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The Art of Facebook Creeping

Rose RichiThe Spartan Advocate

First, let’s look at the motivations.

Why do we “creep?” Through a series of first hand investigations, I have found the leading causes of this practice:

1. You want to “remain in contact” with an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend.2. You’re bored out of your mind and you’ve al-ready fertilized your crops and sold food on the pop-ular applications Farm-ville and CafeWorld.3. You want to pretend

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Making History: Somers Wrestling Wins Their First Class S Championship

Photo Courtesy of Alan Bastarache | Bastarache PhotographyClass S State Wrestling Champions bask in their hard work.

Sean CoverdillThe Spartan Advocate

Eight years ago, when Coach Zachary took

over the Somer’s wrestling program, the school was try-ing to get rid of the program. The team struggled through numerous losing seasons and even a year where as few as four people went out for the team. Just last year, the Somers Wrestling team suf-fered a bitter defeat, placing second in the Class S cham-pionship. With only five re-turning wrestlers, attaining a winning record looked to be a hefty endeavor, win-ning a Class S champion-ship seemed unthinkable. However, that did not stop Somers from celebrating, it only made the almost improbable victory even sweeter. Coach Zachary at-tributes the team’s record-

ever, despite the departure of the team’s most successful class of wrestlers, the future still looks bright. Veterans Ken Vollaro (sophomore) and Matt Janiga (junior), of Ellington, represent the team’s promising group of underclassmen, many of them who participated in the sport for the first time. All in all, the 2009-10 sea-son proved to be a mile-stone in Somers’ athletic history, as demonstrated by the recently unveiled wres-tling championship ban-ner, which now rests in the gym, an enduring tribute to the exemplary achieve-ments of this team. Perhaps this season’s success is just the beginning of a presti-gious era of victory and as-cendancy for Somers Wres-tling, only time will tell.

record-breaking finish. The previous week, Somers also proved to be equally suc-cessful in the NCCC’s, fin-ishing in second. This great success, was largely fueled by strong performances from the team’s eight all-confer-ence wrestlers. They include the previously mentioned seven as well as Joe Bailey. Overall, Coach Zachary cites this year’s senior class as “the most winning-est” in Somers history, setting a new record for the amount of victories they achieved throughout their four year career here at Somers. The class, compromised of Joe Bailey, Nick Bastarache, Rob Garlick, and Troy Zachary needed only one victory go-ing into the season to break the record, they finished with thirteen wins. How-

breaking season to their ex-ceptional teamwork. “This championship is a result of the collective perseverance and determination put forth by every member of this team,” he said. In the Class S finals, Somers finished in first with 160 points, overcoming Nonnewaug (155.5) and Killingly (149). Standouts included, Rob Garlick (152lbs) and Ken Vollaro (215lbs), who both placed first in their respec-tive weight classes. Other top performers were Troy Zachary (140lbs) who fin-ished in 2nd place, Nick Zachary (103lbs) in 3rd, Anthony Andrade (112lbs) in 4th, as well as Nick Basta-rache (189lbs)and Kyle Fos-ter (171lbs) who finished in 5th place. Each of these athletes, were imperative to this team’s phenomenal,

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So it’s 6th period, your last long block has

dragged out and left you burnt and stresses and tired to say the least. You gather the strength to heave your books down the hall and walk into the room. It’s a sub, and a gust of relief blasts you in the face. Just when you thought your day has taken a turn for the better, guess who turns around. That’s right, just your luck and you get the strictest substitute teacher ever to forsake the hallways of Somers High School. Needless to say, you’re not happy, and to make it worse, you’ve got a reading as-signment to do. When

turning it in, you happen to glance at your teachers desk and your eyes meet a lesson plan: “Quiet study for the day.” Pause. What just happened? Did a substitute, key word:SUBSTITUTE teacher just come up with their own lesson plan? Why yes, and it’s happen-ing more and more fre-quently. The classic case of Sub Dictation, where our subject, let’s call him Mr. Manson...ferguen... whatever! Mr. Manson has decided that it would be more “beneficial” for lack of a better word, to plague the minds of the students he was assigned to. He has found a won-derful little impromptu

lesson on Google and hit the copy machine like the crazy rascal he is. Not only has he decided to skip over the bor-ing old lesson plan, but he couldn’t even copy the paper right! That’s a different story though.

