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Prep NewsSt. Louis University High School | Friday, February 26, 2016Volume LXXX, Issue XXII

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Feature

60 years ago, SLUH had a box-ing ring—one frequented by students and teachers alike—to settle arguments and for sport. Page 5

Reminiscing about the RingSports

The Hockeybills beat De Smet twice—6-1, 5-2—to advance to the state finals against their big-gest rivals—the CBC Cadets. Page 6

Hockey state-bound for Scottrade News

SLUH students and an alum have captured some incredible self-ies, including a picture with Pope Francis and another with Hillary Clinton. Page 2

Wait… Let me take a selfie

News

After losing to Montgomery Bell Academy last weekend, SLUH rifle hopes to avenge their loss and qualify for Nationals against them this weekend. Page 2

Getting back on targetSports

The racquetball team won its sixth straight State Champion-ship last weekend, beating second place Kirkwood 480-350. Page 6

Squash Bosses at it again

INDEX

2 News

3 What’s up with that?

Crossword

Around the Hallways

4 Continued from page 1

5 Feature

Credits

6-7 Sports

8 Calendar

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BY Zach and Jake HennesREPORTERS

It is not everyday that you have the opportunity to see

the pope in your hometown. Last week, St. Louis U. High’s Fr. Pepe Ruiz got to do just that, and saw Pope Francis on his trip to Juarez, Mexico.

Ruiz got a call from his Provincial in mid-December asking if he would be willing to cover the Pope’s visit to Juarez. He considered the in-vitation to be an early Christ-mas present.

“He wanted me to cover it for people in the province so they could keep up with what was going on,” Ruiz said. “They wanted to send somebody to Juarez and when they saw that they have a Jesuit who is from Juarez, they thought it was a perfect match.”

In Juarez, Ruiz inter-viewed a range of people in the community including the rich, poor, migrants, and ma-quiladora workers and own-ers living there.

One question Ruiz asked people in his interviews was what they would like Ameri-cans to realize about their struggles. The most common response he got was that the people of Juarez are people who have hopes and dreams, just like the rest of the world.

Juarez has become one of the most dangerous cities in the world because of maqui-ladoras, which are factories

built on cheap labor. These maquiladoras require long hours at minimal pay which leave many children in the community growing up virtu-ally without parents because the adults are always working.

This system backfired when the drug cartels came in because it made the children easy targets to join the drug trade. As the pope described

BY Joseph ReznikovCORE STAFF

The Class of 2020 welcome and orientation on Tues-

day replaced the usual Mass and orientation and featured a new student-led segment to accompany faculty and ad-ministration presentations.

An administrative com-mittee sat down a few months ago to discuss the effective-ness of past orientations and consider reorganizing the night. After much delibera-tion, the committee decided to move the Mass to Direc-tion Days to accommodate the addition of a new, student led-segment.

The decision was largely made because of the move-ment of Direction Days to June. Because the non-Cath-olic student orientation takes place over the summer, the group also decided to remove the Mass from the orientation night to accommodate non-Catholic students.

Director of Admissions Anja Schmelter said that Mass at the orientation night in February was “awkward because the boys that aren’t Catholic haven’t received an orientation on how to partici-pate in the Mass.”

“We thought it would be nice if Direction Days fin-ished with a true class Mass with the parents and a big dinner outdoors,” Schmelter said. “The guys have already spent two days together and we thought the Mass would serve as a unifying portion of their Direction Day.”

The administrative team is also aware that there are students still contemplat-ing whether they’re going to come to SLUH or not. In light of this, a student-led segment was added to the night in or

BY Sam ChechikCORE STAFF

A nationally-recognized keynote speaker, laser

tag, a SnapChat geofilter, an educational forum, mounds of pancakes, and snow were part of this year’s newly named Dooley Week at St. Louis U. High.

On Tuesday, Dr. Tiffany Anderson, Superintendent of the Jennings School District, spoke to the students and fac-ulty about education.

After an introduction on this school year’s theme “Cura Personalis,” a prayer by Principal John Moran, and a reflection about his Se-nior Project at Sumner High School by senior and STUCO Pastoral Rep Sergio Goodwin, Anderson started off with a heart-wrenching story about a ten-year-old named Rodney McAllister, who was mauled by dogs not too far from SLUH—an extreme example of what she called preventable problems in St. Louis City: poverty and homelessness.

“It showed what can hap-pen when a community is fragmented, and I think poses an invitation and a challenge

to us of ‘What are you going to do? What relationships are you going to build?’” said campus minister Dan Finucane.

Anderson also talked about privilege and how liv-ing in a certain zip code can change one’s life.

“We are all given what we are, I believe, because it’s intended not to just serve ourselves but to serve others before ourselves, and that’s a piece that I ask that you re-member,” Anderson said in

her talk.Anderson also used be-

fore and after data and statis-tics to explain the post-2012 positive shift in her district in grades and poverty level de-spite the lack of food and the demographics and homeless-ness in her district. Poverty, in her experience, is a prevent-able problem, and “exists only because we’re allowing it to happen,” she said.

The immediate transfor-mation of the Jennings district

came from Anderson’s ability to build relationships, she said.

“Relationships are every-thing, so if you do not have a relationship, what happens to you? What happens is that you end up in this cycle that you can never get out of,” An-derson said. “Why is it crazy to really think that you can break the cycle of poverty? I don’t think it’s crazy; I think it’s crazy that we’re not doing it!”

Anderson’s accomplish-ments are also seen in the

Hope House, a shelter for homeless children in the dis-trict, and the food bank creat-ed to help close the economic gap in the district, saying that “all that we’re doing is serving people well.”

“It was said so well here, by many that spoke before and after me, that we have to make sure that we look to our neigh-bors and take care of them in the same ways that we would ourselves, so I think I said to the students as well that we are all interconnected: the dimin-ishing of anybody’s life dimin-ishes ours,” said Anderson. “So take the time to get to know your neighbor; take the time to learn as much as you can so you can be the difference and work collectively within a community of faith to make all things possible.”

Many students and teach-ers were impressed by her four-hour commute to Jen-nings after waking up at 2:00 a.m., and others talked of her dedication to her work and how inspiring she was.

“She does so much and doesn’t let anything stop her from trying to close the gaps

BY Galen BacharierSTAFF

St. Louis U. High President David Laughlin and Prin-

cipal John Moran traveled last week to Puerto Rico to attend the bi-annual Jesuit High School Leadership Group meeting.

These meetings bring together all the principals, presidents, and board mem-bers of the Jesuit high schools of the U.S. Central and South-ern Province of the Society of Jesus to pray and discuss the growth, practices, and iden-tity of their schools over the past months.

“The Jesuit network of schools is a very close-knit one,” said Laughlin. “It’s growing nationally, and more so internationally.”

That international growth was proven in the locale itself; the country was chosen for the meeting’s lo-

cation because of its recent addition into the Central and Southern Province.

The meeting began on Thursday, Feb. 18, and went through Saturday night, with Laughlin and Moran arriving back in St. Louis on Sunday.

The meeting began with a retreat on Friday, directed by Bill Muller, S.J., Executive Director of the Jesuit Schools Network. Like any directed retreat, it featured several talks, prayer, and Mass.

A particularly special aspect of the meeting was the presence of Ron Mercier, S.J., the Provincial of the region.

The meeting was held at Colegio San Ignacio in San Juan. Although confined to a conference room for much of the trip, Laughlin, who had visited the school previously, noted a warm and hospitable environment at the school,

Class of 2020 orientation features new format

Mass replaced by student segment

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Ruiz travels to hometown to see Pope Laughlin and Moran attend Jesuit leaderhip group in Puerto Rico

In Dooley Week keynote, Anderson’s dedication inspires

Anderson in the Si Commons on Tuesday. photo | Antwine Willis

News

Mock Trial failed to qualify for regionals after winning one trial and losing another last Thursday, ending their season early after winning both of their first round trials. Page 2

On the wrong side of the law

Artwork | Joe Fentress

Prep News February 26, 2016 NEWS2

BY Jack SchweizerREPORTER

The Cannonball Club, which focuses on dis-

cerning one’s vocation, has been growing in popular-ity under its new mod-erator, Pepe Ruiz, S.J. The club uses the name Cannonball Club because St. Ignatius suffered a cannonball wound that led to the discern-ment of his vocation.

