Vol.3 Sept 28, 2017 All rise for this years HOCO court · Vol.3 Sept 28, 2017 All rise for this years HOCO court By Laurel Hrabal Shark Scene Editor The students of SLHS were let

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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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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Vol.3 Sept 28, 2017 All rise for this years HOCO court · Vol.3 Sept 28, 2017 All rise for this years HOCO court By Laurel Hrabal Shark Scene Editor The students of SLHS were let