The Covington Catholic Times Volume XXVI-Issue VI

March 20141600 Dixie Highway, Park Hills, Kentucky 41011 (859) 491-2247

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By: Michael Brunot

This year has been an amaz-ing year for the basketball team. Not only did they end the sea-son with an impressive record of 33-2, but they finished on top with a state championship.

Coming into this season, lots of optimism surrounded the basketball team. With five se-niors returning and the start of freshman sensation Cole Von Handorf, plus this being Coach Ruthsatz’s third year here, it was an unbeatable formula for success. The Colonels started out the season well going un-defeated through their first 13 games before losing in a close one to Fairfield. But obviously not liking the taste of defeat in their mouth, the Colonels stepped up their game and did not do much losing after that. Af-ter their first loss of the season, the basketball team went on another 13-game win streak before receiv-ing their only other loss of the sea-son to Holmes in the district finals. Going into the regional tourna-ment, Cov Cath was classified as a good team but not as good as New Cath or Holmes. No one thought Cov Cath had a chance to win the tournament. The basketball team first faced Ryle, getting a convinc-ing win 74-40 with the help of a 30-point outing from Mark Schult. Cov Cath advanced to the semi-finals where they faced one of the toughest opponents of the season, New Cath. On paper New Cath had the advantage over Cov Cath, but our players would not stand for that. After a nail-biting three quarters, Cov Cath was able to pull away at the end to win 51-43. This game really showed people that Cov Cath was not a team to mess with. Even after the win in the semi-finals, Holmes was still the favor-ite in the regional championship. But once again Cov Cath proved people wrong, beating Holmes in a very close game 56-51, and also bringing home our 9th Regional Championship. For the first time in eight years, the Colonels were go-ing down to play in Rupp Arena.

Going into the KHSAA Sweet Sixteen Tournament, Cov Cath was not regarded as a favorite, but the Colonels were used to being underrated all season. The Colo-nels faced off against Clay County in the first round of the tournament pulling out a victory, 80-78. They then went on to beat Bardstown in the quarterfinals 61-54, and beat

Bowling Green in the semi-finals 81-68. The biggest game, though, was yet to come. The Colonels had

made it to the championship game, and the only thing standing in the way of a state championship was Scott County. At the start of the game, the Colonels were off to a hot start, but that would not last for long. Scott County went on a scoring run making back to back three-pointers. Cov Cath had a dry spell, and going into halftime they were down. It was clear that Scott County had won the first half, but Cov Cath would not lose the sec-ond. The game resumed with a back and forth battle. Going into

the fourth quarter, it seemed as if Scott County had pulled away, but Colonel point guard Nick Ruthsatz was not about to let his dreams of a championship get crushed. Ruth-satz, who only had nine points go-ing into the fourth, stepped up his game and brought back the Colo-nels. With the last minutes count-ing down and Cov Cath down by eight, Ruthsatz hit a crucial three- pointer to bring the score back to a one possession game. The Colonels were able to tie the game and stop Scott County from scoring in the last seconds of the

game. Before the game went into overtime, though, Bo Schuh had a chance to win it all with a half-

court shot but hit just off the front of the rim. Overtime began tight, with Ruthsatz hitting a quick two pointer and Scott County guard Trent Gilbert hitting a three to take the lead. From then on, though, Scott County did not make another shot. In desperation, Scott Coun-ty started fouling but Ruthsatz was perfect making all of his free throws in overtime. With less than a minute left, Ben Heppler was able to score on a fast break layup and that sealed the deal. With the Covington Catholic crowd going

wild, Mark Schult got a rebound from Scott County’s missed shot and dribbled across half court and threw the ball in the air as the buzz-er went off. For the first time in school history, Cov Cath had won a Basketball State Championship.

Everyone that was there would agree in saying the win did not go to one person. It really was a complete team win. Each player on the team contributed to the win, and each player could not believe what they had just accomplished. Senior Mark “The Shark” Schult,

Above: Varsity Basketball Team takes in the after-glow of what the State Championship means for them.

a four-year player, had dreamed of this moment forever. “It re-ally is amazing. I’ve been dream-

ing of this moment my whole life, and now that it is finally here it’s the greatest feeling.” Senior Ben Heppler, also a four-year player, had similar feelings. “Winning the cham-pionship really reinforces the saying hard work pays off. Having played for Coach L then playing for Coach Ruth-satz under a whole new sys-tem has been a long road, but the journey has definitely been worth it.” But it was MVP of the Tournament Nick Ruthsatz who upped his game in the end that helped the Colonels defeat Scott County. “It means ev-erything to me. I’ll remember this forever, all the times we worked out together, how hard my dad works in coaching, and

how all our coaches are such good coaches. It’s surreal,” Nick said. It has really been an unbeliev-able ride for the basketball team.

What is even more unbe-lievable is that Cole VonHandorf, a starting guard on the team, is only a freshman. When asked what it is like to be a state champion as a freshman, he said, “It’s incred-ible. To think that I was on the first ever state championship team as a freshman, it’s crazy.” Cole made some clutch shots through-out the tournament. “I just thought to myself that there’s nothing dif-ferent with this game than there is playing at Cov Cath on a Tuesday night.” It obviously worked for him, as he finished the tourna-ment as a crucial part of the team.

After the basketball Colo-nels had a nearly perfect regular season, they capped it off with a State Championship. After only losing two games the whole season, they went to Rupp Arena and won a basketball State Championship, a first for Cov Cath. Cov Cath will be losing Seniors Nick Ruthsatz, Mark Schult, Ben Heppler, Parker Keller, and Nate Wichmann, but the team will have a few starters in-cluding Cole VonHandorf and Bo Schuh. Plus, there will be several sophomores and juniors that will be key to the team next year. Hope-fully, the State Championship this year will motivate Coach Ruthsatz and the team to work for a second State Championship next year.

Basketball Team Makes Cov Cath History

The Colonel Crazies were a big part in helping the basketball team win the State Championship.

Page 2OpinionsBy: Riley Kinsella

Grouplove, a hippy alter-native rock band from Los Angeles, California, kicked off their tour March 20 at Bo-gart’s, a small concert ven-ue located off of Vine Street in Cincinnati, Ohio. The show sold out in a matter of weeks, resulting in quite a full venue with an outstand-ing performance by the band.