The club is not new to SLUH, but last year started having weekly meetings and grew in popularity under the guidance of Chris Kellerman and Ralph Houlihan, S.J. Kell-erman, then a Jesuit Scholas-tic, wanted wanted the club to meet every Friday to discuss a vocations and practice Ig-natian spirituality. However, toward the end of last year, Kellerman was assigned to Regis High School in Colora-do, so Ruiz took over the club. Junior Jacob Price, the club’s student president, also helped Ruiz after Kellerman’s departure.

In the first semester, the club touched on all the differ-ent Catholic vocations, and had a representative from each one come and talk about their experience.

“We had a lot of guest speakers: a brother talking about what it means to be a brother, a married person talking about what it means to be a married person serv-ing God, and then a Jesuit priest and a diocesan priest,” said Ruiz. “This semester we’re focusing more on cer-tain prayers that St. Ignatius has in the Spiritual Exercises to help people go deeper in their experience of following Christ, prayers having to do with making a decision.”

Senior Jack Perryman has enjoyed learning about Ignatian spirituality.

“I’ve appreciated having the guest speakers, but the coolest stuff for me has been reading St. Ignatius,” said Perryman. “I’ve learned a lot more about myself, and which vocation I want to pursue.”

Of the club’s goals, Ritz said, “Get tools for discern-ment, grow in their relation-ship with God, and learn Ig-natian spirituality.”

BY Ben FraileyREPORTER

The St. Louis U. High Mock Trial team headed

to the Clayton County Court-house for the second round of trials last Thursday, which ended up being its last of the season.

Each year, the type of case alternates between a criminal and a civil case.

“This year it was a civil case. One kid was reportedly being bullied by another kid, and when he told the school, the school didn’t help, so they’re suing the school as well as the bully,” said co-cap-tain Scotty Villhard.

SLUH’s varsity team was the prosecution against MICDS on Thursday, while JV defended against Kirk-wood. Varsity won two of the

BY Jack Schweizer and Nathan WildREPORTERS

The racquetball team might not be the only one

qualifying for a national title this year.

With only three matches left in the regular season, the SLUH Rifle team feels confi-dent in its ability to qualify for Nationals in June and bring home their seventh National Title.

Coming off a narrow loss to Mountgomery Bell Acad-emy (MBA) last weekend, the team hopes to recover with a win this weekend in the Ozarks.

“We have only two weeks remaining, but my hope is that the upward trend the boys have been on the past month continues this weekend and they will be able to hit the qualifying score of 2275 nec-essary to gain automatic entry into this summer’s National Championship,” said coach William Bresnahan.

In order for this to hap-pen, each player must score roughly a 569 out of 600. This means that a player must score almost a 200 from each position: standing, kneeling, and prone. The closer to the bullseye one can shoot, the better the score. However that’s easier said than done because with a bullseye the size of a ballpoint pen, and an hourglass-shaped lead pellet traveling 381 miles per hour, it doesn’t take much to miss the mark.

After all three rounds of shooting, each player’s indi-vidual scores are added up for the team total.

“Every little thing mat-ters in rifle,” said senior Chris Walsh. “We need to be about 19 points higher. I’m pretty sure we’ll get there.”

After this weekend, the team will go to Nashville, Tenn. to finish out the regular season.

“Last weekend’s loss to Montgomery Bell Academy was tough, but I believe when we face them again next week-

Rifle aims for Nationalsend the scores will be much closer. Everyone knows the mistakes that were made and has worked hard in practice this week to fix them,” said Bresnahan.

Although the team has lost multiple seniors from last year and has no juniors, a number of freshmen have been an influential part in this year’s success.

“Honestly we haven’t im-proved much, if any, over last year after losing some really good shooters to graduation. One improvement, if you want to call it that, is that this year’s freshmen are far ahead of where freshmen usually are at this time of year,” said Bresnahan. “This is the most advanced group of freshmen in several years.”

Freshman Hayden Ste-ingruby has enjoyed shooting for the team so far this season and is looking forward to this weekend.

“It’s a really great team (and) a cool experience,” said Steingruby.

To join the rifle team, one must undergo training sessions and learn the basics of shooting and the stances in order to compete. The rifle club allows students to gain an understanding about the rifle team and qualifies them to join if they choose. The club meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays after school.

“Before I came to SLUH I had never shot a gun and knew next to nothing about shooting,” said senior Grant Ludwig. “Generally most peo-ple finish the rifle club fresh-man year and will then be asked to join the team. Any-one of any grade level can ac-tually get on the team, but the people who will shoot the best will be those who have shot all four years.”

“We meet four times a week, but if you needed some extra practice with one of the stances you could go all five,” said sophomore Joe Weber. “You don’t need any experi-ence to be down here.”

three possible ballots, but JV lost all three.

“I was really uncertain at the end of their comments which way it was going to go (for JV). It was a very bal-anced trial,” said moderator Anne Marie Lodholz. “They lost all three ballots, but their point differential was only 5 points.”

The varsity squad had hopes of moving on to region-als, but they didn’t get enough points despite winning both of their trials and five of the six ballots for the season. The first trial occurred back in January, where varsity won all three ballots, and JV won be-cause of a forfeit.

“It was kind of surpris-ing not to make it to regionals because we won both of our trials,” said co-captain Jack

Sinay. “Typically if you win the first two trials you move on, but we just didn’t have the point differential.”

SLUH ranked 16th in the St. Louis region, which con-sists of 55 schools. In order to move on to regionals, SLUH would have had to be one of the top 12 schools. Although they won’t be moving on, the team is happy with its im-provement.

“Everyone really im-proved a lot,” said Sinay. “The coaches were really good with helping us along and guiding us.”

They also have high hopes for next year’s season, and are confident that their improvements from this year will shine through into next season.

Mock Trial misses regional bid Ruiz adds new take to Cannonball Club

Captain Jack Sinay receiving a piece of evidence from co-captain Scotty Villhard.photo | courtesy of Ms. Julie Swanston

BY Jack Schweizer and Leo HeinzREPORTER, EDITOR IN CHIEF

The average millennial will take over 25,700 self-

ies in his or her lifetime, the International Business Times wrote last September. Over 1 million people take a selfie or selfies each day, the story said. While photos have served as souvenirs and keepsakes of events and moments for de-cades, the iPhone—which ar-rived in 2007—has changed memories almost instanta-neously and has changed the way people document their experiences. With smart phones enabling and encour-aging the taking of selfies, it is clear the trend is quickly be-coming a tradition.

In case you’re wonder-ing if a certain photo is a selfie, The New York Times published a guide to whether or not it is. (http://www.ny-

times.com/2015/07/22/opin-ion/is-this-a-selfie.html)

SLUH grad Chris Burn-worth, and sophomores Dar-ren Tucker and Matthew Rauschenbach to take two selfies with worldly figures found themselves standing new to worldly figures re-cently. They walked away with a memory—and a photo to validate that memory in the form of a selfie.

After getting married in late November, Burnworth, ’10, traveled to the Vatican. If a couple visits there within 60 days of getting married and attends a papal audience (in full wedding attire), they are invited to sit in a special sec-tion on the St. Peter’s Square stage.

“The ‘sposi noveli crowd gets to line up across the back, and as he gets to us (the pope) makes sure to shake everybody’s hand,” wrote Burnworth in an email. “And

if you spoke Spanish or Ital-ian you could say something to the pope. He understands English…We got to shake his hand, and while we were shaking his hand, I pulled my phone out and took a quick selfie with him.”

They had a “very brief conversation,” and received a blessing for their marriage.

“There was quite a bit of shock involved,” said Burn-worth, who described it as a “surreal” experience.

During the Mass, Burn-worth also said a prayer for SLUH, its faculty, and the Je-suits. He strongly believes he wouldn’t be where he is today without SLUH.

On a campaign stop in South City, Democratic Presidential Contender Hill-ary Clinton stopped to take a selfie (though the New York Times selfie guide would disagree) with sophomores Darren Tucker and Matthew Rauschenbach in mid-De-cember.

Tucker, a loyal Bernie Sanders fan, decided to sub-scribe to Hillary Clinton’s campaign emails to learn more about her. Shortly after doing so he received an invi-tation to a Hillary Clinton ral-ly in South City at the Union Hall for Sheet Metal Workers Local 36, on Chouteau.