So what fuels this un-warranted sense of self importance. Now, Mr. Manson is a 30+ year vet, mind you. He served in every war since ‘nam, and then, out of sheer boredom because this, awesome human being has already conquered every feat known to man, went to teaching school and spent another 30 years as a math, sci-

ence, history, AND gym teacher, all in the same school to boot. And now he’s here, standing be-fore you in his heap of glory. Maybe so, but ask your friends and they’ll tell you the same: As great as having a sub is, stick to the lesson plan, because there isn’t a kid in the school (big claim, right?) who wouldn’t ap-preciate an extra study hall over Sgt. Slaughter over there’s personally assigned 10-page essay.

Dear CAPT Gods,Much to your probable chagrin, it has come to my attention that you feel it to be a necessity to add yet another tor-turous death-trip to our quiet student lives. Your government sanctioned immunity to the scru-tiny of others seems to have diluted your arro-gant minds with a false sense of grandeur. Your methods are cold and aloof at best, forcing an aptitude exam upon

our already stressed per-sons, who of which have all endured the peril-ous days of a redundant high school life. You are manipulative, your un-predictability based only upon your elitist ideals, am I right? You feel un-less we pass your sacred oracle of examinations then we as students have no place in the real world! My humble state-ment highlights truth because I speak from the standpoint many of you

academic deities are fear-ful to venture to: non-conformity. Willingly, I have chosen to step out of what you feel are so-cial norms; I write here today to call you out for your true form, to ex-pose you as the methodi-cal beast you are. The students to whom this exam is impressed upon suffer under your iron-fisted illusion of power. For perhaps you have kept school faculty on one throttling state-wide

A Glorious Exposition: Two Weeks in the World of CAPTAKA: Knee Deep in Nightmares

leash, but this harbin-ger to the Ides of March will meet its end at the hands of Sophomores and Juniors from all corners of Connecticut. Dear CAPT Tyrants, to-day as I have vanquished this praetorian practice test on February 25th, 2010, I mark we as as students are prepared for the worst you may bring.

Sincerely,ανώνυμος

(An Anonymous Spartan)

Substitutes...Luke Conley

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The SHS Cliché DictionaryThe Somers High Guide to Conversation

random [ran-duh m] - adjective1. an event that is unexpected, spontaneous, or irrelevant to events preceding Adam: Hello Evan. Evan: I’m hungry. Adam: That was so random.

2. a person who often tries to bring up irrelevant points in a conversation and/or spontaneous changes in topic Non-Somers Student: How was school? Somers Student: You’re so random. Non-Somers Student: ...How?

creeper [kree-per] - noun1. one who is frequently seen leaving untimely or unsightly comments on social networking websites i.e. Facebook, MySpace Adam: Did you see all those girls commenting on my Facebook pictures? Evan: Yeah, dude, what a bunch of creepers.

2. a person who has been accidentally caught in the background of a picture on a social networking website Evan: Check out Tom! He’s behind that tree in the picture. Adam: L.O.L. What a creeper.

epic [ep-ik] - adjective1. a person, place, thing, or event that is slightly above average Adam: Hey dude, did you see that slightly over-sized rock over there? Evan: Yeah, that rock was pretty epic.

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2010 The Movie - Review“Clubby”

December 23, 2012: The end of the Ma-

yan calender, the start of a new era. Some say this is the start of the apoca-lypse, others speculate this date is meaningless. I guess it’s up to you to decide for yourself. This action packed flick might be one on of the biggest ‘sit-on-the-edge-of-your-seat’ movies I’ve seen in a while. Honest-ly, the suspense of each scene will capture you and leave you gasping for breath after the minutes of drawn out uncertainty as to the fate of the main characters. Each clip is a non-stop intense array of special effects sewn to-gether with some fairly decent acting. Obviously

this movie is not going to be remembered for its acting- but don’t get the wrong idea. John Cusack is an amazing actor, but his acting doesn’t particu-larly stand out, especially next to the amazing green screen effects. The other big name you may know in this movie is Amanda Peet, who has been fea-tured in a couple of well known movies such as the recent “X-Files: I Want To Believe” and others. The entertain-ment value of this movie was quite high. It had a basic ‘disaster movie’ plot, and included some new ideas, but it still had some originals like the ending, which I’ll save for you to see. All-in-all,

