The TomahawkRich in News from Richfield Springs, NY

November 10, 2016 Volume V Issue V

hopefully retire from.” Many students at Richfield Springs have enjoyed his time and also his great teaching skills, allow-ing them to do well. A senior, Carson Hula, explained, “I am very thankful that he helped me through the very difficult Chemistry regents. Many stu-dents in my class as well as my-self enjoyed his sense of humor. I am going to miss how helpful he is, and all his support he val-ued and gave to every student.”

Carone has accepted a position as an Assistant Principal within the Rome City School district at Rome Free Academy High School. Within his new posi-tion, he needs to take on many different roles that include: performing discipline refer-rals, teacher evaluations, and chairing specific departments to assist in getting information out to staff members. Rome Free Academy is a much more populated school than Richfield Springs which brings more work for Carone. He explained, “I expect there to be more disci-pline because I am responsible for 500 students, but the ratios of the specific disciplines will be similar to those at Richfield Springs.”

Even though many students are saddened that Carone is leav-ing, he will leave an impact on all he contributed to and did for the students and staff at Rich-field Springs. Carone states, “I truly enjoyed the time I spent here. However saddened by the fact that I am leaving this great district. Thank you to all the students, staff, and adminis-tration that have made my time at Richfield Springs Central School a memorable one, I will miss you.”

It’s Finally Over

Carone’s Goodbyeby Kali Griffith

Sean Carone was welcomed here at Richfield Springs Cen-tral School in 2012 after a heartbreaking tragedy. Carone is a living environment and chemistry teacher at Richfield Springs. He has served as a teacher and an administrator here and will be furthering his career at Rome Free Academy High School as an Assistant Principal.

After Carone graduated from Sauquoit Valley High School in 1994, he started his life with his wife, Rene’ who he married in 2000. Carone has three young boys: John, 12, Michael, 10 and Luca, 5. He also has an ador-able 6 month-old Lab puppy named Jax.

Carone attended Syracuse Uni-versity in 1994. While taking education classes, he became a paramedic and worked both part time and full time for eight years. Later on, Carone worked as a teacher at Liverpool High School in 2000 for two years, Proctor High School in 2004 for four years, and Vernon-Ve-rona Sherrill High School in 2008 for four years. In 2010, Carone completed his Adminis-trative classes at Utica College. He was searching for a school that he would fit into as a prin-cipal and eventually retire with-in the same district.

Carone overall had a great experience here at Richfield Springs. When he first entered a position here, he was unsure of what to expect and how long he would spend here at the school. As the year went on, he enjoyed the school including all the staff and students who were making their way through it. Carone stated, “I began to feel that this would be the district that I had been looking for and would

Donald Trump wins the presidencyby Carson Hula

The Presidential election of 2016 is finally over, and a victor has been declared Donald J. Trump.

Taking 276 electoral votes as of press time, the Republican nom-inee edged out his opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton, who had 218 electoral votes. The stunning upset was accomplished despite Clinton edging out Trump by a projected 125,459 popular votes.

The outcome numbers came in late Tuesday night, and although she did not appear at her post-results rally in Manhattan, Clinton called Trump to concede to and congratulate him. As shown by election maps, Trump was able to flip five traditionally blue or fence-sitting states: Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Iowa. All of which were crucial to Trump’s momentous win.

Trump, victorious on Tuesday night, said, “The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer,” according to NBC News.

- Continued on Page 2 -

Image Credit: Miami Herald/John Locher–AP

Want to Write for The Tomahawk?email:

jlehmann@richfieldcsd.org to join the club!

