Volume II Issue IV: October 21, 2016 |
SPORTS |
Next online issue: November 4, 2016 |
Orange Out Sends Message, "No Blackhawk Fights Alone"Video by MICAELA PENALOZA and JESSICA LOPEZ
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Family and Community Rally Support for Blackhawk NelsonBy NATALIE PENALOZA
Nelson Natividad is a bright and caring friend. He is a sophomore attending Citrus Valley High School. Nelson has leukemia and is fighting it for the second time. Nelson Natividad was diagnosed with leukemia a couple of months ago and has been battling it ever since. Natividad is a part of the Blackhawk football family. Natividad’s first year of football was with the Blackhawks and he instantly fell in love with the sport. Natividad was at Loma Linda Children’s Hospital and is now at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles. Natividad needed a bone marrow transplant and luckily a match was found quickly. Nelson’s sister, Crystal Natividad, was a 99.8% match for the bone marrow transplant. All of the football players have been supporting Natividad from the beginning. Friends of Natividad visit him to see how he is doing. September was Leukemia Awareness month. Blackhawk football players supported and wore orange ribbons on their helmets, the color for leukemia awareness... |
REVHS vs RHS Football HighlightsVideo by SETH HENDRICKSON
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Redlands East Valley Holds Onto Smudge Pot |
Protecting a Four-Year Streak |
Photography by CAROLINA SANCHEZ
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By CAROLINA SANCHEZ
Friday, Oct. 7 was the annual Smudge Pot game. In years past, the Redlands East Valley Wildcats blew out Redlands High School (52-14 in 2015, 40-14 in 2014, and 45-7 in 2013), but this year it was a closer game, with a score of 28-14. The game started out rocky for the Wildcats. They allowed Redlands to score early on, but by the second quarter they had gained their momentum and soon started to outshine Redlands. They had the same struggle on Friday as they have had other Fridays, offense. That is what held them back from blowing out the Terriers like years past. With team captain senior Jaelan Phillips in the defense, the Wildcats were able to hold back the Terriers with the exceptions of a return and a deep pass. Punter Duncan Glover expressed his satisfaction with how the team played, but also acknowledged difficulties and struggles. The student sections of both high schools were louder than usual, although football players Apollo Espinoza and Seth Zappia agreed that they could not hear the Redlands side throughout the game. REV senior, Alex Roberts, said the he, “enjoyed the game but I was surprised that RHS’ had the first touchdown.” For foreign exchange student, Alice Cimaschiu, this was her first football game. She said the game, “was amazing. (It was) like rugby.” She compared the energy of the game to soccer games in Italy. When asked if she enjoyed the game she smiled and said, “Yes it was a lot of fun.” The game is not only fun for those watching put for the players as well. Apollo Espinoza, Seth Zappia, Matthew Whiteley, and Ryan Barlow all said that the Smudge Pot is, “ the best game of the year.” Not only does it come with bragging rights for the whole year, it also gives the returning players a goal for next season... |
By CAROLINA SANCHEZ and LIBERTY RAINBOLT
Peter Cain is known to his Spanish students as Cain, but to a select few girls he is known as Coach Cain. In his first full year of teaching he is doing something that most novice teachers do not. He is coaching a golf team. He, along with Sam Patalano, REV AP environmental science teacher, have coached this year’s Lady Wildcats golf team with strength and patience. Cain’s background in golf started in college where he played for his team. When asked why he decided to become the golf coach, he explained that he is, “addicted to golf and it is fun being around the team.” He also explained that he has had experience with coaching in the past by coaching the freshman basketball team at Redlands High School. But golf is not basketball and Patalano has been a, “really good” mentor for Cain. Cain explained that Patalano has shown him, "the ropes of how to run a practice, how to engage with different coaches in the league and how to set up matches and generally how to deal with parents when issues do come up. He’s been a very good bridge towards learning how to coach golf.” With the season wrapping up, he and Patalano are looking forward and are setting goals for the next season. Cain explained that, “winning CBL is goal number one and then,” he wants to work towards, “developing young players and making it a realistic goal for them to shoot 50 or below.” As Patalano is slowing moving away from coaching the REV golf teams and with Cain under his wing, Cain is most likely going to be coaching them when Patalano steps down. But for right now, “there are some time commitments things being a new teacher that are tough to juggle.” ... |
Seasons Come and Go By MAYA SANCHEZ
People don’t like change; this is a sentence that we’ve been told time and time again, usually to explain cranky behavior or resistance. In physics, the resistance of change is called inertia. Newton’s first law directly addresses this phenomenon. Everything in the universe, it seems, wants to stick to their old ways. But sometimes those old ways aren’t there anymore, and it’s only when things end do other things get a chance to begin. But sometimes they just end, and that’s okay too. Senior year is a story of endings. The last time you have a first day of high school, the last time you go to homecoming, the last time… you get my point. But while these lasts have come and gone, (there are still plenty where they came from) there’s a certain last -- an ending, a goodbye, no see-you-later-- that affects me in a way that the others didn’t. Time flies when you’re having fun, and golf season always seems too short. It seems to finish just as it’s picking up. A lot of people at school don’t even know that the golf team exists (while we’re on that subject, a lot of people at this school don’t even know that this newspaper, let alone my column, exists), but it does and we’re a family... |
Ethic Sports
Ethic Sports REV. Oct. 19, 2016
Hosted by ARSH DHILLON Video by SETH HENDRICKSON |