The girls’ softball team has had a very successful streak for the past few years with making it to both the WPIAL and the PIAA playoffs. Their 2018-19 season will be one that goes down in Avonworth history as a first. The girls ended their season with a conference record of 14-1, which landed them…
2019 Track Season Recap
As the school year is coming to a close, so are the Antelope’s Spring Sports seasons. With the help from much more cooperative weather than past years, our outdoor sports teams represented Avonworth with all of their successes. With more than 80 student-athletes competing during the regular season, this year’s Avonworth/Northgate Track & Field program…
Basketball Beat Day 2: Raptors and TIPS
Today for my basketball beat, while not a lot of basketball was being played in the last open mod, there was a lot of basketball being played in mod f. There is a gym class in the gym at that time. Mr. Coffin has been nice enough to let people in open mod come in…
Behind the Library Counter (ish): 5/31/19
Today instead of being behind the counter of the library, I took up residence in Mrs. Arnold’s room. Mara and Fabian were in there as well as Mrs. Arnold for a while. Before she left Mrs. Arnold set us up with Kenny Rogers music after finding an article about how Kenny Rogers was hospitalized to…
The LEAD Beat: Day 2
For today’s LEAD Beat, many people are anticipating the girl’s softball team’s WPIAL Championship game. The team played Keystone Oaks in the championship game yesterday, May 29th, but a thunderstorm cancelled the game. The game got to the 5th inning with Avonworth leading 8-0 before it got delayed to today, May 30th, at 10:30 AM…
jk_elm Beat: Day 2
Today I was not expecting to write a beat on Josh because he was supposed to have an early dismal at 12:15, but thankfully his ride fell through so I got to follow him around for another day. Josh ended up coming to journalism 2 because he was unable to go to the softball…
Behind the Library Counter 5/29/19
Today I got to talk to Mrs. Hickman more during mod F/G. She reports that she is happy to be back and is considering herself something of a “harbinger of summer” because she is returning so close to the end of the school year. Although she is returning very late she says that she is…
Keeping Up with Calvin: Day 2
Calvin’s day, in general, was pretty good. He took his Calculus final, which he actually thinks he did pretty well on, with the exception of the last question, where he just gave up: “I said I don’t know anything, and I just said ‘okay, I’m done,’ and I just left it there. It was basically…
Behind the Library Counter 5/28/19
Today was Mrs. Hickman’s first day back in the library after being gone for six weeks on maternity leave. She was teaching a class when I was in the library during mod H, but the assistant librarians report that her newest family member, a little baby boy named Oliver, is happy and healthy. More from…
Basketball Beat Day 1: Basketball During Open Mod?
This year we were entered into a new world at Avonworth. With a new block schedule format for classes kids got more opportunities while building their day. For instance some kids come in late or leave for the day early. Another thing kids have started to do is schedule open mods or something like a…