Grouplove consists of band members Chrisian Zuc-coni who plays guitar and lead vocals, Hannah Hooper who does vocals and keyboard, drummer Ryan Rabin, guitarist and vocalist Andrew Wessen, and bassist and vocalist Sean Gadd. The five member of the band met in Greece where they all ex-pressed interest in musical careers. From there they have developed

Grouplove Kicks Off U.S. Tour in Cincinnatia “surfer-style” alternative rock sound. Some of their popular songs include “Tongue Tied”, “Itchin’ On

a Photograph”, “Ways to Go”, and “Shark Attack” that have climbed their way up the charts throughout the past couple of years. Grouplo-

ve has been featured on television shows such as Conan, The Late Show with David Letterman, and

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Their performances consist of psy-chedelic light shows with nearly every song. There is very little time

on stage where the band remains still; they are constantly dancing attempting to get the crowd ac-

tive. Without a doubt this was one of the most exciting shows I have attended at Bogart’s. I highly recommend looking in to some of the music Grou-plove has developed if you have not yet heard any of it.

Grouplove just recently released their second album in 2013 titled Spreading Ru-mors. It has a much more electronic sound than their previous album Never Trust a Happy Song, but they don’t stray far from their hippy style that sets them apart from numerous other bands with-

in the alternative rock world.

By: Aaron Schilling

After nine extremely suc-cessful seasons of CBS’s hit show How I Met Your Mother (HIMYM), the series is finally scheduled to come to a close on Monday, March 31, leaving millions of viewers broken-hearted. For the past nine years, the series has traced the love-longing Ted in his search for “the one,” and after weeks of ru-mors, it has been confirmed that CBS has conjured up a slight ray of hope for avid watchers; however to some, this ray of hope is more of a disgrace to sentimentality.

CBS has officially an-nounced that the pilot of an HI-MYM spin-off will premiere this fall. The admittedly frustrating title How I Met Your Dad should at the very least be entitled How I Met Your Father, keeping with the HIMYM tradition. However, this is not the central aspect of the an-ticipated series that angers many HIMYM viewers. The series will feature an entirely new cast of char-acters and instead of focusing on Ted and his quest for the woman of his dreams, the spin-off will fol-low Sally and her search for a hus-band. Understandably this seem-ingly cheap remake is more than anger-inducing for HIMYM fans. It appears as if the series will simply be a recreation of the exact same

Spin-off or Spiral-down?story of HIMYM minus the near decade of sentimentality, character identification, and long anticipated Monday nights from eight to eight-thirty. However, the HIMYM cre-ators clearly did not let fans down with long-running series, so hope does remain. It is still likely that the creators will be able to recre-ate a similar atmosphere coinciding with the beloved chemistry between HIMYM’s central characters. More optimistic HIMYM fans believe that the writers will be able to carry this chemistry on to the new se-ries, and that this spin-off will only yield nine more years of laughs, tears, and relief that Bob Saget cannot possibly be the narrator.

Regardless of the spin-off’s results, HIMYM fans will truly be in mourning in the weeks to come with the end of an era. Whether they are anticipating the sister series or dreading its very image on their screens, they all certainly hope that it will not disgrace the good name of How I Met Your Mother. It is hard to imagine a series telling a similar love story without “the bar,” the balanced combination of slapstick and wit that Neil Patrick Harris brings every week, or the reminder of what life’s ultimate search his—a search that may or may not be successfully reflected in the soon to come How I Met Your Dad.

By Austin Oberhausen

Everyone at Cov Cath has been looking forward to the month of March. The weather is get-ting warmer, Spring Break is ap-proaching and March Madness is here! March Madness is the most anticipated time of the year for college basketball fans. The last couple of years has shown that anything can happen with many Cinderellas such as Florida Gulf Coast and Wichita State making deep runs. Hopefully, this year will produce a lot of the same drama.

After the conference tourna-ments wrapped up and the brack-ets came out, the four number one seeds were no surprise as Florida, Wichita State, Arizona, and Virgin-ia all clinched number one seeds. The real surprises came from lo-cal teams UC, UK, and U of L who were all given much lower seeds than projected. Louisville, who

The Madness Beginsmany think is the favorite to win the tournament, was given a four seed while UC and UK were given 5 and 8 seeds, respectively. The selec-tion committee also got much grief because many people think that the different regions are very unbal-anced. Many experts have called the Midwest region the hardest they have ever seen while other re-gions lack strong competition. The Midwest region contains perennial powerhouses such as U of L, Duke, UK, Michigan, and the only remain-ing undefeated team in the country, number one seed, Wichita State.

I think this year’s tourna-ment should be one of the most exciting in recent years because of the quality of all of the teams participating and the brackets con-tain many big time rivalries that will be must see TV. The favor-ites to take home this year’s title include Florida, Louisville, Michi-gan State, Arizona, and Kansas.

Right: Rookie teacher Ms. Garrett, a Louisville fanatic, sponsored a bracket race in her freshman

classes. Ian Galvin and Cameron Berling were two of the freshmen winners for their respective brackets.

Page 3OpinionsBy: Nick Cheesman

Covington Catholic has had their fair share of rap artists throughout the years; one of its new-est members is Antonio Spiritoso.

Junior Colonel, Antonio Spiritoso, is a new, upcoming mu-sical artist. He has been producing new beats and songs for a while now and has released his newest cd entitled WAR. This CD features clever rhymes with techno or fast paced beats in the background of seven new songs. Antonio is very proud of his new works and has put his album on sale to the public. Antonio is actually well known be-cause of his opening for Yelawulf.

By: Brian Menke

In 2009, the indie folk-rock band The Head and the Heart was formed in Seattle, Washington. Af-ter writing and performing several songs in various small venues, they grabbed the attention of record la-bels and signed with Sub Pop in 2010. Their debut album The Head and the Heart was released in 2011 and was well received. Throughout 2010 and 2011, they toured with major bands such as Dave Mathews, Iron and Wine, and the Decembrists. They continued to gain popularity over the years and their songs even made it into popular shows like Chuck and How I Met Your Mother.

On October 15, 2013, the

The Head and the Heart

We’ve got Sp!r!t

By: Riley Kinsella

A controversial issue on the rise is the payment of NCAA ath-letes based on their performance. The NCAA allows for the payment of tuition, room and board, and other school-related fees for athletically inclined students, but now athletes are asking for more. Recently four college athletes filed a class-action lawsuit against the NCAA de-manding payment for their perfor-mance in college athletic programs.

One of the main arguments for this lawsuit is that college sports are essentially professional for everyone except the students participating. College sports bring in billions in revenue along with countless viewers for broadcasted games. The student athletes want a cut of the revenue, but many claim that students should not be paid to go to school unless it is in the form of tuition. Many of the ath-

Athletes or Employees?

NSA Exposed

letes claim that they are pressured to put more time into their athletic “careers” than in their academics, and risk losing scholarships they received based on their athletic per-formance if they do otherwise. An argument against the payment of student athletes is the fact that col-lege is primarily for academics, and those that are academically inclined are not receiving any payment based on their performance, other than scholarships they have received.

