it is free. What’s even better is no one has addressed the proper procedure for asking for official transcripts, or anything else that is essential for college apps. I know most of the school aren’t seniors, and some seniors won’t be applying to college, but the fact that we’ve been talked to about buying super duper pretty class rings, yet nothing has been said about forms and requirements to graduate and things needed to apply for college is pretty sad. Administration and or Counselors, if you could step up and (at the very least) send an email with all the important information, that’d be great.  

 Attention Students, Teachers, Parents, and 

Community Members! Do you want to see your articles and letters featured in the  

Viking Longship? Then send them on in to sthslongship@gmail.com today!

Featured Club:  

Strategy Club  

Ever heard of D&D? That’s right. Dungeons and Dragons. Mainstay of strategists everywhere, this adventurous game lives and breathes during meetings of the Strategy Club, Wednesdays and Thursdays after

school from 3-4:30 in Mrs. Bedwell’s room, ST-1. In addition to the hallowed D&D, members sharpen their skills and increase their “hp” in games such as Pokemon and Magic: The Gathering. And now, they need your talent and skill to further their quest! New members do not need to bring their own esoteric dice or character sheets to join.

The Viking Longship Staff: Daniel Sandborn: Chief Editor Sierra Bedwell: Chief Editor, The Writings Editor Mr. Berkshire: Staff Advisor Matthew Barnett: The Numbers Editor Skylyn Brock: Staff Photographer Lacey Chappel: The Colors Editor Freeman George: Current Events Editor Chase Houston: The Times Editor Alec Jobbins: The Sports Editor Kylee Lyons: Copy Editor Tyler Martin: The Voices Editor Max Morgan: Crossword Puzzler

We welcome new writers at meetings of the Creative Writing Club, Mondays and Tuesdays

in Mr. Berkshire’s B-4! Please contact sthslongship@gmail.com with any

questions, suggestions, or submissions.

Submissions Guidelines: Subject material is accepted from any student, parent, teacher, or community member. Materials must not be vulgar or excessively violent in nature. Anonymous submissions are discouraged, but accepted. Please send any writing submissions to sthslongship@gmail.com with a title,

author’s name, any text that is to be included, and a note explaining in which section of the newspaper you wish your submission to be published in. Please send any art submissions to 17lc0039@ltusd.org 

 

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