Tucker made a reserva-tion for the event, and invited his friend Rauschenbach to join him

“It’s Hillary Clinton, why

not,” Tucker said.Arriving four hours ear-

ly, Tucker and Rauschenbach secured a spot right up against the gates where Hillary would walk by. But they were not alone. Roughly 1,500 people attended the event (compa-rable to a SLUH mixer).

Various Clinton mer-chandise was scattered throughout the hall, along with heavy security.

“Tons of cops, dogs, and secret service agents” were there, Rauschenbach said.

The anticipation mount-ed in the cramped hall, as Hill-ary Clinton was running two hours late due to the weather. But when she finally entered, she was greeted by a deafen-ing roar from the crowd.

“She was a really good speaker. She knows how to work a crowd,” Rauschenbach said.

After exiting the stage, Clinton walked along a gated off path, made eye contact with Tucker and Rauschen-bach, and took a selfie with

them“We were awestruck,”

said Rauschenbach. “It was a fantastic experience.”

After the picture they shook hands with Clinton, and could not believe what had just happened.

“We just met Hillary Clinton!” said Tucker.

A generation ago, in or-der to record a meeting (or brief interaction) with a fa-mous person or an experi-ence at an event or place, we would have relied on an auto-graph or some other physical memento from that meeting or experience. This physical keepsake served as a souvenir, of sorts. In this day, the selfie, the shareable souvenir, has re-placed the physical memento.

Selfie replaces traditional mementos

Sophomores Rauschenbach and Tucker with Mrs. Clinton.photo | courtesy of Matthew Rauschenbach

Chris Burnworth, ’10, with Pope Francis in Italy.photo | courtesy of Matthew Rauschenbach

Prep NewsFebruary 26, 2016 NEWS 3

BY Sam GoedekerREPORTER

Walking around the school, you may have

noticed there are more eyes in the sky than ever before. Late-ly the school has been adding more security cameras.

“It’s a process that’s been in action for about a year,” said Director of Facilities Joe Rankin.

The cameras are used for a lot more than just catching people. “When I get a call from the fire alarm company at 3:00 a.m. I can check on my phone to see what’s re-ally going on to see if it’s a

false alarm or if people re-ally need to get to SLUH,” said Rankin. “Or like the snow day on Wednesday—at 5:00 a.m. I can look on my phone and see how drivable the streets are.”

With about 30 cameras around SLUH, they are every-where, from the Commons to the parking lot.

When Rankin first start-ed at SLUH, the only cam-eras in the school were low quality and recorded on cas-sette tapes. Rankin worked with Director of Information Technology Jon Dickmann to improve the technology in the school and add cameras in

addition to upgrading the old ones.

“It helps us more on small disputes more than anything,” said Assistant Principal for Student Life Brock Kesterson.

It helps Kesterson look into the Commons for when students lose their items that we all so famously get emailed about. It also allows the staff to see back about a month and check to into certain activities.

“They are really helpful on many accounts: we bring them up in staff meetings of-ten to make sure we have the safety of the students always at heart,” said Kesterson.

What’s up with that?Multi-tasking security cameras

SSN plans for spring after strong startThe SLUH Sports Network (SSN) plans to

broadcast select baseball and lacrosse games this spring, and perhaps volleyball and rugby as well, its Vice President of Technology Tom Hillmeyer said. With about 100 SLUH fans tuning in on average per broadcast, soccer has been the most watched sport. The sectionals game against De Smet garnered 347 viewers and 2,200 YouTube views, the most views the network has had on a single game. Tonight’s hockey game will be broadcast on Fox Sports Midwest, as they have the rights to the game.

Second Strategic Adult Program of the yearHistory teacher Tom Zinselmeyer and

former economics teacher Lauren Dickens hosted their Strategic Adult program on Mon-day at SLUH. The program, which focuses on teaching students about personal finance as well as presenting a genuine online self, had roughly 20 people attend, almost all of whom were either current or former students of ei-ther Zinselmeyer or Dickens. Assistant Prin-cipal for Mission Jim Linhares and counselor Nina See were also in attendance. The next session takes place June 13.

Surprise snowfall leads to hump day cancel-lation

At 4:15 a.m. Wednesday morning, Prin-cipal John Moran sent a text message to As-sistant Principal for Student Life Brock Kes-terson, thus beginning their discussion of whether or not classes would start on time, later, or not at all. Moran, who was in con-tact with other area principals, had a spread of data in front of him, as he usually does. In contrast to usual snow day situations, Moran and Kesterson were not in communication the night prior, because the storm was not ex-pected to produce much and since Kesterson and Moran were both at events. (Kesterson was at the basketball game at Vianney and Moran attended the Class of 2020 orienta-tion.) In the end, Kesterson sent an email to the student body and faculty and staff an hour later, at 5:22 a.m. He said Thursday that it was “certainly the right call.” Asked for a comment, Kesterson said, “It snowed and we didn’t have school.”

Anderson leads Gateway Greening Summit Gateway Greening held the 7th annual

St. Louis Community Garden Summit on Saturday SLUH. A record turnout of over 200 people attended this year’s summit. Breakout sessions were held in an East/West divided Commons, the library, and classroom 215c. Topics covered a variety of garden-related themes such as “Food as Medicine,” “How to be a Beekeeper,” and “DIY Community Art-Based Projects.” Environmental Science teacher Bill Anderson gave SLUH Sustain-ability tours. A wide variety of people attend these summits, from teachers to community gardeners. Gateway Greening serves as a fo-rum for gardeners to get together and share ideas, stories and gardening experience with one another to build community and increase the supply of fresh vegetables in our urban en-vironment.

Youth Leadership learns about social ser-vices at Purina

Seven SLUH juniors and Youth Leader-ship St. Louis moderator Frank Kovarik trav-elled to Nestle Purina on Saturday to learn about social services in St. Louis City and County. Purina gave the students projects which asked them to make tough choices, such as which dogs and cats to shelter and which to euthanize, and which social pro-grams—including educational organizations, mental health services, and homeless shel-ters—to cut during a hypothetical budget meeting. At the end of the session, the stu-dents were split up to create a public service announcement (PSA). A resident Washing-ton University student helped with explain-ing the process, and the videos played for the entire congregation to end the day.

Students attend Latin Mass with Cor Jesu SLUH Latin students joined Cor Jesu

Latin students on Saturday to participate in a Latin Mass at Little Flower Catholic Church. The Mass began at 9:15 and was followed by a brunch at Olympia’s Kebob House and Tav-erna where students mingled and indulged in Roman delicacies. The immersion experience was organized by Latin teacher Jennifer Ice and former SLUH latin teacher and current Cor Jesu Latin teacher Jim Gioia.

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Robotics Club finishes robotOn Tuesday night at 11:30 p.m., the ro-

botics club finished their robot, 30 minutes before the midnight deadline. This particular robot will be used at the playoff qualifica-tion matches on Friday, March 11. “We didn’t have the vision for the robot completed, so we were spending a lot of time (designing),” said senior Robert Mallow. “We were pretty worn out and frustrated, getting so close to the deadline, but we were excited seeing how well it turned out.” The team has the Thursday before the qualification matches to make per-form some fine-tuning on its robot, and the regional playoffs are on Saturday, March 12.

—Robert Butler, Matthew Book, Sam Chechik, Sam Heagney, Leo Heinz, Nick Messina, and Joseph Reznikov.

The new cameras (left to right) from near the St. Louis the King statue, in sophomore hallway, and in the east side of the Commons. photos | Jack Sinay

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Across:1. Short joy rides5. Deloris’ profession as played by Whoopi6. Criss8. Steel Cut9. A daily recording in a log

Down:1. Kaa and Nagini’s spe-cies2. The lowest form of jok-ing wit3. A bar of gold4. Ocean water7. Where you can find a hammer and an anvil

crossword | Jack Casey

This puzzle is the first of a series of PN Pocket Puzzles.

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which features open windows and classrooms, palm trees, and lizards darting around campus. Around 750 students attend the school and come from all over the San Juan area.

“The heart of their work is really no different than what we’re doing here,” said Laugh-lin. “They’re taking students and giving them an excellent education, and trying to make them people for others. The message is still very much the same.”

Despite some of the stark physical differences be-tween San Ignacio and SLUH, Laughlin says that it’s still easy to see the Jesuit core of the school.

“The commonalities that exists between our Jesuit schools all across this part of the country, including the Ca-ribbean and Puerto Rico, is a real testament to the Society of Jesus in terms of what a school is supposed to be,” said Laughlin.

der to get the students excited about coming to SLUH.

