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Vol.3 Sept 28, 2017
All rise for this years HOCO court By Laurel Hrabal
Shark Scene Editor
The students of SLHS were let out of class Thurs. Sept. 21, for an all-school assembly to vote for the representatives for the 2017 Home-coming Court. Final results for the freshman class are Nicholas Worthy and Di-lynn Everitt. “I feel extremely hon-ored to be elected. I was surprised when they announced it because a lot of kids said they were going to vote for someone else, but then, they didn't. It made me feel like I'm accepted, and I'm very grateful,” says Everitt. The sophomore results are Natalia
Garza and Austin Aldrich. Austin Rhines and Aubrey Sher-wood are representing the junior class. “I am very proud to represent my class this year and I am very humbled that my classmates chose me to represent the class of 2019,” stated Sherwood. Finally, Maverick Giles, Jayce Kuehnlein, Michael Munderloh, Laurel Hrabal, Kaylee Rodriguez, and Brittney Roberson are repre-senting the senior class and are in the running to be crowned king and queen at the Homecoming Game Oct. 6. Voting for king and queen will take place after the assembly on that Friday afternoon.
This years 2017 Homecoming
Court poses for the annual
group picture, (Photo by
Mrs. Reeves).
Patriot’s Pen annual essay contest is on its way By Anthony Carrillo
Shark Scene Staff Writer
Patriot’s Pen annual es-say contest has begun. The essays’ topic is about the “Voice of Democracy, American History: Our Hope For the Future,”. Grades 9-12 are enrolled in a public, private, or pa-rochial high school in the U.S. and the territories, are eligible for this con-test. The essay must be
recorded on a CD or a flash drive. The essay also must not be shorter than three minutes or longer than five. Once you’ve recorded your essay, you must submit the typed version, CD/flash drive, to your local VFW Depart-ment by the deadline Oct. 31. “The essay topic is com-plicated and hard to un-derstand,” stated freshman Logan Koutz.
There are prizes and mon-ey involved for the win-ners. The national first place winner receives a $30,000 scholarship. The first place winner from each VFW Department wins a minimum scholar-ship of $1,000 and a paid trip to Washington, D.C. Freshman Ean Bradley commented, “I think the prizes are very good, but I think you will have to work hard to win it.”
Freshman Logan
Abell reads the Patri-
ot’s Pen rules (Photo
by Anthony Carrillo).
Shark Scene Sports p. 2
Varsity volleyball continues dominance
JV Volleyball beats Ovid-Elsie
By Brittney Roberson
Sharks Scene Staff Writer
The JV volleyball team hosted their second league match against Ovid-Elsie Sept. 20. The game ended in three sets with the Sharks winning the first set 25-15, losing 19-25 and winning the third 15-13. The team played very hard and gave a lot of ef-fort for the victory.
Brooklyn Aikens said, “We really came together more as a team and helped each other out a lot throughout the game. We did a good job keeping our intensity up. I hope we keep the energy up and keep on winning!” Natalia
Garza played an amazing match in the front row with her blocks and at-tacks, along with sopho-more Joslyn Clark having many assists on the night. The Sharks will be back in action Wednesday against Ithaca.
Ladies improving weekly
By Joseph Castellon
Sharks Scene Staff Writer
The lady golfers had their first annual Shark Classic in St. Louis Sept. 18, 2017. The girls looked strong taking fourth out of the ten teams. Allison Tai-palus was the lone medal-ist placing sixth. The top three sharks were Allison Taipalus, Olivia Anderson
and Modestie Hitchcock. Modestie said “I’m proud of the team and hope the squad puts in work at the end of the season.”
At the TVC Jamboree in Ithaca Sept. 20, 2017, girls golf shot a 182 making it their season's best score. This put them only three strokes away from first place, behind Shepard. The top girl golfers were Olivia Anderson, a 42, Starr Hansen with a 46, then Hitchcock and Beeson tying with a 47. Olivia Anderson said, “I’m very excited because I want to finish with a bang and hopefully make up the 23 strokes as a team and win the league.”
