Lady Raiders Win Tri-Central Holiday Tournament

On Saturday, December 20th, the Lady Raiders Varsity and JV Basketball team competed at the Tri- Central holiday tournament. Both teams played against the Randolph Southern Rebels in their first game. The Varsity had a hard fought game against the Rebels. The game was close throughout the entire first half with the Rebels taking a two point lead going into into halftime. Both teams kept their intensity throughout the second half, however the Raiders won by only two points.

The JV didn't fare so well. The Rebels had a very cushioned lead in the first three quarters, however, toward the end of the fourth quarter, the Raiders shots started to fall and they brought the Rebels lead to only ten points. The Raiders ended up losing 48-38.

The day ended with the both teams winning. Both teams battled Tri-Central. The JV team won in a close game throughout. The team pulled out a W to place third. The Varsity team played in the Championship game at 8 p.m. The Varsity team had a pretty good lead throughout the game and won the game 46-38.

Jessica's Book of the Week

Starting this week, I will be writing a post about the book that I have read or want to read. I will try to give you three reviews. These reviews will be for and against the book, then I will give my opinion of the book.
Some may think that the book Sixteenth Summer by Michelle Dalton, is all lovey-dovey, which may be true, but sometimes lovey-dovey books are the best. In one book review, from the website http://www.goodreads.com/, Lyndsey (screen name) rated the book 3 out of 5 stars. She thought that the book was too perfect and not enough real life problems. Sixteenth Summer had some neat events, but Lyndsey thought that the book didn't have enough grit, but thought it was a good book if you were into the lovey-dovey, perfect romance novels.
Ariana (screen name) rated Sixteenth Summer 5 out of 5 stars. She thought that the book was a great read. She loved following Anna's summer romance. Ariana thought that there was three stages during the book which falling in love, being in love, and the moment when you might have to stop falling in love. She loved falling Anna through all of the stages. Ariana loved the Sixteenth Summer. 
I thought that Sixteenth Summer was a great book. I thought that the book was well writen. I loved watching Anna and Will's love story. I highly recommended this book, if you love girly love stories.

FAFSA Night!

Seniors and parents,

FAFSA Night! TONIGHT At Southern Wells.  Bring your parents. This will be an extremely informative meeting.  Held in the LMC - meeting starts @ 6:30 on Wednesday January 7th.  

If you are planning to attend some form of post-high education in the fall you will want to file a FAFSA - even if you think your family will not qualify for Federal Assistance!  Many institutional scholarships (scholarships from the college) and other scholarships will not be awarded unless a FAFSA is on file.

It is not necessary to have your 2014 Taxes filed to attend this meeting.  In fact - recently added to the process... an option to have tax information automatically fill in the FAFSA if you and your parents file your Income Taxes online!

PLEASE - let your parents know about this meeting!

Do you remember 2014?

As we come back into school only truly one thing has changed, and that would be the year. With a new year comes new possibilities and new things, but what from last year in 2014 has influenced the change and the new things to come for the year 2015?

Better air traffic monitoring systems?

After the 2 missing Malaysian airlines, and the downed aircraft in Ukraine, a lot of time and resources are being spent to improve air traffic monitoring.  

Better computer protection?

After a year filled with cyber attacks and hacks more and more people are becoming aware about how unsafe and untamed the web actually is, resulting in the need for better protection.

A new population of adults!

With a new year comes new graduates finally going out to pursue their dreams in the world. Making the new possible with fresh imaginations and education, the class of 2015 will take on the world head on and help improve it.

B.A.D. Pinterest Episode 7

The B.A.D. Boys Christmas Spectacular is wrapping up with this episode. The special guest was Mr. Roush and there was a live studio audience. They were given the task of making their very own Christmas sweater. They also have to wear their creations today. Last week the Boys made gingerbread houses. Blake came in first, Drew came in second, and Austin came in last. That brings the current standing to Blake in first with 17 points, Drew in second with 14 points, and Austin in third with 11 points. After watching the video or seeing them in school vote on who made a better sweater under the video.

Northfield gets by Raiders

Tuesday night was not a good night to be a Raider. The Raiders did not perform to their best capabilities on a long, nasty night. We did not shoot very well at all. Our starters had foul problems early in the game. The Raiders were down 35 to 12 at one point and just never made it a game. The halftime score was 48 to 24. Coach Burman gave a great speech in the locker room during halftime time. The only problem is the team did not do what he had talked about. The Raiders ended up losing  81 to 52 in the end. The Raiders play Bluffton next game on Friday at Bluffton.  JV tip off is at 6 pm, with the Varsity game to follow.