Trump Wins Shock-ing Election

- Continued from Page 1 -

Strategists theorize that Trump capitalized on the strong yet controversial political move-ment he has created over the course of his campaign to gain leverage with white work-ing-class voters in those states. “The polls were wrong — all of them.” NBC’s Benjy Sarlin reports. “So were the experts, the political consultants and the seasoned officials in both parties who predicted Donald Trump would lead his party to ruin.” The victory marks a surprising end a campaign that has gripped the nation for well over a year. Donald Trump threw his hat into the Presidential ring on June 16, 2015, almost one year and five months before the election. Trump, a highly successful yet controversial real-estate developer and reali-ty-TV star, earned the Republi-can Party’s nomination on July 21 of this year, during the Re-

publican National Convention in Cleveland.

Trump’s opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton, is a former First Lady, U.S. senator for New York, and President Obama’s Secretary of State. Clinton an-nounced her presidential run on April 12, 2015, one year and seven months prior to this mo-mentous November balloting.

Trump trudged his way through a crowded GOP field of 16 other candidates as the marathon cam-paign progressed, while Clinton easily dispatched a handful of fellow Democrats, most notably Senator Bernie Sanders. Both candidates dealt with a myriad of scandals and controversies. Trump’s expressed or otherwise alleged xenophobia, sexism, racism, abusive language bois-terous personality cast shadows on his entire campaign, and his hostility towards the media and overall harshness alien-ated many. Clinton fought off exhausting investigations and disputes over her use of a pri-vate email server as Secretary of State as well as her involvements

in Wall Street and the Benghazi incident, leading to trust issues with some voters. While all of the hullabaloos and contested issues on both sides of the race are too numerous to mention here, both Trump and Clinton grew and maintained fiercely vocal and divided support bas-es, which helped both through their respective primaries this past spring and summer. In the end after three debates with no outright winner, Tues-day’s election came with pun-dits and analysts predicting a narrow victory for Clinton. As we now know, that was not the case. Many voters are dis-traught, while others are ecstat-ic. Here in Richfield Springs, 45.9 percent of students sur-veyed in last month’s Toma-hawk/Studio309 poll voiced their support for Trump, so the feeling here in RSCS is likely favorable. All in all, despite the sentiments, history has been made: the first non-politician President has been elected, and America will never be the same.

All-In at All-Countyby Gabriella Hudziak

Dolgeville recently hosted the All-County Music Festival on Saturday, November 5. At this festival, students practiced and performed in bands and choirs over the course of two days. The festival invites schools from all over Herkimer County. This includes ours, and numer-ous students from our school attended. There are two festivals held each school year; one of which is in the spring, and the other is in the fall. In the spring, the Elementary and High School bands perform, as do the Mid-dle School choir. During the fall, the Elementary and High School choirs perform, along with the Middle School and a jazz band. The festival is often hosted by one of the schools in Herkimer County. This year’s host was Dolgeville, and the other attending schools were Central Valley Academy, Little Falls, Frankfort-Schuyler, Her-kimer, Mount Markham, Owen D. Young, Richfield Springs, and West Canada Valley. Our school saw Kalen Barnhart, Maura Buck, Amanda Burdick, Alysa Smith, Paige Cooper, Shane Johnson, Delaney Mer-win, and Bryan Webb attend this year. The Elementary Cho-rus performed four songs this year. They performed “Rejoice and Sing!” by Rollo Dilworth, then “When I Close My Eyes” by Jim Papoulis. They also pre-formed “Galop – From Solfege Suite, Mvt. 3” by Ken Berg, and “Song for the Unsung Hero” by Pamela Martin and Joseph M. Martin. The chairperson in charge of the Elementary Cho-rus was Leslie Kubica. The director and accompanist were Ghislaine Stewart and Susan Kubica, respectively.

- Continued on Page 3 -

The map of election results, as reported by http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/president at 8:45 a.m. on November 9.

When asked about why she be-came a director at All-County, Nitsch stated that that Colenzo had invited her. She went on to explain why she accepted the position, “so why I accepted it is because I like, I love, kids; and I love the energy of putting an ensemble together in only two days, and seeing all the progress and just sharing my love of music with kids who obviously enjoy it too, or they wouldn’t be here… So to me, it’s kind of like a celebration of music and a celebration of youth. So, I love that.”