The Varsity Girls Golf will be back in action next week, Monday at Big Rapids, Wednesday in Sheperd, and Thursday in Chippewa Hills.
By Mackenzie Strong
Sharks Scene Staff Writer
The varsity volleyball team played against Ovid- Elsie Sept. 20, at St. Louis. The Sharks won its second league match defeating Ov-id- Elsie 25-12, 25-12, 25-17. The leaders for the team were Tara Goodell with 7 kills; Paige Young 8 digs and 2 aces; Laurel Hrabal 6 kills, 7 digs, and 2 aces and Megan Greenup with 4 kills, 7 digs, 19 as-sists, and 2 aces; “As a team, we started off a little slow but we got into the groove shortly after and
dictated the pace. We had a great night for hitting and serving which contributed greatly to our win,”
said Allyssa Roberson.
The Lady Sharks also hosted the St. Louis Sunset Invitational Sept. 23, at St. Louis. The team went 3-0 in pool play and beat Breckenridge, Montabella, and Rogers City. In the gold bracket quarterfinals, they beat Fulton. In the semis, the Sharks beat Alma. In the finals, they lost to Pewamo-Westphalia. The Sharks are now 2-0 in the league and 27-7 overall. The leaders of the tourna-ment were seniors Young with 65 digs, 8 assists, and 7 aces and Hra-bal with 50 digs, 8 assists, 26 kills, and 11 aces.
The Varsity girls pose with their tro-
phy (Photo by Coach Jaeck).
Junior Allison Tai-
palus shows off her
smile and swing
(Photo by Mrs. Beihl).
Sophomore Kassidy
Acker sets up to
serve the ball
(photo by Brittney
Roberson).
Sharks take three
sets to defeat the
Marauders
Shark Scene Sports p. 3
Varsity sharks blow out the lights
Sharks lose close one
By Jake Davis
Sharks Scene Staff Writer
The JV football team
took on the Cardinals
from Michigan Lutheran
Seminary Sept. 21, 2017.
MLS is a private school
in Saginaw and always
has a solid football pro-
gram. The game was
played in Saginaw and
was a tough battle fought
out by both teams. Saint
Louis scored early in the
first quarter on a 65 yard
touchdown pass from Pat-
rick Hanley to Corey
Thornton, which was his
first high school touch-
down. Thornton said, “It
was so cool scoring my
first touchdown. Patrick
threw me a perfect pass
and then I did the rest of
the work, running like 50
yards after the catch. I
hope I get the chance to
score more often!” After
that, the JV team couldn’t
find their groove. The
score was 28-21 late in the
fourth quarter and MLS
punched in another touch-
down to make the final
score 35-21.
Ean Bradley said, “The
game was a struggle be-
cause a lot of the team
was injured and sick. The
entire team was weaker
because of it.”
XC brings home hardware By Keegan Honig
Sharks Scene Staff Writer
The Shark cross country team dominated Saturday, Sep. 23 at the Al Kayner Delta Invitational at Delta College. All but a few Sharks ran for personal records at this meet. Sen-ior Kaylee Rodriguez stat-ed, “It was a hot day, and we all did the best we could do on the day.”
The Varsity boys took second place for the small school division, and their top runner was Cologio Alighire, who earned fifth place with his outstanding time of 10:44.79. Next
was Austyn Rhines (10:59.13), who placed 10th, and Dakota Courter (11:20.62), who came in at 16th.
The Varsity girls placed seventh for the small school division, and their fastest runner was Brook-lyn Filipak, who took eighth place and ran 13:20.66. Second for St. Louis was Zoe Dickman (14:40.36), as she came in 28th place. Third was Brittney Roberson (14:44.22), and she took 30th place.
(Photo of the meet’s start by Coach Puffpaff).