Raiders fall to the Knights

Saturday the Raiders traveled to a very tough Norwell team. The Raiders trailed for most of the game. The Raiders knew it would be a tough game to win, but knew that the Knights could make them better. Knowing Norwell is probably the best team on the Raider's schedule the Raiders knew if they could play good against the Knights then they could play with any team. The Raiders ended up falling to the Knights by a final score of 73-49. The Raiders took many positives from the game, and saw many things they can improve on. The Raiders next game is tuesday against Northfield.

Stat Leaders:
Points:
Triston Niblick-18 points

Rebounds:
Triston Niblick-3 rebounds
Evan Huffman- 3 rebounds

B.A.D. Pinterest Episode 6

The B.A.D. Boys are at it again with the 6th installment of B.A.D. Pinterest. This week marks the 2nd week of Christmas related activities. This week they were in charge of making gingerbread houses. This was a 2-day affair, because of some technical issues. After watching the video, please vote below. The results are in, and the sheeple have spoken. Rockwell came in first, followed by Blake, with Austin coming in last. The updated standings are Blake in first with 14, Drew in second with 12, and Austin in last with 10. Make sure you tune in next week for the Christmas spectacular part 3, with a mystery special guest.

Christmas Movies Results

Last week I asked you what your favorite Christmas movies were, you responded over the week. Here are the results: Elf was the favorite.

Lady Raiders Fall to the Tigers

On Saturday, the Lady Raiders took on the Bluffton Lady Tigers in the team's second ACAC conference game. Both teams, JV and Varsity, both had prepared for the Lady Tiger offense and were ready to work hard during the games. The JV had a close game the entire way. In the beginning of the game, the Raiders took a 10-0 lead when the first time out was called. The lead began to switch back and forth between each team. The Raiders pulled away in the fourth quarter, winning 35-29.

The Varsity game did not fare so well. The Lady Raiders started the game out slow with Bluffton having a 6 point lead at the end of the first quarter. The Raiders tried to fight back, but it was nearly impossible. The Raiders scored a total of 10 points in the first half. The Raiders came out from half time and wanted to try and come back. The Lady Raiders ended up losing, 27-38.

The Raiders are back in action on Wednesday at Frankton, JV game starting at 6:00 p.m.

Raider wrestlers against Heritage

The Raiders represented well for the first dual meet of the year with a win. The meet started off strong with T.C. Perry and Ethan Smith both getting wins to kick things off. Nick Roberts came in for a long match against a heritage opponent that resulted in a loss of match but gave him opportunity to fix technique. After Nick's match came Jimmy McQueary's edge of seat match that came down to a literal last second take down to win the match. From there it seemed the raiders had gained a momentum that couldn't be stopped, especially with Seniors Jacob Stout, Daniel Beeks, and Paul Renner showing their experience on the mat each walking away 1-0 on the season. The next dual meet is Thursday December 11, against the Bluffton Tigers at 6:30pm, and they also face a tournament in Lapel Saturday December 13, starting at 9:30am.

The Voice!

    This week of the live rounds is the bottom six, the remaining contestants on the voice are: Chris Jamison, Damien, Matt McAndrews, Taylor John Williams, and Craig Wayne Boyd. Toon into NBC tonight to catch the performances, or watch all of your favorites HERE!!!!

B.A.D. Pinterest Episode 5

After a miserable week off, the B.A.D. Boys are back in action. For the remaining 3 episodes of the semester, the boys will be doing Christmas related activities. This week the boys are making it snow at Southern Wells by making snowflakes out of paper. This was one of the more challenging things they have done, up there with the origami elephant. After watching the video please vote below for the person who you think did the best job making a slowflake.

Student of the Week

1.) Which do you prefer books or movies? I prefer movies because they are shorter and I can watch more in the time it would take to read a book.

2.) What's your favorite subject and why? My favorite subject would be Mr Kinder's media class. It was so much fun and I really enjoyed media.

3.) Who is your favorite teacher and why? My favorite teacher would be Mr. Penrod for obvious reasons.

4.) How do you feel about going to school in a circle? I think the circle is super cool because it is so much different than any other school. And its way easier to not get lost

5.) What do you want to be when you grow up When I grow up, ideally I want to be a disney princess. But if that doesn't work I guess I would want to be a FACS teacher.

6.) What's your middle name? My middle name is Sue

7.) If you could go anywhere, where would it be and why? If I could go anywhere, I would go to Florida because there is Disney World and the beach and those are my two favorite things in the whole world.

8.) Who's your celebrity crush? My celebrity crush is James Roday   `

9.) What is your favorite meal to eat. My favorite meal is any kind of pasta. I love pasta.

10.) If you could be an animal, what would it be? I would be a penguin because they are so cute when they waddle.