D’Angelo, the accompanist, was invited by Nitsch. D’An-gelo stated, when asked about why attending All-County is important, “I think it’s import-ant to go because you meet peo-ple with the same interests and it’s an opportunity to work with different directors different stu-dents and maybe get a different experience than you’ve been able to get in your own school, and it creates memories.” The juniors and seniors were asked how they felt about their final festivals. Hayleigh Snyder stated, “It’s very bittersweet, I miss Mrs. Allen. She kept me on my stuff, but we have really good music. So it’s really nice to have good music for our last All-County… Our conductor and pianist are amazing.” Mol-ly Bello agreed, saying, “It is hard, but we’re just going on to bigger and better things.” Victoria Young only stated “Sad” when asked about how she felt about her second to last All-County.

All County- Continued from Page 2 -

Hannah Elkins, Krista Hurd, Victor Gelfueso, Connor Schef-fler, Beth Snyder, and Holly Malinowski were all select-ed for the Junior High Band. The band also performed four songs, similar to the Elemen-tary Chorus. They performed “Russian Sailor’s Dance” by Reinhold Gliere, arranged by Johnnie Vinson; and “Drums of the Saamis” by Samuel R. Hazo. Another song they per-formed was “Midway March” by John Williams, arranged by John Moss. They also per-formed “The Great Locomotive Chase” by Robert W. Smith. The director of the band was Stephanie Pine, and the chair-person was Kaitlin Wolford. There were no Richfield stu-dents who performed in the Jazz band. However, they still performed five songs. They preformed “Blue Train” by John Coltrane, “The Dance of Denial” by Michael P. Moss-man, “Slight Derangement” by Bret Zvacek, and “Oye Como Va” by Tito Puente. Dr. Wil-liam A. Meckley was the di-rector of the band, and Stacie Luczynski was the chairperson. Seniors Molly Bello, Car-son Hula, and Hayleigh Sny-der, along with juniors Alex-is Fahey, Gabriella Hudziak, Victoria Young, and Pearson Myers, performed in the Se-nior High Chorus. The chorus performed five songs as well. These were “And the Glory of the Lord – No. 4 Chorus from ‘Messiah’” by George Frider-ic Handel, “Set Me as a Seal” by René Clausen, “Erev Shel Shoshanim” by Josef Hadar and Moshe Dor, “Mojuba” ar-ranged by Brian Tate, and “Let the River Run” by Carly Si-mon. The chairperson for the chorus was Bethany Colenzo. Brenda Nitsch was the director and Laura D’Angelo was the accompanist.

How has your career field changed since you entered it? There’s a lot more commer-cial dairy over mom and pop farms. I see that path con-tinuing. Definitely take dairy Spanish classes, and take some nutrition classes.

Do you have a resume or in-terview tip you can share? Don’t understate yourself on your resume. And in an inter-view confidence is key.

What effect does work have on your lifestyle? My work is my lifestyle. You need to love what you do.

What is the most and least satisfying parts of our ca-reer? Most: “ A live baby calf at a calving or saving something’s life.” Least: “ Euthanasia, and losing a life.

Can you tell me about a con-flict you experienced during your journey and how you overcame it? When I first started here there were many people who didn’t have a female large animal veterinarian. You have to over-come the idea that they didn’t want you there and do a good job despite it.

What college did you got to and what was it like? Cornell University, Cornell was great, but its extremely competitive and that was also great. I had many great friends there, but your definitely not babied at Cornell.

What I learned:I’ve known Stacy for two years now and I’ve rode around with her for a week each summer before school starts. This form of job shadowing can give you a sense of enlightenment of what that career might be like in the future for you one day and if it’s the right fit for you.

