Cardinal Booster
May 20, 2005
FFA celebrates the end of the year with its annual awards banquet
May Boosters
What does it mean?
Making your summer plans
FCCLA members at banquet
Cardinal Day: Food and Fun for all
Lady Cards chalk up two wins against Sylvan Grove
Track teams complete and place at Hill City
Baseball Splits a double header with Sylvan Grove
Golfers get a tough break at P-burg
FFA celebrates
the end of the year with its annual awards banquet
The annual FFA Banquett ttok place Saturday, May 7 at 6:30
p.m.
The banquet began
with a welcome by junior Jesse Humann. The invocation was given by Connor
McMullen. After the invocation they sat down to have dinner.
After dinner Advisor
Ryan Miller and FFA officers handed out the rewards.
The Star Greenhand
Award went to Freshman Lacci Cunningham. The Star Chapter Farmer Award went
to Senior Chris Keas, and the Creed Speaking Award went to Freshman Joe Becker.
The students who
recieved the Greenhand Degree pins were freshmen Lacci Cunningham, Derek Brumitt,
Joe Becker and Colt McCune; sophomores Kennis Becker, Luke Brin, Lucas Hachmeister,
Matthew Hageman, Seth Keas, and Justin McCune.
The students who
recieved the Chapter Degree Pins were juniors Jesse Husmann, Jacob Keas, Connor
McMullen and Eden Rinehart and seniors Lance Gosser, Seth Brin, Brandon Frederking,
CHris Keas, Mark Axleson, Josh Hrabe and Ross Balthazor.
Top sellers of
fruit and meat are Seth Brin and Luke Brin.
The Dekalb Outstandnig
Agriculture Student was Seth Keas.
Senior Christopher
Keas recieved the Local FFA Scholarship.
The Plainville High School Boosters of the Month of May are
seniors Kristen dinkel and Paul Nuckols.
Dinkel is the Vice-president of National Honor society. She is also involved
in Take a Second Make a Difference, Plainville High Against Tobacco, band,
basketball, track and Pep-Club. Her favorite way to pass the time is to go
out to her cousin's pond and fish or hang out. She is looking forward to the
freedom of college, meeting new people and having new experiences outside
of Plainville. She will miss being able to see her friends any time she wants
when she leaves high school. Her favorite chipmunk is Alvin, and she loves
the taste of chocolate. Her advise for incoming freshmen is to think before
you act, but enjoy highschool to its full potential. She says that they need
to try new things and live with no regrets, but most importantly, trust in
God, hold your head high and just keep laughing.
Nuckols is involved in Take a Second Make a Difference and United Methodist
Youth Federation. His favorite chipmunk is Alvin, because he is the crafty,
manipulative, mischievous one. He also enjoys the occasional waffle cone.
He is looking forward to living in Lawrence when he goes to college. He will
miss seeing the people he's spent most of his week days with for the last
thirteen years when he leaves high school. His words of wisdom for incoming
freshmen is to think progressively and to think of ways to help all of humanity,
not just themselves.
The Booster staff asked students
what the word "Gumbotil" meant and these were some of their responses:
"Something to do with food." senior Noel Morales
"Type of spaghetti." junior Josh Brackeen
"Gum a sumo wrestler chews." sophomore Matt Hageman
"Gum named Montezuma." junior Josh Eichman
"Stuff you take off the bottom of your shoes and desk." senior Amanda
Husmann
"Gumbo soup gone bad." freshman Derek Jones
The word gumbotil means a dark, sticky clay formed by the movement of a glacier.
The Cardinal Booster Staff asked some PHS students what their
plans for this summer were, here are there responses.
"I will sleep most of the day, and when I am not sleeping, I will be
playing video games and eating." Tanner Ganoung
"My plans are to work and go to the lake a lot." Katee Nicholas
"To go camping with my friends." Lauren Hemphill
"To play baseball, get a job, and work on my tan." Jason Dinkel
"Take it easy until I move out in July." Paul Nuckols
"My only plans for this summer are working and my mom's wedding."
Emily Jones
"To hang out with my friends and go to the lake, and to go turtle surfing."
Darla Monroe
FCCLA Honors members at banquet
FCCLA held their annual banquet
on April 25 in the Plainville High School gym.
The six officers for the 2004-2005 school year were honored. They were Amanda
Husmann, President; Paige Lowry, Vice President of Membership; Kelsey Bjornstad,
Secretary; Emily Jones, Vice President of Public Relations; Morgan Malin,
Vice President of Recognition.