By Michael Munderloh
Sharks Scene Staff Writer
The Saint Louis Varsity football team played a game to remember Friday night at Wheeler field. The Sharks took on conference foe Michigan Lutheran Seminary in a game that had both conference and playoff impacts.
The game opened up as a defen-sive battle as both teams were held scoreless. However, Saint Louis was able to break through and strike first with a five-yard touch-down run by Marcus Long. The extra point was missed and soon after MLS pulled off a big hitting
55-yard passing touchdown to bring the score to 7-6.
Jake Davis would then go on to have two receiving touchdowns,
one from Travis Courter and one from Michael Munderloh, to bring the score to 19-7 before half time.
MLS would come out in the third quarter and shock the sharks with another long passing touchdown. The Shark offense was able to re-spond with a 10-yard touchdown run by Munderloh early in the fourth. The score read 25-14 in fa-vor of the Sharks when the lights literally went out.
The game was continued on Sat-urday morning where MLS made a strong comeback that wasn’t enough. The Sharks ended up win-ning by a score of 25-22.
Senior Jake Davis breaks away from
defenders after a great catch (photo
by Quinn Keon).
JV Sharks
struggle to
gain traction in
Tri Valley
Conference
Shark Scene Style p. 4
By Brianna Fry
Shark Scene Staff Writer
When you walk into a
school or pretty much any
public place, take a close
observation. What do peo-
ple usually wear? There’s
obviously those ‘extra’
girls, and guys, who wear
high heels on the daily,
but if you look at the ma-
jority, they are wearing
sneakers.
Sneakers are in style in
general, but to be specific,
this week the focus is on
one of the most estab-
lished, recognizable
sneakers in history, Nike
Air Force Ones. “If it isn't
big baller brand, it isn't
anything,” says Juan Di-
az. They were first pro-
duced in 1982 as basket-
ball shoes, but the streets
quickly brought these
shoes into the wardrobe.
Thirty-four years later
these sneakers continue to
be a casual shoe that's still
trending today.
Not only are these shoes
in style, they can be found
almost anywhere. No mat-
ter what shoe place you
go to, there’s bound to be
these classic kicks fully
stocked. They are also
inexpensive compared to
other brands such as the
Jordan Retro 13’s, averag-
ing around $150. The
general retail price for the
all white shoe averages to
about $95. The most
classic, original Af1s are
all white. Kailey Wonsey
says, “The Nike Air Force
Ones are ugly and too
white. They’ll just end up
getting dirty.”
Nike Air Force One shoes
Alex Tripp seen wearing
his Air Force Ones
(Photo by Brianna Fry).
History tends to repeat itself… or get better
By Lillian Windsor
Shark Scene Staff Writer
Two recurring fashion trends are
chokers and t-shirt dresses. Chok-
ers started way back in the Sumer
Empire in Mesopotamia and An-
cient Egypt. “They are just a fash-
ion trend!” said Jaymon Alspaugh,
surprised of their origin.
They’ve returned all throughout
history, and truly never disap-
peared out of fashion. They had
major popularity in the 1990’s, and
have returned in 2017. Along with
chokers, T-shirt dresses also have a
history of a waving popularity.
These started in the 1950’s when
the shirt would represent a man's
dress shirt with a belt around the
waist. As time moved on, this idea
evolved into a tight fitting dress
that would fit right above the knee-
cap. This trend follows an over-
sized graphic or non-graphic T-
shirt, made of cotton or polyester.
These two trends were formed to-
gether to create a choker v-neck T-
shirt dress. This trend became pop-
ular in 2017 in the juniors clothing.
“I feel like they are very fashiona-
ble and trendy,” senior, Kennedy
Hadley, said.
Many high school students wear
this as something cute but subtle.
This kind of style features T-shirt
dresses, long sleeves, tank tops,
and plain T-shirts. These shirts also
include lace-ups, ribbons, and
frills. This trend shows two trends
coming together make a huge im-
pact in fashion.
Tori Morgan waits for her
ride while rocking a grey
choker T-shirt (Photo by Lilli-
an Windsor).