Interview with a Vetby Sarah Calta

Over the weekend I caught up with the large animal veterinar-ian Stacy Maglashan to gain in-sight into what the large animal veterinarian field is like. For a follow up on the career day that was held at RSCS. High School Guidance Counselor Jeff Busch supplied the ques-tions to me; here is what she had to say.

What is a typical day?It starts with general Herd health: usually pregnancy checks on cattle, vaccines, and dehorning’s on calves. Then after that are sick animal calls. Then non-routine calls such as lame horses, and horse vac-cines. As well emergency calls need to be scheduled into the day.

What was the best class you took in High school to pre-pare for this career? How did it help you? Gym, because you have to be physically fit to be a large animal veterinarian. Second would science, general body functions and how everything works in the body.

What pathways led you to where you are now? I grew up on a farm and had numerous animals and always caring for them, also 4-h for the experience. Internships, with small and large vets in college.

How have you changed since High school and how has that helped you grow in your ca-reer?

I’ve become more confident, and more knowledgeable. If your not confident in telling someone what you think is wrong with their animal then they won’t trust your judgment.

Happy Veterans Day!

To All our Vets, Current Service Members, and

Those We Lost Along the Way:

THANK YOU!

Falling Back An Hourby Hayleigh Snyder

Daylight savings occurs twice a year, pushing time back an hour in the fall and forward an hour in the spring. Though not many people know the reason that we change the time on our clocks each March and Novem-ber. Daylight savings was first re-corded in Germany during World War II. The purpose was to save energy during the way to better the outcome of the war for the Germans. The Ger-mans were not the first to come up with the idea of changing time. In Britain a man by the name William Willett wrote a pamphlet about how there were several hours of sunlight being wasted on the world while many people slept. He also claimed that the time at night where the sun was shining was also becoming shorter for periods of the year. This soon encour-aged him to go to the British Parliament and suggest that a law would be passed that made people enjoy more sunlight by changing the time based on the time of year. Sadly Willett did not see the law become passed before his death in 1915, but his idea was soon taken under the wing of Parliament and soon was implemented in the British society. This idea was then ad-opted by the Germans. The United States of Amer-ica soon adapted the idea of Daylight Savings also as they entered the war in 1918, the reasoning to save fuel. Though this new idea would boost the economy during the war sub-stantially. People would leave work when it was still light out-side and many then went shop-ping, sports were being able to play linger sending sports equipment sales, such as golf, through the roof. The change of time was not accepted by all

of the United States. Farmers were convinced that they had less time to milk their cows and get their produce to a market to sell each morning; also, the movie industry was worried that many people would go to see a mov-ie in a dark theater if it was still light outside. After years of jockeying back and forth between using and not using Daylight Savings it has fi-nally stuck. The problem is that in the resent years the event seem stop be doing the opposite of its intended purpose. Daylight Savings seems to increase the amount of energy and fuel used throughout the country. Today many people don’t see Daylight Savings as a way to conserve energy and resources, now it is often seen as just a day where sleep is either given or tak-en from everyone. When asked senior Taylor VanTassel said, “From Daylight Savings I gain an hour of sleep in the fall, but in the spring I lose an hour of sleep which makes me cranky all day.” Senior Ryan Miller also added to the idea that Daylight Savings is just another day in the year. When asked what if Daylight Savings was significant to him he say, “I have no opinion on it truthfully, it’s just something that happens.” Daylight Savings has just become another day in the year to some people.

Miss North... The English Oneby Faith Graml

I spoke to the new English teacher Jaime North, she is the new English/AIS teacher. She graduated from SUNY Oswe-go with a Bachelor’s Degree in Adolescence Education/En-glish, and a minor in psychol-ogy. After college North moved to Albany where she went to

Saint Rose for graduate school, and got her Master’s Degree in Literacy for grades 5-12. She grew up in Ilion and went to Ilion High School, and now currently lives in Utica.