“The class is still not completely defined because there are a few people waiting to make their decision,” said Schmelter. “We wanted to get them really excited about being part of the SLUH com-munity.”

“It started off the class of 2020 with that sense of cama-

raderie and level of brother-hood that we try to promote here at SLUH,” said senior Ryan Hopkins. “It was bit-tersweet for me because I remember being there as a freshman and being excited and kinda nervous and they were probably feeling that same way too when they saw us so being so confident and energetic.”

The student-led segment

was by seniors Sam Perry, Jack Perryman, Sam Tett-amble, Andrew Murphy, and Hopkins. The students were divided into groups of 14 and answered three questions: their name, where they went to grade school, and one thing they like to do during their free time. Next, the emcees along with admissions am-bassadors led the students in a cheer.

“There was a lot of en-ergy in the night and that’s something we want to have,” said Perry.

After the cheer, a vid-eo created by Hopkins was shown. The video displayed the “Top Five Things You Wish You Knew as an In-coming Freshman.” After the video, seniors led a chant of “Oh When the Bills,” encour-aging the incoming freshman to join in.

“We took a risk with not including the Mass. I think it was a worthwhile one based on the feedback we’ve re-ceived,” said Schmelter. “The boys came out of there ener-gized and excited and that’s what we were hoping for.”

Though the Mass was not included in the night, Ignati-an spirituality was still a com-ponent. The night began with the Prayer for Generosity, led by Bob Poirier, S.J., who also spoke briefly about the em-phasis of Ignatian spirituality in the SLUH community.

Afterwards, a video cre-ated by SLUHTube and Rus-sian teacher Rob Chura was shown. The video consisted of different groups around

Ambassadors welcome class of 2020 with advice, cheers

that provide this detriment to our society, and she doesn’t let anything come between her and that goal,” said Goodwin.

Others saw the lessons that the SLUH student body could take away from the talk, whether through turning the learning into experience or taking the knowledge and go-ing out to serve others.

“I was thinking a lot, and something occurred to me

which hadn’t before, and it’s that we spend a lot of time on what it means to be for oth-ers—the selfless service and Christian ministry, which is obviously a huge component of what it means to be a follow-er of Jesus—but I don’t think we really spend too much time on what it means to be a man,” said senior and Student Body President Jack Perry-man. “(We’re) trying to make

Moran (far right) spoke at the class of 2020 orientation. photo | Joseph Reznikov

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SLUH welcoming the class of 2020. Next, Principal John Moran reminded the kids that they are already a part of the SLUH community, and they must act in accordance with how a Jr. Bill should act. As-sistant Principal for Academ-ics Tom Becvar discussed the new online course selection process, Athletic Director Chris Muskopf spoke about summer opportunities as well as athletics, and freshman class moderator Tim Curdt gave a presentation about Harold and the Purple Cray-on, comparing Harold’s expe-rience to The Odyssey.

Finally, President Da-vid Laughlin closed out the night by commenting on the school’s identity, the class of 2020 scholarship $50 dona-tion, and some things that have happened recently that SLUH students have achieved.

After Laughlin conclud-ed, parents were encouraged to mingle with other parents as well as ask the faculty ques-tions. The Mother’s Club sold items in the Danis Lobby and the SLUH Spirit Store was open as well.

Jesuits host retreat in Puerto Rico

dish” to foster the growth of cartels since more children saw the drug trade as an easy way to make money.

“The factories came and they changed the economic layout of the city for the bet-ter, I would say, but one thing that they did was sort of ig-nore the social elements. They sort of said we are here to make money, not to care for people,” said Ruiz.

Doing most of the inter-views before the pope arrived in Juarez, Ruiz was surprised to hear that when the pope came, he seemed to already have the situation figured out.

“It was really cool be-cause I was just interviewing people trying to understand what had happened and then when the pope started talking it was like he already knew about all the issues and was addressing them in ways that I couldn’t even imagine,” said Ruiz. “He spoke to people in the city about their reality and how they themselves can be agents of change.”

While in Juarez, the pope met with many victims of the violence, visited prisoners at a maximum security prison, ate lunch at the local seminary, and talked to maquiladora owners and workers. At the end of the day, the pope cel-ebrated a Mass, which Ruiz attended.

“I got to concelebrate a Mass with the pope which was really cool. At the end of the Mass, the pope said that he himself had been moved almost to tears from his ex-periences in Juarez. He said to see all of the parents raising up their children to see him made him see so much hope in a land that had experienced so much violence and suffer-ing, which was very moving

for him,” Ruiz said. During the homily, the

pope offered solutions to help rebuild Juarez and raise it out of violence.

“The pope expressed a solution that consisted of more dialogue with workers about their needs. The idea is that if workers are doing well, the city isn’t going to self-de-struct,” Ruiz said.

The pope challenged the workers to be active and not let the corrupt system con-tinue. He talked about how the workers need to be life-affirming in their actions, as it is the mission of the church.

“The pope said that when people aren’t caring for hu-man dignity in the little ways, it creates a break in society that can cause corruption and violence,” said Ruiz.

Ruiz also found hope for his city during the pope’s visit.

“Normally when I hear about my city, the context is that it is one of the most vio-lent places in the world, but it is the place where I grew up and saw a lot of love and hope. So now to be able to talk about my city as a place where the pope visited, well, it helps to redefine the identity of the city in a positive way. There is a lot of rebuilding that can

be seen through the hope of youth who are trying to fix the problems,” Ruiz said.

The media attention that the pope was getting in the United States humored Ruiz because they almost entirely missed the point, in Ruiz’s opinion. He talked about how a reporter asked the pope what he thought about Don-ald Trump and described the Presidential candidate to him. The pope didn’t even know who Donald Trump was, but commented that anyone who builds walls instead of bridges is not a Christian.

“It was strange being there and then coming back and hearing what most of the people in the U.S heard about the pope’s visit, because I feel like the only takeaway that I’ve heard in the U.S was that the pope said something about Donald Trump or somebody pulled the pope down. To me these were so small that I didn’t even realize he said anything about Trump,” said Ruiz.

Ruiz thought it was great to be able to visit with his family and he wrote a blog about his experience, which can be found at www.jesuit-fromjuarez.wordpress.com.

this student body of 1100 more adult, more mature, more able to take responsibility.”

Yesterday, Finucane led a forum in the west side of the Si Commons during activity period. Around 40 students and faculty attended, discuss-ing Anderson’s talk in small groups and then turning it to the large group for comments. Students from the Justice League—a collection of stu-dents from the various SLUH

social justice clubs—facilitated the small group discussion.

“My final advice for SLUH students would be for them to remember that indi-vidually they make a difference and collectively they are part of a bigger mission and purpose. Every student here at SLUH is being filled with a foundation of faith, and it is through that faith that they will be able to transform outcomes in many

years to come, for themselves and for others,” said Anderson after her presentation.

After yesterday morning’s pancakes, sausage, and Tang breakfast homeroom teachers and reps were asked to help by writing reflections on square index cards for the six-foot-by-sixteen-foot St. Louis high schools art piece made by fine arts teacher Sean Powers in the old cafeteria.

Wednesday’s twin day theme and jersey day com-bined into Thursday’s dress down theme.

On Monday, around 100 students came to the Com-mons to watch around 20 students play FIFA and Super Smash Bros. Melee on the pro-jector and small televisions. The dress theme that day was pajamas or being monotonous.

Wednesday’s snow day al-lowed for student and teacher rest and relaxation, but the ex-pected bubble soccer at activity period was cancelled and the Talent Show in the evening was rescheduled due to weather.

During activity period today, the teacher fair and retro jersey auction will be in the Danis Field House. Math teacher and sophomore class moderator Frank Corley will be channeling his inner John Mueller and making the de-lectable cheesy pancakes in M215.

Students at the forum in the Commons on Thursday discussed Anderson’s speech.Photo | Leo Heinz

Despite Juarez’s reputation, Ruiz sees it in another light

Students playing Melee during activity period Monday.Photo | Brendan Voigt

Ruiz waiting for Mass to begin in Juarez.photo | courtesy of Fr. Pepe Ruiz, S.j.

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BY Billy Balossi and Sam ChechikSTAFF, CORE STAFF

Have you ever thought about throwing the odd

punch at a fellow student or an especially bothersome teacher? Back in the day, stu-dents had the opportunity to challenge peers and teachers to get in the boxing ring and fight one-on-one like profes-sionals.

