RED DEVIL EBLAST December 4 2015

Red Devil Update Student E-News
December 4, 2015
CONTENTS
Weekly Activity News ............................................................................................................................................................................ 1
Weekly Athletic News ............................................................................................................................................................................ 3
WEEKLY ACTIVITY NEWS
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Scholastic Bowl participated in the IHSSBCA Kickoff Tournament at Fenwick High School on Saturday,
November 21 and placed 1st and 2nd place among 24 teams present. Notable top 5 scorers among all
participants were Harrison Wang and James Zhou.
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The Hinsdale Central Forensics Team had a tremendous weekend November 21, with the novices winning the
tournament at West Chicago High School. Individual award winners include:
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Ellie Margason—Tournament Champion, Informative Speaking and 2nd place, Impromptu Speaking
Julia Sant—Tournament Champion, Informative Speaking and 3rd place, Oratorical Declamation
Kate Gabriel—Tournament Champion, Radio Speaking and 4th place, Original Oratory
Kathleen Hynan—Tournament Champion, Dramatic Interpretation and 2nd place, Poetry Reading
Megan Melia—Tournament Champion, Dramatic Interpretation
Regan Brownell—Tournament Champion, Oratorical Declamation and 3rd place, Special Occasion
Speaking
Charlie Carter and Katie Erickson—2nd place, Dramatic Duet Acting
Claire Elman—2nd place, Extemporaneous Speaking and 2nd place, Original Oratory
Claire Mueller—2nd place, Poetry Reading and 3rd place, Humorous Interpretation
Conor Donlevy—2nd place, Extemporaneous Speaking and 5th place, Special Occasion Speaking
Emily Goggin and Tim Moser—2nd place, Dramatic Duet Acting
Kaitlyn Phillips and Tim Moser—2nd place, Humorous Duet Acting
Charlie Carter—3rd place, Radio Speaking
Harini Loganathan and Micky Horstman—3rd place, Humorous Duet Acting
Micky Horstman—3rd place, Original Comedy
Chloe Bassett—4th place, Original Comedy and 5th place, Impromptu Speaking
Emily Goggin—5th place, Prose Reading
Harini Loganathan—5th place, Humorous Interpretation
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Shalni Sundram—6th place, Special Occasion Speaking
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Congratulations to everyone on a brilliant start to the season. The team will return to competition on
December 5th, with the varsity team headed to Elk Grove High School, and the JV and novice team (1st
and 2nd year competitors) headed to Hersey High School.
The Science Olympiad Varsity and JV Teams turned out a great performance against 42 teams at the Palatine
Invitational on Saturday November 21. The Varsity team finished 1st and JV finished 13th against a very tough
field with all members contributing to the successful performance. This was a great start for JV because they
had to compete against our own Varsity and many other varsity teams. They finished ahead of many other
schools’ varsity teams. Wearing medals home were
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1st Place:
Anatomy & Physiology (Ankush Bajaj and Shahzar Rizvi)
GeoMapping (Julia Clarke and Megan Guenther)
Fossils (Julia Clarke and Lilja Carden)
Dynamic Planet (Julia Clarke and Lilja Carden)
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2nd Place:
Cell Biology (Ankush Bajaj and Amy Guo)
Forensics (Qianfan Song and Navid Shoaee)
Game On (Julianne Knott and Cagan Hawthorne)
Air Trajectory (Peyton Pielet and Minsoo Kim)
Bridge (Tina Guo)
Wind Power (Qianfan Song and Cecilia Ding)
Astronomy (Megan Guenther and Peyton Pielet)
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3rd Place:
Experimental Design (Minsoo Kim, Sanjanaa Shanmugam, and Cecilia Ding)
Chem Lab (Minsoo Kim and Ankush Bajaj)
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4th Place:
Invasive Species (Julia Clarke and Cecilia Ding)
Robot Arm (Hector Varela, Parker Frankiewicz, and Praveen Balaji)
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Congratulations to the 37 members of Science Olympiad that made this first invitational so
productive.
