Tonight is the big homecoming game against the Ladysmith Lumberjacks. North-western is currently 6-2 (5-1 in conference) and Ladysmith is 3-5 (2-4 in conference).
Northwestern is com-ing off a win against Cumberland 30-8, and a loss to Hayward 26-0, their only conference loss. Ladysmith is coming from two wins: 43-29 versus Spooner and 42-12 over Barron. While Northwestern has played a few games without a number of starting players, all of those previously out for injuries will be in action tonight. Two of the players returning are starting quarterback Jar-ed Anttila and running back Carter Spangen-berg.
Ladysmith’s recent opponents have been some of the easier teams in the conference, such
as Spooner who is cur-rently second to last and Barron, who is in last place.
Consequently, the Lumberjacks may not be ready play against the tied-for-first-place Ti-gers whose warm-up games included Hay-ward also tied for first and Cumberland tied for fourth place in confer-ence.
The Tigers are going to have a tough task stopping the Ladysmith passing offense. Jared Dieckman, the Lady-smith junior
quarter-back, has thrown for al-most 1500 yards. The Lumberjacks also have two wide receivers, Ri-ley Herbes and Tyler Sarauer, who have hauled in 650 yards and 697 yards respectively. The Tiger defense is one of the highlights and they have been outstand-ing, only allowing an average of 16.5 points per game. The Tigers have nine takeaways this season with six intercep-tions and three fumble recoveries, Kade Bartelt Online@ www.nw-tigers.org/the-octagon
Volume 68, Issue 5 October 14, 2016
By Jeffrey McClure
Today:
Powderpuff football game 7:00 p.m.:
Var-sity football vs. Ladysmith @NHS
Homecoming Dance
Tuesday:
7:00 p.m.: Var-sity Volleyball regional
Wednesday: One Acts
The-atre Districts Competition @Superior 6:00 p.m.:
FAF-SA Informa-tional Night for Parents @NHS Auditorium
Today: Alyssa Little
10/15
Samantha Hoegen Matthew Papineau
10/16 Breanna Thiel
10/17
Skylar Hermanson Isaiah Huray
10/19
Nirvana Albright
10/20
Brayden Guentzel Ciara Johnson
Happy
Birthday!
Pg. 2 Marching Band Pg. 3 Mean Girls
Pg. 4 Futbol/Football
See ‘Homecoming’ on pg. 2
Two bodies were found in the high school park-ing lot on Monday, Sep-tember 26, next to a 12 gauge shotgun shell. Three members of the drama team discovered them following practice after school and reported them to Mr. Smith. Comments from Mr. Smith allude to at least
one other carcass that had been brought to his attention the week be-fore which he “disposed of in the woods.”
This situation is very concerning for two rea-sons. First, that these three beings were killed, and second that their feathered remains were considered prank-worthy and were then left to be
run over in the parking lot.
The perpetrators of this aviary hate crime have yet to be exposed because of the lack of video surveillance in the upper lot, but the author-ities assure us they will be caught. Honestly, it’s just a strange pastime, leaving dead ducks in the parking lot.
By Lilli Kovaleski
two takeaways, two in-terceptions that is.
While Ladysmith is averaging 22 points per game, with only more than 22 three times in conference, the Tigers have only given up more than 20 against the two other teams tied for first Chetek who is averaging
Coach Crail said that the highlight of the Ti-gers’ season is the run-ning game, which has the Tigers with the sec-ond most rushing yards in the conference: 1888 yards and 20 touch-downs. The rushing lead-ers for the Tiglead-ers are Carter Spangenberg with 639 yards and Reagan
ceiver Tyler Little has improved with the coaching staff sending in more passing plays. Ty-ler has 299 yards, and the craziest part about that statistic is that the Tigers only have 483 passing yards. That's about 62% of our pass-ing yards compass-ing from Tyler.
certain to be another great game.
I hope to see all of you there decked out head to toe in black and gold. The game starts at 7:15 tonight!
A variety of students make up the NHS Band, and there’s a lot that goes on over the course of one rehearsal, and in a single week, much less an entire semester. Band just performed at the Bayfield Applef-est parade on Sunday, October 9, after spend-ing weeks preparspend-ing by marching up and down the parking lots, memo-rizing music, and even learning a few new moves.
Because the band sounds put together, something that may not be apparent is the amount of work and ef-fort that goes into learn-ing new music, for-mations, and putting on a good performance. This year band performed a catchy tune called “El Gato.”
As most people know, there are various instru-mental sections within the band, everyone is re-sponsible for some part of the performance, or song.
For example, drum-line is in charge of keep-ing the tempo, spickeep-ing it up a bit; low brass pro-vides great support for other instruments;
gener-ally upper woodwinds and trumpets play the melody, sometimes har-monies or really high notes at the end of a song, that can be slightly deafening.
