Red Devil Update Student E-News October 7, 2016 CONTENTS Weekly Activity News... 1 Weekly Athletic News... 4 WEEKLY ACTIVITY NEWS Congratulations to the Homecoming King and Queen, Will Bowater and Mary Kress! They were crowned as Red Devil Royalty at 10pm at the Homecoming Dance Saturday night! Approximately 1500 students attended the dance and danced the night away finishing up a busy Homecoming Week!
Congratulations to the Class of 2020 for winning the Homecoming float decorating contest! Class of 2019 was 2 nd and Class of 2017 was 3 rd! Class Boards, Student Council and many more students worked so hard on the floats, it was a shame no one got to see them and it rained on their parade!
o Congratulations to the Gaussians (math team) who took 2 nd overall at our first meet last week at Walter Payton HS. Freshman finished in first place and we had two perfect scores on the senior level. Congrats to Harrison Wang and Alex Choi. Nice effort by all!! Operation Snowball registration forms are now available in room 107 or you can download the form from our website: https://sites.google.com/a/hinsdale86.org/jcave/operation-snowball. Please see Mrs. Cave or Ms. Ferrone for details. Please join us for our next Book Club meeting on Tuesday, October 11 th at 3:05 in the library s Reading Lounge. The Muslim Student Association organized a writing seminar by a former graduate, Tayyaba Syed (author, freelance journalist and writing coach). She will have her workshop in the Library after school on Wednesday, October 12. Help support the Hinsdale Central Football Club during their fundraiser at any Westmont or Willowbrook Chipotle on Monday, October 17 from 4-8 pm. 50% of sales will be donated to the Football Club. It s a great way to combine great taste and great fun for a great cause! Bring in one of the flyers hanging up in the hallway or take a picture of it on your smartphone. o o Quick Glance at Upcoming Fundraisers, Meetings and Events (For more detailed information you can check this calendar: http://hc.hinsdale86.org/page/449)
o To get text message updates send a text message to 81010 o With the following message according to your class: o Class of 2017: @hc2017 o Class of 2018: @hc2018 o Class of 2019: @2019hchs o Class of 2020: @hchs2020 o Follow Hinsdale Central Activities on Twitter @HCHSActivities and on Instagram HCActivities WEEKLY ATHLETIC NEWS The Varsity Football team defeated Glenbard West 31-30 in overtime on Saturday. The Boys Varsity Cross Country squad competed last weekend at the Peoria Cross Country Invitational where they finished 12th place out of 37 teams. Leading the charge was junior Sean O Connell - finishing in 34th place overall. Following Sean were juniors Neil Cumberland - 48th place and Sam Schiavitti - 49th place, sophomores Alec Hill - 96th place, Matt Kusak - 101st place and Keegan Caveney - 106th place. Junior Colin Yandel - 113th place rounded out the Top 7 for the Red Devils. The Girls Cross Country team competed at the St. Charles North Invitational this past Saturday at Leroy Oakes Forest Preserve. Varsity placed 5th in the 18-team field and were led by junior Reilly Revord and freshman McKenna Revord, who finished 12th and 13th overall in 18:41 for 3 miles on the wet and muddy course. Close behind was sophomore Taylor Waldron in 18:46 for 16th place, sophomore Caitlin Chval in 27th in
19:00 and junior Grace McCabe, 33rd place in 19:11. Senior Molly Caveney and sophomore Kayla Byrne rounded out the varsity lineup for the Devils in 19:17 and 19:27 respectively. The Frosh/Soph placed 4th as a team and were led by Bella Pisani and Taylor Wagner, both running 19:49 for 3 miles and finishing in 6th and 7th places. Melanie Chafin ran another strong race as the Devils 3rd finisher in 16th place, with Rachel Wagner and Lucy Fischer also scoring for the Devils in 26th and 28th places. Olivia Beargie and Charlie Otto also finished as Top 7 runners for the Devils. In the JV/Open race, the Red Devils placed 5th overall. Sophia Horowicz led the way in 10th place, followed for the Devils by Olivia Carter, Sophia Karris, Tess Willemse, Andie Davis, Sarah Nelson and Ryley Halloran. Athletes of the Meet for the Red Devils were Taylor Waldron and McKenna Revord at the Varsity level, Melanie Chafin for the Frosh/Soph, and Meghan O Reilly for the Junior Varsity. The Varsity Tennis team had a strong win this past Monday at Homewood-Flossmoor in a 7-0 sweep. Seniors Mira Amin and Emily Otto did a great job in helping pull to a convincing victory. This Friday and Saturday, Hinsdale Central is hosting the varsity conference tournament so please come out and support your defending state champion Red Devils Tennis! The Boys Varsity Golf team was the Regional Champion at The Links of Carillon on Tuesday! Individually Brendan O Reilly (69) placed 1st and Josh Lundmark placed 2nd overall. Matt Wingren, Gabe Larson, Mac McClear and Jack Hoiberg rounded out the team. The Varsity Soccer team continues to build towards the end of the year with the recent IHSA seeds now finalized. The #3 seed Red Devils will open up hosting the IHSA Regional on Tue. Oct. 18 with a 4:30pm first kick. Until then the Red Devils have games coming up against Fenton and Addison Trail. Go Devils! After tough losses against LT last week and York on Monday, the JV Soccer team looks to bounce back with a home game against Addison Trail on Friday. Their Senior Day match will be at 1pm on Dickinson Field this Saturday against Fenton High School - Come out to support your JV Red Devils! Going into the last couple weeks of the season, the Sophomore boys are 9 2 2. They have made huge strides this year, improving each and every game and practice. They look forward to close the season by getting victories in their last two games (Fenton, and Addison Trail), all of which will be tough competitors. The Frosh A Red Devils are on a roll of wins since their only loss of the season back on Sept. 19. Last Wednesday, the Red Devils won 3-1 in their game against Oak Park-River Forest. On Sept. 29, they won a tough game against conference rival Lyons Township, 1-0. On Monday, the Red Devils dominated York in a 3-0 victory. The team is approaching each game with a competitive attitude, and the boys are trying to maintain Hinsdale Central's tradition as a winning high school soccer program in their conference and beyond. The