FG: What do you like best about teaching?JN: I love that it’s differ-ent every day. I could nev-er do a boring, monotonous job, and as I tell my students - I’m definitely never bored.

FG: Have you taught before you were here? If so where?JN:I taught English for two years at Pathways before com-ing here. I also worked as a TA out in Albany at a private, Cath-olic school for a year while I was getting my Master’s degree.

FG: If you were not an English teacher what job would you want?JN: I’d always want to do something helping people, es-pecially kids. So if I wasn’t teaching I’d probably still have gone into some sort of therapy field or guidance for teenagers

FG: Were you a good stu-dent during school? What was your favorite subject?JN: I was an awesome student (my poor younger siblings who had to follow that)! And as you could probably guess, my favorite subject was English.

FG: Have you taught in a small school before? If so do you like it better then a bigger school?JN: I did student teach at Proc-tor in Utica. My students were great, but I didn’t like being in such a big school where you don’t know most of the other people in the building. I definitely prefer the small school community.

FG: Did you used to go to a big or small school? Did you like it, why?JN: I went to Ilion, so it was a small school. I did have a

pretty great high school experi-ence because of some teachers I had, and being involved in things like sports and music.

FG: What do you do when you aren’t at school?JN: I have a lot of family in the area so I try to make sure to visit with them frequently. I have a dog named Rory who is very needy also, so we take a lot of walks and play a lot of tug of war. I go for runs, try to make time reading, and (I’ll be honest), I am quite the Netflix junkie.

FG: What are your hobbies outside of school?JN: I recently joined a volley-ball league with some teachers I worked with at Pathways. I am not any good at volleyball, so we’ll see how that goes!

Doctor Strange Adds to a Year of Superheroesby Isabella Hudziak

If you were to pass a movie theater, it’s most likely that you’ll see a poster for the new movie Doctor Strange, directed by Scott Derrickson. This film, starring BBC’s Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch hit the theaters on Friday, November 4. Doctor Strange follows the story of Dr. Stephen Strange as a car accident renders him un-able to use his hands. Tradition-al medicine lacks affect, which results in Strange searching for healing and hope within a mys-terious enclave. He becomes the most powerful sorcerer in existence, but finds himself torn between his life of fortune and the well being of the world as dark forces become adamant on destroying reality.

On it’s weekend debut, the

- Continued on Page 5 -

film earned domestically $85,058,311. From the release to November 8, the movie worldwide has made an approx-imate sum of $331,987,862. Rotten Tomatoes, a well-known movie critiquing website, rat-ed the movie 90%. The movie has been reviewed in a mostly positive lighting, acclaimed by multiple critics including Peter Debrudge from Variety. Overall, the film has received positive ratings.

Throughout 2016, multiple comic-book hero films have hit the big screens. These he-roes from both DC and Mar-vel Studios have included the star-spangled Captain America and the savior of Gotham Bat-man. Doctor Strange has added to this chain of films, including the high amounts of lifetime grosses earned in the box offic-es. Films such as Captain Amer-ica: Civil War earlier in the year earned an astounding amount of $1,153,304,495 worldwide throughout it’s lifespan in the-aters. Similarly, the long-await-ed blockbuster Batman v Super-man: Dawn of Justice earned a hefty sum of $873,260,194.

Comic book fans worldwide are anticipating the year of 2017 and all the new superhuman blockbusters it will bring, in-cluding a Wonder Woman film and a Justice League debut. But, for now, fans can hit the theaters and grab some popcorn for a viewing of Doctor Strange.