Whether or not you support the idea of paying student athletes to participate in athletic programs, the issue is on the rise. This issue, if taken seriously, will make not just the game competitive, but will make the whole concept of colleges gaining and losing team members a sport itself. No longer does the enjoyment of the game seem to be the primary motivation for students; money is the primary influence.

By: Thomas Hiltz

Contemporary society relies heavily on the use of the almighty internet. From advertising to so-cial media, it dominates the lives of a vast majority of the American population, and for the most part, Americans like to have their ac-tivity on the internet kept private.

I would be willing to bet that your average American would not want the government to have access to their entire history and current information on comings and goings online, and yet it seems the govern-ment is doing just that. Recently the NSA (National Security Agency), has been found to have complete ac-cess to our (formerly) private lives on the internet, as they have collect mass amounts of data from U.S. Cit-izens and even large corporations like Microsoft and Facebook. The surveillance may go farther than most Americans think: NSA also re-

cords bulk phone records and con-versations. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerburg replied to these find-ings, stating on his own Facebook page, “I thought the NSA was here to give us security and protect pri-vacy. Why is it doing the opposite?”

The NSA’s data brokerage is a complete breech is American privacy and even freedom, as it may restrict certain activity that is no longer completely private. It is no one’s business why we search certain queries on Google, or why we purchase certain things on Ama-zon. The government must come to a compromise with the American people who are demanding their right to privacy. Maybe the govern-ment should come up with an arti-ficial intelligence that would allow them to do more targeted informa-tion gathering, rather than collect-ing it in bulk. Regardless, the gov-ernment must, as Zuckerburg stated, protect our privacy, not exploit it.

Yelawulf is a hip hop recording art-ist from Alabama and is national known in the United States. Madi-son Theater in Covington hosted a Yelawulf concert late last year and asked Sp!r!t to be an opening act for him. Sp!r!t took the job and made his name known in the hip hop world. His concert was a suc-cess and has gained popularity for himself. He performed some of his hits from his new album, WAR, dur-ing his act. WAR’s mix of upbeat rap music and underlying bass sounds makes for a delightful album.

Hopefully Sp!r!t’s suc-cess will propel him to produce more songs for the world to enjoy.

band released their second album entitled Let’s Be Still. The album contains mellow instrumental with haunting vocals provided by both male and female band members. The band infuses folk instruments such as the banjo and fiddle with rock instruments such as the guitar and drums to create an interesting blend of Americana music. The lyr-ics are deep and use a lot of symbol-ism. Many of the songs are geared around broken relationships and other struggles of the adulthood.

The songs “Shake” and “Let’s Be Still” were well re-ceived by audiences, making the album a success for the band.

The OscarsBy: Samuel Hatter

Sunday, March 2nd, the 86th Academy Awards ceremony was held in sunny Los Angeles, Cali-fornia. Viewers tuned in to see El-len Degeneres host the show telling which actors/actresses would take home the trophies and which films would be recognized as the best.

Ellen came out and started off the night being her typical self with some hilarious jokes before the awards were announced. Sev-eral awards were then given out for minor things like sound effects and mixing, before the main awards were distributed. The first was best actress in a leading role, awarded to Cate Blanchett in the movie Blue Jasmine. Next, best actor in a lead-ing role was to follow. With many

fans hoping Leonardo DiCaprio would win his first Oscar for his role as Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Walstreet, Matthew McConaughey crushed their dreams by stealing it with his performance in Dallas Buyers Club. Lupita Nyong’o then won best supporting actress for her character in 12 Years a Slave, and Jared Leto won best supporting ac-tor for the film Dallas Buyers Club. Frozen stole the best animated feature film award from the right-fully deserving Despicable Me 2.

Overall, it was a great night reeling in a solid TV rat-ing as many viewers across the country tuned in. Most films and actors rightfully won, but some were snubbed, such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Despicable Me 2.

Page 4EventsBy: Andrew Whitacre

On Monday, March 10, Mr. Hartman’s Physics class and a select few of his AP Phys-ics students participated in a bridge building contest at Northern Kentucky University. The students’ project was to build a bridge out of only balsa wood sticks and glue. The results were impressive as some students’ bridges held up to 100 pounds and the overall win-ner of the contest’s bridge held 320 pounds.

The Covington Catholic students com-peted against other schools such as Dixie Heights and assorted Boone County schools. The com-petition lasted from 9 to 12, and then awards were held. There were three awards given for “Most Aesthetically Pleasing”, “Most Weight Held” and “Most Efficient”. Unfortunately, Covington Catholic did not win any of these.

The competition itself was fun and ex-citing, especially when everyone went nuts over breaking bridges. The bridges were tested by holding buckets that were gradually filled up with sand. Tension built in the bridges and in the air as the crowd waited in anticipation for the bridges to break and snap. As the bridges collapsed and the day drew to an end, every participant there was a winner because they were all able to successful-ly build bridges that held more than their weight.

Bridge BuildingBy: Austin M. Oberhausen

On March 13th, 8 Cov Cath students left for the Youth KUNA conference in Louisville. KUNA is a YMCA-sponsored conference that teaches high school and middle school students about interna-tional diplomacy.

The con-ference was three days long and was held at the Marri-ott in Louisville. Students are as-signed a country and become am-bassadors for that nation. A simu-lated UN meeting is held in which the students look for diplomatic so-lutions to issues. The ambassadors must fully immerse them-selves in their country’s culture in order to repre-sent them in the right way. Students do various

KUNA

By: Keith Radcliff

On Wednesday, March 5th, our Aca-demic Colonels participated in a world-wide, esteemed competition known as the TEAMS Competition; TEAMS stands for Tests of En-gineering Aptitude, Mathematics, and Science. Every year, the TEAMS test has a different overlying theme; for 2014, the theme was in-frastructure. This entails that the two sections of the test, the 80 multiple choice section and the essay section, all involve problems pertain-ing to infrastructure such as ecofriendly build-ing, carbon emissions, and pollution levels.

The groups of students that participate in this event are among the best mathematics and science students that Covington Catholic has to offer. They are chosen by a highly selective pro-cess that involves an initial test and then final cuts and decisions made by the coaches (Ryan Lubbers, mathematics teacher, and Charlie Hart-man, Dean of Discipline and physics teacher).

Best Math and Science Students Compete in TEAMSThe divisions are broken up in to Varsity and Ju-nior Varsity sections. The Varsity team consisted of seniors Jeremy Greer, Sean Nemann, Keith Radcliff, Kyle Hennies, Danny Schlachter, Joe Berns, Brett Baureis, Nathan Wichmann, and Mike Henn. The Junior Varsity team contained Austin Flynn, Nathan Sucher, Sam Romes, Logan Boyle, Ryan Massie, Lucas Timmer-man, Danny Kleier, and Mitch MacKnight.

