The Bluffer - Red Bluff, CA
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Sports Egan Meagher News Editor The Red Bluff Varsity girls softball team ended their season on one of the most positive notes they could hope for. The team played Shasta high school two weeks ago in the Sections play-off game. The team shut-out Shasta in a 6-0 win at Shasta. "Shasta played a good defense but our pitcher really shut them out and our hitting was really good that day," said Bryce Etzler, junior. Sections is the highest play- off game for softball teams . This is Red Bluff's second year in a row for playing in the Sections game. Last year the team played against Chico but lost 2-1. For this season the girls learned to work together as a team to be able to win Sections. "We were working together really well, never fell apart, and shared a common goal throughout the game," said Brittney Fletcher, senior. The team is all very proud Ryan Fisher Staff Writer Tennis team wins league The Red Bluff High School boys' tennis team ended their season with a league championship. "We did really well this season and I did well for my first year of tennis," said Garret Ward. He also added that he was lucky to have players like Igor to be a big part of them winning league. With the season being over players look back to see if they accomplished any of their goals they had set at the beginning of the season. "My goals at the start of the season were to play as good as possible and help the team win matches," said Igor Minark. Eddie Samay said, "My goal was to be within top six in league and play as far as we can as a team". " The goal for me was to improved mentally this year for of how their season went and they all believe that everyone on the team did their part and they played to the best of their ability. "Our season couldn't have been any better. We all did our Page 10 Softball ends almost undefeated The team will lose half of their team to graduating seniors part to win and just really came together as a team to make it a really good season," said Fletcher. The softball team will be losing almost half of its players because they are graduating seniors. With only having half of this year's team returning to the team next season their future looks uncertain. "It will be a really big dent but I'm excited and curious how it's going to play out," said Haley Harris, junior. The success of next years team depends a lot on the capability of the girls that try out next year. "Our success really will depend on the players coming up to varsity with us," said Harris. The team also learned one thing that they will keep with them. "Trust in your team, coaches, and yourself," said Fletcher. Girls Softball Standings Varsity League Overall 11-2-0 29-4-2 Standings updated as of 5-30-12 Spring Football brings new motto: "team first" Brittany Villa Sports Editor the next year and to travel and hang out with my teammates," said Ward. Ward also added that it seemed like everyone improved and everyone played their part for us to win league. " I wasn't really good at the start of the season," said Ethan Aponte. "I didn't get to participate in any tournaments because I was top seven on the team but I feel if I practice hard enough I will be able to play next year more than I did this season," he then added. But as with all the other sports Tennis is over for the season until next spring. Tennis Standings Boys League Overall 6-0 14-1 Standings updated as of 5-16-12 JV track ends season strong Big gap to fill next year Armando Aguilar Staff Writer This year JV Track and Field had a very strong season. The boys JV had a tremendous season and also won the league title. The girls JV had also had a strong season as well. According to Head Coach Corey Hein, JV boys were outstanding this season and were also very competitive. He also mentioned that the JV girls had a great season even though they had a low number of girls this season. Many of these athletes are ready to move up to varsity next year. They believe they have the potential to compete at this level. "There are a lot of seniors on Varsity that will be graduating this year so there will be a big gap to fill in," said Frank Van Meter. In the end JV Track and Field for both boys and girls had a tremendous season. The JV boys were able to pull trough and take the league title. Track & Field Standings Boys Girls Overall 5-0 Overall 3-2 Standings updated as of 5-30-12 The Spartan football teams have conceived a new program mentality pushing "team first," as their motto. The Jv head coach will be Dan Ackley and the Varsity head coach/ pro- gram head is Corey Hein. They have been in spring training for the last two weeks starting on May 21 and ending on June first. Spring training includes both Jv and Varsity football teams. Hein feels that it is going well. "We've had a great turn out. There is a ton of energy, posi- tive coaching, and the players are learning a lot," said Hein. Hein has brought a whole new look into the way the pro- gram works. He is pushing to think of the football teams as one program as opposed to three individual levels. Hein wants the teams to compete every week. He be- lieves that the constant compe- tition will put them in a position to win the tough games. The team will be holding fundraisers this year. They have already started their lift-a-thon and will be sell- ing water during graduation. Along with that, the team will be selling discount cards next Fall. Hein believes that the team has a lot of talent, but thinks they need early success to gain confidence. "It will take more work than they've been putting in these last couple years to acheive our 'team first' motto. The athletes will have to sacrifice time and be put in situations they prob- ably won't like. We're hoping to acheive more by holding a man- datory summer weight train- ing," said Hein. Hein's aspirations for the program are to improve over- all as a program, play football the right way, be disciplined in what they do, and have the Var- sity team make it to play-offs. Hein's goals are clear and will make their debut in Fall. June 1, 2012 Varsity track ended with a bang with 5 going to state Payton Cumpton Staff Writer Red Bluff High School's track season has ended. Many of the athletes went to sections to compete for state titles. Kayla Thayer has been practicing all year for the track season. She competed in sections to for discuss and shot put. Kayla has proved that practicing has paid off as she broke the JV discuss record. "I'm excited because it's my first time going to state because I'm on varsity this year, and I'm looking forward to the competition", said Kayla Thayer. Sophomore A d r i e n n e Hinkston will be competing on the relay team. "Our goal is " in all divisions, so it got us a lot of points around the differ- ent events," said Jonah McIn- nis. A lot of the varsity athletes will be graduating this year; however they have high hopes for the upcoming team. "Most of the depth in our team is graduating this year but there is a lot of potential left for them to grow," said Jo- nah Mcinnis The Red Bluff Track team went into the section meet seated first or second in eleven events. "It was a very successful Our team is well balanced in all to go to state and break the record of the 4 by 4 relay", said Adrienne Hinkston. The team pushes each other divisions, so it got us a lot of points." -Jonah McInnis in practice and they are work- ing on perfecting their hand- offs for sections. "Our season has been pretty consistent, also exciting being able to break a record which is really exciting". The relay team's goal is to run faster times and break the 4 by 4 record. Jonah Mcinnis will be com- peting in the triple jump in sections. "Our team did really good, some of the varsity boys are league champions and we took 3rd in divisions as a team" said Jonah Mcinnis The team broke a lot of re- cords in different divisions throughout the season. "Our team is well balanced season we were able to win league this year in both boys are girls, we had 20 league cham- pions in differ- ent events" said Coach Micheal Five girls qualified for the State meet, Meaggan Rec- tor who his throwing shot and discus, also the girls 4 by 400 qualified for State, Joanna Smith Conrad, Lily Brose, Allison Winning, and Adrienne Hinkston. Coach Micheal is very proud of the girls and believes they should be proud of them- selves getting to this point and still competing and hopefully they will improve their marks, and if nothing else at least they will enjoy it. Track & Field Standings Varsity Boys 5-0 Girls 5-0 Standings updated as of 5-30-12