both games. The varsity baseball team had strong defense this season which showed in their record, said Head Coach Tom

Grunenfelder. Standout baseball players include Kade Woods, junior, and the two team captains, Jake Ralstin and Martin, seniors, for their offense. “We didn’t play well collec-tively in the first (regionals) game, but we came togeth-er and battled through the second,” said Martin. “I would just like to see the student body out to the game,” said Grunenfelder. As for the softball team, they work on improving

their routine plays and “correcting er-rors” so the other team won’t have “ex-tra chances” to defeat them, said Head Coach Dave Garrett. The softball team’s strongest players include Paige Wells, who excels with batting and defense, among other play-ers, according to Garrett. “The season in general is going good. We just need to cut down on our mis-takes,” said Garrett.

After a regionals win against Lake City May 8, Bengal varsi-ty baseball athletes earned the chance to compete at the state level, with 15 wins and nine season loss-es. Meanwhile, var-sity softball finished the season with 14 wins and nine losses. Baseball and softball played Lake City May 8, with baseball win-ning 5-0, and softball winning 6-4. “If we keep playing this way, we can win state,” said Team Captain Brett Martin of the May 15-17 games set at Hawks Stadium in Boise. May 6, Bengal baseball won against Post Falls 5-1. The Bengal girls defeated Lake City, 6-4. Both teams also competed at Church Field and Airport Park in Lewiston April 12 against Coeur d’Alene. The Bengal boys won the first game, 12 – 8, and lost the second, 10 – 6. The Bengal girls lost

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LHS rider Taaron Davis competes in the District III High School Spring Rodeo April 19 and 20 in Weiser, Idaho.

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Sat. April 12, members of the LCSC Business Student Department hosted Color the Valley, a 5K color run, at Com-munity Park in the Lewiston Orchards. During this run, participants coated with multiple colors of chalk-like pow-der run or walk until they finish. The event consisted of multiple color sta-

Spring sports bring color to the valleyRide ’em and rope ’em

tions along the designated path of the run. As participants ran or walked, vol-unteers threw the chalk-like powder at them. All proceeds from the fun run helped to promote scholarship and future events held by the Business Student Or-ganization and Kinesiology. This event in conjunction with the Lewiston Dogwood Festival, an annual festival celebrating the spring season.

Run or dye: Color the Valley 5k raises spirits, funds for LCSC groups

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LHS students Taaron Davis and Zac Zwerneman competed in the District III High School Spring Rodeo April 19 and 20 in Weiser, Idaho. Zwerneman competed in bareback and saddle bronc, while Davis com-peted in team roping, calf roping and steer wrestling. The riders continue

to district finals May 10 and 11 at the Asotin County Fairgrounds in Asotin, Wash. Davis said his goals this year include placing in bulldogging, team roping and calf roping. He said he also wants to “help my competitors be the best that they can be and to just have fun. That’s the only way you’re going to get better.”

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Runners celebrate in colored powder at the finish line of the Color the Valley 5K.

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Retro Review: Back to the Future NES game disappoints

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Rachel Kym won the Distinguished Young Women competition and $1,200 in scholarships April 19 in the LHS auditorium. “The interesting thing about Rachel is that she’s homeschooled,” said Ash-lee Grunenfelder, Lewiston program coordinator and judge. Miranda Nemeth won first run-ner-up and $900 while, second runner-up Taylor Offerdahl earned $700. “I think [Kym] is still a good repre-sentative, as a ho-meschooler,” Offer-dahl said. “She still earned it fair and square and I think it was all very de-serving.” Offerdahl noted Kym’s calmness and modesty throughout the pro-

cess. “She wasn’t conceited or anything. She wasn’t expecting to be on the top. She was very laid-back,” Offerdahl said of Kym. “She was very competent and she didn’t have a weak spot. She was very well-rounded.” Other winners, all earning $200 each,included LeAnna Etheridge and Cecil-ia Watkins, fitness; Kym and Watkins, interview; Kym and Lauren Martin, self-expression; Etheridge and Shelby

Sharp, scholastics; Melati Woodbury and Watkins, tal-ent; and Devann Maurer, spirit. Distinguished Young Wom en, formerly Jr. Miss, has a presence in all 50 states with more than 400 lo-cal programs. The competition is for scholarships, and

begins at the local level during the ju-nior or senior year for high school girls.

Even for this fan of 1980s movies, Nintendo Entertainment’s (NES) 1990 Back to the Future II and III video game disappoints in multiple ways. First off, to the game creators, never make DeLorean cars aqua with pink detail. Never challenge Marty McFly with Mario-type enemies that exist only in fantasy realms. The video game occurs in 1985, when the well-known Marty McFly explores on an eight-bit setting in order to save his world from his fam-ily’s enemy, Biff Tannen. The wrap-up of the game trilogy allows the player to unscramble words which relate to the movie such as “skate board” and “almanac” while playing on a very similar landscape to that of Mario. The background remains the same throughout the game; tall black buildings with a toxic, lime green sky, with accessibility into some build-

ings, doors, and other structures such as the diner, all while players manipu-late McFly. The game-creators created McFly with an image similar to a love child between a greaser and Phillip J. Fry from the television series Futurama. The cumulative strengths of the Back to the Future game lie in the player’s ability to fly on hover boards and runs around on a never-ending adventure. With a somewhat believable land-scape, Back to the Future stays within the fantasy realm by providing chal-lenges of higher ground to jump to. Back to the Future’s weaknesses run on for years…25 years to be exact! As mentioned before, the enemies a look more Mario-typed than realistic. The game features spiked-shelled tur-tles, mushroom-looking minions, bats, birds and a mail man who throws base-balls in McFly’s direction. Back to the Fu-ture supplies even worse graphics than the 1989 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles NES video game. People interested in playing Back

to the Future II and III can access the game on websites such as Amazon for a ridiculous price of $399.99 or eBay. The games such as Back to the Future II and III exist on websites that contain downloadable retro video games from games systems or arcade games. Even in light of the upcoming Back to the Future 25th anniversary, Back to the

Future II and III earned two stars out of five due to the unrealistic proper-ties of the game such as the enemies who possess no relation to the mov-ies released in 1989 and 1990. For a better option, try Telltale Game’s Back to the Future: The Game, available for preview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f_8VOFivXM.

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At an as-yet-undisclosed location May 22 at 4:30 p.m. , Cynthia Yarno and the French Club will hold a Diner en Blanc, where guest traditionally wear all white and eat French food in a public location. In keeping with tradition, club members will spread word of the location just be-fore the event starts. French Club will serve bread, cheese, salad, and buffet foods for no cost. When Yarno previously visited France, she drove by a Diner en Blanc in a town square. She described the mass of people wearing white and said, “It was just amazing because it was a surprise. It was a huge party.” The first time the French Club cele-

brated a Diner en Blanc, 30 people at-tended. Yarno and the club members hope to double that number this year.

cbrandt v Left to right: First runner-up Miranda Nemeth, winner Rachel Kym, and second runner-up Taylor Offerdahl pose together after receiving awards.

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The DeLoriean travels through time in the original Back to the Future movie, which far surpasses its 1990 8-bit video game.