For the competition, the Colonels trav-eled to the University of Cincinnati, the loca-tion of the event for several years running. At the University of Cincinnati, over thirty-five teams from all across the tri-state area gathered in order to partake in the competition, which is judged and ranked at regional, state, and national levels. These teams were divided in to nine dis-tricts; Covington Catholic was a part of the third district. After a two grueling sessions of one and a half hours of non-stop testing, with a one hour lunch break in between, the results were finally decided. Our Junior Varsity team dominated and

activities such as writing, making presentations, debating, and voting on proposals to make their country better. Junior Miso Rokvic explained KUNA as, “A cool experience that makes you more aware of other cultures and makes you think about making decisions for the greater

good other than just for yourself.” Mrs. Hagedorn was very excited about how the event went, “I think the students performed admi-rably and were a great repre-sentation for our school,” she said.

K U N A offers students the opportunity to experience the richness of cul-

tures from around the world, teaches leader-

ship qualities, and critical thinking skills while dealing with many important global issues.

placed first in the third district, one of the hard-est districts in the competition. Out of 80 ex-tremely difficult multiple choice questions, the JV Colonels managed to get 51 correct, which is major accomplishment given the difficulty of the multiple choice problems. The Varsity team also made a strong showing, coming in second in the third district; first place went to Wyo-ming High School in Ohio. The Varsity Colo-nels achieved 64 correct answers out of 80, three higher than any other varsity team in Covington Catholic’s history at the TEAMS Competition.

For now, the participants must wait for their essays to be scored by the state in or-der to decide the state rankings. With their strong showing in the multiple choice sec-tion, the Colonels have a great shot at placing in the top five of all the schools in Kentucky.

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Student Life Page 5

By: Keith Radcliff

Forget Rocky Balboa, Cov-ington Catholic has its own box-ing phenom, senior Thomas Hiltz.

Thomas Hiltz, who went to St. Pius grade school, began his boxing career about a year ago; he was so inspired by his passion of watching boxing, both live and on television, that he wanted to begin a career of his own. He began his ca-reer by training in his basement and eventually gathered the strength to train at Cincinnati Boxing and Fit-ness, a premier boxing center in Ohio. Recently, Thomas has moved gyms, switching to Josh’s, a boxing center and gym in Florence, Ken-tucky. When asked why he made the switch, Thomas stated, “Josh’s was simply much closer to my house and a lot less money; it was an easy decision.”

Currently, Thomas competes in a league known as the Golden Glove Tournament, which

By: Brian Radcliff

On March 10, 2014 Northern Kentucky University (NKU) president, Geoffrey Mearns gave a speech to the Cov Cath student body about his journey to becoming the president of NKU.

Mearns has been in several different career fields throughout his life, but his journey started and ended with education. Several of Mearn’s family members have jobs in the education field. Mearns first career was as a teacher at an all-boys Catholic high school in New Jersey. After sever-al years as a teacher, Mearns decided to practice law. During his career as a lawyer Mearns was the prosecutor on several big cases. He put away notorious mobsters, blue collar criminals, and murderers. One of the biggest cases Mearns was involved in was the Oklahoma City bombing tri-als, where Mearns said he was “proud to serve his country.” During his career he was involved with many pro bono cases. He said his most memorable case came during his pro bono work.

Mearns and one other lawyer were ap-

Boxing Is a Knock Out for Thomas Hiltz

NKU President Mearns Inspires Colonels

allows him to fight against boxers when all around the tri-state and even some competitors from dif-

ferent areas around the country such as Tennes-see, Florida, and New York. In this league, most of fights take place at his old training facility of Cincinnati Boxing and Fitness; however, other

matches are fought at facilities all throughout the tri-state area. In competition, Thomas has

never been officially knocked out (KO) or delivered a KO; this is mostly due to the addition of the head gear that every boxer is now required to wear. Recently, his big-gest challenge has been compet-ing against opponents in his new weight class; he moved up to 150-155 pounds this year. Thomas stat-ed that it has been difficult to adjust to the larger size and build of his new opponents, but he is still able to hold his own in the boxing ring. Thomas’s unofficial boxing career record is 42-22, an impressive feat.

Boxing is an uncommon sport for most high school students to be involved in, but none the less it is extremely interesting. If you see Thomas around in the hallways of Cov Cath or in the community, take

some time to ask him about his boxing career.

pointed to a thirteen-year-old boy who had been in a juvenile detention center for two years for allegedly murdering a young girl in his neighbor-hood. After being assigned to the case Mearns noticed the clear lack of any physical evidence against his client. Eventually he moved for a mistrial, and freed his client. Not only was the young boy brought home to his mother, but he was rewarded over three million dollars for the grave inconvenience. Although he was wronged by the government, he was also freed and given compensation with the help of Mr. Mearns. In-stead of being bitter, the boy was just excited to have justice. This young boy went on to serve his country as a United Sates Marine. Mearns was honored to help such a tremendous man.

After his career in law, Mearns had a few jobs in small colleges before he was of-fered a job as NKU president. He accept-ed, and now says that this is his favorite job yet. He has big plans for the future at NKU, and is extremely qualified for the position.

By: Brian Menke

Covington Catho-lic Sophomore Sam Hacker recently re-ceived the prestigious President’s Volun-teer Campus Award for his exemplary volunteer service.

The award rec-ognizes Americans of

all ages who have volunteered countless hours for the betterment of their country and commu-

A True Honor in Servicenity. Sam has volunteered many hours work-ing at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gar-dens. The award was granted to Sam by The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards pro-gram on behalf of President Barack Obama.

Volunteer activities were judged on criteria including personal initiative, cre-ativity, effort, impact and personal growth.

Page 6Student Life

By: Merik Berling

One of our fellow Colonels is now recognized as an Eagle Scout. Ju-nior Nathan Urban has recently been pro-moted from Boy Scout to Eagle Scout.

Eagle Scout is the highest rank at-

Colonel Receives Eagle ScoutBy:Jake Kleier

The Interscholastic Ultimate Fris-bee team is back again at CovCath this year. The Ghetto Blasters, as they call themselves, is a co-ed team that competes once a week in the spring against teams from other areas.

The Ghetto Blasters is an Ultimate Frisbee Team that was created four years ago, and has grown since then. The team consists of players from both CCH and NDA since the league is co-ed. Rules were put in place to en-sure this. For example, seven players are on the playing field at one time and at least two of the seven must be girls. The team consists of 16 players that love to play Frisbee includ-ing standout players: Adrian Neff, Drew Rens-ing, Adam Holstein-Seibert and Nick Tilford.