this movie seemed like a three way mash-up be-tween the 2006 remake of 1972 film “The Posei-don Adventure”, dually named “Poseidon”, “The Day After Tomorrow”, (2004) Starring Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllen-haal, and as classic as di-saster movies go: “Twist-er” (1996). These three movies all have classic unforgettable moments now cliches in natural disaster movies (an ex-ample being the Statue of Liberty collapsing). And again, this movie did have a lot of cliches, but it did have a copious amount of original, new ideas. One reoccurring theme in this film is the escapes, when one thing

or another is collaps-ing, the main characters will always escape. this, movie goers can obvi-ously expect. But what this movie does is to take it to a new level. It’s al-most exhausting when the main characters are ALWAYS in peril. It al-most becomes too much, and seeing as this movie comes out to be 2 hours and 38 minutes, the in-

tensity really takes a lot out of you. Well, that’s about as much as I can say about 2012: a good movie all in all, moder-ate plot-- not good not bad-- just moderate, decent acting and fan-tastic special effects. In my mind, I would give this movie at least a B.

Rating

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FeaturesThe Art of Facebook Creeping

Rose RichiIt’s something we all do. It’s something we hate to admit. It’s something we often get caught doing.

What is it?“It” is Facebook “creeping,” also known as stalking. For the readers who are unaware of what this act is,

here is the Urban Dictionary Web Definition:

“An act in which one looks at a friend’s/strang-er’s Facebook profile, pictures, and recent activ-ity. Everyone denies their involvement in this act (when in reality most people do it when bored),

then in turn accuse someone else of doing it later. A person that does this often is called a

‘Facebook Creeper.’ “

you’re psychic by seeing who your friends talk to the most and then “pre-dict a new relationship” with observed contacts.4. You heard a ru-mor about someone so you want to read their wall-to-wall’s to get the latest scoop.5. You were looking through a friend’s pictures and happened to stumble upon their friends, and

that lead to their friends profiles, and so on...6. You really don’t know why you’re doing it, but when you go on Facebook you often think: “Who am I creeping on today?” Should these be accept-able reasons? Some may think yes, others may think not. What can be done about these acts of virtual stalking? How

can the creepers of Face-book save their dignity? It’s not like they mean to do it. In most cases, it just happens. It really isn’t the Facebooker who deserves the blame, it’s Facebook itself, right? It allows every person to see every activity every-one is doing at any mo-ment. It allows everyone to know every new hook up and break up and any

other piece of trivia the viewer desires. How can the creeper be to blame when all of these facts of a random person’s life is presented in a nice acces-sible form at all times? It’s difficult to say if they’re wrong for “creep-ing,” or if the one being creeped on has asked for it by making a Face-book in the first place!Some people see these

creepers as gossip-hounds or just really bored or they have a pa-per to write, but don’t feel like doing it. But how do you know if this person is a legitimate creeper or just a regular Facehooked user? Well, my fellow peers, I’m go-ing to gladly inform you of how to spot a true

“Facebook Creeper.”

HOW TO SPOT A FACEBOOK CREEPER 1. They know everyone’s relationship statuses and are the first informant.

2. They always know people’s weekend activities.3. They often talk about pictures of random people on Facebook.

4. They comment on extremely outdated pictures.5. They’re on Facebook chat every time you are.

6. They “like” the statuses of users they do not personally know.7. They know/share “private” information that could only be known by looking through someones Wall-to-Wall.

8. They often use “it came up in my news-feed” as an excuse when asked where they got the information.

Now that you know how to

spot one, you need to categorize them.

There are three categories:

The Silent Creeper:

One of your close friends who doesn’t ever share information unless it is brought up. Also, this person may often go on Facebook while you are with them. While with the person, they may look at someone’s random pictures and/

or tell you to check out someone’s pictures or statuses which proves they are previously fa-miliar. These creepers are the most exceptionally threatening because they are closeted about their creeping. They are the most difficult to detect.

The ‘No Mercy’ Creeper:

Someone, not necessar-ily a friend or acquain-tance, you notice always discusses Facebook. They will often bring up vari-ous “Social-Interview”

questions and answers and analyze people’s pic-tures. The person obvi-ously finds no harm in their creeping activities and finds them accept-able among their peers. These creepers are the least creepy because they don’t find it to be an act of sin. They are the easiest to detect, and proud of their practice. The Sporadic Creeper:

This is probably one of your friends or ac-quaintances. They’re not necessarily addicted to

Facebook (thus making them the rarest types of creepers). They will have random fits of creeping, in which case they clas-sify as “I haven’t been on in a while and need to see what’s going on with everyone.” They will comment on semi-old pictures and will prob-ably change their status a few times and comment on a lot of people’s walls. They may talk about in-formation with you that is somewhat outdated, but shows they were still creeping on someone.