Though P.E. teacher Pat-rick Zarrick may wish to ar-gue otherwise, SLUH’s fitness program has a significantly more reserved look than it did 60 years ago. Nestled in the heart of SLUH’s underground, the boxing ring used to stand

adjacent to the rifle range from 1943 to 1954.

Enter the lanky, wire-framed character of Albert Coomes, S.J., a boxer-turned-priest who came to SLUH and formed the boxing club that met annually in the gymna-sium—no, not the Danis Field House; the old, old gymna-sium that filled the space that the counseling and adminis-trative offices hold now.

Student boxers would de-construct the ring and carry the parts up from the current rifle range to the gymnasium for the Golden Gloves Tour-nament, named after the na-tional Golden Gloves Tour-nament that made boxing

popular in the ’40s and ’50s after World War II.

On a larger scale, boxing became a cultural power state-ment, specifically between the U.S. champion Joe Louis and the German champion Max Schmeling, who competed during and after WWII. Even St. Louis housed some major boxing stars in that time pe-riod.

“The Golden Gloves was a major competition for young people; Charles Lis-ton, Bernard Dean, Tommy Reynolds, and Jesse Bowdry all came out of St. Louis,” said longtime fine arts teacher Jo-seph Schulte, ’54.

The Fathers’ Club spon-

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sored the annual Golden Gloves Tournament, yet the fathers usually didn’t box. Sons would compete and at-tendees would watch from the bleachers and folding chairs set up around the ring. The Fathers’ Club evening match-es would divide the SLUH stu-dents by weight and size to fit them into specific categories.

In these competitions, students would fight for titles in the Atomweight, Paper-weight, Bantamweight, Feath-erweight, Lightweight, Wel-terweight, and Middleweight classes. The winner of each would receive a pair of golden gloves.

Though SLUH only had

one official tournament per year, students could fight in P.E. and recreationally throughout the school year. The students could choose to challenge each other or even teachers who were willing.

“There were times when two people had a duel because they had been fighting over something, and someone said ‘Okay, you guys wanna fight? Come on down, and you are gonna fight in the ring’ and they put on gloves and went to battle,” said Schulte.

“As part of phys. ed. I was asked to get into the ring with this other kid and I don’t think either one of us got in any de-cent blows,” said Ralph Houli-han, S.J., ’52. “What I learned from that experience is that you are much better talking your way out of something than engaging in fisticuffs, be-cause it was clear to me that I was not a skilled boxer.”

Multiple Jesuits around SLUH were actually excellent boxers, though some didn’t look like it. There were also some students “who didn’t fare well,” according to Dan McAuliffe, ’53, a SLUH foot-ball all-state player and phe-nom SLUH athlete.

“It was a very weird situ-ation where you would have a teacher or a Jesuit in class with you and then all of a sud-den someone would challenge them and they would take him down to the ring,” said McAuliffe.

Coomes in particular boasted significant skill in the ring, though many underesti-mated him.

“It was known that he was a boxer,” said McAuliffe. “Someone would say ‘I’ll chal-lenge ya; I want to see if you are a good boxer,’ and believe me, he proved it to them.”

Although the boxing at SLUH wasn’t too brutal due to the large gloves used, Jesuit coaches did teach students professional boxing tech-niques, and sparring sessions could get heated. The students and faculty intermingling at the Fathers’ Club boxing night allowed for more potential boxers to try it out, and the Jesuits even encouraged the sport.

“There were some very good boxers among the Je-suits. If someone challenged them they would go down to the ring and duke it out. You wouldn’t get hurt or anything, but the boxing was pretty ef-fective,” said McAuliffe.

A few years after Coomes founded the tournament, oth-er schools around the city be-came more involved. In 1949, SLUH competed in its first competition against De An-dreis, McBride, and Central Catholic, finishing as runners up to De Andreis. The Prep League, as it was called at the time, died out in the early ’50s due to a lack of participating schools.

SLUH Boxing Club: Years ago, gloves flew in exhibition bouts

photo | Dauphin Yearbook 1948

Photo | Dauphin Yearbook 1944

Photo | Dauphin Yearbook 1943

The boxing club picture in 1948.

The boxing club allowed students to compete in annual intra-mural competitions. SLUH sponsored its first exhibition boxing tournament in 1943.

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BY Tim Nile and Will Far-rollSPORTS EDITOR, REPORTER

Two wins against De Smet—the first 6-1,

the second 5-2—last Satur-day—advanced the St. Louis U. High hockey team to the Challenge Cup for the fourth time in five years.

SLUH handily defeated De Smet in the first semifinal game last Thursday.

“I think we knew we just had to play tough,” said fresh-man Henry Wagner. “We worked the puck really well and we knew we were faster than them.”

The Jr. Bills were quick to strike with a goal by junior Luke Gassett just one minute into the first period. Sopho-more Trevor White followed with a goal of his own 30 sec-onds later.

SLUH continued to dom-inate possession of the puck, allowing De Smet few shots

against senior goalie Joe War-necke. With three minutes left in the first, Gassett added his second goal of the night to put the Jr. Bills up 3-0.

After De Smet scored with 8:38 left in the second period, sophomore Joe Win-kelmann answered with 13 seconds left in the period to make the score 4-1.

“It was awesome,” said Winkelmann. “I feel like it was a pretty big goal and it felt good to be the one to get it.”

The Jr. Bills did not let up, as Winkelmann and se-nior Patrick Pence scored in the third to finish off De Smet 6-1.

“We executed our game plan,” said Gassett. “We moved the puck and we skat-ed and we carried out our game plan.

“We’ve really been build-ing momentum,” said head coach Kevin Fitzpatrick. “Even in those two losses we

outshot them pretty signifi-cantly, we just couldn’t score and they got a couple lucky bounces. It’s not that I wasn’t worried but I felt pretty good because, like I said, we’ve got-ten a lot of chances and it kind of like plays in your favor after a couple tough games when you’re not getting the bounc-es, it’s got to go your way sometime. But even in the quarterfinal series we really started clicking. Our forward lines have really been unbe-lievable.”

The time between the first and second game of the semifinal series turned out to be anything but stagnant. Friday after practice Fitzpat-rick told Warnecke he would not be starting in the second semifinal game, and at that time Warnecke left the team.

“Coach told me that I was not physically 100 per-cent and that he was going to play Brendan (Rasch), and

I said if I’m not going to en-joy the game from the ice, I’m going to enjoy it from the stands,” said Warnecke.

“It was just a coach’s de-cision to make the change,” said Fitzpatrick. “We obvi-ously won Thursday, 6-1. We pretty much dominated, they really didn’t get a lot of shots on. So there really wasn’t any-thing Joe did Thursday obvi-ously to precipitate the change but it was one of those things honestly. It’s no reflection on Joe certainly. It was just kind of a hunch thing and I knew tonight that they would have a lot of chances, but I just de-cided to make a very, very dif-ficult decision.”

“I think the way that Brendan (Rasch) has been playing, both on his club team and on his JV team, his level of play has really gotten better over the past couple months and he’s at a point where he’s

Goals & Dabs: Hockey moves on to State

Left: Gassett after his goal in Saturday’s semifinal against De Smet. Right: the team after advancing to state.photo | Brendan Voigt

BY Andrew ModderSTAFF

The St. Louis U. High var-sity racquetball team

captured its sixth straight State title last weekend, led by seniors Charlie Mueth, Rich Helfrey, Andrew Thomas, and Vince Freeman.

The Jr. Bills eked out a close victory over the other seven teams at the tourna-ment, accumulating 480 points as a team, only 130 more than second-place Kirk-wood, who had 350.

“It was kind of that mini-mum number (of points) to win,” said Mueth. “The tour-nament didn’t have that close feeling though because we had some unexpected losses.”

These unexpected losses came from junior No. 1 seed Chris Schulze, who lost in the semifinals, and senior No. 3 seed John Correa, who went down in the first round.

Schulze routed Chami-nade’s John Yeager in his first round quarterfinal match, 15-3, 15-2.

In the semifinals, Schulze battled with one of his great rivals, Lafayette’s Theuns Ger-ber, who handed Schulze his first loss of the entire season, 15-10, 15-13.

