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Student Council has success at Davenport Derby

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By Kamryn Drach

Racing couches in the school parking lot ended well for some but not for others as the Davenport Derby occurred on Oct. Before homecoming that weekend, students made teams with different couch themes and races to the finish.

The winning couch participants are Roman Lovell, Braden Yacobucci, Nathan Bower, Peyton Swing, Kiya Izaldine, Megan Fargola, Jacy Guider, Kendall Feldman, and Bri Nixon. These nine students raced their shiny gold gossamer and winged couch to the finish. Their name was the Stuco Snitches and they got their couch from student council.

“The easiest part was coming up with the team cheer; we came up with it on the spot,” senior Roman Lowell said.

Roman and his other couch mates agreed by saying the cheer came easy to them, although not everything came easy.

The couches were scored by theme, race, and time. The winning couch and the Hufflepuff couch received a tie on the race part. The winning couch won by all three components they needed.

“The easiest part for me was riding on the couch. I would definitely do this again next year because it was a lot of fun,” sophomore Jacy Guider said.

The only thing that went wrong was student council needing to rush and put wheels onto their couch. Other than that, no couches crashed this year and everyone finished the race safely.

To see pictures for this story, click here.

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Girls Volleyball VS Brecksville

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By Bayley Patterson

Stow volleyball faced a tough battle against the Brecksville Bees at home on Oct. 1. The girls lost, but played a strong match.

As the first set started, the Bees began to take the lead and at the end Stow lost 13­-25. The girls came back in the second set more focused and ready to win.

After losing the first set, the girls really increased their intensity. The ball went back and forth, from Stow scoring then Brecksville scoring but at the end Stow won 25-­18. During this set, freshman Lauren Fair hurt her knee from landing on it wrong. Fair never returned to the match.

Starting off the third set, Stow was hyped up and ready to win against the Bees. Sadly, the girls did not pull it out and lost 20­-25 but held up a strong fight.

As the final set had started, the score went back and forth, making it an exciting set. Towards the end, the Brecksville Bees had an illegal serve, creating a lot of controversy. Brecksvilles coach was confused on the call and so were the fans. After multiple minutes of waiting, the referee did eventually call the illegal hit. As set three came to an end, Stow fell to Brecksville 20­25.

Sophomore Jacy Guider said, “It never feels good to lose but I’m still really proud of how my team played because Brecksville was twelfth in the state. I think my team needs to work on communication and keeping a positive energy on the court.”

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Football VS Nordonia

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The Nordonia Knights were supposed to be the Bulldogs biggest competition that they had to play thus far. Well, it was up until the final six minutes of the fourth quarter where the Bulldogs pulled away to win the game 65-37 Friday night.

It was a crazy game, and at point the Knights cut the lead to 38-30 in the fourth quarter, but at the end of the night the Bulldogs took better care of the football and leaned on their running attack to move the ball.

The Bulldogs improved to 5-0 while the Knights dropped to 2-3 on the season.

Senior running back Jayson Gobble had a huge night. Rushing for 253 yards on 34 carries, Gobble also added five rushing touchdowns and one receiving touchdown.

The receiving touchdown was on a trick play where junior Logan Lindsay ended up throwing it to Jayson for a 43-yard score. Gobble took a handoff and pitched it back to Lindsay for the easy touchdown; this gave Stow huge momentum very early in the game.

“I was indifferent when the trick play was called,” Gobble said. “I just saw it as a chance to get yards and we took advantage of the opportunity.”

At halftime the score was 24-7 but it felt all but over. The average fan would know the Knights would not fold over. On their first possession in the second half the Knights were driving. This was until the Bulldogs forced one of the three turnovers they created when senior Monte Board recovered a fumble on the Bulldog 27 yard line, ending the Knights momentum.

Junior quarterback Kyle Vantrease had a solid game himself. Vantrease rushed for two touchdowns, including a savvy 18-yard rush that really deflated to the Knights.

On the following drive sophomore Joe Gobble put the final bite in the game with a 63- yard pick-six.

Stow’s next game is on Oct. 2, when the Twinsburg Tigers come into town.

“We knew from the Wadsworth game and one it would only get tougher,” Senior Owen Fankhauser said, “We will get everyone’s best shot, and we wouldn’t want it any other way.”