Photo Credit: www.imdb.com

Not Just Jocelynby Hayleigh Snyder

Senior Jocelyn Gavalo has been at Richfield Springs Central School since the fall of 2013. She is now a beloved member of the Class of 2017 and quickly transitioned from the new girl in the halls to another member of the Richfield Springs Indians. Gavalo moved to Richfield Springs just before the begin-ning of her freshman year in high school. She moved to the area to be closer to family on her mother’s side, journeying from Windsor, Connecticut to this small town in Upstate New York with her mother and younger brother, Darien Ga-valo. They move was focused around needing more support after the loss of her father. Gavalo went through an experi-ence that not many people have; she moved to a new state at the beginning of high school. Leav-ing behind many friends and family she started a new life here in Richfield Springs as the new girl. Gavalo left a graduat-ing class of about 300 to enter into a graduating class of around 30. The culture shock alone of

the size difference would be understandably shocking to the young high school student.

Gavalo also decided that mov-ing to this smaller community has offered her a safer envi-ronment to live in. She shares a small story of almost being kid-napped when she lived in the larger community in Connecti-cut. “I was in eight grade, walk-ing down the street when some random guy walked up to me and started asking me what my name was and what my num-ber was. He just grabbed my arm and was like pulling me. When I got away I went to my neighbors house and told her what happened. She then called the police.” This is also anoth-er experience that many people have never or will never have. It’s not everyday that you learn someone was nearly abducted, it’s even less likely that to be abducted or nearly abducted. When asked about how she felt when she was told she would be moving to New York Gava-lo said, “Oh geez, that was four years ago. I don’t remember anything about it besides being home, I can’t even remember who told me.” The unrecover-

able memory may be to the fact that Gavalo is still very connect-ed to her home in Connecticut. Then claimed, “It’s kind of like I never left sometimes, we go down very often on the week-end to visit friends and family.” Gavalo also explained that the hardest challenge of moving to a new place was that she would be leaving everything she knew behind. “It was the first time I had ever moved, I had nev-er been the new girl or had to make all new friends, I had al-ways had my friends.” Gavalo said that the most help-ful thing when moving to Rich-field Springs was that many people wanted to be her friend and helped make her feel com-fortable with being new. This included senior Molly Bello, “Jocelyn and I bonded very will over similar family situa-tions and comedy.” The two se-niors would often bond over the same type of humor including many Kevin Hart videos. Bel-lo also helped have some input on the unique unknown things of Gavalo, “She is very, very smart and her memory is very good. I call it her photographic memory because she can recite most things word for word. It’s remarkable.”

This week’s issue is full of interviews!

If you like the inter-views, or think that we should go back

to just reporting on news stories, let us

know!

Email feedback on this weeks issue to:announcements@

richfieldcsd.org

A Closer Look with Seniorita Coreyby Faith Graml

Jessica Corey is the new Span-ish teacher here at Richfield Springs Central School, she is very excited about working here and inspiring her students. Corey enjoys reading, drawing, watching movies, and going to the movies. Her favorite movie genres are drama, foreign and indie films, and her favorite movie is Pride and Prejudice. Corey’s favorite book genres are dystopian fiction, Har-ry Potter, John Green novels. Her favorite book is The Great Gatsby. She is a very happy person and is always helping people and trying to make them a better person.

FG: What do you like best about teaching?JC: Inspiring students, not only in Spanish but inspiring them to be the best person that they can be.

FG: Have you taught before you were here? If so where?JC: Yes, a couple of rural west-ern NY.

FG: If you were not a Spanish teacher what job would you want?JC: Artist ,book writer, or a screen writer.

FG: Were you a good student during school? What was your favorite subject?JC: My best subjects were Spanish, history, and art. I was good student, mostly A’s and B’s.

FG: Have you taught in a small school before? If so do you like it better then a bigger school?JC: Yes, very small maybe a lit-tle big bigger than here but ev-ery school has a different vibe, it’s nice to see the differences.

