Homecoming Week

12/9/2010

by Becca Warfel

Once a year at Neoga High School, students and teachers get to dress up in unusual costumes without looking weird. Neoga recently held their annual Homecoming Week, a week of dress up days and activities leading up to homecoming. Classes compete against each other and the teachers in contests such as the singing bee and tug of war and try to have the most students in costume. At the end of the week, the class with the most points from competing in these varied activities wins bragging rights.

This year the festivities started out with a board walk competition on Monday. For the board walk, students lined up on two planks and had to race across the gym, walking in unison with the planks attached to their feet. Students participated in color day for their dress up theme, dressing up in a color picked by their class. On Tuesday students competed in an obstacle course and dressed up for twin day. Students dressed up to match each other to be counted as “twins”. Wednesday was the singing bee, and the dress up theme was crazy day. For the singing bee, students held a “Don’t Forget the Lyrics” style contest. Participants were given a part of a song and had to sing with it. When the music stopped, they had to recite the next line without music. Students were instructed to dress crazily, and wore everything from funny hats to mismatched neon stockings and capes. On Thursday, the activity was sundae creation and the dress up theme was clique day. For the activity students competed in a relay race to build a sundae. Each student had to stand on a chair and held a different ingredient that they dropped into a cup held by a student on the floor. For clique day, classes were assigned a clique, like hippies or jocks, and had to dress like a member of that clique. On the last day of homecoming week, the students competed in the tug of war and dressed up for red and white day, all of them wearing Neoga themed apparel.

The winning class was announced on Friday after the tug of war. In fourth place was the freshman class. Coming in second was the sophomore class. Second place was seniors, and first place was taken by the juniors. Congratulations, juniors!

Student of the Month

by Kendra Schooley
12-9-10

Each month at Neoga High School, a committee chooses the “Student of the Month.” In order to be nominated, the student must be in good academic standing, be involved in the school and community, and be an overall positive example to the students of the school. This November, Kristie Kastl was selected as student of the month. Congratulations on your achievement, Kristie!

2010 Homecoming Game

by Dalton Ellison
12/10/2010

On December 3rd the Neoga Indians squared off against the St. Elmo Eagles for the 2010 homecoming game. At the Junior Varsity level, the Indians did very well in pressuring the ball and causing the offense to make mistakes. With the fourth quarter approaching, the Junior Varsity Indians held off the Eagles and pulled out a victory.

At the Varsity level, the Indians communication on the court really showed during the second half. At the close of the third quarter, the scoreboard read 31 to 29 -- Indians lead. As the fourth quarter began, the Indians did a very good job in handling the ball and communicating, causing two St. Elmo players to get into foul trouble. At the two minute mark in the fourth quarter, guard Jacob Cole took a charge causing the Eagles center to foul out. Shortly after that, the Indians pulled out a 42 to 36 win with help from their free throws and tight defense.

The Neoga Indians have two upcoming games. On the seventeenth they travel to Teutopolis and on the twenty-first they make the trip to Shelbyville. Feel free to come out and support your Neoga Indians!

A Hollywood Homecoming!

by Sierra Struthers
12/8/2010

Students give Neoga High School’s “Hollywood Homecoming” two thumbs up! Girls spent all day getting ready, boys picked up their dates, and everyone headed to the Neoga gym to dance the night away. For a few seniors, however, it was more than just a dance because they were selected for homecoming court. This year’s lucky few were Jenna Mellendorf, Natalie Walk, Molly Tarter, Lauren Shumacher, Jayson Hymes, Nick Bright, Clayton Potter, Travis Cornell, and Tyler Pikowski. Out of these, only two were chosen by the student body to be homecoming king and queen. Serving as crown-bearers were Claire Walk and Alex Cornell. The reigning king and queen, Travis McClellan and Taylor Walk, returned to crown this year’s recipients, Natalie Walk and Jayson Hymes. After concluding this year’s festivities, students are looking forward to next year’s installment for another 5-star performance.