The Bluffer - Red Bluff, CA
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Page 7 January 23, 2015 Sports What is your favorite winter sport and why? Mr. Hendricks (Teacher) "Snowboarding, because of the beauty of the mountain." Blanca Rangel (11) "Skiing because it looks fun and I love the snow." Mrs. Clawson (Teacher) "Snowshoeing, because it's a great outdoors activity when there is snow." Austin Youngblood (10) "Snowboarding, because it's just fun to be outside and mess around in the snow." Jack Murphy (12) "Football, because it's fun to get into fantasy football with everyone else." Sound Off/Jay Boone Alexis Sherrell (9) "Basketball, because I just love playing and being on the team." Sophia Cumpton Staff Writter Red Bluff girls varsity soccer team keeps their heads up as they continue a strong season Red Bluff High School Spartans girls' Varsity soccer team has been working together well all season. They have won six games and lost one. Their loss was against what many players are saying is their biggest competitor, Chico High School Panthers. Chico's current wins are five, with one loss and one tie. Alyssa Shank, junior and player for Red Bluff's Varsity Girls Soccer team, said, "the team's really coming together." In response to the game against West Valley on January seventh, Aislynn Lair, defence player, said, "We did pretty well." When asked what the team did wrong, she replied, "We lost motivation." Red Bluff ended up winning 2-1. Cheyenne Houghtby, senior and goal keeper for the Spartans, gave more insight on the teams strategy for the west valley game. "We had most of the team target strong players." When asked about how she feels before the game, Houghtby commented, "I get nervous. There's lots of pressure on the goal keeper." Varsity girls also won a tournament against the Oroville Tigers 6-0 on December third. Lair, excited to talk about the match, described how she "stopped a goal by heading it out." ab workouts, all the drills. At the end of the day this team is not just a team, they are a family. The Red Bluff High School's girls varsity Soccer team is warming up before winning their game against Enterprise Friday night, at Enterprise. The freshman girls basketball team practices for perfection Red Bluff High School Freshman girls' basketball has had a fairly strong season so far. They have a 10-2 wins-losses ratio but have been undefeated since they started league. Both losses were to Chico High School Panthers. The Freshman girls basketball team is playing against the Chico Panthers on January 27, at 4:30 pm at Chico High School." Getting the team prepared for our next game at practice is very important. That practice we all make sure that we know what we are doing in our upcoming game, perfecting our offense, and pushing ourselves when we get on the baseline to run our liners." Amaya Reed said about how they prepare for upcoming games. Their best game so far has been Pleasant Valley where they scored over 70 points. Carly Storms said the hardest thing about playing basketball was," Mastering shooting and being pretty touchy with random strangers." The team has bonded over the past few weeks and hopes to use that bond as an advantage against their opponents. Tyler Ellenberg said,"My favorite part of it is getting to know all the other girls and getting to be on the team." Reed said," The hardest thing in the game of basketball to me is trying to keep your team positive. Sometimes when your team is struggling, they don't play as hard because of the score. It's just a game, have fun." They try to keep positive by having patience and focusing on the good instead of the bad. Their season ends February 19, where they will be playing Chico High School again for the last time of the 2014-2015 girls basketball season. Wrestling focuses on technique The whole Wrestling team has mainly just been practicing on their moves, and they've all been working on helping each other be more motivated. Freshman, Travis Hackstaff says, " I love wrestling." He states that conditioning is mainly what the team is dealing with. "I've been wrestling a little over a month now, and I can say you definitely have to be committed," said Hackstaff, "I try not to get myself to riled up, scared or nervous; I try not to think about whether I'm going to win or lose, I just wait to hear my name get called." The teams biggest competitor would be Corning. "I could probably say for our whole team that our goal is to dominate corning and for us to make it to finals," says Freshman, Isaac Aguilar, "Win or lose, at the end of the day we try to come together with our friends and give each other big pats on the backs, because we know we all tried our hardest. We all work super well with our teammates and good friends who are also apart of the team." Coaches, teammates, parents, friends, and even other classmates are all very supportive. partan ound S off Winning is refreshing for the Red Bluff High School varsity boys basketball team After winning two tournaments the Red Bluff High's Boys Varsity 2014-2015 team Joey Knight, junior small forward stated that one of the best moments of the season this year has been, "When we won our first tournament of the season because it was my first tournament as a varsity player." Owen Swarthout, junior post best moment of the season this year is, "Winning two tournaments because it's nice to win in tournaments and to show Red Bluff is different." During their best moments the players have gotten some of their best compliments. K n i g h t stated, "A coach asking me to transfer to another school to play basketball," and Swarthout stated, "Hearing congratulations or good job after winning a game." Even though the teammates get good compliments, their sport is still difficult to play but is also satisfying. S w a r t h o u t stated what is difficult about this sport w a s ," L e a g u e games are always rough and winning is always satisfying to me," stated Swarthout. What's difficult and satisfying to Knight is, "Staying positive is difficult to me, but the fun that we have as a team is what's satisfying to me about our sport." When you have your best moments of the season you are bound to have some worst moments, Knight stated to what has been one of our worst moments as a team was, "When we lost to Shasta by 3 points because of a bad] call because we should have won but we lost,"stated Knight. One of Swarthout's worst team moments this season was, "Losing to Arcata at their tournament because we should have beat them and not making any baskets." MacKenzie Moore, shooting a basket during their game aginst Plesant Valley here at home. "League games are always rough and winning is always satisfying to me." - Owen Swarthout Kourtney Sanders Staff Writter Britney Miranda Staff Writter Kaylie Capps Staff Writter Bluffer/ Tymberlyn Bealer Bluffer/Ryan Fisher