FG: Did you used to go to a big or small school? JC: I went to a pretty big school, graduated about 200 kids

FG: What do you do when you aren’t at school?JC: Read draw watching mov-ies/ going to the movies

C e n t u r y - O l d Curse Broken In World Seriesby Carson Hula

On Wednesday, November 2, perhaps the most insane base-ball season in recent memory concluded in spectacular and historic fashion. For the first time in 108 years, the Chica-go Cubs went to the Fall Clas-sic and defeated the red-hot Cleveland Indians–themselves trying to break a World Series drought that has been around since 1948. Needless to say, the series, which stretched to seven games, was going to be historic regardless of which team won. Not only was the result crazy, the way it was achieved was even crazier.

The Cubs had an impressive 2016 season, earning 103 regu-lar season wins–the most in all of Major League Baseball. That total included 54 wins at home, also the most in the big leagues. Taking the National League Central Division title for the first time in eight years on Sep-tember 16, the Cubs burst into the playoffs with great momen-tum. Their path, however, was hindered not only by a drought of over a century, but also by an upstart team from the American League Central Division. The Cleveland Indians, led by seasoned manager Terry Francona, had the American League’s second-best record with 94 wins. The “Tribe”

clinched the division title on September 26 with a win over the Detroit Tigers, and they plowed through the playoffs to go up against the Cubs in the World Series. The Fall Classic began in Cleveland’s Progressive Field on October 25, when Indians pitcher Corey Kluber staged a shutout of the Cubs with a final score of six to zero. Cleveland catcher Roberto Perez jacked two home runs into the stands, punctuating their Game One triumph. The next night saw Game Two being played once again at Pro-gressive Field, where the Cubs put up a massive effort to get the win five to one. Scoring three runs in the fifth inning and skillfully utilizing the masterful pitching of Jake Arietta, Chi-cago cruised to victory on the road, tying the series. On October 28, Game Three moved to Chicago’s Wrigley Field for the first championship game there since 1945, and the Indians spoiled the occasion by downing the Cubs one to zero. Pinch-hitter Coco Crisp’s run-scoring single in the sev-enth inning was the only score of the game, but it was enough to place the Indians in control of the series. Game Four kept the series in Chicago the next night, where

Cleveland again humiliated the Cubs with a seven to two win. Corey Kluber returned as the Indians’ pitcher, putting in six solid innings and outpitching the Cubs’ entire bullpen, just as Andrew Miller had done the previous night. Jason Kip-nis and Carlos Santana each jacked home runs for Cleve-land, contributing to a victory that put the Indians ahead three to one. In Game Five the following night, the Cubs looked to rally in the last game to be held on their home field–and they did, edging out a three to two vic-tory. A home run by third base-man Kris Bryant and a spec-tacular save by closer Aroldis Chapman kept the Cubs in the hunt as November rolled in. Game Six, played on Novem-ber 1, marked the return of the World Series to Cleveland, where Jake Arietta and the Cubs once again rallied on the road. Arietta’s masterful pitch-ing and a third inning grand slam by Addison Russell ce-mented the Cubs’ nine to three win; Chicago put 13 hits on the board, and three of those were home runs. The Cubs tied the Series with this win, setting up a climactic Game Seven in Cleveland the following night that would finally determine the victor.

- Continued on Page 7 -

Cubs fans rejoice in front of Wrigley Field in Chicago on Wednesday, No-vember 2, after Chicago’s seemingly snake bitten franchise won its first World Series title since 1908. Image Credit: abc7chicago.com

Fly the W

- Continued from Page 6 -

Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon admires the Commissioner’s Trophy in the locker room after his team’s tri-umph in the World Series.Image Credit: David J. Phillip, USA-Today sports usatoday.com

The final game’s first three in-nings saw a deadlock of one run each, with Chicago’s Kyle Hendricks facing off against Kluber on the mound once more for the Indians. As if to prolong the agony of anticipa-tion, the score was tied at six after the standard nine innings, so the game plowed into an ex-tra inning. In the game, eight different Cubs had a run batted in–a record for any Game Sev-en in the World Series. Both teams used five pitchers in the melee, but Cleveland’s bull-pen gave up two crucial runs in the top of the tenth inning. Cubs closer Mike Montgom-ery took the mound for Chica-go’s rebuttal in the bottom of the inning; he gave up one run, and Cubs fans worldwide held their breath. Then, a grounder that was thrown out at first at 12:47 a.m. fulfilled all the wishes and prayers of the Cubs and their fans for the past 108 years. Thusly, manager Joe Mad-don and his Cubs put an end to the longest stretch without a title in all of baseball, and also were the first team since the 1985 Kansas City Royals to reverse a 3-1 World Series deficit.