These creepers are slightly creepy because they have the potential to be aspir-ing “No Mercy Creep-ers” and in actuality could be “Silent Creep-ers” who like to keep to themselves. They are somewhat hard to detect. Now that you know why you do it, how you do it, and what type of creeper you are, I hope you en-joy your creeping today. And remember, it’s only creeping if you think it is.

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FeaturesKid A, More Than Just an Album

Chris Balaska

Welcome to music review: a place

for everyone who likes decent music. Let me list the things you won’t find here: Rap,and that’s pretty much it. Most of the music will be Indie based, due to my infatua-tion with that genre. This edition's toe-tapping band will be a wondrous one. A band that has revolutionized the way people see music, who through humble roots became a huge success. That band, of course, is Radiohead. It’s the British invasion all over again, being formed at the Abingdon School in England. Vocalist Thom Yorke produces lyrics that represent both a sad, antagonistic, very deep childhood experiences, and upbeat toe tapping ditties such as "The Na-tional Anthem," "Jig-saw Falling Into Place," and "Karma Police." The band has produced seven studio albums, de-veloping a true fan-base after they’re second re-lease. However, we are going to be focusing on their highest grossing and most praised album: Kid A, the band's fourth studio album. This pro-duction was so popular that it went platinum after only one week in the United Kingdom. The 2000 album release contained songs such as

"Everything In Its Right Place," which is a psy-chedelic song using only a keyboard and a wah pedal. The next song is titled "Kid A," which starts off with keyboard, then adds drums and bass, and then vocals run though a synthesizer. So far, the albums off to a great start, next up is "The National Anthem," which embodies a to-talitarian government with the few lyrics it has, for example, “everyone around here, everyone is holding near, still hold-ing on” and also “Ev-eryone is so near, every-one has got the fear, its holding on”. For those of you who don’t know, a totalitarian regime is the same thing as what the now defunct the So-viet Union was (and that worked SO well). The next track is titled "How To Disappear Complete-ly (and never be found again)." This track sig-nifies a person that just wants to escape from the world to “walk through walls” and leave the com-motion for some peace and quiet. The next song really delivers, "Treefin-gers" is a completely in-strumental piece which is entirely electronic, and is an escape from reality. It’s a calm and soothing piece which relaxes the body, mind, and soul. The next song steps up

the pace, titled "Opti-mistic." This song tells the tale of a farmer try-ing to get by and provide necessities for his family, which leads him to turn to theft. Upon getting caught he is put onto a prison ship, which if you know anything about them, you would know you don’t come back off. But throughout the whole song he portrays the character as "opti-mistic, and never losing hope even while star-ing despair in the face, which is good advice to all people. The song af-ter that is "In Limbo," which tells the story of a man who has been at sea so long his dreams and reality have been blurred. The song tells of him re-ceiving communications he can no longer under-stand because of the alter-ation of his mental state. The next track is titled "Idioteque," a song that tells of war, and what it has the capability to do. After the first chorus, the nuclear holocaust is on its way, and the "nuclear winter" as well. After the second chorus it tells of life after the winter begins, after nothing is left. They’re reduced to scare mongering, which they deny to their dying day. And every day they live in constant fear of having it happen again. At the end of the song,

it just repeats “and first the children” which has a powerful impact on the listener. This leads right into the next song, "Morning Bell," which tells of a messy divorce between a couple. The man claims the woman has had an affair, which the women retorts by claiming its because the man never listens. The woman throws the man out, and after a cus-tody battle where the kids are metaphorically “cut in half," the now ex-husband goes into a deep state of depres-sion. He loses all of his friends and begins to wander, and “just keeps walking, just keeps walk-ing." This brings us to the next song, "Motion Picture Soundtrack." This track is a depress-ing song, and it cleverly could be counted as a continuation of the pre-vious song. The man is depressed, and as a result he’s been self medicating on sleeping pills. He’s

been purchasing solic-ited sex, watching sad films, and all he wants to do is to be back in her arms. The depressed man keeps sending her letters, which she simply sends him back the ashes of. He stop sending let-ters and starts sending movies which she never responds too. After a while he goes to see her, and gets the shock of his life as she’s not the same person he once knew. She has changed so dra-matically even the man who’s been madly in love with her doesn’t want to see her anymore. He tells her that maybe, just maybe, they’ll be togeth-er in another life. Wow, Kid A: Possibly the most incredible album ever produced. No matter what mood one happens to be in, it will satisfy him. All in all, I give this album a 10 out of 10. It is truly breathtaking.

