Varsity Wrestling Win

Varsity Wrestling Win

The varsity wrestling team won 45-16 against Bishop Carroll.

The wrestling team came to bishop Carroll ready for the challenge ahead of them. Coach Church said, "The Falcons came to compete on that Wednesday night with a fire that I had not seen out of them in a while.” The Falcons won 10 out of 14 of their matches in the dual. With this win the Falcon’s score in the league changed to 4-2, in the league dual competition.

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Boys Varsity 50th Win

The Boys' Varsity 50th Win

The team’s 50^th win was has been an “amazing accomplishment,” says the coach. The boys team well past the 50^th win, looks forward to a promising season. Coach Auer, the head coach at Heights says, “We really try to think about each game, a game at a time.”

The strengths of the games a few weeks ago were Perry Ellis. He set the all time scoring record at Heights. Also Gavin Hurman played well and shot well, also a big strength of the game, according to Coach Auer.

There were weaknesses to the game though, as there are to any game that can be played. The team seemed to have weaknesses boxing out, but they spent time on that in practice. “Practicing boxing out and defense is really what we worked on at practice the next day” said Coach Auer.

“Being a coach can be hard but it is also fun and rewarding. Although it is time consuming, especially being a teacher and a coach,” Coach Auer said, “I have been coaching since 1996 and this is my 17^th season as a basketball coach. Before that I was a baseball coach.” The coach has been through good and bad teams at heights, he has the opportunity to have a great team right now, and is working hard to be an accomplished coach.

Homecoming Success

The winter homecoming game was on Friday January 13th against Wichita East High School. The girls game started at 6, and the guys game started at 7:30, the game was sold out a little after 6. Both schools were being competitive, and showing their school spirit. Heights clinched the W with the final scores of 57-37 for the girls and 68-60 in the guys game.

Girls Beat South

The girls' basketball team won their game against South. They had a score of 42-34. Their top scorer was Katie Palmer with 17 points. The girls' team is well on their way to reaching the 50 point mile marker, this is not including last years state game.