The Trojans were able to take care of the young Dell Rapids team, winning 30 to 7. The following week, the Trojans faced off with the Lennox Orioles. Lennox has been looking forward their senior class this year for a long time.…
We started Jack Foster on the mound, but, it didn’t go as planned. They started hitting bombs off him and scored five runs in the first inning. My heart sank after that and most of the team had lost hope. Our coach asked if after all we have done were we going to give up just like that. I remember us fighting back into the game.…
The Journey to Team Louisiana Sweeping through the state tournament, on our way to the world series in Bluffton, South Carolina, until we run into the best team in the tournament. They put 10 runs on us in the 1st inning. All I can say is good thing it is double elimination. Waking up the next morning to a Bossier City, Louisiana was brutal.…
Our leadoff hitter had a leadoff double, but was then picked off right away. The next two batters weren’t a threat either. The Oklahoma Elite managed to sneak across a run in the bottom of the second. We didn’t want them to catch back up so we decided to kick it in gear. The rest of the game we remained in the driver’s seat.…
The day of December 7, 2015, just 4 days after the Montgomery Bell Academy football team lost a close overtime game to a local rival, Brentwood Academy, in the state championship, the MBA bowling team had an opportunity to clinch a state tournament bowling appearance for the first time since 2011. Four starting seniors, a sophomore, and I led the team to a twelve and three record. While on the way to that impressive mark, the team defeated the two time reigning TSSAA state championship team, Friendship Christian Academy, led by their ace bowler and two time individual TSSAA state champion, Donnie Turner. The MBA bowling team had a stunning turnaround in the program, after finishing eight and eight last year, the team was on the way to one of…
Growing up is tough. Every day people go through life with careers that they may not enjoy. Throughout the past few weeks I got the opportunity to interview two people about their jobs, one being a young adult who just started working, while the other was approaching her mid-life with an established career. The advice from both of these individuals was both eye opening and helpful. The age of the interviewee definitely influenced the responses I received.…
Our team went three and three then the playoffs came around and we were knocked out first game by Brandon Valley. After we lost that game I dropped my head in disbelief wondering how this could’ve happened, we worked so hard only to amount to that…
This thought petrified us. We would face the best ball players in Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arkansas. Being on ESPN made us anxious, but when we started to win one game after another, it took off some of the weight we felt. It came down to the final game against East Texas, where we won in the last inning by an inside the park home run by Cain Castille. This moment changed our lives…
I was ten years ago and I can still vividly remember sitting on an old, wooden rocking chair while the words of The Very Hungry Caterpillar trembled off my lips to a room full of second graders. I can recall the eagerness and excitement that filled their little faces as I flipped from page to page. There was an abundance of curiosity and desire to learn in that classroom that made me happy that I decided on skipping recess to read to the younger students. There was a fire that lit in my ten-year-old body that day. That was the day where I finally had an answer to all the “What do you want to be when you grow up?”…
In order to have a good start and chance at winning the title we had to win the first game. Our first official game was against the hosting team, Hermon. Throughout the game the score varied for both teams until eventually we had a winner. Unfortunately my team lost the game after a long and tough fight against our opponents. This loss caused us to have to fight through the loser’s bracket to see who would have a chance at playing in the championship game.…
We had our heads in the game and pulled out the first few points. As the game went on, we were back and fourth. I had my personal record for blocks and hits against a team that I was so nervous for. As I played my front row rotation and was going to sub out for someone to come in and serve for me , my coach informed me that I would be serving. Alpena had 18 points, and TC West had somewhere extremely close to that.…
I kindly accepted that those people were my siblings. They were all part of my family, but I felt an immense distance. Whitney had her own mother standing by her. My eldest sister and brother shared the same mother, whom I never saw before.…
We played nationally ranked teams across the country. We were the underdogs in the tournament because this would be our first national tournament. Although we were the underdogs, we were not intimidated. We prepared for these games just as we did any others. We prayed, said a team chant, stretched, and warmed up.…
On a Tuesday evening two months into my junior year, I realized my life was changing. I was transitioning from child to adult in society’s eyes. I was working, driving, and taking more difficult classes to prepare for college. The more responsibilities I accepted, the more I was treated like an adult. It was not until two months later that I realized I was changing.…
It was a Saturday morning March 17, 1996 I was eight months in my mother’s tummy and my due date was in mid April. Uncle Benito had the crazy idea of going to the snow all because my mother had never seen the snow. My mother told me of a hill she sled down from, a great slope that didn’t leave her feeling to good “No me siento muy bien.” My uncle rushed her to Granada Hills Hospital on the morning of March 19, 1996; I was born seven pounds at eight minutes until eight.…