The Bluffer - Red Bluff, CA
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Sports Rebecca Blanchard Staff Writer match and they are get- ting more confident. "We improved our oday the Red Bluff High School Tennis team will be heading down to Sacramento to compete in Norcals. When at Norcals, you cannot play doubles if you play a singles match. "If we somehow win, we just keep going till we lose," said Hendricks. The players have gone far- ther this season than anyone in Red Bluff High School history. Senior Igor Minarik says they still get better from match to doubles match, we al- ways win at least two out of three doubles and Coach Twitchell moti- vates us and takes us to In and out which makes us play better," said Mi- narik. Players Minerak and Page 8 May 18, 2012 Tennis team heads to Sacramento T the first in recent history. We also have the indi- vidual section champion Igor Minarik. Our team has qualified to go on to NorCals this Friday to play teams from the Bay Area and Sacramento," said Coach Twitchell. Players also have their Hendricks gave high praise about the team's second ranked player, Thunder Shaffer. "Thunder Shaffer and CJ are going to be leaders next year," said Hendricks. Courtesy photo The league championship boys tennis team and coach posses for a photo At the same time, Minarik added that Thunder has im- proved this year and he will be number one next year. favorite things about be- ing on the team or tactics to win. "My favorite thing "The season has been incred- ible, we won the EAL League. Then, we won the Northern Section Championship, which is about tennis is the team bonding, we put all of our effort into our match and we don't look ahead of the team we're playing," said Hendricks. Tennis Standings Boys League Overall 6-0 14-1 Standings updated as of 5-16-12 Varsity baseball ends season with loss against Shasta Armando Aguilar Sports Editor This season for Varsity Baseball was a strong one. They were still able to win just about all of their tournaments this season. They were seeded highly in playoffs, but fell short in the end. They were able to come up with a record of 21-8-0 overall and 8-4-0 in league. Over the course of the season this Varsity team believes that they improved greatly in experience and playing abilities. They also believe that they became as one and played hard during every game. "We have good meaningful practices and have good team unity," said Mitch Robinson, senior. The team wanted to improve on some of their techniques during practice so they could seem perfect on the field during games. "We want to get better when we step on the plate and we want to stay in the game the whole time also," said Robinson. Many of the players set goals for this season like winning league, having a better batting average, or just being in the starting lineup. "I want to get twenty three or more wins this season and the league title this year for sure," said Robby Lasby, senior. As a team they believe that they perfected their techniques during practice and were able to show them during games all throughout the season. "We had really good pitching and defense all throughout this season," said Robinson. "I want to help out the team the most that I can at my full potential and I want to win sections," said Jared Poore, sophomore. The team had their last regular season game against Enterprise. They beat Enterprise 8-1 at Enterprise. This gave them motivation for their next game. "We want to beat Shasta, but I'm pretty sure we can because we have played twice already and beat them twice," said Robinson before they lost to Shasta. Their last game that they played was against Shasta. They lost 4-2 and it was a playoff game which ended their season and also ended their goals in taking the section title. They have played twice already and Red Bluff beat them twice, but in the end Red Bluff fell short. Boys Baseball Standings Varsity League Overall 8-4 21-8 Standings updated as of 5-16-12 JV baseball wins third consecutive league title Armando Aguilar Staff Writer This season for JV baseball was a strong one. They were able to win their third league consecutive title, taking home the trophy. They fought hard through the season to do this. They went 22-10-0 overall and 9-4-0 in league. They were able to accom- plish this even though there was a lot of a freshmen on the team this year. "We were really heavy on freshmen this year, but in the end they were able to step up," said CJ Somavia, sophomore. They believe they polished up all of their techniques even the ones that they struggled with all season. They believe practice helped them do this. "I think we improved on hit- Track breaks records this season, hopes for a win in Divisions Xarayna Sekscenski Staff Writer The Red Bluff High track season is coming to an abrupt end according to Jorge Caldera, senior, who is very "sad." Adrienne Hinkston, sophomore, was one of the girls that broke a record. She broke the JV girls 400 meter with a 60.5 second split. Kayla Thayer, sophomore, broke the JV girls discuss throw at 122.5 feet, beating last year's record. Thayer hopes to go back next year and go for the record of Varsity girls discuss, according to her, the record is around 133 feet. Today the team has division 1 championships and Dominic Lightfoot says that today "looks great." "It looks great because schools from Redding and Chico are going to be there so it's better competition," said Lightfoot. Lightfoot hopes to take 1st in discuss, and worked "extra hard" all week. Track & Field Standings Varsity JV Boys Girls 5-0 5-0 Boys Girls 5-0 3-2 Standings updated as of 5-16-12 ting, defense and fielding a lot during the season," said Jack Murphy, freshman, another member on the team. "Started off shaky but we managed to win the EAL South league title", said Nick Schluep, sophomore. As a whole team they believe that they improved a lot and got a large number of their goals done. They also believe they came together as a team. "We really matured a lot while the season progressed," said Somavia. Each player set goals for this season like winning league or being in the starting lineup. "I wasn't that experienced but into the season I got to be on the starting lineup and that was one of my goals," said Murphy. According to Nick Schluep, he believes this year's team was a strong one. He also plans to move up to varsity because he believes he has the potential to do so. This JV baseball team had its last game on May 8 against Enterprise and won 6-4. They were highly motivated in winning their last game. "We wanted to win our last game just to make our season even better," said Murphy. This JV team was able to Boys Baseball Standings JV League Overall 7-1 21-9 Standings updated as of 5-16-12 Joanna According to Minarik, his fa- vorite thing about tennis is that feeling after playing tennis. "This has been so fun to coach this team, they're fun to be around, work hard and show a lot dignity," said Twitchell. Today at 10 am the Tennis team will play in Sacramento. have a strong season and win league for the third consecutive year.