Shark Scene Features p. 5
2017 sophomore HOCO nominees By Shelby Dosson
Shark Scene Staff Editor
Representing the class of 2020 for homecoming court, Austin Aldrich and Natalia Garza. As repre-sentatives, the Shark Sce-ne Staff decided to ask these court members a few question about hav-ing the privilege of being nominated.
To start things off, Aus-tin Aldrich was very hon-ored to be apart of the astounding tradition of homecoming. Austin said his favorite spirit days during homecoming was, “Red and black day be-cause we look good when we support our school.”
However, if there was
one thing Austin could change about homecom-ing week he would like a day that you can hang out with your friends at school having no work to do and getting hype for the upcoming game. The Shark Scene asked Austin to give an example on
how he represents the school best, his answer, “I have ran for the school and work hard doing it and I have had good sportsmanship to make a good impression on the school.” Austin was not the only one that was thrilled to be on home-
coming court. Natalia Garza was ecstatic espe-cially since she was want-ing to have this oppor-tunity. Homecoming overall for Natalia is a great idea for everyone to get together and get their funky side on during spir-it week. One of her favor-ite days during spirit week would be the era day because it’s exciting to see everyone do differ-ent hairstyles and dress in different style of clothing. If there was one thing you could change about homecoming week what would it be, Natalia said, “I wouldn’t change any-thing about homecoming week because it is a great school tradition.”
Class of 2021 selects female rep Dilynn Everitt By Faith Best
Shark Scene Staff Writer
The Shark Scene Staff
interviewed Dilynn
Everitt, class of 2021 fe-
male freshman repre-
sentative for homecoming
court. Shark Scene asked
her questions to get an
idea of what she was feel-
ing and what her thoughts
about being on court
were. Dilynn says that it
was a shock that she got
onto court and that a lot
of her peers were talking
about voting for someone
else, so she was very sur-
prised. Dilynn wanted to
be on homecoming court
but she believes that all of
the other girls deserved it
just as much as she did
and that it was a long
shot. Her favorite spirit
week day would have to
be pajama day. She pre-
fers to get up and go to
school in what she’s al-
ready wearing vs. having
to look professional. One
thing that Dilynn would
change about spirit week
would be making work-
force and get up and go
on different days. She
says that she would make
them in different days be-
cause she would like to do
both. Dilynn’s favorite
moment from high school
so far would have to be
getting elected for home-
coming mostly because
Dilynn hasn’t been in
high school for a long
time yet. Everyone are
very excited to have her
be one of their representa-
tives for the class of 2021.
Austin Aldrich and Natalia Garza proudly repre-
senting SLHS (photo by Shelby Dosson).
Everitt studies while wait-
ing for the big day (photo
by Faith Best).
Shark Scene Features p. 6
Senior class nominations of 2017
By Holli Rivard
Shark Scene Editor
The male junior class
representative is Austyn
Rhines. Austyn is an ac-
tive participant in cross
country, basketball, track
and field, students of the
influence, and the Nation-
al Honors Society. Ac-
cording to Austyn, “I feel
very honored to be on
homecoming court, and I
am pleased to be the rep-
resentative for the Junior
class.” He then went on to
explain that he honestly
never thought that he
would be nominated for
court, but he has wanted
to be for his previous
years in high school. Aus-
tyn does not have any rel-
atives that have been on
homecoming court, so he
is the first of his family.
According to Rhines, “I
think the main quality I
have that helped me get on
homecoming court is
simply being kind to other
people. Being courteous
of others gets you far.” If
you know Austyn person-
ally, you already know
this about him. After be-
ing asked his thoughts on
homecoming and spirit
week he answered, “My
overall thoughts on home-
coming are, it is a time
which everyone should be
a part of because it allows
you to make a lot of pre-
cious memories. It is a
spectacular time because
of how connected the stu-
dent body and community
are and how everyone
bonds during this time.”