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The rivalry. The emotions. The at-

mosphere. On a cold winter’s night everyone in the town of Somers were all packed into the Somers High gymnasi-um. The mood was set and an epic battle was to begin between two rivals: Stafford, and the hometown SPARTANS. Somers was ready to win. As the game began, the boys varsity team leapt to a quick lead over Staf-ford. At the end of the first quarter, however, Stafford was ahead by two points. Adam Foster and Colin Pascoe were domi-nant for the first quar-ter with a combined 19

points. Somers eventu-ally regained control and finished the second half up 3 points with a score of 39-42. As the third quarter came around, however, the Spartans began to lose their grip and trailed by 6 points at the end of the quarter. With only one quarter left to play, Somers had to come out big. And that is exactly what they did. With 3:41 left to play in the game, Somers was still down by 9 points. Sudden-ly, Somers exploded within one minute to tie the game with two point baskets, steals, and foul shots. The gymna-

sium erupted as Somers was able to tie the game and then retake the lead. Josh Fredette contrib-uted 4 clutch foul shots to seal the game for the Spartans in the remain-ing minute of the game.

As the buzzer sounded, Stafford stared in amaze-ment to come to the re-alization they had lost with a final score of 93-85. Somers had come out victorious in the end against their rivals. In a game to remember, Co-lin Pascoe ended up with 47 points, a career record and only 3 points shy from the school all-time record. Pascoe com-pletely dominated the game with 9 points in the first quarter, 10 in the second, 10 in the

third, and an astounding 18 points in the fourth quarter. Everyone in the stands rushed onto the court following the

win to engulf the team and praise Colin for his amazing achievement. Other standouts for the Spartans were Adam Fos-ter with 21 points and 9 rebounds, Ricky Cheney with 10 points, Evan Woicik with 9 points, and Josh Fredette with 8 points. In one of the best games of the year, Somers was able to push through and come up with the win. This was a game the fans and play-ers will not soon forget.

Pascoe Dominates as Spartans Take Down VictimsKyle Sullivan

The future of the Somers Wrestling

team couldn’t be looking any better. For the third year in a row, Somers proved victorious at the 3rd Annual Somers Dual Meet, elevating their re-cord to 9-6. But, what makes this already exem-plary feat even more im-pressive, is the exceptional progress this team has made since the beginning of the season. With only five wrestlers returning from last year, maintain-ing their tradition of excel-lence and having a strong season looked to be a hefty endeavor for Somers. However, thanks in part to the hardwork and superb performance by the team’s numerous new wrestlers, they have stepped up to the challenge and are ready for yet another strong year. Coach Zachary also attri-butes their phenomenal start to the team’s out-standing work ethic and perseverance. “They never quit,” He explained, “That is the key to wrestling.”

Evidence of the hard-work and commitment put in by the many new, young wrestlers, was found on Saturday, at the 3rd An-nual Somers Dual Meet. Down, late in the meet, the team needed a pin in each of the final two matches in order to achieve vic-tory. The two remaining wrestlers were Nick Zach-ary, wrestling in the 103 lb weight class, and An-thony Andrade of the 112 lb class, both freshmen. Each pinned their oppo-nents, propelling Somers to victory, much to the en-joyment of the many fans, who erupted with applause at the end of the almost improbable comeback for Somers. Said Coach Zach-ary, “We were not sup-posed to win that meet. It just goes to show what can happen when everyone on the team makes a commit-ment to reach their full-est potential.” This was another one of the con-cepts that Coach Zachary stressed, the idea of the total responsibility that

each person has. When one steps on the wrestling mat, there is no one to bail him out, no one to blame, no one to hide his mistakes behind, it is simply him versus his opponent. “The sport of wrestling”, he ex-plained, “Builds a tremen-dous amount of character. The lessons learned while participating in it can be transferred to various ar-eas of life.” Certainly, the idea of hardwork and de-termination is prevalent in all aspects of sport, es-pecially the matches. Be-low, is a starting lineup for the Somers Wrestling team’s upcoming meet.