“Theuns was on a mis-sion,” said Mueth. “He was playing the best racquet-ball I’ve ever seen him play and got Chris out of sorts.” After the unusual loss, Schulze played in the third place game against Parkway

West’s Andrew Peterson, whom he defeated 15-2, 15-14.

“I was very disappointed with my third place finish in the State tournament,” said Schulze. “I haven’t lost a high school match in two years and I picked one really bad time to lose.”

Correa’s loss was even more surprising than Schul-ze’s, considering that Cor-rea came in as the No. 3 seed in his bracket, matched up against De Smet’s James Mur-phy.

Murphy played a very fast style of racquetball, which quickly threw Correa off his game; Correa lost the first game 15-8.

“I got off to a slow start, which pushed the momentum his way initially,” said Correa. “I was missing all my serves and I played defensive the whole game.”

Racquetball triumphs for sixth straight state title

BY Sam PerryREPORTER

The Jr. Bills lost a wild overtime game against

CBC last Friday night, but they kept their heads and knocked off a pesky Vianney team on Tuesday, 66-50.

Last Friday was the an-nual Paint It Pink game at SLUH, and it was rowdy from

the jump. The entire north-western corner of the Danis Field House was filled with blue-and-pink clad Jr. Bills cheering on their classmates. The atmosphere was electric, and the Jr. Bills took advan-tage of the early energy to go up 24-11 on the Cadets in the first quarter.

“We were aggressive on both ends of the court. We

forced a lot of turnovers es-pecially on (Jordan) Barnes,” said junior manager Jimmy Coen.

The Jr. Bills were able to push the ball up the court and make easy baskets as CBC struggled to get the Bills into a halfcourt set.

“The energy level had reached a new high. It felt like we were all just clicking,” said junior B.J. Wilson.

Wilson started the sec-ond quarter with a couple of quick baskets in the lane, and the Jr. Bills continued to play solid defense. Though the Jr. Bills were sloppy with the ball at some points, there was a nice alley-oop play from se-nior Matt Nester to junior Brent Smith late in the second quarter which got the crowd fired up. The half ended with SLUH up 38-28.

During halftime, the an-nual half court shot contest commenced. After multiple misses, CBC senior Sam Jung stepped up to the stripe and nailed the shot. The CBC fans rushed the court.

“I was shocked, but you know I’ve been practicing a lot lately,” said Jung. “I gave the money back because fight-ing cancer is much more im-portant than me.”

The third quarter got

started with a bang. Within ten seconds of the inbounds pass, senior David Jackson soared above the rim to throw down a putback dunk off a junior Brandon McKissic miss as the Danis Field House rose to its feet. Jackson’s put-back jam was followed shortly thereafter by a rim-rocking slam from junior Brent Smith.

“It definitely felt cool,” said Smith. “I knew I had an opportunity and I wanted to take advantage of it in front of that amazing crowd.”

However, the Jr. Bills be-gan to falter offensively, miss-ing shots that they had been hitting earlier in the game, and CBC showed that they could get back into the game. The third quarter ended 56-46 in favor of SLUH.

“They went to the line like 40 times. We couldn’t re-ally stay in front of Barnes or Willis. That’s our fault. We let their star players get comfort-able,” said Nester.

The Jr. Bills began to give up more easy baskets down the stretch and CBC inched closer taking the lead. The Cadets were helped by a poor SLUH performance from the free throw line. CBC would finally take the lead with just over a minute left on a Jordan

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Junior Anthony Hughes against Vianney on Tuesday.photo | Leo K. Heinz

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After a timeout midway through the second game, Correa played more aggres-sively to win 15-14 and send the match to a tiebreaker.

Murphy got off to a quick 5-0 start, but Correa respond-ed, tying the game up at 8. However, Murphy finished the match off, winning 11-8 to knock Correa out of com-petition.

“It was an off day for me,” said Correa. “I wasn’t hitting the shots I wanted, but it’s hard to be Superman when your opponent is playing so well.”

Despite these early loss-es, the Jr. Bills’ victory in the tournament was in large part due to the victories by Mueth, Helfrey, and the Thomas-Freeman pair.

Mueth, the top seed in his bracket, rolled over his first round competition, Thomas Gamma, 15-5, 15-6, matching him with SLUH freshman Matthew Hayes in the semifinals.

Mueth defeated Hayes easily 15-6, 15-2, which was very pivotal for him.

“After the win, I was so pumped and motivated to win, and I mentally prepared myself to play really good rac-quetball,” said Mueth. “In the finals I was playing the best racquetball of my life.”

In the finals, Mueth de-feated Kirkwood’s Brendan Justin 15-2, 15-10 to claim the State title.

“It was a great moment

to win for the first time at State,” said Mueth. “It was ev-erything I had hoped for and more than anything I could ask for.”

Helfrey continued his undefeated season with a vic-tory in the No. 6 seed bracket of the tournament. His jour-ney began with a dominating 15-0, 15-2 win over Chami-nade’s Max Eisenhart in the quarterfinals.

In the semifinals, Hel-frey easily defeated De Smet’s Adam Gordon, 15-1,15-3, which took him to the finals matchup with Parkway West’s Daniel Barrett, which he won 15-10, 15-4.

“It was great to win State with him and go undefeated,” said Mueth. “I’ve known him since kindergarten and we have been playing sports to-gether our entire lives, so it was a cool moment.”

Junior Chris Schulze in his semifinal loss. photo | Jack Sinay

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just seeing the puck really well,” said goalie and defense coach Alex Effinger. “You know, ultimately, I think we decided as a team that be-cause he was playing so well that he deserved the oppor-tunity to get the start tonight and that’s not to say that Joe wasn’t playing well. We just think that Brendan has really been doing a great job. It was a pretty easy decision for us to go with Brendan. Joe made it difficult because Joe is a very good goalie, very athletic, and he’s a great kid. But as a team we decided to go with Bren-dan tonight.”

With Rasch in goal and Warnecke in the stands, De Smet had offensive chances early. De Smet found the net first to go up 1-0.

“I just had to keep play-ing,” said Rasch. “You can’t let it get in your head in the games like this, and the best way to keep focused is to just not look anybody in the eye in their student section and just pay attention to the game.”

“De Smet got the first goal and that was a little nerve-racking,” said Pence. “I was little scared on the bench.”

The defense was on their feet the entire game protect-ing the freshman goalie. Af-ter a big save late in the first period, a De Smet player got in his face. The Jr. Bills leveled the De Smet player.

“It makes it a different set of circumstances when you got a freshman going in there and it’s the biggest game of the year,” said Fitzpatrick.

But before the period could end, sophomore Steven Pawlow tied the game.

“It’s an unbelievable feel-ing,” said Pawlow. “I just got at the point and I looked up and I was fortunate enough to get through. It went off

some bodies I think—trickled around—and then went in, unbelievable feeling.”

Pawlow couldn’t car-ry the team all by himself though. Gassett followed in Pawlow’s footsteps with 10:44 left in the second period when he recovered a turnover in front of De Smet’s goal and scored, followed by his cel-ebrated “shooting an arrow” into the crowd and doing a dab for all of his fans.

Then with 12.9 seconds left in the second period, a huge scrum in front of the De Smet goal resulted in a John Sieckhaus goal to make it 3-1. However, the period was far from over. With five seconds left a De Smet player kneed Rasch in the head, leaving him motionless on the ice. De Smet took the puck, scored, and their fans went crazy—all for a no-goal. The De Smet player received a penalty, as did senior captain Connor FitzGerald.

This turn of events caused heated emotions going into the locker room after the second period. Referees had to break up confrontations and push back De Smet play-ers to allow for the Jr. Bills to exit the ice.

In the third period, Win-kelmann and freshman Justin Jacoby scored goals within 32 seconds of each other.

Though De Smet scored with 1:39 left in the game, it wasn’t enough to overcome Rasch’s stellar performance.

“He played awesome,” said Fitzpatrick. “It’s unfortu-nate that last one went in be-cause he played unbelievable. He made some unbelievable saves and really shut them down. These guys tonight had chances, you know. Their backs are against the wall and they’re battling for their lives and Brendan played unbeliev-

ably well.”“There were a lot of shots

from the outside that were tips that he had to make quick adjustments and he saw the puck well all night long,” said Effinger. “There were a couple flurries where he was mak-ing some big saves and he was making second and third saves, and that’s what we’re re-ally going to need especially against a good team like CBC.”

The team celebrated with its fans as they did the year be-fore by singing “Oh when the Bills” and taking a team photo with the student section.

