With such a successful season finishing with a 13-1 record in league, Carlmont varsity girls softball heads towards a bright future in the Central Coast Section Championships.

The Lady Scots completed their first CCS game against Salinas on Saturday, coming out with a 6-2 win.

“If you play for Carlmont, you’re prepared,” said coach Jim Liggett.

The girls make it look easy as they run through each game with smiles on their faces and confidence in their potential.

“I think we are pretty well prepared physically. We just need to focus more and get our heads in the game, considering we had a fairly easy league season mentally,” said sophomore Mariko Kondo.

Photo by Gianna Dimick

Photo by Gianna Dimick

And the Oscars go to…

Carlmont’s Associated Student Body  assembly commission members Kaela Ismael, Anna Shutovska, and Michael Saber have been working together to create an awards-themed assembly for the last one of the year.

Ismael commented, “We figured since we have awards to present at celebration and it’s an extremely high energy assembly, that doing something like an awards show would be a cool new thing to do for celebration.”

According to Shutovska, they “went all out for the decorations and it’s going to be super classy.”

French exchange student Chloe Masero experiencing fog at the Golden Gate Bridge [photo credit to Veronica Pontis]

French exchange student Chloé Masero experiencing fog at the Golden Gate Bridge [photo credit to Veronica Pontis]

For two weeks, 14 students from the Biarritz area in the region of Aquitaine, France visited Carlmont to get a taste of life in the United States.

The students, who were cared for by Carlmont host families, enjoyed a once-in-a-lifetime experience where they had the opportunity to observe the the many differences between American and French life.

Eight grader Chloé Masero said, “School is very different here. The teachers are cooler and more involved with students.”

Members of the team celebrate the win by dumping the cooler on head coach Chris Davidson

Members of the team celebrate the win by dumping the cooler on head coach Chris Davidson

The frosh-soph baseball team finished off the season with an amazing game Friday afternoon.

Sweeping the Terra Nova Tigers in their last two games of the season, the final score of Friday’s game was 6-0 Scots.

“Wow. It was a great season,” said head coach Chris Davidson after the game.

And a great season it was. The Scots went 20-6 and placed second overall.

Carlmont’s Got Talent: starring the students

The first day of Carlmont's Got Talent  featured a few musical acts.

The first day of Carlmont’s Got Talent 

Talent starts with a T, but begins you.

The annual Carlmont’s Got Talent lunchtime activity is a show featuring students around the school showing off their special abilities.

The show began Wednesday, May 8 and will continue on in the month of May. This activity is being held in the Quad during lunch.

Sophomore and lunchtime activities commissioner Raine Kerhin said, “It’s exciting  because it is a way for the students who are not necessarily in the performing arts field to show their amazing talents and for other students to see them perform.”

 

Carlmont rams through Westmoor

Ryan Pau returns the birdie

Ryan Pau returns the birdie

Even though sophomore David Maia and senior Taylor Choye had never played together before, they still managed to end up with the victory 15-10 and 15-6. This victory was one of 14 for Carlmont, as the Carlmont Scots beat the Westmoor Rams 14-1.

Choye’s original partner, senior Justin Quan, suffered a broken collarbone, so Choye had nobody to play with. Therefore, badminton coach Marco Aguilar put Choye and Maia together to play against Westmoor.

“We won due to great communication and good rotation,” an ecstatic Maia said after the victory.

 

Lady Scots softball with another shutout win against Terra Nova

Loucks braces herself at bat for the oncoming pitch

Loucks braces herself at bat for the oncoming pitch

Carlmont girls softball ran the Terra Nova Tigers off their home field, not letting Terra Nova score a point against them.

Junior Rebecca Faulkner pitched a great seven strikeouts before being replaced by sophomore Mariko Kondo. Carlmont forced the Tigers pitcher out in the fifth inning after keeping them scoreless throughout the game.

Carlmont easily ran through home plate four times in the first inning and two more in the second, one scored with two outs and one scored with a walk. They lit up the field, run after run, making it harder for Terra Nova to catch up.

 

Society confronts rape culture

Activists gather at the Jefferson County Courthouse in Steubenville, Ohio. Photo cred: Michael D. McElwain, Steubenville Herald-Star

Activists gather at the Jefferson County Courthouse in Steubenville, Ohio.

Recently, the issue of rape culture has been brought to light, with the beginning of the Audrie Pott trial and the events that occurred in Steubenville.

In Steubenville, Ohio, a 16-year old girl was raped by two high school football players after passing out at a party last summer. By using their cell phones, those who attended the party were able to spread a video of the events which also included crude background commentary.