Leave it to color guard to be the perfect distrac-tion for any marching mistakes that may hap-pen, or incorrect notes that may be played. Re-member that, according to Mr. Hintzman, it isn’t wrong if it’s loud, a com-mon phrase mainly di-rected toward the drum-line.
Marching band in par-ticular has more pizzazz than years before. A few upgrades have been im-plemented since last year: drumline is adding some visual performance elements to accompany their playing; color guard
has seemingly doubled in size, adding excellent visual enhancement while also maneuvering their entire group through the band; the rest of the band has also been learning new formations. This year band also has a drum major, Emily Gaare, who calls off what song will be played, and relays commands to the band, basically Mr. Hintzman’s number two. Band has challenges of its own, like trying stay-ing in step with the rest of the band, and trying not to die of heat (Bayfield) or the cold (KBJR Holiday Parade). Nevertheless, being a band nerd has always been a fun and enjoyable experience.
Band will be
perform-ing at halftime of the homecoming game this Friday, so keep your eyes and ears open for a “moving” performance. By Ashton Goette
Editor:
Jay Gaare
Staff Members: Yuri Achucarro Katelynn Clemmer
Janaia Fudally Ashton Goette Alayna Johnson
Courtney Klyne Miranda Maki Jeffrey McClure
Ashley Olson Crystal Taylor Jennifer Thul
Advisor:
Mrs. Thompson
Every student who participates in the Pre-liminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Quali-fying Test or PSAT/ NMSQT is entered into the National Merit Schol-arship Competition. About 34,000 com-mended students throughout the United States are being recog-nized for their exception-al academic perfor-mance. These 34,000 placed among the top five percent of more than 1.6 million students who had also taken the PSAT in 2015 and entered the 2017 competition.
Of these students our very own, senior Myriah Larson, made the top 3% by taking the Prelim-inary SAT in 2015. Even though she will not con-tinue in competition for
the 2017 National Merit Scholarship awards, she is still recognized for her outstanding test perfor-mance.
Northwestern gradu-ates, Jacob (‘12) and Matthew Stai (‘14) were both ranked in the top 1% nationally and were invited to take the SAT to compete nationally for the Merit scholarships. Both of the Stais re-ceived nice awards through the National Merit Scholarship pro-gram. Jacob went to Yale for his undergrad and is now at the University of Iowa working on a joint Masters/PhD., and Mat-thew attends St. Olaf College in Minnesota. Earl Stoll qualified the same year as Ja-cob. Earl was in the top 3%, but did not qualify for scholarship money.
“The young men and women being named Commended Students have demonstrated out-standing potential for academic success,¨ com-mented a spokesperson for NMSC (National Merit Scholarship Cor-poration).
“These students repre-sent a valuable national resource; recognizing their accomplishments, as well as the key role their schools play in their academic development, is vital to the advance-ment of educational ex-cellence in our nation. We hope that this recog-nition will help broaden their educational oppor-tunities and encourage them as they continue their pursuit of academic success.”
Any sophomores and juniors who signed up
for the PSAT will be testing Wednesday, Oc-tober 19. Students partic-ipating will go to first block Wednesday morn-ing for attendance and will be dismissed for testing until 12:00. The PSAT is a pre-test to the SAT that you take when you’re a junior in high school. The PSAT is open to all sophomores and juniors and it costs $15. The set-up and questions on the PSAT are similar to those on the SAT; each tests a va-riety of subjects: reading, writing and language arts, and math.
To those who are tak-ing the PSAT on Wednesday, October 19, a great practice resource to use for both the PSAT and ACT is satprac-tice.org.
By Janaia Fudally
If you have hair that’s full of secrets, wear pink on Wednesdays, and are still trying to make the word “fetch” happen, you will be thrilled to hear the latest news about Mean Girls.
On October 3 (otherwise known as Mean Girls Day), Tina Fey announced that her hit 2004 teen comedy movie, Mean Girls, will become a musical. Yes, you read that right. Everyone's favor-ite Lindsay Lohan movie is going to be performed
on stage, in front of au-diences, with musical numbers between scenes.
The original Mean Girls movie won a total
of seven awards; BMI Film Music Award, Best Breakthrough Perfor-mance- Female, and the MTV Movie Award for Best On-Screen Duo, just to name a few.
It only makes sense that there be a musical made out of the popular, award-winning movie. The news was an-nounced on the musicals new verified Twitter ac-count, @MeanGirlsDC. The tweet read, “BREAKING OCT 3rd NEWS! The Mean Girls musical is coming to Washington, D.C Fall of 2017!
