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Trailblazer Bios
Nicole Miller
Sport:
Basketball
Position:
Shooting guard
Height:
5’9
Age: 19
Grade:
Freshman
Hometown:
Louisville, KY.
High School:
Ballard
Opinion of Season:
Going to be good very team oriented
Hobbies:
Going out, watching TV, and being on the phone.
Season Highlight:
“Ball till we fall”
Season’s Goal:
To do better than last season.
Next Year’s Plan:
To play next year at LC as a sophomore, and then go on to another
college.
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Jeremy Clark
Sport:
Basketball
Position:
Forward
Height:
6’4
Age: 19
Grade:
Freshman
Hometown:
St. Louis, Mo.
High School:
Beaumont
Opinion of Season:
It started off slow, but now we are on a winning streak for second
semester.
Hobbies:
Playing ball, going to the show, kicking it with the fellas.
Season Highlight:
I scored two baskets in a row to put LC up in double overtime.
Season’s Goal:
To play as a team.
Next Year’s Plan: Come back
here, graduate and pass all my classes.
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Super Bowl Commercials:
Not Especially Pleasing
AMY PORTER
EDITOR
What does it say about out society when the best commercials during the
most-watched event of the year, are for alcohol? O.k., so the super bowl is
traditionally a time to eat little smokies and drink beer like it’s going
out of style, but come on.
I go to Super Bowl parties for the traditional reasons and to watch
commercials.
The commercials this year were sad. McDonalds, which usually has a few
overplayed-get-cute-30-second spots, did nothing of interest.
Top 5 commercials: (and if you didn’t see them, don’t bother.)
1. Upside down clown drinks a Bud light through his bum and is denied a hot
dog.
2. Dude with dog on his head, also beer.
3. Guy calls the zebra-referee a jack ass. (beer)
4. Monkey doing a back-stroke. (Sierra Mist)
5. This is what your girlfriend will look like in 20 years. (Probably for
beer.)
Oh, and the half-time show – Sting, who dressed you? And Gwen, where did you
leave your voice?
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‘Pirate
Bowl’ Reviewed
JOEL JONES
FOR THE BRIDGE
graphic courtesy of bonesframedpictures.com
Without a doubt, defense
wins football games. More to the point, defense wins the Super Bowl. Super
Bowl XXXVII was a clash between the NFL’s best offense (the Raiders) and
best defense (the Buccaneers).
The game started how it
was expected to, with a lot of defensive plays. During the third play of
the game, Brad Johnson (Tampa Bay’s QB) threw an interception. What followed
were loads of terrible passes from both teams and three field goals (two for
Tampa, one for Oakland).
It was looking to be a
very close game—for a while anyway. Suddenly, late in the first half,
Tampa’s offense got involved and scored two touchdowns, giving them a 20-3
lead.
At the start of the
second half, Tampa remained dominant. Oakland tried to stage a comeback,
but that proved to be in vain. Tampa Bay recorded five sacks and five
interceptions, three of which were returned for touchdowns. What was most
surprising is that the Super Bowl still turned out to be a blowout.
Most people expected it
to be a low scoring, defensive battle, with the victor not being known until
the very end of the game. And it was like that—for about five minutes. Then
the Bucs just took control, and the Raiders never had a chance.
Thus ended the
Pirate Bowl, or so it was dubbed, Tampa over Oakland 48-21, and consequently
the NFL season. So once the high of watching football wears off, (for many
it already has) and the withdrawals start setting in, it remains necessary
to rehash every minute of your team’s season and figure out what they did
wrong and right. Right now you can just wait for the draft
and hope. Or you can write your team
everyday with ideas on coaching changes, draft picks, new offensive or
defensive schemes, hoping that they’ll see the method behind your madness.
I know that’s what I plan to do—that or watch hockey.
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Drumming Up New Talent
STEPHANIE WRIGHT
SPORTS EDITOR
Coaches have already begun to start recruiting and signing players for
next season.
Volleyball coach Rhonda Roberts already signed one new player for next
season on Jan. 30. Megan Keefe is a 5’7 Right Side Hitter and setter from
Waterloo. She will also play Softball for Roberts in the 2004 season as a
Shortstop.
In the middle of Feb., Roberts will sign Kim Angleton of East Alton-Wood
River. She is a 5’7 Outside Hitter who will also play Softball as a catcher.
For womens soccer, coach Tim Rooney has signed Cara Pailo of Granite City
for a midfielder.
He also signed Michelle Ferguson of Hazelwood Central as a stopper. He also
recruited two players from Francis Howell North, Mallory Schaffer and Megan
Rooney as midfielders.
The last person that has joined the LC womens soccer for the coming season
is a center midfielder, April Schatz of Hazelwood West.
THE MENS SOCCER TEAM HAS NOT YET SIGNED ANY PLAYERS FOR THE SEASON, BUT AT
THE END OF JANUARY AND BEGINNING OF FEBRUARY, THEY ARE HAVING A “KICK
AROUND.” THIS WILL BE ON EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY. THIS IS SO PLAYERS MAY
COME AND EVALUATE THE SCHOOL AND BE EVALUATED.
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After playing basketball his first year at LC, point guard Matt Allaria
decided to take his second year off.
said sophomore co-captain
Crystal Foiles.
LC’s first game back was against Forest Park on Jan. 4. The Trailblazers
beat Forest Park 83 -54, after having lost to them in the first half of the
season (91-96).