The team has been preparing for the matchup against CBC in the Challenge Cup tonight at 8 at the Scot-trade Center. The two teams have met in the same game four of the past five years.

The last time the Jr. Bills topped CBC was in the cham-pionship of the preseason Top Hat tournament on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015. Prior to that date, the last time the Jr. Bills beat the Cadets was in the 2013 Challenge Cup game with a triumphant overtime golden goal by Stephen Lordo.

The team had ice time on Monday and Wednesday and a film session at school on Tuesday. They originally had ice time scheduled for Thurs-day but instead took the day off and rested.

Tonight, stakes are high and players are anxious—some more than others. For Rasch this will be his first ever Challenge Cup experience as a player.

“Brendan is one of those kids where he doesn’t get caught up in the pressure,” said Effinger. “He’s very mono-tone. He treats every game like it’s just another game regard-less of the fans or regardless of what’s going on outside. I think he did a great job man-

aging the pressure and he just went out there and played.”

“I didn’t want to think of it as any different,” said Rasch. “You don’t want to change anything. You want to have the same routine every time.” Others have been to the Cup before and are handling things differently.

“I’m just trying not to get too stressed about it,” said Pence. “I’ll just try to enjoy the moment. I was freaking out last year a little bit too much, but I just have to remember it’s a fun experience and I’m gonna remember it.”

One of the main differ-ences between the Scottrade Center and any other rink the team plays on is the tempera-ture. The rinks that the team plays on throughout the year are built to play hockey, they are cold. The Scottrade Center is built for the spectator, it is much warmer.

“It’s gonna be a really hot arena because it’s where the Blues play,” said Pence. “It’s more for the audience’s well-being. So they keep it warm in there, so you obviously have to hydrate because it’s gonna be hot and you’re gonna be sweating.”

Leadership is an impor-tant thing going into tonight and the Jr. Bills have four se-nior captains bringing the team together for this final game.

“They’ve been great,” said Fitzpatrick. “With Pat-rick Pence, Connor, and Steve Lockwood, and Scotty Berger, they’ve really come together. It’s just kind of one of those things when you get that feel-ing the team has come togeth-er and you don’t know what does it or what causes it. But, it’s a lot like the first year I was here. You just kind of get that feeling, the guys have come together, it’s pretty big for us.”

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Editor’s Note: Reporter Jake Lepak sat down this week with wrestling head coach Jon Ott to talk about the past sea-son and next.

Jake: What were your thoughts about the season overall?

Ott: Well, I mean, obvi-ously, it was a rough season. We kind of knew that going into it since we only had two seniors (Henry Mungenast and Justice Binder) and not a whole lot of varsity experi-ence. So from the wins and losses perspective, that was kind of difficult. I was happy to see improvement from a lot of guys. I definitely think that we showed growth from the beginning of the season to the end of the season. We had a bunch of freshmen that are really committed—some of them really picked up wres-tling and kind of developed a love for wrestling so it paints a pretty good picture for our future, because we also had a pretty good freshman class last year, too.

Jake: I know the season didn’t really end the way you wanted to, but what were some of the memorable moments from the season?

Ott: When Alex Hymes took first place at the Vianney Tournament, that was a pretty neat memory. I don’t think he won any matches on the freshman team when he was a freshman; so to see him going from that to winning a varsity tournament was pretty great.

Henry Mungenast had a bunch of good matches throughout the season and he ended up 28-12. Danny Trit-tler showed a lot of improve-ment. (At Districts) he had a tough bracket but he ended up in the quarterfinal match and took the kid down he faced. That kid was pretty good and Trittler ended up losing the match, but he showed a lot of improvement.

Although we didn’t qual-ify anybody to the State Meet, I think hosting Districts was kind of a neat thing. We had all of our guys helping out un-til like 10:30 at night on Satur-day, and that’s after setting up on Thursday and being here all day Friday. To see their willingness to give their time to wrestling was pretty neat.

The other thing I really remember was our service project that we did where we went to St. Matt’s parish in North City. That was a Sat-urday, our first day off in like

two or three weeks and I had most of the team there and you could see some guys, like Robert Coleman-Grayson, who was a brand new wrestler this year, but he kind of took a leadership role in that and it was neat to see that teamwork dedicated to something else beside the mat.

Jake: Although the season ended on a low note, what positives can be drawn from the season?

Ott: Like I said, in this fresh-man class and the current sophomore class, there are guys who are dedicated, who are willing to put in some work. There were several freshmen that came up to me and asked me to wrestle in districts, only one of them ended up getting to because the other one was hurt and the other one, it was a little too late for him. So that eagerness to compete is something that we can really draw on moving forward. We are also going to have some opportunities to wrestle here in the offseason at SLUH. So I am looking to that as to move forward from this season in a more positive direction.

Jake: You talked a lot about this freshman and sophomore class being the future, so with Justice and Henry leaving, who do you see stepping up to filling the roles as team lead-ers and providing wins for the team?

Ott: I think Rory Butler. He had a really rough year be-cause he won his first two matches, and then he had a concussion and was out for most of the year. By the time he was able to even start train-ing again it was a little too late. But based on what I’ve seen in the past, I think that he has the commitment to make the team better and make himself better. Richard Michalski is kind of the same way. He is still very raw in terms of technique and skills, but he’s definitely one of the guys that’s a leader in the offseason in terms of working out and I expect to see him at a lot of offseason things.

Jake: What are some of the things that the team is plan-ning to do in the offseason to prepare for next year?

Ott: So, I am starting this new offseason wrestling club. It’s called St. Louis Jesuit wres-tling. So that is going to be

BY Jack WatersREPORTER

In the first year for two sepa-rate JV hockey teams, both

SLUH White and SLUH Blue experienced success.

SLUH Blue finished their regular season with a record of 14-2, clinching a first round bye and the No. 2 seed in the JV State playoffs. They breezed through their first playoff game against Marquette, win-ning 5-1. Sophomore Louie Perotti scored twice in the win.

In the semifinals they played their SLUH counter-part, SLUH White. White’s Kevin Einig scored the game-winning goal with 44 seconds left in the game to end Blue’s season a 5-4 victory.

SLUH Blue finished the year with a 15-3 record, through the leadership of freshman Gabe Schwartz and juniors Peter Hoffmeister and Jack Kelly.

“It was a great group of guys,” said Kelly. “We all clicked pretty well together.”

With many players swinging to the varsity team, the team was built off junior leadership.

“There were a lot of ju-niors on the team, most of us

with JV experience,” said Kel-ly. “It was pretty easy to lead the younger kids on the team.”

The SLUH White team finished the season with a re-cord of 16-2-2, after a loss to CBC in the JV State final.

“The boys went out there and they played their hearts out,” said head coach Sean Fitzpatrick.

Despite the loss in the championship game, the sea-son was not seen as a disap-pointment. The White team had an impressive playoff run which included wins over

SLUH Blue and Vianney, two teams they had lost to previ-ously in the year.

“We had a great year,” said freshman goalie Brendan Rasch. “Nobody expected us to get this far.”

Rasch and fellow fresh-man goalie Dylan Bak led the team on the defensive side, combining for seven shut-outs.

Offensively, the team was led by sophomore Kevin Einig and junior Joe Koetting.

Fitzpatrick emphasized the noteworthy growth of the

team.“We’ve had some kids

that started out the year, we didn’t know if they’d be on the JV team or the developmental team below it, and they sur-prised us,” said Fitzpatrick. “Some of them turned out to be our best players all around.”

Although SLUH White only had 16 total players, the effort was always consistent.

“Everybody expected us to go .500, or maybe not even,” said Rasch. “We came out, and proved them wrong.”

Conversation: Ott recaps wrestling

season, looks at future

continued on page 8

JV White & JV Blue hockey seasons end successfully

photo | Dominik SkroskaSLUH White’s Sophomore Kevin Einig (shooting) and Junior PJ Cox (10) in the Feb. 5 game against Vianney.

Justice Binder in the meet against Windsor.photo | Brendan Voigt

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Barnes layup. SLUH and CBC then traded baskets until, with ten seconds left, Barnes hit two free throws to put CBC up 69-66.

After a timeout, sopho-more Mikey Sanders passed the ball in to a streaking McKissic who found Nester near the SLUH bench. Nester looked at the hoop, opted not to shoot, then took a dribble towards the baseline, stepped back, and nailed a clutch fade-away three-pointer from the corner to knot the game at 69 apiece.