Raiders Win Season Opener

The Southern Wells Raiders went up against North Miami saturday at the Raider Dome. After a slow start the Raiders finally calmed down and took the lead at the end of the first quarter 12-10. The second quarter was better for the Raiders as they outscored the Warriors 14-9 to take a halftime lead of 26-19. In the third quarter the Raiders got into foul trouble. With many of the Raider guards on the bench the Raiders tried to just hold their lead into the fourth quarter. The Warriors narrowed the Raiders lead at the end of the third quarter to only three points. The Raiders led 39-36 with just 8 minutes left. In the fourth quarter the Raiders came out firing outscoring the Warriors 18-5. The Raiders got their first win by a final score of 57-41. The Raiders host the Adam Central Jets at the Raider Dome this friday, Varsity tipoff at 7:30.

Stat Leaders:
Points:
Triston Niblick- 12 points
Evan Huffman- 10 points
Brad Woodward- 10 points

Rebounds:
Brad Woodward- 7 rebounds
Bryce Bonewit- 6 rebounds
Evan Huffman- 5 rebounds

Assists:
Brad Woodward- 5 assists
Hunter Schreiber- 3 assists

Favorite Christmas Movies

S-Dub Hub wants to know what your favorite Christmas movies are! Submit your answers, then on next Wednesday I will decide what is the favorite Christmas movie is based on responses. Please on vote only once. 

Giving Thanks

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Many of us already know this. Eventually tomorrow morning, people will get up early just to begin to cook all day long. This seems like a very daunting task, and it is. In the chaos of all the traveling, preparing, and cooking we often fail to stop, take a step back, and take the 10,000 foot high view of thanksgiving. The reason for this holiday is in the name of it! Thanksgiving. To me Thanksgiving means that there are thanks to be given. Everyone has heard the saying "count your blessings", for me the saying means more so "remember the things you are thankful for". Each and every one of us will have something that they think of that they are thankful for while they read this post, and for me it is my dad. Tomorrow will be my second Thanksgiving meal without my father. Many of the teachers and students at southern wells know that my dad died early in the morning last Thanksgiving. As hard as it will be for me to enjoy my thanksgiving without him, I ,like I hope every one will, will stop to analyze and think about what you are truly thankful for. Now, I say truly thankful because we have all done these kinds of activities in school around Thanksgiving writing down what we are thankful for, but I know that not everybody takes it seriously, and often takes it for granted. I know that because I used to. I am thankful for the 17 years of my fathers life that he shared with me, and that he always worked his hardest to make ends meet so that we would live semi comfortably. We all have something, heck multiple things that we are thankful for, or at least should be thankful for. This Thanksgiving when you sit down to eat, if you say grace, or even if you don't "count your blessings" and think about what you are truly thankful for. Whether it be a roof over your head, or the nice new car mom and dad bought you, we all have something that we should be thankful for.

What Southern Wells is Thankful For

In honor of Thanksgiving, this week we decided to go around to students and teachers and ask what they are thankful for. These are just a few reasons that people are thankful during this time of Thanksgiving. From the S-Dub Hub we wish you a very happy Thanksgiving!

 

Best Friday Sales

Everybody loves getting stuffed on Thanksgiving, only to turn around the next morning and go Black Friday shopping. Some of us may be the crazy ones that get up at midnight and go or you may be one that gets up around six am to go or maybe you don't go - if that's the case, then this post doesn't concern you, but continue reading- if you are either of those people then this post will educate you on helpful sales.
On Thanksgiving night from 6 to 7 pm Walmart is having an hour sale that guarantees anybody that makes the purchases whether they are in stock or not. Some of the items are: iPad Mini 16GB w/ Wi-Fi + $30 Walmart Gift Card for $199.00, 50-inch 1080p 60Hz LED HDTV for $218.00, Vizio 65-inch 1080p 120Hz LED HDTV for $648.00, XBox One Halo: The Master Chief Collection Bundle + $30 Walmart Gift Card for $329.00. If you're a Frozen fan than you can get Disney Frozen 12-in. Bike by Huffy - Girls Now $89.99, at Kohl's. For more Black Friday Ads check out https://blackfriday.com/.

Lady Raiders Battle Against The Apaches

This past Saturday, the Lady Raiders took on the fifth ranked team in two A, the Wabash Apaches. The ladies on both teams were very aggressive throughout the entire game. The ladies of each team were constantly in foul trouble. Several technical fouls were called on Wabash and changed the momentum of the game. The Raiders took the lead going into halftime. After halftime, both teams fought to gain the lead. Each worked very hard and wanted to win. The Raiders had two players foul out in the last quarter of the game. The Lady Raiders ended up losing by seven points. The Raiders fought until the end and should hold their heads high.

The Raiders will take on the Elwood Panthers at the Raider Dome on Tuesday, November 25th. JV tip is at 6 pm.