#MeanGirls #October3 #ThatsSoFetch #grool.” A few hours later, the
Around school, many people have been getting injured or have been re-cuperating from injuries. As you walk down the hallway, you can’t help but notice people in casts or braces, crutching along as they make their way to their next class. To find out about the story behind some of these injuries, I inter-viewed a few of the in-jured.
I first interviewed Jen-ner Graff, a sophomore who has a splint on his leg and rides on a scooter down the halls. On Sep-tember 16, during a foot-ball game in Bloomer, Jenner broke his ankle as he was running the ball. The incident happened right before halftime. The healing process will be lengthy partly because he had to have surgery.
It is estimated that he will be in a splint for an-other week and a half,
followed by two weeks spent in a hard cast, and two weeks in a walking boot.
As I continued on my search looking for inju-ries around the school, I noticed senior Matt He-din on crutches. After not stretching properly be-fore lifting heavy weights in the weight room, Matt strained his hamstring.
Even though the strained hamstring will take a approximately 7-10 days to fully heal, his friends have already joked around with him and his injury.
One friend asked if he could amputate his leg. Matt replied, “It’s use-less now, but it will heal.”
Sophomore Kristen Jarman recently healed from a severe injury she received during softball practice last year.
During the second week of practice, Kristen was running the bases and slid incorrectly into
second base.
She snapped her fibula in half (the bone almost went through her skin) and popped her tib-ia out of her ankle socket.
Kristen began the healing process by getting surgery to fix her leg and an-kle.
She was in plas-ter wrap afplas-ter sur-gery, followed by a cast for one month, a walking boot for two and a half months, and a brace for two months. Throughout all of this chaos, Kristen had the privilege of using a wheelchair around school. She said that many students joked around with her by sing-ing “They see me rollin’, they hatin’” as she wheeled by.
Kristen said that the best thing you can do during recovery is listen to your doctor’s advice
and complete physical therapy.
If you happen to see anyone with an injury in school, don’t be afraid to help them out.
Holding doors open, carrying books, or assist-ing in the lunch line will help injured students tre-mendously, whether you realize it or not.
By Jennifer Thul
Jenner Graff rides around school on a scooter due to
his broken ankle.
account tweeted another message containing the hashtags
#TheLimitDoesNotExist , #YourMomsChestHair, #SheDoesntEvenGoHer, #YouCantSitWithUs, #HerHairIsFullOfSecret, and
#OnWednesdaysWeWea rPink.
It is rumored that those hashtags are song titles to some of the musical numbers.
Tina Fey announced to a New York Times panel, “My husband
lyricist] Nell Benjamin, have been working on it.”
The musical is ex-pected to hit the stage in Washington, D.C, fall of 2017. In the meantime there is FOX’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show to look forward to. On October 20 from 7 -9 p.m., FOX will be airing a live performance of the 1975 classic musi-cal, The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
If you are not familiar
and catchy musical num-bers will grab your at-tention as soon as the show starts.
The musical begins as the main characters, Brad and Janet, get a flat tire and enter a spooky mansion for help.
In the mansion they encounter crazy charac-ters; a wild biker, a creepy maid, and the mansion’s owner, Frank-N-Furter, who is a scien-tist.
Eventually Brad and
lar man named Rocky, for the annual Transyl-vanian convention. Overall, the plot is pretty random, but that is what makes it such an interesting musical to watch.
Victoria Justice and Ryan McCartan are cast-ed as Janet and Brad. Actors from The Game of Thrones and Orange is the New Black will also be featured in the musical.
As a soccer player who has begun to learn and to play the game of football, I discovered some inter-esting contrasts between the two games.
Soccer:
What is the difference between soccer and American football? Well, let's say that soccer is known as the game peo-ple play to show their skills. The second thing is that soccer players have this thing were I like to call “playing hurt.”
Playing hurt involves players who like to waste time and they act hurt when they are not hurt. For example, if a FC
Barcelona and Real Ma-drid are playing and the score is 3-2, the Barcelo-na players don't want Re-al Madrid team to score, so they run time off the clock by acting injured. It also lets the players rest.
Thirdly the players may receive a yel-low card or a red card de-pending the incident that just hap-pened.The yel-low card means that you have to be aware of what you just did. Two yel-low cards are equivalent to a red card. You can also re-ceive a red card automat-ically but that depends on your actions. The players that are in the benches may also receive a yellow card or a red card.
The most important thing about soccer is the
technique used, not the power of your soccer kicks. But the most cru-cial part is the technique of working your way down the field, moving through the players. When I was playing soc-cer with my socsoc-cer team, I spent 90% of my time thinking about what I was going to do to get around people, and only 10% doing physical work as a player.