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Thanks to all of the students who tried out for the JETS team this week. Sixty students took over 100 exams in
tryouts over a two-week span, and the final 30 JETS scholars are listed below: Ankush Bajaj, Chitra
Balakrishnan, Sunny Chen, Alex Choi, Carolyn Chun, Julia Coyner, Shubhakar Deo, Micaela Dugan, Michael
Elder, C.J. Enright, Brian Glowniak, Jake Heiser, Ellen Jiang, Minsoo Kim, Julianne Knott, Samantha Lee, Jeremy
Li, Xinru Li, Craig McLaughlin, Mita Ramani, Peter Ren, Shahzar Rizvi, Arnav Sankaran, Hadi Shiraz, Harrison
Wang, Rachel Wang, Joseph Wittrock, Yu-Lin Yang, Matthew Yeh, James Zhou.
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Congratulations to the following Hinsdale Central Musicians selected for All-State!
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Peter Ren, Band
Alice Ding, Orchestra
Giorgio Graziano, Orchestra
Sophie Lekas, Orchestra
Xinru Li, Orchestra
Jake Semba, Orchestra
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Steven Sun, Orchestra
Hugo Zoells, Orchestra
Beatrice Makdah, Orchestra
Evan Donaldson, Choir
Samara Lillioja, Choir
Jack Rasmussen, Choir
Let’s Help Out held the annual Brown Bags of Hope event on Saturday, November 21st. Fifty students reached
out for donations in our local community and made over 200 lunches. Students covered downtown Chicago on
foot to distribute winter clothing and the lunches to the homeless. Donations were also made to the Pacific
Garden Mission, a shelter in Chicago. Students should attend the next Let’s Help Out meeting on December 4th
to learn about participating in the Salvation Army Red Kettle Program on Saturdays during December!
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Key Club is gearing up for the holidays! We are sponsoring four families in need in the HC community. Key
Clubbers who signed up to purchase gifts should bring them to our meeting this Friday, 12/4. Key Clubbers will
also be volunteering as docents for the Ray Graham Holiday House Walk on Sunday, 12/6 giving tours of
Hinsdale homes to benefit the Ray Graham Association. We will also be making holiday cards for nursing home
residents on Wednesday, 12/8. Visit http://tinyurl.com/nh73q9k to sign up for Key Club events.
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WEEKLY ATHLETIC NEWS
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A Fall Recognition Assembly was held in the gym on Mon. Nov. 23rd. The various accomplishments of the fall
teams were recognized. Here are some of the highlights:
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The Red Devil Boys’ Varsity Bowling team lost to Hinsdale South 2554 to 2658 last week. Matt Paulson led the
way with a 549 series. At the Plainfield North Tournament over the weekend, the boys qualified for the Silver
Division afternoon bracket after finishing 27 out of 48 teams in the morning session. Harrison Woodward had
a team high 260 game. The team lost to a very tough LT opponent 2677-3317. Despite Harrison Woodward’s
566 series, the Red Devils could not overcome a perfect 300 game by the Lions. The boys bowling team
defeated Lemont by a pin total of 2604 to 2372. The Red Devils were led by Harrison Woodward’s 234 game
and a 615 series. The Red Devils next opponent is Hinsdale South on Tuesday. Go Devils!
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The Girls’ Varsity Basketball team opened its season at the Hinsdale South Tip-Off Tournament last week. The
Red Devils started the season against the #1-ranked Montini Broncos. Facing off against a Montini team with
eight Division 1 players, the Red Devils were in the game until midway in the third quarter when the Broncos
size and depth wore down the Red Devils. Paige Bareck led Hinsdale Central with 15 points in the 77-34 loss.
Two nights later, the Red Devils faced #18-ranked Neuqua Valley. Down only 48-45 at the start of the 4th
quarter, the young squad struggled to score down the stretch and fell 64-49. Paige Bareck had 24 points and
Riley Burr had 14. Bouncing back on Saturday in their third game in five days, the Red Devils defeated Reavis
58-47, led by Grace Hartzman's 19 points and Riley Burr's 13. The girls’ team improved its record to 3-2 with
two more victories in the tourney. The Red Devils defeated Sandburg 47-37 and St. Ignatius 48-46 in an
overtime thriller. Paige Bareck and Riley Burr led the way against Sandburg with 18 and 10 points
respectively. Against St. Ignatius, Paige Bareck had 13, Grace Hartzman 11, Riley Burr 9 and Elle Schaefer had
5 of the Red Devil's 7 overtime points to lead the way.