Befitting the historic occa-sion, the players rushed onto the field and immediately

began celebrating. Ben Zobrist, the Cubs’ second baseman, was named the Series’ Most Valuable Player. The players were ecstatic, as expected.

“Nothing’s been easy, noth-ing’s been given to us,” Cubs pitcher John Lester said to MLB.com. “Every series has been a battle…. We played three really good opponents to get here, and here we stand. It’s an unbelievable feeling to be a part of this.”

From then on, the Cubs par-tied nonstop, staging an epic victory parade through the streets of Chicago on Friday, November 4. They also have appeared on several late-night talk shows, and showed up at Disney World and on Saturday Night Live.

According to CSN Chica-go, the party may not be over just yet. Members of the club are still up for several major baseball awards: the Baseball Writers’ Association of Amer-ica announced finalists for numerous awards on Monday, November 7. Joe Maddon was a nominee for the National League’s Manager of the Year, while pitchers Jon Lester and Kyle Hendricks are in the run-ning for the Cy Young award and third baseman Kris Bry-ant could be the league’s Most Valuable Player.

Regardless of any individu-al awards, it’s the World Se-ries trophy that matters most. Thousands of fans, players, and all of Chicago have waited a long time for it.

The Long Road Aheadby Taylor VanTassel

With soccer ending a few weeks ago, it means that stu-dents will soon be thrown into the world of basketball. On November 7, all basketball teams would start their very first practice to start off the long season ahead. Many stu-dents at Richfield Springs look forward to the very long sea-son as well as the community. For weeks now, students at Richfield Springs have been looking forward to their fa-vorite winter sport, basketball. In Richfield, many students from all ages play basketball. The sport is one of the high-est played sports at the school. Many students put in tons of effort in order to get where they are today. Many of the students that play do not just play in school, they play out-side which shows the amount of dedication that these stu-dents have. Many seniors will be saying hello and goodbye to this sport and it will be a bittersweet sea-son for them, as they will soon end their high school basket-ball careers. One senior, that has been playing basketball since she was in grade three, could not be anymore excited but sadness still haunts her. Hayleigh Snyder, senior at Richfield stated, “I think this year will be very bittersweet, it’ll be very sad to see the season go by.” Although the season may be long, time flies when it’s your last and soon enough, seniors will be saying goodbye. Many other students besides seniors look forward to play-ing this beloved sport. How-ever, the community is a huge contribution to the sport as

well. Many people within the Richfield community sup-port the teams whether it be at games or online, and they take time to help the teams if help is needed. The communi-ty involvement for this sport amazes the entire school, the amount of time and effort that the people within the commu-nity spend on this one sport is truly amazing. They always try their best to make the athletes feel at home and very wel-comed. This goes for coaches as well, they make the sport very enjoyable with the fact that they make it feel like it is a family and they everyone can be so close. Snyder also stated, “My favorite part of basketball is bonding more as a team with people I have played with for many years.” The coaches and community as well as the ath-letes all make this bond pos-sible. Everyone involved with the sport makes it feel like it is home.

It’s Basketball Season!

Here is the Current Men’s College Bas-ketball Pre-Season

Rankings:

1. Duke2. Kentucky3. Kansas4. Villanova*5. Oregon6. North Carolina7. Xavier8. Virginia9. Wisconsin10. Arizona

*- Last Year’s NCAA Champion

Poll from AP Top 25