The Ghetto Blasters usually practice twice a week at CCH, and play a game once a week which takes place at Moeller High School in Ohio. So far the team has had two games, both blowout losses, but the team is getting better. One player, Drew Rensing, said, “We are getting much better each week as we get more experience and practice time.” Hope-fully, Drew is right as the Ghetto Blasters lost their first game 2-15 and their second, 4-12.

Good luck to the 2014 Ghetto Blasters as they try and get that first win, and many more after.

The Ghetto Blasterstainable in the scouting program of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). A scout who attains this rank is called an Eagle Scout or Eagle. Since its introduction in 1911, the Eagle Scout rank has been earned by more than two mil-lion young men. Nathan Urban was announced an Eagle Scout at the beginning of 2014.

Becoming an Eagle Scout is such a great achievement that the NESA (National Eagle Scout Association) offers many scholarships to their in-ductees. NESA offers two academic scholarships including one $50,000 STEM scholarship (up to $12,500 payable for four years) to an applicant who plans to major in a science, technology, en-gineering, or math field, and one $25,000 United Health Foundation scholarship offered to an ap-plicant who plans to pursue a career in the health-care arena and is willing to reinvest his knowl-edge and skills in an underserved community.

Nathan began his experience with Boy Scouts when he was 10 years old. He pro-gressed through each of the levels of scout-ing with Troop 717 from Lakeside Christian Church. His Eagle Scout project was working with Madonna Manor where he constructed flowerstands for them. He also filled the stands with flowers for the residents of Madonna Manor. He plans on remaining in the Scouts at a higher level or working as a troop leader.

Page 7Student Life

By: Bradley Couch

The Art Club sponsored Intramural Fris-bee league started last Wednesday. This is a long standing Art Club tradition at Covington Catho-lic. Every year there is a draft after-school for anyone who signs up, and the Art 4 senior captains pick their team.

The games started last Wednesday. The Art Club Seniors who were captains were Adam Hol-stein-Seibert, Daniel Chal, Matt El-lison, and Tyler O’Connell. The first game consisted of Adam’s team vs. Daniel’s team. Adam’s team took the victory by a close margin of only 2 scores. In the second game Team El-lison easily defeated Team O’Connell.

The day was ruined by a sud-den downpour which ended the second game

Intramural Frisbee

By: Neal Stansel

The Notre Dame and Covington Catho-lic Theatre Program closed their 2013-2014 season with their sold out performances of Thoroughly Modern Millie this past weekend.

It’s 1922, the skirts are higher and the hair is bobbed, and our story’s ingénue Mil-lie Dillmount moves to New York from her small Kansas town with vast dreams to make it in the big city. Millie’s plan: to find a suit-able boss that meets her financial requirements for marriage, but her plan is sidetracked when

Spring Musical Finishes Season with a Bangshe falls in love with city boy Jimmy Smith.

Headlining the show was senior Hope Pauly portraying the star vehicle role of Mil-lie Dillmount. Pauly captured all the qualities of Millie’s strong willed yet doe-eyed charac-ter as she showcased Millie’s struggle between choosing love or money, all while impeccably belting out Millie’s songs. Senior Neal Stansel portrayed Jimmy Smith with charm and vul-nerability, eventually capturing both Millie and the audience’s heart. Supporting leads includ-ed Millie’s over the top and melodramatic boss Trevor Graydon played by senior Aaron Schil-

ling; Schilling’s hilarious portrayal of the love sick boss towards Miss Dorothy, Mil-lie’s best friend portrayed by senior Abigail Martin, stole the show. Senior Katie Maurer gave a brilliant performance as the villain-ous former actress turned hotel owner Mrs. Meers, selling women into white slavery while putting on an over-the-top Chinese accent; her trio was completed with her henchmen Bun Foo and Ching Ho played by Evan Harmeling and Zach Meyers.

“This show is difficult for professional

theatres to put on, let alone high school stu-dents,” said director Ms. Maggie Perrino, “but when I picked this show, I knew I had the talent for the roles and that my cast and crew would be up for the challenge.” Audiences agreed that Per-rino could not have picked a better show. “This show will forever be the benchmark of what we are capable of at the NDA CCH Drama Club.”

As the final curtain closed on Sunday night of Thoroughly Modern Millie, so did the theatre careers of many talented seniors. They truly left a legacy, and passed the torch to the underclassmen to rise to the challenge next year.

By: Brian Menke

The CCH Photo Club is hosting the annual All School Photography Competition this April. Faculty and students submit their own personal photography to the competition.

Several judges of various artistic fields view the pieces and collaborate to pick the win-ner. The first prize winner of the photography competition receives a prize of 100 dollars, while second receives 75 dollars and third receives 50 dollars. The photos that are submitted must not be altered in any way with the exception of cropping the picture. The photography can be of nearly any subject matter from landscape to portrait, etc.

Senior Garrett Atchison took second in the photography competition last year and hopes to compete in the competition again this year.

Photo Competitionearly. It looks to be a good Ultimate Fris-bee season though, and there are some excit-ing games to come in the upcoming weeks.

Above: Tyler O’Connell looks for an open man on his team.

Aaron Schilling and Neal Stansel show their acting prowess in their last CCH production.

Evan Harmeling, Katie Maurer, and Zach Meyers reveal their comic finesse.

By: Garrett D. Atchison

Every year Covington Catholic holds an assembly to talk to the students of CovCath and Notre Dame about the significance of chastity in their lives. This year, instead of having every student from both schools attend, only the fresh-men and sophomores from both schools attend-ed the talk that was presented by a man named Rocky Rhodes. The goal of this talk was to see how students can add this to their lives and how it can change the way that they think.

Rocky Rhodes began by explaining to the students how Christianity and Chastity have played a major factor in shaping his life. He said that he first came to an understanding of chas-

tity when his mother took him to a local youth meeting at their parish. But Rocky’s mother was not the one that helped him to understand what chastity truly meant. Instead it was Rocky’s new

Speaker Addresses Chastity with NDA and CCH Underclassmenfriends that he met that made him aware of chas-tity and how important it is.

With the common practice and acceptance of outside sources, chastity should be a more import factor in a student’s life. Hopefully, more students will realize the importance of chastity because of speakers like Mr. Rhodes.

Left: Mr. Rhodes calls a volunteer from each school.

Page 8News

By: Garrett D. Atchison

At 12:41a.m., on March 8, Flight 370 (a Boeing 777 plane) departed from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, heading northeast toward Beijing over the Gulf of Thailand with 239 people aboard. And then at approximately 2:14a.m., final words were heard from the cockpit, and Flight 370 mysteriously vanished in the Strait of Malacca.