“I just wanted to get some space and let it go. My shot was feeling good all night,” said Nester. “I wasn’t really thinking too much to be hon-est.”

The shot brought senior manager Sam Tettamble to his knees as he impersonated Watford Football Club’s Vic-tor Ighallo by pointing up to the sky.

“When Matt hit that three-pointer, it was euphoria. Pure bliss,” said Tettamble.

SLUH Sports Network announcers Sergio Goodwin and Miles Quigless went wild

as the shot went down.“Get that boy some

milk!” cried Goodwin.“Savagery,” shouted

Quigless.However, the energy and

momentum went away quick-ly. CBC dominated in over-time as they slowed SLUH’s offense to a crawl and ex-ploded on offense. The game ended 84-73 in favor of the Cadets—an exciting contest, but not the result SLUH was looking for.

“We learned that we’ve got to stay focused throughout the whole game, especially on

The final bracket vic-tory came from doubles pair Thomas and Freeman, who continued their consistent play fostered by their great communication.

The pair rolled through quarterfinal and semifinal matches to roll into the finals against Ian Bjorn and Peter Vaupel of Lindbergh. The match went to a tiebreaker, but Thomas and Freeman per-severed to win 15-5, 11-15, 11-7.

In addition to the cham-pionships and unexpected losses, seniors Tim Juergens (No. 2) and Jacob Longinette (No. 5) contributed a good number of points with run-ner-up finishes.

Juergens played his quar-terfinal match against fellow SLUH senior Michael Bub, whom he beat 15-0, 15-4. In the semifinals, Juergens de-feated Kirkwood’s J.T. West-cott 15-9, 15-9.

These victories gave Juer-gens some confidence going into the finals, but his final op-ponent was his kryptonite—Kyle Westendorf of Lafayette, whom Juergens could not find a way to beat all year

The result of this match was no different from the others. Westendorf came out strong and defeated Juergens easily 15-6, 15-4.

“Kyle just proved that he can beat Tim nine times out of ten,” said Mueth. “But I think Tim is in a good spot for Na-tionals because they are op-posite sides of the bracket so their only matchup would be the finals.”

“Sometimes you just got-ta tip your hat to who had the better game,” said Juergens.

Longinette’s title quest began with an easy quarterfi-nal victory of 15-2, 15-7 over Lindbergh’s Quinn Jones. He advanced to take on SLUH ju-nior Jack Miner in the semifi-nals, winning 15-4, 15-7.

Senior Charlie Mueth in Saturday’s State tournament. photo | Jack Sinay

Longinette, like Juergens, played an opponent whom he had struggled to beat through-out the year: Parkway West’s Mark Duffie.

Unfortunately, Longi-nette’s top-notch play came to an end as Duffie defeated him 11-15, 15-8, 11-0 to take the championship.

With State behind them, the Jr. Bills began the Nation-al Tournament in Portland, Ore. yesterday. Oregon’s State Champion Beaverton is the biggest threat to a SLUH na-tional title.

Some varsity players had first round individual matches yesterday, in addition to dou-bles matches. The tournament lasts through this Sunday.

two days a week here at SLUH. I have Chris Whalen, who was an Olympic alternate and he used to coach at Mizzou. He has all types of coaching ex-perience and he is going to be a head coach in that. So that’s the main thing and we will also have our team camp and I’m going to encourage guys to do some other camps as well. I’m also going to try and get some big wrestling event here in the fall and bring in some national talent to host some sort of clinic or something like that.

Lepak: The next season is still a long way away, but it’s not too late to start thinking about goals. What goals do you have for the team next year?

Ott: The first thing that comes to mind is getting back to Columbia. As far as a team goes, we had a goal this year of winning the lower level MCC tournament and I think we were maybe 9 points away. That’s another thing—I think getting 20 freshman on the team is a good goal to make the program sustainable and get a State Medalist.

Lepak: Thank you, Mr. Ott.

Ott: Alright, thanks Jake.

the defensive end,” said assis-tant coach James Washington. “We had a few mental break-downs there late, and they cost us.”

The Jr. Bills then faced off against another MCC ri-val, Vianney, on Tuesday. The last time these two teams met, SLUH had to mount a massive comback to win the game. The same was not true this time around. SLUH had a much easier time with the Griffins, who are now without sopho-more standout Carte’Are Gor-don, who recently transferred to Webster Groves.

Racquetball heads to Portland for National tournament

Ott discusses wrestling

Friday, February 26Racquetball Nationals AP Snack—Nacho BarLunch Special—Pasta Bar Vegetarian—Garden Burger8:00pm Hockey State Championship

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Saturday, February 27Racquetball Nationals 3:00pm District Basketball Tournament

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Sunday, February 28Racquetball NationalsCISL Speech NIE Missouri and New Orleans Province Retreat (until March 1)

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Monday, February 29Leap DayAP Senior Graduation Tuxedo MeasurementSnack—Cinnamon RollsLunch Special—Baked Chicken Vegetarian—Turkey Burger6:00pm District Basketball Tournament

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Tuesday, March 1Lent Confessions (until Friday)8:00am Harmony Prayer ServiceAP Senior Graduation Tuxedo MeasurementSnack—Pizza SticksLunch Special—Toasted Ravioli Vegetarian—Lo Mein6:00pm District Basketball Tournament

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Wednesday, March 28:15am Lent AdorationAP Senior Graduation Tuxedo MeasurementSnack—Mini Corn DogsLunch Special—Hand-Breaded Chicken Tenders Vegetarian—Black Bean Burger

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Thursday, March 3Choral Clinic/TheaterAP Senior Graduation Tuxedo MeasurementSnack—Mini TacosLunch Special—Papa John’s Pizza Vegetarian—Pasta7:00pm District Basketball Tournament

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Friday, March 4AP Sophomore Class MassSnack—BoscoLunch Special—Shrimp and Fries Vegetarian—Grilled Cheese7:00pm District Basketball Tournament

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B-Ball bounces back with win over Vianney

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(continued from page 6) The Jr. Bills still strug-gled to execute, however, and found themselves trailing 16-13 at the end of the first quarter. They were sloppy on offense and lacked the energy to take the game over.

The Jr. Bills began to as-sert their will on the game by pressuring Vianney’s ball-handers more. SLUH was able to take advantage of some Vianney miscues, and they found themselves up 35-30 at half.

“We got a few steals. We got a dunk or two, and that re-ally got us pumped up,” said Nester.

“We turned up the pres-sure and got a couple of quick turnovers. We got some easy layups,” said Coen.

The Jr. Bills shut Vianny down from the start of the sec-ond half. SLUH brought a lot of energy to the floor this half, and subs Anthony Hughes and Ryan Hebenstreit played substantial minutes. Hughes ended the game with 12 points, most of the them com-ing in the second half. Wilson also feasted on a worn-down Vianney team, and finished with 16 points.

“Without Carte’Are, Vi-anney just wasn’t the same team,” said Nester.

The fourth quarter con-tinued to be much of the same, and the Jr. Bills cruised

to a 65-50 victory.These games are all in

preparation for a Jr. Bills play-off run which will start Tues-day night at home against Lindbergh. SLUH beat Lind-bergh once this season, 56-33 in the Meremac Holiday Tour-nament. Should the Jr. Bills win next Tuesday, they would likely play Webster Groves in a rematch of last year’s district final, which the Jr. Bills won on a buzzer-beater from McK-issic.

“We’re feeling good right now,” said Washington. “Our team’s mental approach is heading in the right direction, so I think going into the game we can expect some really good things from our team.”

—Matt Nester, Mario Thom-malari, and Jimmy Coen con-tributed reporting.

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CORRECTIONS: Justice Binder defeated Carly Valleroy 7-3. Henry Mungenast pinned Jeremy Ashlock. Danny Trit-tler wrestled 145, not 152.

An article last week incorrectly referred to Mr. Jim Lin-hares as the Assistant Principal for Admission. He is the As-sistant Principal for Mission.

Coach Clagget late in the Paint it Pink game.

photo | Brendan Voigt

Prior to Friday’s game against CBC, the basketball program recognized seniors for their dedication to the program. From left to right: Matt Nester, Daniel and David Jackson, Miles Quigless, Mario Thomallari, and Sam Tettamble with their parents. photo | Leo Heinz

MISSEY DAB

calendar | Liam Connolly