The new elected council members for the 2005-2006 year are Emily Jones, President;
Brooklyn Foster, Vice President of Membership; Megan Plante, Secretary; Amber
Cooper, Vice President of Finance; Deanna Garvert, Vice President of Public
Relations; Mackenzie Becker, Vice President of Recognition; and Bretta Mick,
VP of Programs.
The banquet began with a parade followed by the opening ceremony by A. Husmann.
Husmann gave a welcome and the invocation was given by Jamie Husmann. This
was followed by a buffet style meal.
Following the meal, Lowry gave the New Membership Ceremony. This was followed
by the recognition awards.
The Power of One awards were as follows: The Better You-freshman Miles Axelson,
Kris Hindman, Darla Monroe, Bretta Mick and Brooklyn Foster and Take the Lead-
Emily Jones. Amanda Husmann was awarded with the Working on Working Award.
Cardinal Day: Food and Fun for All
On Wednesday May 4, students of Plainville High School went down to Cardinal Field and participated in four different games that ran from 10:30 to 1:45.
Students also participated in softball games, and there was some football also being played on the football field. The four games that were provided were: giant twister, human foosball, human bowling, and an obstacle course. Some teachers also took part in the softball game. Who knew that some of the teachers could play softball like champs. "I had a blast and I liked watching the girls play twister," freshman Toby Ruder said.
Lady Cards chalk up two wins against Sylvan Grove
The Lady Cards chalked up two wins against Sylvan Grove May 6. They won the first game 18-8. Pitching the first game junior Rachel Thompson.
Scoreing in the first game were senior Kelsey Bjornstad with 4, juniors Raquel Marcotte and Thompson with 3, senior Nicole Wessel and junior Katee Nicholas and Holly Chew with 2, and senior Charlie Meitler and junior Caroline Hrabe with 1.
The ladies wont the second game 23-12. Pitching in the game was junior Caroline Hrabe. Scoring in the second game were Meitler with 5, Bjornstad and senior Paige Lowry with 4, junior Gloria Ruder with 3, Wessel and Hrabe with 2, and Marcotte, Nicholas, and Chew with 1.
Track teams complete and place at Hill City
The Plainville track team competed at the Hill City Invitational Track Meet May 9. The girls placed 4th as a team out of 11 teams. In the girls field events, senior Megan Becker placed 2nd in the long jump with a jump of 15 feet 10 inches. Sophomore Vanessa Owings placed first in the pole vault with a height of 8 feet 6 inches. In the boys field events, senior MJ Klein placed 4th in the shot put with a throw of 42 feet 3 inches. The running events consisted of the top seven in the preliminaries going to the finals. In the finals of the girls, senior Morgan Malin placed 2nd in the 100 meter dash with a time of 12.97 seconds. Becker placed 5th in the 200 meter dash with a time of 27.52 seconds. Freshman Ashley Stroda placed 6th in the 800 meter run with a time of 2:40.87. Freshman Aubrey Frederking also placed first in 1600 meter run with a time of 5:32.56. Frederking also placed first in the 3200 meter run with a time of 12"08.59. The girls 4X1 relay teams consisting of senior Kelcee Meitler, Owings, Becker, and Malin, placed 3rd with a time of 51.78. The 4X400 relay team consisting of Frederking, Stroda, freshman Bretta Mick, and Becker, placed 5th with a time of 4"29.14 For the finals of the boys Lucas Hachmeister placed 4th in the 1600 meter run with a time of 5:20.93. Some of the track members will go on to be competing at the Regional Track Meet this Friday.
Baseball splits a double header with Sylvan Grove
The Cards split a double header at Sylvan Grove on Friday May 6 at 4:30.
The cards lost their first game 15-0 in three innings of play.
The second game was different with the Cards winning 12-5. The winning pitcher
was freshman Toby John Ruder.
Scoring one run for the Cards were freshmen Aaron Dinkel and Ruder, sophomores
Josh Brungardt, Matthew Hageman and Luke Brin, and junior Taylor Dix. Scoring
two runs were from freshman tanner Dix, junior Tyler Brungardt, and senior
Josh Hrabe.
Golfers get a tough break at P-burg
On May 9 the Plainville Cardinal varsity golf team traveled to Phillipsburg to partake in the Phillipsburg Invitational.
The Cards experienced some bad luck and shot a 374 in the four-man team results.
The four-man team consisted of senior Seth Brin, senior Brandon Frederking, junior Spencer Blecha, and freshman Justin Lacey. The six-man scores consisting of senior Ross Balthazor and junior Garrett Frederking were noe posted due to Balthazor getting struck by a golf ball on the head, knocking him out of the tournament after only six holes.
Individual scoring was as follows, Brin-89, Blecha-89, G. Frederking-93, B. Frederking-96, Lacy-100, and Balthazor withdrew-154.