Soccer requires that players shoot with accu-racy not necessarily with power. I have been told by many soccer coaches that performing soccer “tricks” is entertaining to the audience, but show-ing off. That's because By Yuri Achucarro
Mrs. Pflug, the Green Club advisor, says that being involved in Green Club is a great way to know what's going on in the environment and a great way to help clean up the world. That's ex-actly what the North-western High School Green Club did on Octo-ber 2, 2016.
12 club members and the advisor went up to the Brule Afterhours Trail and cleaned up the area by hauling brush, trimming trees, and clearing garbage from the cross country trail. They worked with indi-viduals from the Brule Ski Club and the Wis-consin DNR. The After-hours Trail is used in the
summer by mountain bikers, in the winter by cross country skiers and snowshoers, as well as by hikers year round. The Northwestern group included one teacher and 12 students: Mrs. Pflug, Lily Living-ston, Justine Moss, Cait-lin Johnson, Ricky Schiff, Annabelle Pflug, Jagar Stillson, Nick Ogren, Nia Albright, Calen Kirkpatrick, Em-ma Symkalski, Addie Heller, and Emily Nel-son.
This group volun-teered about two hours of their days to clean up the Earth and make the world a better and clean-er place to exclean-ercise and spend time enjoying the beauties of the world
around us. Being in-volved in events like this that contribute to the community’s health and well-being is a great way for students to get ener-gized and helps them start to take better of the Earth and to help their community!
It’s crucial for students to be environmentally conscious throughout the year and a great way to know what's going on is to join Green Club. If you would like to join and help better our world, talk to Mrs. Pflug. Green Club clears the Brule Afterhours Trails of
excess brush, tree limbs, etc. By Crystal Taylor
the time are tricks needed to get past the player in front of you; 80% goes to passing and thinking about the next move.
When kicking a soccer ball, play-ers have to consider and choose from the various ways to kick the ball as well as which part of the foot to use. There are really seven different shots.
1. The standard shot is used when you pass the ball to an-other team player.
2. A straight shot is used to pass the ball at an angle. 3. To pass a player with a good
accuracy, use an inside shot; it adds a short distance to the player.
4. A chip shot is only used to pass to the goalkeeper.
5. If you need to curve the ball to another player, use the bending shot. This kick can only be done if you bend your body backwards.
6. An outside shot is to control that ball while you run and rarely used to pass.
7. Toe shot is the most important kick ever because you have to have power and accuracy. This kick is used by Leo Messi (FC Barcelona), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid), Neymar (FC Barcelona) and Zlatan Ibra-himović (Manchester United F.C.).
Football:
I recently tried out for a kicking position because the Northwestern High School football team needed
one, so I decided to take the chance. I was ready to go kick the football like it was a soccer ball. However, I discovered a problem: I had never kicked a soccer ball with shoulder pads, a helmet, pants, thigh pads, socks, soccer cleats, and a jersey that limits my kicking power.
At the end I had to get used to it and imagine that I'm not wearing them. The next problem I encoun-tered was that the football and a soccer ball are totally different. I had to find a way to make the football look like a soccer ball. So I did turned the football facing the way I was going to kick the ball. One difference between Ameri-can football and soccer is that in football we play with power. Sec-ondly the game has more rules and the clock stops often in the game because of a penalty or even when the players miss a catch…
When I kick off, I use my front part of my foot (do not be con-fused with the toe kick) or my in-ner step of my foot (bending shot). When I kick a field goal or extra point I use the interior part of my foot (inside shot).
One thing that I have realized is that in football the referees are al-lowed to stop the time during a game, whereas in soccer that doesn't happen at all. There are flags instead of yellow or red cards. Another thing that Ameri-can football is that they have more refs and more rules
Regardless of whether you choose to play football or soccer, as a kicker you have to be confi-dent and trust in yourself.
The soccer players that have been known as leg-endaries are: According to International Business
Time… (Top 10) (2016) (Ranking) Lionel Messi (Barcelona, Argentina) Luis Suárez (Barcelona, Uruguay)
Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid, Portugal) Neymar (Barcelona, Brazil)
Gareth Bale (Real Madrid, Wales)
Antoine Griezmann (Atlético Madrid, France) Andres Iniesta (Barcelona, Spain)
Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich, Germany) Sergio Busquets (Barcelona, Spain)
Paul Pogba (Juventus, France)
But that's what people think of today's best soccer players. But if we all all history of soccer and their best soccer players we will get different results.
(Top 5) (History) (Ranking) Pele (Brazil - known as the King of soccer)
Lionel Messi (Argentina- known as the Star of all soccer)
Diego Maradona (Argentina—known as the King of all soccer goals)
Zinedine Zidane (France - known as the King of FIFA)
Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal—known as Champion of soccer skilled players)
Fun Fact: Most NFL kickers have played
