Plan B(arnes)
Daniel Cohen, Sports Section Editor/Business Manager
September 17, 2017
Filed under Sports
“When I was [playing] at Miami of Ohio, there was this speaker who played in the NFL and he just gave me a fact. He used to always tell me and it stuck in my head that ‘only two percent of all college football players make it to the NFL, so you better have a backup plan,’” Linwood Barnes, the...
New Blood
Sara Stemmler and Josephine Cross
September 17, 2017
Filed under Sports
“I feel kind of bad . . . their matches aren’t going to count towards varsity scoring,” girls’ varsity tennis coach Susie Luten said. Luten is referring to players in varsity positions seven through twelve who, as a result of the large number of incoming players this year, will not contribute...
First Win of the Season: Clayton vs. Jennings
Catherine Walsh and Mariclare Gatter
September 1, 2017
The CHS football team won an exciting game tonight against Jennings High School. The game began with a 6-0 lead by the Greyhounds early in the first quarter, a touchdown made by Al Slater. On defense, the Greyhounds maintained a strong wall of players to hold off the efforts of the Jennings Warrior...
Fall Sports Preview
Michael Bernard, Editor-in-Chief
August 19, 2017
Filed under Fall, Latest, Sports
Boys' Football Players to Watch: Jeremiah Austin Al Slater Dominick Waller 2016-2017 Record: 2-7 Goals: To win our conference. Girls' Golf Players to Watch: Misheel Sodgerel Sophie Thompson Ella Zimmerman 2016-2017 Record: 5-5 Goals: To lower our average varsity team score ...
A Driving Force
Daniel Cho, Sports Section Editor
August 18, 2017
Filed under Sports
Nervous on the first tee, senior Misheel Sodgerel breathes deeply and slowly -- a technique she learned to calm her nerves and slow her heart rate. All the way in Connecticut, she imagines as if she is hitting a normal shot on the range. She winds up and hits a long drive down the middle of the fairway...
A Season to Remember
Jacob LaGesse, Editor-in-Chief
May 24, 2017
Filed under Latest, Sports, Spring
“Winning the district championship, our record would have said that that wasn’t even a possibility,” CHS head baseball coach Craig Sucher said. “But we knew ourselves and we didn’t let our record define us, despite the fact that we could have.” On Tuesday, May 23, the CHS Varsity Baseball...
CHS Boys Varsity Tennis Team Wins Sectionals Tournament
Jacob LaGesse, Editor-in-Chief
May 19, 2017
A decisive victory. That’s really the only way to describe the Clayton High School Varsity Tennis team’s performance on the evening of May 18 in the 2017 Sectionals competition. It had been seven years since the team had last made it to state, in 2010. Ever since then, the team had been pursuing...
CHS Varsity Baseball Upsets Defending State-Champ MICDS in District Championship
May 17, 2017
13-3. This was the score when the CHS baseball team faced off against the MICDS Rams, last year’s state champions, on April 15. The game ended via the ten-run mercy rule. But, this time, on May 17, the Greyhounds looked to avenge their past and achieve a different outcome: not a ten-run los...
A Swinging Victory
Lauren Praiss, Chief Digital Editor
May 16, 2017
Filed under Sports
“Going into the game, I felt like we had a really good chance of winning.” Senior and player Liam Heusel was right. The CHS Varsity Baseball team had a 3-1 victory against John Burroughs this afternoon in the Districts second round game, and will be playing MICDs tomorrow afternoon. This afte...
A Bittersweet Season
Lauren Praiss, Chief Digital Editor
May 16, 2017
Filed under Sports
Despite the 2-0 loss against rivalry Ladue High School in the District game, the CHS Girls’ Varsity Soccer team had a strong and bittersweet finish to their long and exciting season. At the beginning of the close game, Anna Dinsmore and Katie Sharp had strong defense with help from Emma Marquis-Ke...
Ricky Kuehn Athlete Profile
Theo Fehr, Page Editor
May 15, 2017
Filed under Sports
It was the fourth quarter of the Varsity Water Polo team’s annual game against Ladue. Clayton was down by five points. With only two minutes remaining, CHS water polo coach Judd Brooks had put in the third string knowing that there was no possibility of a win. However, Ricky Kuehn—the only starter ...
