Text Box: Spotlight On... Text Box: position. He taught at Sandy Creek Junior Senior High school last year which is in the town of Fairfield, Nebraska. By: Cale McDowell Text Box: I am sure you have all heard of some of our new teachers at Smith Center. One of our new teachers is Mr. Mitchell he is teaching Trig in high school and he is also helping coach Junior High Football. Mr. Mitchell grew up in a town of Las Animas, Colorado. The reason he chose Smith Center High School is there was an opening for a mathematical Text Box: On Thursday the 3rd of September the Redmen faced the Plainville Cardinals. Last year the Redmen played them in a 5th quarter and beat them. In the first quarter Clint Rogers had a kickoff return and the wall had some great blocks. Grant Lambert scored the 2 point conversion. Kody Molzahn scored around the left side, and Grant Lambert had the 2 point conversion. The left side of the line (Jordan Shockley, Typhan Hill, and Cole Lorenzen) had great blocks. The second score for the Redmen came when Kody Molzahn ran around the right side. Lambert ran in the 2 point conversion. On this play, “The right side of the line (Nick Johnson, Cale McDowell and Taylor Zabel) had great blocks” Text Box: said Kody Molzahn. For the other 2 point conversion came from a pass from Molzahn to Cole Lorenzen. Making the score 24-0. At the start of the quarter Cale McDowell picked off a pass. Clint Rogers scored on a 3 yard run and the 2 point conversion was good by Kody Molzahn. Then Grant Lambert scored on a 32 yard run, conversion was good by himself. Ending the half 40-0. The only touchdown in the half came from Taylor Zabel around the left side. The line of Robert Strine, Steven Kriley, Tristan Sasse, Shane Hubbard and Kordell Kattenberg had great blocks. The 2 point conversion failed ending the game 46-0. The Smith Center Redmen Text Box: averaged 7 yards a carry. The Cardinals had an average of 0.5 yards a carry, with a game total of 17 yards. And the Redmen had 226 yards for the game. By: Nick Johnson Text Box: Our Boys is a book about our town of Smith Center. It talks about our football team, not only that, but also about our town. Mr. Drape did a very good job about talking about our town and we learned a few things about Smith Center that we didn’t even know. This book teaches people what small town life is like in the Heart of America. Our Boys makes us feel proud to be Redmen, and it should make others feel the same way. Text Box: Smith Center JH Defeats Plainville Text Box: “Our Boys” Review

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Text Box: The book also got reviews from some pretty famous people around here. (Such as, Bob Stoops, Joe Paterno, and Bill Snyder) I encourage anyone who hasn’t read this book yet to get a copy and read it. Your life would not be complete without reading this book. By: Taylor Zabel and Nathan Baumann