Somers Wrestling

103lbs - Nick Zachary112lbs - Anthony Andrade119lbs - Kevin Moylan125lbs - Joe Bailey130lbs - Jeremy Ricard135lbs - Eric Trombly140lbs - Troy Zachary145lbs - Pat Tynan, Ryan Mailhot, and Matt Janiga (Ellington)152lbs - Rob Garlick

160lbs - Sean Tynan171lbs - Kyle Foster189lbs - Nick Bastarache215lbs - Ken VollaroCaptains: Troy Zach-ary and Rob Garlick The high amount of new wrestlers, five fresh-man and four sophmores, points to continued suc-cess in the years to come. This year, the team has 17 wrestlers, as opposed to last year’s nine, which was still high compared to some prior years where only four had shown up. Coach Zachary declared, “If this excellent growth continues, I expect our team to be just as popular and successful, if not more so than the other sports in Somers.” The large num-ber of wrestlers this year also allows Somers to be-come even more competi-tive, seeking to break their own single-season win re-cords. This season, they are able to start someone in every single weight catego-ry, except for heavyweight (over 215lbs). Despite the

tremendous growth as well as solid performance by the many young and inex-perienced wrestlers, much of the team’s success still must be attributed to the five returning players, four seniors, Troy Zachary, Rob Garlick, Nick Bastarache, and Joe Bailey, as well as sophomore Ken Vollaro. They are the sort of an-chor for this young team, and each plays an enor-mous role, both through their leadership, as well as dominant performance on the mat. As for the rest of the season, Coach Zach-ary expects at least three wrestlers to become Class S State Champions, and around two to three to be-come State Open Cham-pions. This is indicative of the high standard of excellence that has become the norm in Somers Wres-tling these recent years.

Somers Wrestling Takes StandSean Coverdill

Photo of Sophmore Colin Pascoe (Left)

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MADNESS? This... Is... SOMERS!

Kyle SullivanThe Spartan Advocate

As two regular sea-sons come to a

close, both the Spartan boys and girls varsity teams have once again had excellent seasons. The boys have moved onto states and play their first game against Avon, the number two seeded team. The girls ended their season just one win away from making states with a final record of seven and fourteen. For the Spartan girls, they began their season off to a slow start, win-ning their first game but then falling in their next four. The girls then had a huge surge and won their next three consecu-

tive games, beating Ly-man Memorial, Enfield, and Canton. However, the girls then fell victim to a slump, losing their next 5 games. In a much needed win, the Spartans won their next game against East Windsor with a score of 50-32. In order to make states, however, the girls would have to win three more of their remaining games against many difficult teams. The girls lost their next four games, making the task of reach-ing states even more dif-ficult with losses against Ellington, East Granby, Granby Memorial, and Bolton. In order to keep the hopes alive, the girls succeeded in winning their next two games

against Enfield and Suf-field. In the final game of the season, a must win situation for the girls, they fell just short of the states by losing to Cromwell with a score of 48-68. Although the season did not continue, it was still another great and exciting season for the girls. The seasonal standouts for the Somers Varsity girls are two se-niors, Heather Moylan and Camille Thomas, and junior Ashley Kin-ney. The Somers Var-sity boys team was able to have more success throughout their season, eventually making it to states with a final regular season record of 10 and 10. The boys began their successful season against

Avon, one of the best teams in the division. In a though game that came down to the final seconds, the boys ended up losing by just one point with a final score of 69-70. The Spartans won their next game against Valley Regional, securing their first win of the season. In a holiday tournament at Somers High, the boys made it to the championship after beating Windham Tech with a score of 93-76. The boys fell, however, to a quick and explosive Cheney Tech team in the championship. After the loss, the Spartans were able to win their next two games against Cov-entry and NCCC rival Stafford. The boys se-

cured their State Cham-pionship berth with a win over Ellington with a score of 57-52. As the regular season comes to a close, there have been many standouts for the boys varsity team. Lead-ing scorer for the entire season for the Spar-tans was senior Ricky Cheney, with a total of 302 points. Sophomore Colin Pascoe has the next highest amount with 264 points and junior Evan Woicik with 233 points. Senior Adam Foster also had a successful sea-son with a total of 219 points. The boys con-tinue their season as they enter the state champi-onships. Go Spartans!

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