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Ruston High School October 21, 2010 Page 32
Seniors Win Beat Neville
Week
by Christian Amos
Sports Editor
The Class of 2011 represented well as they defeated the freshmen,
sophomore, and junior classes. With an ending score of
fifteen points, just one point shy of their winning score from last
year, the seniors went on to win the Spirit stick at the ―Game
Day‖ Pep Rally.
Throughout the week, the senior class was represented by Byroneshia
Santiago, Jemario Crowe, Matthew Manning, and Jonathan
Jones. Manning ―crushed‖ the competition in the Orange
Crush competition. During Beat Neville week, the shirt competitions
were a split battle between the juniors and the seniors, but
with the help of their creative idea of ―A Walk Through Time‖
the seniors surpassed the rest. On Monday, the competition involved
a wheel barrow race. The sophomore class was represented
well by Devin Price and Alex West as they were the first to
cross the finish line. In the egg toss game the junior class roused
some ―eggcitement‖ when Jake Haddox and Nick Letendre held
their eggs in hand throughout every toss.
RHS Will Get New $3.1 M Field House
by Christian Amos
Sports Editor
At a very important school board meeting on October 5, 2010, members of the Lincoln Parish School Board approved the
funding of a $3.1 million field house to grace the campus of RHS. Construction on the building is expected to begin in mid
2011. Experts say the entire facility is expected to be completed by the summer of 2012. If that holds true, two years from now
all the athletes of RHS will have a bigger and better facility to call their own.
The Lincoln Parish School Board voted 10-0 to approve the $3.1 Million project with two members absent. An architect in
Ruston has designed the much needed field house so that, if needed, add-ons can be made to the structure. This artist is Ruston‘s
Mike Walpole. Walpole will serve as Noah to Ruston High‘s Ark. Nearly 200 new lockers, a large weight room, and a large
training room are just some of the features to be included in the new luxurious field house.
Ruston‘s athletic director, Coach Laird, wants to thank the people that ended the drawn out, anticipated wait, the school
board. ―I want to thank the entire school board‖, Laird said ―I know we‘re in financial troubles, but they have found the importance
of this for the RHS student body‖.
Soon, hundreds of RHS athletes will have a modern area to train and build body and character.
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