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Volume 10, No. 10
Friday, May 2, 2025
Hornets Baseball Starts Season 10-0 By Alan Kornspan sports@karlovecmedia.com Throwing a lot of strikes, scoring a lot of runs, and fielding well often leads to great baseball. Following this recipe to success, the 4th ranked Div. VI, Hor- ND LA while only allowing 5 earned runs nets Baseball Team is off KtoIRaTgreat over 20 innings. In addition, Paul start. In fact, through ten games, has struckout 28 and only walked they are a perfect 10-0. seven. After defeating the Harvey Red Hornets Head Coach Luke SmrRaiders, 15-2, on April 23, senior del said that the coaching staff has Max Paul discussed his pitching great confidence in Paul's ability. performance. “We give him (Paul) the ball and Paul said that he was throwing we know he is going to go out there strikes and allowed his defense to and give us his best effort,” said make plays. Coach Smrdel. “He is very good “Everytime I go out, (I try) to at hitting the zone, locking teams just throw strikes and pound the down, and he does a good job comzone,” Paul said. “I know I have my manding his pitches.” defense behind me, so (I am) not In addition to excellent pitchtrying to do too much”. ing, scoring a lot of runs has also Against the Red Raiders, Paul's been paramount to the Hornets' slider was working well as he struck success. out seven, gave up no earned runs Their ability to plate runs was and only allowed four hits over five certainly evident against the Red innings. Raiders as the Hornets took an earFor the season, Paul is 4-0 ly 5-0 lead.
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Max Paul is off to a great start this season going 4-0, with a 1.78 ERA, while striking out 28.
“We came out hitting the ball, got some runs early (against the Red Raiders),” Coach Smrdel said.
“That's been what we have focused on, getting runs early, getting ahead See Baseball• Page 7
Students Flex Writing Skills in Kiwanis Contest By Donna L. Robinson editor@karlovecmedia.com Kirtland students showed off their writing talents in front of more than 70 people at the Kirtland Kiwanis Creative Writing Contest Award Ceremony April 24. Nineteen students from grades sixth through 12th were awarded certificates for winning pieces inspired by this year’s theme, “I have a Dream.” “All the entries were very well done and quite challenging for the judges to narrow it down to nineteen recipients receiving funds and recognition,” said Kiwanis President Kathy Talty, who coordinated the event at the Kirtland Community Center. “This is our third year for having the ‘Creative Writing Contest’ and it keeps on growing with popularity in the community. The writing contest evolved as a pathway to get away from analytical writing, which is stressed in many institutions, to a venue where fun and creative thoughts are cheered, applauded,and touted with much
Creative Writing Contest Winners Grades 6-8
1st - Bo Brauer - $200 2nd - Abrionna Jahn - $150 3rd - Michael Sullivan - $100 3rd - Jillian Spurling - $100
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Kirtland Kiwanis President Kathy Talty, far left, poses with this year’s creative writing contest award recipients.
enthusiasm.” Talty read a poem by Adrienna Margheret titled, “I have a Dream for Ice Cream.” “I truly appreciated her wonderful poetry talents and fabulous ambitions to have some ice cream,” Talty said in a follow-up interview. “It was a very fitting piece of poetry to read in a very hot room that evening and ice cream sounded so good.” Meriah Duncan, an English teacher from Kirtland High School, said she was proud of her students
who won awards in the contest, which included Mairin Fini, Kylie Sayle, Ben Shepard, Kevin Urbanick, Bo Famularcano and Vivienne Venido. “I have had the pleasure of reading most of the pieces submitted by my students. The theme for this year's Kiwanis competition … invited a variety of submissions,” she said. “The theme was broad enough that students could connect to its historical echo of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s message promoting See Writing• Page 4
Honorable Mentions Lina Sophia Schneider - $50 Ryan Jackson - $50 Piper Schmidt - $50
Grades 9-10
1st Danni Eberlin - $200 2nd Benjamin Shepard - $150 3rd Kevin Michael Urbanick - $100 Honorable Mentions Kylie Sayle - $50 Danika Schaum - $50 Mairin Fini - $50
Grades 11-12
1st Niko Samac - $200 2nd Vivienne Venida - $150 3rd Bo Famularcano - $100 Honorable Mentions Ella Buehner - $50 Clare Davidson - $50 Megan Urbanick - $50
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