The Last Home Run

State Baseball Do you know how it feels to be a state champ? I'm gonna talk about the time I won state baseball last year. It started with tournaments, then The Region Tournament, and finally The State Tournament which was in Dell Rapids. You will find out all the games we had and the feeling everyone had throughout the mighty journey. So first the team got put together by the coaches. We had 18 players are our team. The team practiced a lot three times a week! We had our first tourney…

Anthology performances, Woke. Woke, a production about the hardships and adversity African-Americans experience daily, consists of an environment much like Washington U. Black Anthology, created in 1989 by Marcia Hayes-Harris, is a yearly student run production run solely by students. The productions highlight the nuances the black community experiences in both past and present America in the hopes to bring forth awareness of black issue to the general community of St. Louis. The audience…

thought about running away from home and never looking back? There are many teens that have either thought about running away, or have actually done it. There are many causes and also effects to a teenager running away, and both will be discussed. Sexual/Verbal abuse, violence, neglect, stress, school, or a bad break up is a list of some of the reasons why adolescents might run away. Maybe that child does not get the love that he/she deserves from within the home. It could be that the juvenile…

Neddy loved to swim and sets out, the day the story begins, to swim as many pools as he can on an eight mile hike to his home in Bullet Park. He mentally plots his route to his home and sets out to swim the “Lucinda River” as he called it after his wife. First, he stopped at the Grahams where he is cheerfully greeted and enjoys a drink, followed by the Hammer’s, Lear’s, Howland’s, Crosscup’s and Bunker’s…

If you're going to run your AC, you have to ensure every part is doing its job. There are a lot of different parts that are necessary for the AC to function properly, and that includes the air filter. Monthly air filter checks are recommended, but depending on several factors, you may actually find yourself changing your filter more often than expected to ensure the AC is keeping you cool, but also keeping the air in your home clean. Here are a few factors HVAC Contractors in Kandiyohi County,…

He finds out that she hates fish and thinks its disgusting. So of course, he lets the fish go and goes for Sheila Mant but she ends up meeting a different guy at the restaurant and goes home with him. In life, you should go and do what you enjoy instead of trying to do something that will hurt you in the long run. Enjoy spending time with people in your family who you are close to and are…

ghost.” The last room we inspect is the garage. In the passageway to it, there is a big jug of the same red substance that was in the bathroom, but this time it has a source. We follow the dripping noise to the ceiling, and decide it’s from contaminated rain. We move along. In the garage, there's a chair. It has a rope and a knife sitting on top of it. Now that is creepy. Next we find a fridge with a lot of dust on it, and the words “HELP ME” is written out. This we get scared from, and we run…

I stressed, cried, sweat, and stressed some more for the weeks leading up to the program. But, by some miracle, I went home with a medallion, flowers, and enough scholarships to pay for this year that night. So began the preparation for the state wide competition. A sweet stranger zipped the back of my dress while another pinned a lose curl back into my bun. I took one last glance in the mirror, grabbed my sweatshirt, and rushed back stage, holding up my dress so as not to trip. My mind was…

tell something was going to happen that night. The crazy energy in the atmosphere at the Capital One Arena made it obvious. It was the Boston Celtics vs Washington Wizards with the Wizards facing a crucial game six. This game could send the Wizards home if they didn’t win. Me being a Washington Wizards superfan, I was into every second until the buzzer. Playoff basketball is something else, something beyond amazing. I remember my dad pointing out, “This is just great, isn’t it?” I responded…

very bad habit of procrastinating, by practicing better time management skills. Procrastinating is something that I have done as far back as I can remember. I always waited until the last minute in everything I did from school projects, helping others, to even leaving out of the house. Everything I did was at the very last minute, to include starting school and signing up for classes. If I would have waited another semester to start school, I would have lost out on some of my military GI Bill…