Over Thanksgiving break, the Freshman A and B teams both came in third place in the Hinsdale South Tip-Off
Invite Tournament. Additionally, both freshman teams won their first conference games against DGN!
Freshman A won a close game 28 – 22 and Freshman B won 37-18.
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Congratulations to Stephanie Bowater, Mia Chiappe, Hollis Clark, Maddie Fowler, Emily Graham, Christina
Kaufman and Jazmin Shenouda on a great season with a strong finish at the Girls’ Swimming IHSA State Meet!
The results are as follows: Medley Relay finished 21st, Mia Chiappe finished 14th in the 100 Free, the 200 Free
Relay finished 16th, Stephanie Bowater finished 32nd in the 100 back, Emily Graham finished 27th in the 100
Breast, and the 400 Free Relay finished 16th. A special shout out of congratulations to Mia Chiappe for being
named the team’s MVP and her 52.13 time in the 100 Free—she’s within .3 seconds of the school record!
Awesome job ladies!
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The Hinsdale Central Wrestling teams were busy on all levels this past weekend. Varsity competed in the
Barrington Tournament placing 13th overall out of 27 teams. Competitors for varsity were: 106 – John
Antonelli, 120 – Jack McCarty, 126 – Alex Perez, 138 – Brett Dougherty – 10th Place, 145 – Luke Skokna – 9th
Place, 152 – Ameen Hamdan – 2nd Place, 160 – Malachi Grimm, 182 – Peter Pigatti, 195 – Max Gregor, 285 –
Matt Allen – Champion and Niko Ivanisevic – 4th Place.
The JV wrestlers competed at the New Trier quad this weekend going 1-2 on the day. Excellent performances
were turned in by Andrew DeAprile and Lonnell Smith Jr, both of whom went 3-0 on the day.
The Freshman wrestlers hosted an invitational this weekend finishing 2nd overall as a team. Individual placers
were: Matt Cangelosi - 1st, Joe Napolitano - 1st, Hunter Belvis - 3rd, Matt D’Aprile - 3rd, Aidan Cruickshank - 2nd,
Will Kallas - 2nd and Grey Charlier - 3rd.
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Congratulations to the Girls’ Varsity Gymnastics team for placing 1st in the first invitational of the year,
beating out seven other teams. Top 10 finishers were: Lily Jones - Vault (7th),Bars (3rd ), Floor (5th ) and AllAround (4th),
Kylie Torsberg - Bars (7th), Beam (10th), Floor (9th) and All–Around (6th), Jessica Elliott - Bars (5th) and Jenny
Sims - Beam (5th ).
Great job, Freshmen, for placing 4th at the Hinsdale Central Thanksgiving Freshmen Invitational. Top finishers
were: Kylie Torsberg - Vault (3rd), Bars (7th), Beam (4th), Floor (6th) and All – Around (5th) and Maddie
Boshardt - Vault (8th), Floor (7th) and All–Around (10th).
This Saturday is the first Conference meet against Glenbard West. Come out and support your Red Devils.
The meet starts at 11am at Glenbard West. Good luck, girls!
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The Varsity and JV Pommers are in full swing for basketball season. Captains Sophia Bernardi, Emma Loughlin
and Ann Marie Kennedy are making up some creative and innovative dances for the team! For the Holiday
Season, both JV and Varsity will be donating materials to families right here in Hinsdale to help make their
holidays more enjoyable this year. Come out to the Boys Basketball game this Saturday, December 5th, to see
their first performance against Notre Dame in the Main Gym.
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The Boys’ Varsity Basketball team participated in the Hoops for Healing Tournament hosted by Naperville
North & Oswego High School. The team split four games beating Oswego East and Neuqua Valley and falling to
Naperville North and Naperville Central. This year’s varsity roster includes the following players: Drew
Shepherd, Jack Hoiberg, Marshall Dockery, Brad Huth, Ryan Cohen, Peter Blust, Michael Claussen, Tomas
Misiunas, Michael Yaeger, Alex Wallace, Nate McGowan, Anthony Brescia, Tommy Lyne, Danny Ahern, Chris
Eck, Trevor Hamilton, and Austin Schwartz.
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All boys interested in playing Lacrosse, please attend the registration information night being held Wed. Dec.
9th at 7pm in the Hinsdale Central Cafeteria. The new coaching staff will be speaking and spirit wear will be
available to order. Bring your checkbook and any friends who might be interested.
