Volume 1, Issue 9

March 2009

The Falcon Flyer

What are you doing FOR SPRINg BREAK?

BY: Bethany Krasuski & Megan Glover

What are you doing for Spring Break?

50

40
33
Inside this issue: 30
people

25 # of
# of

people
2 20 18
Eating Contest
15

Interview With Ms. 2

10
5
Avilez 3
1
0
Hillcrest 8th Grade 3 Mexico Out of state Staying
home
hanging
with friends
Cruise Party Dunes

Baseball places
Favorite Animated 3
Cartoon For Spring Break, many students are hanging out with
friends, staying home, or going out of state. Other students are go-
4 ing on a cruise, partying or going to the dunes. 6 people are going
Exploratory
to Mexico. 10 people are going out of state. 13 people are staying
Teachers
home. 7 people are hanging out with friends. 2 people are going on
Favorite Food 4 a cruise. 3 people are going to party. 4 people are going to the
dunes. This survey was out of 40 people.

Spring Break! 5

Editor in chief- Erica Rovelli

8th Grade Softball 5
Assistant Editors— Drew Eberth, Zachery Brotman, Nicholas Colucci, Drew
Comics 6 Eberth, Tyler, Griffith, Jay Hartgraves, and Owen Sanborn
 Volume 1, Issue 9
Page 2

Eating Contest
By Andrea Donaldson, Sydney Coon and Molly Eagleton

On Tuesday March 3rd Mr. Herold’s class had a flaming hot cheeto and warhead eating contest.
Ten contestants from Mr. Herold’s class lined up along a table. There was a napkin in front of them that
held about 30 flaming hot cheetos and 8 gummy warheads. They couldn’t use their hands or arms while
eating the food.

The winner of this contest was Jordan Garcia. She finished all her food in 2 minutes and 37 seconds.
The runners up were Jay Hartgraves and Nick Collucci both finishing at 2 minutes 52 seconds.

Interview with Mrs. Avilez

By Tyler Alben

We had interviewed Mrs. Avilez; Mrs. Ridge’s assis-

tant teacher. It was great she had cooperated with me very
well. I had asked her 3 questions about her job. We had
asked her how she likes her job. She said that she loves her
job and how something is always going on. How long she
has been working there. She said for about a year. The last
question we had asked her if she would stay with her job
and she said she would because she loves her job so much
and all the working in it.
 Volume 1, Issue 9
Page 3

Hillcrest Middle School Baseball Team

By: Eric Keswick and Austin Blackman

Players:
Trace Turner, Owen Sanborn, Tanner Waldrip, Cooper Scott

Jade Bilbrey, Kylen Green, Joe Fischer, David Grovsner, Matt Colgan, Garrett Miglorini, Tyler
Campman

Shea Bennett, Stanley Gawelko, Chance Bingaman

Record: 2-0
Team info and yesterdays game:
Hillcrest played highland lakes on Thursday March 5th. They won 3 to 1. Chance
Bingamen, Joe Fisher, and Trace Turner had great hits. Trace pitched the entire
game. They have a game Monday at Sonoran trails, so go support the team.
They’re off until after spring break.

Favorite Animated Cartoon

By: Kayla Martin and Paige Leuer
We asked Hillcrest students who their favorite animated cartoon is. This survey is between
SpongeBob, Spiderman, Batman, Kung Fu Panda, Transformers, or other.
Favorite Animated Cartoon
75
65
60
people

45
# of

# of
people
30
15
15 10
5 5
0 spongebob spiderman batman transformer other

cartoons
As you can see, SpongeBob is the best cartoon according to

the students at Hillcrest Middle School.

 Volume 1, Issue 9
Page 4

Things students like about their Exploratory Teachers

By: Kyle Allard, Layne Newman, and Ian Fugate

Kids from Mr. Harold’s newspaper class say that Mr. Harold doesn’t give a
lot of homework, and gives us free-time at the end of class. Others from Mr.
Hinrich’s drama class say that he is funny and awesome. Mrs. Parrino, who is a
computer class, got many compliments such as she is funny, nice, and fun to have
as a teacher. Mr. Hughens, the guitar teacher, got a compliment saying that he’s a
cool guy and he’s funny and nice. Kids from Mrs. Goodman’s art class say that she
is small and awesome. Students also think that Mrs. Asher’s Career Exploration
class is funny and cool. And kids from Ms. Sim’s music class said that she is a good
singer.

Favorite Food Survey

We asked 50 people at random what their favorite type of food is out of the following categories:

Chinese-19

Mexican-11

Seafood-10

American-5

Italian-5

As the results show Chinese food won and the results show the rest.
 Volume 1, Issue 9
Page 5

SPRING BREAK IN MEXICO!

By: Tyler McDaniel Jake Griffin and Cole Phillips

This spring break, millions of teenage and high school students will go
to Mexico. We interviewed hillcrest middle school students during 1st 2nd and 3rd
lunch seeing if they are going to Mexico or not. 56 out of 110 students are going
to Mexico for their 2009 spring break. This really surprised all of us when this
number came up. Many people have reserved their hotels and condos for this
break.

We hope that all students are careful and safe for this years spring break

By Jordan Garcia, Danielle Tabanico & Courtney Kenney

The 8th grade Hillcrest middle school softball girls just won there very first softball
game of the year on 3/2/09. They played against Deer Valley Middle School. In the first in-
ning the 1st 3 batters got on base then Jordan Garcia was up to bat and then Bam! The ball
was hit to right field and everyone is running Jordan is rounding third base and scores
and hits a grand slam. Then Rhycia Riley comes up and gets a double but Deer Valley
over throws it so it ends up being a homerun. So in the end the total score ended up being
16-1 Hillcrest. Also the last play of the game was when Rhycia did a front flip over the run-
ner at home plate to tag her out. Thursday 3/5/09 was Hillcrest 2nd victory of the season
so far. The score was 6 to 0 against Highland Lakes. The game was cut short because the
sprinklers went off but, it was still a win for Hillcrest. We had a fantastic catch by Rhycia
Riley. She did a front flip to catch a pop fly. Also a fantastic game pitched by Lauren Bren-
nan. Then there were back to back homeruns by Jordan Garcia and Rhycia Riley.

Future Games:

March 25th vs. Desert Arroyo home

March 30th Vs. Desert Sky away

April 1st Vs. Highland Lakes away

April 6th Vs. sonoran Trails away

April 8th Vs. Desert Arroyo Away

April 13th Vs. Desert Sky home

Then it’s Play offs

Comics by Tyler Milton and Tyler Griffith