Because of this unusual disappear-ance of such a large plane, a lot of questions are being asked. What happened to Flight 370? Was the loss of Flight 370 a possible result of a terrorist attack/hijacking? Was this a result of a pilot error, computer error, or navigation er-ror? Or was this a result of the pilot/ co-pilot’s intent on taking down the plane? Investigators are starting by checking the backgrounds of all of the passengers and pilots that were on Flight 370. So far, it has been identified that two Irani-ans stole passports to board Flight 370, but in-vestigators do not think that they are linked to the loss of the plane. One of the passengers that stole a passport, 19-year-old Pouria Nourmo-hammadi Mehrdad, said that he was using the stolen passport to travel to Germany, where he was going to meet his mother, said an Inspec-tor General of the Malaysian police. Investiga-tors also do not believe that this was an act of terrorism because the Malaysian police have been in contact with Pouria’s mother and she confirmed how Pouria was using the passport.

But now we might have some details as to what possibly brought down Flight 370. Officials say that the plane changed altitude after making a sharp turn over the South China Sea. Investigators say that the plane flew as low as 12,000 ft at some point before disappearing from radar. Still a lot of questions need to be answered about Flight 370.

The Mystery of Flight 370

By: Neal Stansel

It would not be St. Patrick’s Day with-out an array of green clothing, leprechauns, and shamrocks, but what is the story behind all these traditions and famous symbols?

First, St. Patrick is not even Irish; St. Patrick was born in Britain in 387 AD. His re-lationship with Ireland comes from his mission to convert the Irish people to Christianity. He endured many hardships during his mission, and was eventually captured by Irish pagans; St. Patrick vowed to return to Ireland once he escaped. He baptized, confirmed, and ordained priests, and he instituted schools and monaster-ies. St. Patrick converted the WHOLE nation of Ireland in less than 30 years. He died on March 17th, 461, which is why we celebrate on that day.

The symbol of the shamrock comes from the legend that St. Patrick used the three-

By Austin M. Oberhausen

Each year the entire world awaits the next new gadget that will make our lives easi-er or more entertaining. In recent years Apple has dominated this market with their highly anticipated iPhones, apps, and computers. This year Google is launching one of the most ex-citing pieces of tech to date, the r e v o l u t i o n a r y Google Glass.

Google glass is a high-tech pair of glass-es. They fit just like your normal prescription glasses but have a miniature screen at the top of the right lens. This screen also contains a small camera that allows the user to take high qual-

Google Glass

St. Patrick’s Day Traditions

ity pictures and video from their own point of view. It can even live stream videos to friends and family. Glass is advanced software that gives you information before you even ask for it. Walking into the airport glass will give you your

flight information and the weather in your destination city without any prompting. Glass is contoured to fit perfectly on your face most users say they forget they even have it on.

Google glass is still in the beta test-ing stages and is

only available to developers. In order to get Glass you have to fill out an application and it can take months to hear back. If you ever do get approved to purchase Glass it comes at a steep price of $1,700.

By: David Wessels

Recently, the citizens in Ukraine have broken out into protest against their own presi-dent and government. The protests broke out af-ter President Yanukovych’s government rejected a far-reaching accord with the European Union in November 2013 in favor of stronger ties with Russia. The Ukrainian people, outraged by the breakdown of all stronger ties with Europe overnight, took to the streets of Kiev in peace-ful protest. They have occupied Independence Square, known as Maidan, for several weeks now. This recent unrest in Eastern Europe has caused the Russian government to take a sudden interest in Crimea, a region south of Ukraine.

In an overnight incursion near Simfero-pol, Crimea, about 25 men appeared with au-thorization from the pro-Russia Crimean gov-

Uprising in Ukraine

ernment, according to Vladislav Seleznyov, a ministry spokesman. He said they filled two oil tankers that drove away, and two more ar-rived to be filled. Russian troops in four he-licopter gunships and three armored combat vehicles came down on the natural gas facility near the village of Strilkove about 1:30 p.m. local time, according to Ukrainian officials. The Russians said they captured the village for fear it would be targeted by “terrorists,” ac-cording to a Ukrainian Defense Ministry offi-cial who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

President Barack Obama, along with sev-eral foreign ambassadors, urged Russian Presi-dent Vladimir Putin to stand down. In a statement, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry demanded that the Russian side withdraw immediately and said that “Ukraine reserves the right to use all necessary

measures to stop the military invasion by Russia.”

President Putin blatantly disobeyed the World’s orders to withdraw his troops, and has ordered a continuous invasion of Crimea. Satur-day, Crimeans voted to choose to join the Rus-sian Union now or join later, yet there was no option to refuse to join Russia on the ballot. The vote resulted in a 95% poll for joining Russia, presumably because Crimea has a very high percentage of Russian influence and culture.

Due to the latest actions of Putin and the Russian military, tensions between the United States and Russia are as high as they have been since the Cold War. It seems that Putin has recog-nized that he is given more flexibility with his ac-tions due to the cowardice that the United States ad-ministration is showing. Tread lightly, Mr. Putin.

leaf clover to describe the Holy Trinity of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit to the Irish people. Since then the shamrock has become a sym-bol of national pride, and the Irish people wear them on their clothes March 17th and put their clover in their last beer of the day and drink it.

A huge tradition of St. Patrick’s Day is to break out and show off your best green clothing and accessories; if you choose not to wear green, you better be prepared to be pinched throughout the whole day. We wear green on St. Patrick’s Day because it makes us invisible to the leprechauns. Leprechauns, literally meaning “little body”, are playful tricksters who pinch us if we are not in green.

So next time you are drinking the fa-mous Guinness green beer on St. Paddy’s Day, think of where all the traditions come from, and how it all started with just one man.

Page 9Sports

By: Jake Kleier

It is that sad part of year again when the IBL season comes to an end. The Fresh-man League came to a close leaving all par-ticipants already excited for next year’s season.

To get to the championship game, 8 freshman teams battled it out to reach the semi-finals. Teams Breen, Niehaus, Schabell, and Re-isiger were those elite teams who fought for the Finals. Team Breen played Team Reisiger in the semifinals. Ryan Eckerle helped Breen’s Squad tie the game in the last two minutes until David Reisiger made a last second shot to end the game putting his team in the Championship. Team Niehaus played Team Schabell in the other semi-finals game, but Niehaus could not come away with a victory as Schabell led his team to victory.

The Freshman Tournament came to an end with a Championship Game between Teams Reisiger and Schabell. With it being the Cham-pionship Game, the teams play full court giv-ing each team the opportunity to shoot three pointers. Luke Lonneman led Team Schabell with 15 points while shooting 5-6 from the three- point line, including five in a row. Team Reisiger made it a close game with forwards Mike Finke and Gregory Cronin who both had multiple rebounds and a combined 19 points. Guard Hunter Beard’s ability to drive to the bas-ket and draw fouls also helped as he went on to score 16 points, 8 from the free throw line. But in the end, Lonneman’s and Schabell’s efforts were enough to give the team a 00-00 victory.