Frosh B Red Devils continue to play and work at a high level, looking forward to finishing the season in the Hinsdale Central Freshman Shootout. The Red Devils Varsity Volleyball team beat Wheaton-Warrenville South High School last Wednesday to improve its record to 9-11. Hinsdale was led by Maggie Wilson (5 kills, 4 digs), Gillian Lail (4 kills) and Anna Bryjak (4 kills). Lindsay Knutson (10 assists, 2 aces) and Emily Knutson (8 assists, 1 ace) helped run the offense and provided sparks from the service line. After closing out the first game 25-19, the Devils got off to a strong start in game two and won easily 25-15. All levels are in action this weekend as Freshmen host a quad on Saturday, Sophomores compete in the Barrington tournament and Varsity competes in the St. Charles East Invite. Next week, the Red Devils look forward to playing at Glenbard West on Tuesday and will celebrate Senior Night at home on Thursday against Downers Grove South. They look forward to celebrating the contributions and commitments of all their seniors next week! The Varsity Hockey team had a busy homecoming week winning one game and losing two. They played Deerfield last Wednesday evening and won decisively 7-2. Goals were scored by Conor Donlevy (2), Adam Griffith, Zack DuFort, Alek Bogdonoff, Tim Laskowski and Logan Purcell and assists by Lucian DiPofi (2), Charlie Kapp, Sam Stapleton (2), Tyler Bukovic, Demetri Karris and Alek Bogdonoff. The Red Devils next faced a strong Glenbard team and lost 7-0. On Sunday, the team played Lake Park and lost 4-2. Goals were scored by Alek Bogdonoff and Sam Stapleton with assists by Lucian DiPofi, Chris Stella, Adam Griffith and Matt D'Aprile. The team's annual Homecoming Parade was rained out but not before the team got a photo on their float. Thanks to Ken Turrentine and Kirk Purcell for their help with this year s hockey floats. The Red Devils next home games are against Lyons Township on Friday at Darien at 9:30pm and Naperville North at 9:30pm on Saturday. Come out and show your hockey spirit and fill the stands against cross town rival LT Friday night. It was a great Homecoming weekend for Central s JV Hockey team, as the boys earned two more wins, and now stand at 3-0. Last Friday night, they defeated Glenbard 3-2 in a hard fought battle. Alex Dimitriou scored in the first period on a diving rebound with assists from Cole Vinci and Hayden Woodward. Glenbard tied it up 1-1 in period 2, but the Devils responded with a goal from Robert Cremin, sniped from the blue line with assists from Spencer Martin and Hayden Woodward. Then it was Nick Kubycheck s turn as he scored with an assist from James Shrader late in Period 3, increasing the Devil s lead to 3-1. Glenbard tried to rally with a late period 3 goal but they could not overcome the Devil s momentum, or the tight goaltending of Rhett Bergevin. Bergevin had 31 saves for the night, severely hampering Glenbard s offense. The Devils then took on Lake Park High School on Sunday evening at the Addison Ice Rink, bringing home the second win of the weekend. Weston Ball was solid in net and earned the first shut out of the season for the Red Devils, as they handily defeated Lake Park 5-0. Spencer Martin began the offensive drive with a goal early in period 1, with assists from Hayden Woodward and Jake Ognibene. Casey Watts followed up with a goal of his own, a deflection off the goaltender and into the net. The Devils decided to finish things up early in the third period. Both Hayden Woodward and Matthew Montroy were able to find the net, posting goals just 22
seconds apart, deflating Lake Park s defense. Their goals were assisted by Robert Cremin and Ryan Kelly. Matthew Montroy got his second goal of the night in the last minute of period three, with an assist from Dylan Turrentine. It was a decisive 5-0 victory for the Devils. Congratulations to all Swimmers and Divers on their victories over Oak Park-River Forest on all three levels last Friday! A special shout out goes to all the seniors who competed in the HC pool for the last time as they celebrated their Senior Night. Here are some winning relay highlights from the meet: the F/S medley relay of Eva Vukajlovic, Reilly Hayes, Rachel Fuechtman and Anna Szlembarska with a time of 2:04.88, the JV medley relay of Jane Kealy, Meghan Dietrich, Grace Hennessy and Toni Strausser with a time of 2:09.99, all three 200 free relays: F/S Reilly Hayes, Rachel Fuechtman, Hannah Fuechtman and Amelia Effrein (1:44.36), JV: Grace Hennessy, Mary Kress, Sam Tarvin and Toni Strausser (1:54.16), and Varsity: Mia Chiappe, Anna Gruvberger, Emily Graham and Maddie Fowler (1:37.93) and all three 400 free relays F/S: Amelia Effrein, Claire Kern, Audrey LaValle and Chloe Lapointe (3:58.41), JV: Caroline Bowater, Toni Stausser, Mary Kress and Maggie Neil (3:59.17), and Varsity: Anna Gruvberger, Stephanie Bowater, Peyton Lienhart and Mia Chiappe (3:40.95). The Girls Varsity Golf team is the Regional Champ! Selina Zeng, Roshannah Gaur and Miranda Mocklow placed in the Top 5! Have a great weekend! William C. Walsh, Principal Hinsdale Central High School Follow us on Twitter @ThisIsHCHS