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Wednesday, January 27, 2016 Volume 6>>Issue 23> An Independent newspaper serving Springville, Iowa

“If It Ain’t Broke— Don’t Break It”

~ Charles Oakley

ORIOLE PRIDE

ARCHERY TEAM OUTPERFORMS THEMSELVES

Head Archery Coach Gary Biles checks in this week with a summary of the Oriole Archery team’s latest competition… The Springville archers competed in their fourth tournament of the season this past Saturday at Solon. The regular league season is at the half way point, with four more tournaments remaining. Overall this was Springville’s best tournament performance in the four year history of the program. The middle school archers had an outstanding day, with 12 archers shooting a personal best and two more tying their personal high score. The middle school team finished first out of the six teams in their division, improving 61 points over their previous high. Grant Gloeckner shot a new Springville school record score of 284, which placed him second out of 114 archers in his division. Cade Zaruba shot Springville’s second highest score with a 264, followed by Hunter Berger’s 259 and Holden Cordes’ 257. For the middle school girls’, Jasmine Jacobsen led the way for Springville with a 267, followed by Autumn Rathjen’s 257, Megan Pearson’s 252 and Chloe Snider’s 235. The high school continues to improve in each tournament with a 13 point improvement over their last tournament. The high school boys were led by Evan Corum’s personal best 264, followed by Joel Wickman’s 247 and Quinn Haverkamp’s personal best 244. For the first time in the program’s history, four girls shot a 270 or better. Kylie Mysak’s 277 led Springville, placing her fourth among 73 in her division. Haley Kirchmann, Jacinde’ Lillard and Cecilia Berger all shot a score of 270. Cecilia’s score represented a personal best for her. Springville’s next tournament will be this Saturday at Alburnett.

GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAM PLAYING FLAWLESS BALL

They average 55 points a game and hold opponents to 29. They lead all 1A teams in the state in assists and are 4th in assists among all teams across 5 classes. They lead the Tri-Rivers conference in scoring, assists and steals. They remain #3 in the state rankings and have 3 players averaging in double figures. If these stats don’t entice you to catch them in action I would venture to guess you like to collect coins and crochet, and hey, that’s ok too. The Lady O’s have been cruising through their season this past week as Coach Sanderson has them playing complete, team basketball. Last week they picked up a 41-32 road win at Bellevue Marquette and returned home on Saturday and easily handled Midland, 44-17. On Tuesday they traveled to Central City and dominated from the opening tip, jumping out to a 24-9 first quarter lead, then a 46-18 half time lead and they sailed through the second half with all the girls getting a touch in the game. This Friday the girls will visit Alburnett and on Saturday they’ll return home for a non-conference game with the Starmont Stars. Saturday’s action begins at 2pm when the JV girls kick off the afternoon. Machovec is the place to be this weekend folks—and if you like, bring your coin collection or feel free to crochet on the sidelines. We’ll see you court side! (To the right, Sami Johnson & Melissa Deeney battle for a board at Central City on Tuesday)

Wednesday, January 20, 2016 Oriole Pride 2

WEEKLY PICKS CONTEST… Here we go players—make your picks:

Starmont vs Oriole Boys Lisbon vs Calamus-Wheatland Boys Iowa State Men vs Texas A&M Southern Illiniois vs UNI Men For the tie-breaker, how many points will both Springville and Alburnett score in Friday nights girls game? Here’s what you do—Make your picks and predict your tie breaker, then email us at oriolepride@gmail.com Players kept the string alive this week as once again it came down to a tie breaker—plenty were 3 of 4 in their picks including some new players like Bryce Wilson and Rylee Menster. Returning players like Cavanaugh Riley, Joe Martin and Robin Menster were also 3 of 4 but no one nailed the tie breaker like Robin did - Cam Newton totaled 4 TD’s last week and that was Robin’s prediction so she is this weeks winner— Thanks for playing and have a great week!

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ORIOLE BOYS COMPETING HARD—LOOKING FOR A WIN

The last win the boys team picked up was a thriller against Central City just before the Holiday break. Tuesday the boys made a visit to the Wildcats gym hoping to pull off a sweep against the conference foe. The game was a tight one throughout with the lead never exceeding four points. Springville had its opportunities in the closing seconds to steal the win but the buckets just didn’t fall and Central City earned the victory, 46-42. Tuesday’s loss came on the heels of losses last week at Bellevue Marquette on Friday (69-40) and at home against Midland Saturday (57-45). The O’s sit at 4-11 overall and 3-6 in Tri-Rivers Conference play. Friday will send the boys to Alburnett for a battle with the 6-3 Pirates and they’ll return home to host Starmont (3-10) in a non-conference game on Saturday. Let’s go O’s! (Pictured right is Senior Jacob Loehr contesting a shot at Central City on Tuesday)

DID YOU KNOW? Saturday morning will be the 6th annual Charity Stripe Contest/Fundraiser in Machovec Gymnasium. The Oriole girls basketball team hosts the annual event to raise money for “Kids Against Hunger”. For five dollars you can shoot 25 free throws, winners will be awarded based upon age group. You can shoot, you can sponsor a player to shoot or you can make a donation. All funds will go toward purchasing food packs that will be assembled at a later date in February and disbursed across the world. The girls have set a goal of 20,000 food packages—Let’s Go O’s!!!

THE FAMOUS AMONG US—OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT… Every now and then I catch a glimpse of a Springville player, parent or super fan and I can’t help but do a double take because they remind me of a certain someone. This week we look at Oriole Junior, JP Kane. The basketball player is a dead ringer for Redskin Head Coach Jay Gruden! Wouldn’t you agree? You tell me, who is who here?