Congratulations Team Schabell and all the other teams on an excellent first IBL season!

Frosh IBL

By: Thomas Hiltz

With the close of the winter season comes also the close of the 2014 Intramural Bas-ketball League; excitement of the season boils over during the tournament as teams compete for a spot in the final four and championship games.

After the initial round of games, only 4 teams remain in the sophomore tournament. In their Final Four, the Sophomores had Teams Darpel, Heimbrock, Fischer, and Romes, with Darpel facing off against Fischer and Heimbrock taking on team Romes. In game 2, Darpel vs. Fischer was a close game until the second half when Hester got on a hot streak, dropping 13 points total in the game, making the final score of the game 57-43 in favor of Darpel, who would move on to play aginst the winner of Heimbrock vs. Romes. In game 2 of the tournament, Heim-brock vs. Romes was also a closely contested match, and Reese did everything he could for Team Heimbrock to keep them afloat, sinking 32 points total for the game. But alas, twas not enough. Romes’ team was just too much to han-dle, with the final score landing at 55-63 Romes.

The championship game was afoot, and both teams could hardly wait to hit the floor and have the whole gym to themselves for the first time all season. After tip-off, Darpel took an early lead as Hester went back to work, account-ing for 10 of the team’s points in the first half. It looked like Darpel would take home the tro-phy when suddenly Sammons, for Romes, came off a cold streak and sunk four from behind the arc in the second half, giving the lead to Romes, whose team quickly closed the game for the win.

As the Championship Teams cele-brate their wins, the 2014 Intramural basket-ball season ends and underclassmen plan for how they will take the trophy home next year.

Sophomore IBL Finals

Hunter Beard from Team Reisiger tried his best to beat Team Schabell.

Not sure what type of maneuvers these are--maybe leapfrog?

Page 10SportsBy: Brian Radcliff

The weekend of March 14th kick started the 2014 Base-ball season for the Colonels.

Even without Ben and Will Heppler, two key players still playing basketball, the team managed to go unde-feated over the weekend.

In the first game against Bishop Brossart the Colonels proved themselves very capa-ble of putting runs on the board with an 11-1 win. Junior Noah Galvin took a fastball off the scoreboard in the second in-ning to give the Colonels a 4-0 lead. Senior Conner Brown pitched a great game, only al-lowing the Mustangs to score one run. In the second game the Colonels put up 11 runs against Louisville Desalles

Strong Start to Varsity Baseball Colonelsbehind the pitching of Nick Chees-man, Adam Atkinson, and Ryan McGinnis. The two-year starting catcher Nick Pope hit a grand slam in the third inning to jump start a scoring spree by the Colonels. But

the game of the weekend came on Saturday night when the Colonels took down the 15th ranked Louis-ville Trinity Shamrocks with a final score of 6-5. Going into the third inning the Colonels were down 3-0

and in desperate need of a rally. Af-ter stringing together two runs Cov Cath had senior Johnny Thiel on first base and junior Noah Galvin on third. With only one out Thiel stole second base, with Trinity’s

second baseman busy argu-ing over the call, Galvin had no trouble jogging into home to score the tying run. This is arguably the play that changed the momentum of the game. Junior Brian Haughey was awarded the win on the mound, and Senior Tommy Lawler (the side arm slinger) got the save.

This weekend the Colo-nels see what they are made of the possibility to play 8th ranked Lexington Catho-lic, the 2nd best team in the state Louisville St. Xavier, and/or 15th ranked Trinity.

Nico Pangallo is ready to get a base hit.

By: Johnny Thiel

The Covington Catholic Track and Field team started their season with an impressive win at the Boone County Invitational.

The Colonels won the event against an impressive field filled with strong teams such as St. Henry, Lloyd Memorial, and Owen County. The Colonels domi-nated the event so much that the Colonel “A” team came in first and their “B” team came in third.

The Field portion of the

Win at Boone InvitationalBy: Keith Radcliff

After a grueling winter sea-son, the spring sports season is fi-nally upon us, which means the Col-onels will be dominating in lacrosse matches, baseball games, track and field meets, and tennis matches.

The tennis Colonels are a young, spirited group of students that truly love the sport they play, which manifests itself out on the court. These determined athletes are coached by Al Hertsenberg (senior religion teacher at Covington Cath-olic), Coach Chris Eilerman (a ten-nis pro at Five Seasons Sports Club and the coach of Thomas More Col-lege Women’s Tennis Team), and Coach Lindy Blankenbuehler (head JV coach since 1996). These coach-es have helped lead Covington Catholic to be one of the most win-ningest programs in Kentucky—repeating regional titles since 2002 and state runner-ups in 2010.

Due to the abnormally long and brutal winter season, tryouts began late this year; they finally started this Monday, March 10th. Tryouts consist of three to four challenge matches where oppo-nents, whom are chosen by Coach Hertsenberg, compete in order to

Cold Start to Seasondecide who will win the best two out of three matches. These match-es take place all over the tri-state at Five Seasons Sports Club, Sum-mit Hills Country Club, and, due to the generosity of three current and former Colonel tennis families, at the Haught, Roebker, and Maloney residences. After the tryouts termi-nate, the team will be divided up in to three teams: Varisty, Junior Varsity, and Developmental Team. Due to the abnormally large size of the students that began to try out for tennis, last year the tennis program created the Development Team, which is for players who are not at the JV level, but are still able to be provided with quality coach-ing and real-time match experience.

This year is looking very strong for the tennis Colonels; they are returning almost all of their Varsity players, losing only a few seniors who graduated last year. Junior Austin Hussey, who won the individual state championship in 2013, looks to continue his domi-nance in Kentucky tennis play. The tennis season officially begins on March 19th against Ryle at Sum-mit Hills Country Club, the home courts of the Covington Catho-lic team. Come out and support the Tennis Colonels this spring!

Colonel Track and Field team showed their domination as well, with the Shot Put team of senior Matt Quinn and sophomore Michael Schulte placing first in their event. The discus team of juniors Luke Foertsch, Sam Ritter, and Joe Le-donne finished third in their events to help the Colonels rack up even more points on their way to victory.

The Track Colonels have been hard at work nearly every day since the beginning of Janu-ary with intense core and leg exer-cises in the weight room, and get-ting outside and running when the

weather permits. Four year veterans Bradley Couch, Brian Menke, and AJ Skubak are the captains of the team and are in charge of run-ning the core exercises.

AJ Skubak said, “I am honored to be a captain this year and it feels great to be able to push my teammates to be in the best shape they can possibly be in as we run for the Re-gional Championship.” The Colonel Track and Field team plans to do just that. They will con-tinue to train and run hard in hopes of a Re-gional Championship.