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The Hinsdale Central Devils Hockey team had the pleasure to promote and host the November 18th Sled
Hockey benefit game vs the Chicago Hornets Sled Hockey team (http://www.hornetsledhockey.org)
(Donations still being taken!). The Hornets program is a decade plus hockey squad dedicated to allowing kids
from ages 5-20 with a range of physical disabilities to experience the game of hockey. Their experience and
talent was on full display as shifts featured the Red Devils donning hockey sleds for the first time vs. an
extremely active and mobile Hornets team. While the Hinsdale Central hockey team made a valiant showing,
they were no match for the skillful stings doled out by the Hornets in their victory. Most of all, due to the
dedication of many volunteers who promoted the event including Nancy Laskowski and Michele Kapp, the
Hinsdale Central Hockey Board of Directors, the Hinsdale Rotary Club, Denise Olson (and Strategic Staffing
Solutions), Sin Bin (Hornet Spirit Towels) and so many others, the event was able to raise over $10,000 to
further the Hornets mission to provide a no cost wonderful opportunity for these kids to continue to compete
on the ice and for many, their only athletic endeavor. Many thanks also to former Blackhawks Peter Marsh
who opened the game as the MC and provided a ceremonial puck drop, Steve Konroyd who promoted the
game during his TV Blackhawk game remarks and of course the Blackhawks, who donated an autographed
stick for the live auction with the entire roster signing. A big thank you goes out to the many other volunteers
who can't possibly be named and the many donors for their generous gifts to keep this great Hornet
organization going. Thank you also for the students helping to pack the stands and help the Ice Devils support
Hornet Sled Hockey.
The Hinsdale Central Varsity Hockey team continued their recent winning streak with victories in their last 2
games, defeating Lincoln-Way 7-0 and Plainfield 7-3. Goals vs Plainfield were scored by Chris Stella (2), Athan
Tsokolas (2), Stephen Konroyd (2), and Brendan Mahoney. The Red Devils had another decisive victory over
Lincoln-Way with Brendan Mahoney scoring a hat trick. Alex Bogdonoff, Charlie Kapp, Joe Dipofi and Lucian
Dipofi also found the back of the net while Chris Stella tallied 3 assists.
The Junior Varsity team under Coach Volpe has had an active and exciting four game stretch to report. First,
on Nov. 11th, the JV Devils faced a stubborn Naperville Central team and both teams were scoreless until the
final 3rd period. Naperville scored first in the first 45 seconds of the period, followed with Nick Kubycheck
scoring a few minutes later at the 9:37 mark. Naperville responded with another score five minutes later however, with 11 seconds left and with Coach Volpe pulling the goalie - a 6 on 5 rush and a goal from Logan
Purcell tied the score! The Devils then went on to win in a shootout 2-1 in an exciting finish. On Sun. Nov.
15th, the Devils faced Wheaton West who they previously beat 8-3. This time, the Devils, despite outshooting
their opponents 32-10 and with goals from Sam Stapleton (2) and Nick Kubycheck, were thwarted by some
great goaltending, losing 3-4.
On Sat. Nov. 21st, likewise the JV Devils faced a familiar opponent in Plainfield who they had defeated twice once in tournament and again in league play. While jumping out to an early lead on goals by Sam Stapleton,
Patrick Naphin and Logan Purcell, Plainfield came back to within a goal before Spencer Martin put in the game
sealer with 11:06 left in the third and the Devils won 4-2. Finally on Nov. 22nd, the Devils faced the league
leading and undefeated York Dukes who they last faced on Oct. 9th and lost 0-6. After finishing the first
period scoreless and the Devils coming out extremely aggressive, the teams traded goals to end in a 1-1 tie.
The lone goal was from James Usher from an assist by Nick Kubycheck. While disappointing, the Dukes have
outscored their last 8 other opponents 44-4, and this was their first regulation tie. The Devils were very stingy
on defense, in their back checking and were also led by goalie Libor Gallik, who had an extremely strong game
between the posts.
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The Boys’ Swim and Dive team starts its winter season this Saturday at Naperville Central after a successful
Red and White intersquad meet last Friday. Come out and watch them start an exciting season! Go Red!
Have a great weekend Hinsdale Central!
Mark Kolkman, Ed.D, Principal
Hinsdale Central High School
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