Aubrey Sherwood is the
female representative for
the junior class. Sherwood
says that she feels very
humble to be able to rep-
resent her class in a posi-
tive way. According to
her, “I did not expect to
get nominated for home-
coming court. A couple of
my close friends told me
that they wanted me to be
a representative, but I nev-
er thought I would get
picked out of all of the
other girls in my junior
class.” Aubrey says the
qualities that helped her
get to where she is now
are, she is a very opened
minded person and she
enjoys talking to anyone
no matter who they are.
She loves interacting with
all of the students at her
school. Homecoming, to
her, means the whole
community coming to-
gether and celebrating
where they all are from
and go to school. Au-
brey’s favorite spirit day
is the red and black day,
which is the Friday of the
football game. She loves
walking around the halls
seeing how everyone co-
ordinates their outfits.
Overall, now that she is on
court, she plans to keep
focusing on being a posi-
tive influence for the rest
of her high school career.
By Deborah Tuzas
Shark Scene Staff Writer
Homecoming is a tradi-tion that many schools participate in during foot-ball season. There is one home game that is select-ed for homecoming. Lead-ing up to the game, there is a week full of activities to do to show your spirit for your school. This year’s senior class court representatives are Kaylee Rodriguez, Brittney Rob-erson, Laurel Hrabal, Maverick Giles, Michael
Munderloh and Jayce Ku-ehnlein. They were cho-sen to be the senior class representatives. The sen-
ior class is very happy to have them has their home-coming court nominations for this year. The shark Scene Staff interviewed Kaylee Rodriguez, Britta-ny Roberson and Laurel Hrabal. Kaylee said that she is very excited to be on homecoming court with her best friends. Brittney said that it is a honor to be one of the top three to be on court. She has a lot of love for her class and she will miss high school and she with her two best friends. Lau-
rel said that she is also very honored to be on court. Brittney said that she didn’t expect to be on homecoming court. As far as the dress attire goes, Kaylee said that she has two hairstyles, she has a up and a down style whereas Brittney said that she would do a lower bun or a half up half down hairstyle. They are all very excited to be on court for their senior year and are looking forward to seeing who will be king and queen this year.
Homecoming junior representatives
Austyn Rhines and Au-
brey Sherwood practice
their poses for all the
upcoming paparazzi mo-
ments. (Photo by Holli
Rivard).
The senior reps
proudly support foot-
ball (photo by Maria
Roberson).
Shark Scene Opinions p. 7
Should we fight for $15? By Cologio Alighire
Shark Scene Staff Writer
I have always worked for minimum wage. In fact, for the past year, I have bussed tables at Can-cun Mexican Grill for minimum. This impacts many people in SLHS be-cause most people who become employed at the age of 16 or 17 work for minimum wage. Senior Aubree Cervantes, who held a minimum wage job at Big Boy said “I feel like it should be higher. People would have more money to buy the things they need if there was a higher minimum wage.”
Since people spend more when their wages are higher, it would seem to be rational to raise it much higher.
Another SLHS student, Carson Daniels, said, “That's a really hard ques-tion. It would be nice to be payed more, but every-thing else will cost more as well.” I personally felt the impact that raising the minimum wage had. I make about $5.00 more a week because of the re-cent wage hike. There’s only one problem, a mini-mum wage impacts the economy in a terrible way. Simply put, the minimum wage doesn’t work and raising it only makes
things worse.
The main problem is it will always increase un-employment. Basic logic dictates, when employers understand that they have to pay more for labor, they're going to purchase less of it. When the mini-mum wage is raised, it does undeniably help some; there are people who will make more be-cause of it, but there will be people who make noth-ing because the value of their labor is worth less than that of minimum wage so they will remain unemployed. Furthermore, when a person enters into a mutually agreed upon salary or hourly wage and
are being compensated at a rate both parties deem to be fair, I fail to see why the government should intervene on behalf of the employee or employer.
Phones: distracting or needed?