Adam Flynn exhibits good form in the long jump.

By: Brian Radcliff

This year’s IBL season was a success for all grade levels, and a tremendous amount of fun! Sadly for the seniors, it was our last season.

Team Brunot lost in the first round of the post season tourna-ment, making them the only team to NEVER win a single IBL game in four years. Going into the tour-nament the top three teams were Team Tomlin, Team Moellering, and Team Nemann. Team Nemann and Team Moellering faced off in the semi-finals to see who would play the dominant power of Team Tomlin for the championship. In a very close, well fought game Team Moellering came out with the victory by seven points. The team was aided by the clutch free throw shooting of team captain CJ Moellering and Brett Bauereis.

Dream Team Tomlin Wins In the championship game Team Tomlin showed its sheer dominance over the entire league by winning the game by fifteen points. Early in the second half Team Tomlin lead by as much as thirty points! Team Captain Jacob Tomlin (the self-proclaimed Car-melo Anthony of IBL) was one of several players to score double dig-its in the championship game. The energetic defense of Joe Walsburger and Nick Pope helped to shut down the star player on Team Moellering, team captain, CJ Moellering. Team Tomlin ultimately skated by the en-tire league with their dream team lineup, and proved their superiority by winning the championship with absolute ease. They will be the only team in the Class of 2014 able to say they won their last IBL game. Congratulations Team Tomlin!

Team Tomlin, the Senior IBL Champions.

By: Aaron Schilling

Beginning on Sunday, March 9, Cov Cath’s ever-popu-lar intramural basketball league (IBL) wrapped up its 2013-2014 season with a final tournament. Although many juniors, with pri-orities in order, were otherwise engaged at ACT prep classes, the juniors played an exciting three-round tournament that ended with a single suspense-filled game.

Game one of the junior tournament saw Team Chaill ver-sus Team Ledonne; Team Cahill beat out Team Ledonne, 67 to 65, with top scorers Schmitter and Le-donne—both with 22 points for their respective teams. Team Green beat Team Guenther, 54 to 47, in the second game; Flood was the high scorer on Team Green with 21 points and Guenther scored a high of 18 for his team. In game three, Team Ruwe won with 67 points against Team Helbling’s 44. Both Ruwe and Helbling were top scor-ers for their temas with 25 and 10, respectively. The final game of

Junior IBL Tournament

round one saw Team Wagner over Team Meyers, 57 to 49. High scor-er Dressman scored 18 on Team Wagner, and high scorer Fath-man scored 23 on Team Meyers.

Round two of the tourna-ment consisted of junior Teams Ruwe and Cahill pitted against one another. Team Ruwe won, 76 to 54, with Ruwe scoring 30; high scorer Ficke scores 26 of Team Chaill’s points. The second junior game of round two saw Team Wagner over Team Green, 55 to 47. Wagner had high score of 25 for his team, and Fields had one of 16 on his.

Team Ruwe and Team Wag-ner then moved on to the third and final round of the tournament. The nail-biting game had both teams neck and neck, ending in a sudden death. Ballow was the high scorer for Team Wagner with 21 points. However, high scorer Schuh (with 28) made the game-winning shot in sudden death for Team Ruwe, finishing the game at 59 to 57 and securing Team Ruwe as the 2013-2014 junior IBL champions.

Team Ruwe took home the hardware for the Junior IBL League.

By: Tommy Lawler

Although lacrosse is not considered to be an official sport at Covington Catholic, it has seen its fair share of success. After being established only 9 years ago, the coaches and players have been able to build a program that competes with the top teams in the Greater Cincinnati area. This year, the la-crosse Colonels have faced perenni-al powerhouses such as Henry Clay High School and Paul Lawrence Dunbar High School; they have still maintained a 3 and 4 record.

The team consists of four seniors: Corey Craig, Sam Burchell, Dylan Horn, and Justin Ryan. Un-derclassmen that have contributed

Lacrosse Colonels Battle Perennial Powerhousesthis season are Ben Zumdick, Rob-by Field, and Jordan Tobler. The Colonels have defeated the North-ern Kentucky Warriors, Wood-ford County, and Dixie Heights High School. They have fallen to defending state champion Henry Clay High School, South Old-ham, Bishop Fenwick and Sayre.

The Colonels have four games remaining in the season against Louisville Eastern, Lex-ington Christian Academy, Lex-ington Catholic High School, and Bryan Station High School. They are certainly a great team to watch battle it out on the lacrosse field, so try to make it out to one of the final games this season.

Chandler Brooks runs right past the Eastern players.

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By: Tommy Lawler

“It means a lot, but what’s more important is that we won.” Those were the words of Nick Ruth-satz after he broke the all-time scor-ing record for Covington Catholic High School on February 14th. “Re-cords are always going to be there, but I’d honestly rather remember this year as the year that we go down

King Ruthsatz: Master of the HardwoodSports Page 12

Covington Catholic

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Jake Kleier

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Merik Berling Evan Braun

Michael Brunot Nick Cheesman Bradley Couch

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Sam Hatter Thomas Hiltz

Riley Kinsella Jake Kleier

Tommy Lawler Brian Menke Jason Meyer

Austin Oberhausen Tyler O’Connell

Matt Quinn Brian Radcliff Keith Radcliff

Aaron Schilling Neal Stansel Johnny Thiel

David Wessels Andrew Whitacre

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to state and win the state champion-ship,” said Ruthsatz. Fortunately for the Colonels, he will be able to remember this year for both of these things. Not only did Ruthsatz break the all-time scoring record for the basketball Colonels, but he also led them to their first state title ever.

The old record of 1730

points was previ-ously held by Andy Listerman, who graduated in 1994. However, Ruth-satz feat was a bit more impressive; he was able to break the record in only three years. Ruth-satz transferred here from the New Jer-sey and began play-ing his sophomore year. He was im-mediately a varsity starter and was able to be an effective part of the offense.

“I think I was prob-ably more nervous than anyone for him,” said coach Scott

Ruthsatz, who is also Nick’s father. He also stated, “It’s something that you never set out to do, but once you know its attainable, you really have to push yourself through it.” This impressive new scoring record will be sure to last for a long time.

Covington Catholic Colonels BasketballIndividual Season Summary

Nick Ruthsatz-2013/14

FG FG% 3Pt 3Pt% FT FT% PTS AST ST 152/303 50.2 82/225 36.4 212/282 75.2 762 170 59 8/11 75 8/14 66.7 13/14 100 38 10 8

4.22 8.42 2.28 6.25 5.89 7.83 21.2 4.72 1.64

0.15 0.3 0.08 0.23 0.21 0.28 0.76 0.17 0.06

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