By Joseph Smith
Shark Scene Staff Writer
With the new phone policy put
into act, students have reacted very
negatively to it. St. Louis staff
members, however, have responded
to it quite positively. For example,
St. Louis staff member Mr. Puffpaff
said, “I think it's a good thing for
student learning. Phones can be dis-
tracting, and studies have shown
even if they're not in your hand per
say, even if they're in your pocket,
they distract subconsciously from
what's going on around us.”
I strongly disagree with Mr. Puff-
paff here. In my opinion, phones
create many opportunities in class,
and it is up to the students to be
held responsible to pay attention in
class, and not sit on their phones.
Additionally, there are many apps
on our phones that can help keep us
organized with our school work.
For example, notes, reminder, and
planner apps. These apps help keep
me organized with all of my work
and due dates, and keep me in
check with all of my work.
Another opinion on this, comes
from freshman Brenden Smith. He
says, “The cell phone policy is very
dumb. I should be allowed to sit on
my phone and do whatever I want.”
I somewhat agree with this state-
ment. I agree that the cell phone
policy that is in place right now is
dumb, but there should be some
rules/guidelines put in place.
Brianna Fry busses
tables to make mini-
mum wage. (photo by
Cologio Alighire).
Dylan Weller’s phone is taken
away by Mrs. Beery (photo by
Joseph Smith).
Shark Scene Entertainment p. 7
It: A top film of 2017 By Ernie Diaz
Shark Scene Staff Writer
The movie It is an exhil-
arating thriller that is one
of the top movies of 2017.
It’s a remake of the hit
1990s version of the mov-
ie. The thriller is rated R
and has a run-time of two
hours and fifteen minutes.
The movie can be seen at
NCG Alma Cinemas and
Celebration Cinema in Mt.
Pleasant.
The movie is very simi-
lar but more exciting than
the classic version of the
film. The new It has more
jumpscare scenes and has
a more chilling feeling
while watching it.
The film begins with
Billy making his little
brother Georgie a paper
ship. Georgie places the
boat in the stream; he
chases after the ship until
it floats into the gutter that
leads to the sewer tunnels.
This is where Pennywise
the clown is introduced.
The movie starts to get
very exciting and thrilling
from this point on, and it
will keep you on the edge
of your seat.
SLHS students were
asked what they thought
of the movie. Sophomore
Corey Thornton stated, “I
thought it was pretty fun-
ny, but was still kind of
scary at times.” Sopho-
more Kassidy Acker’s
opinion was, “I thought
the movie was actually
funny and not that scary.”
How to make HOCO memorable
By Isabel Larson
Shark Scene Staff Writer
As everyone knows, homecoming
is coming soon (Oct. 6, 2017), and
that means people need to start ask-
ing for dates. However, with asking
a person to homecoming, there
comes a cost, which is that you
must ask in a “cute” way or else it
means nothing.
A lot of people think that they
don’t have to ask their boyfriend/
girlfriend (if they have one) to
homecoming because they are al-
ready dating and believe they are
obligated to go together. They are
wrong; they should still ask in a
cute way to make it memorable.
Another problem is that people al-
ways seem to think the males
should be the one to ask the fe-
males. However, a lot of girls are
stepping up and asking the ones
they like to go to homecoming with
them. An example of this is Megan
Greenup and Jayce Kuehnlein, Me-
gan asked her boyfriend Jayce to
homecoming. She bought Jayce do-
nuts and wrote “Hoco? JK! I DO-
NUT care, you’re going with me
anyway.” Another creative home-
coming proposal involved Chloe
Pestrue and Michael Munderloh.
Chloe was the one who asked Mi-
chael to homecoming. The sign that
she wrote said, “Mic, will you walk
through one last homecoming with
me?” So, as homecoming approach-
es, don’t forget to get yourself a
date and make it memorable!
Megan Greenup poses with
her hoco date Jayce Ku-
ehnlein (photo by Maddie
Greenup).
It (2017) is a remake of
the 1990 original
(photo found on Cin-
emablend).
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