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Flucos dominate at Destination Imagination BY NKECHI WOODSON, FLUVANNA COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL JOURNALISM PROGRAM Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be trapped inside a game of Cranium? What if you were surrounded with 2,000 people watching you compete in Cranium’s trivial competition? Well, that’s what it’s all about at Destination ImagiNation. According to the offi cial website, Destination ImagiNation “is an educational program in which student teams solve open-ended Challenges and present their solutions at Tournaments.” Each year, more than 125,000 students across America and in 30+ countries compete in the program, which runs November to March. And even though this is only the second year Fluvanna has participated in the event, its teams are already shooting to the top. Fluvanna sent nine teams this year to the regional competition on March 3, including two from the high school, two from the middle school, and fi ve elementary teams. Both high school teams and one elementary team scored well enough to go to the state competition, which will take place March 31 at Western Albemarle High School. The high school Hammmes team—consisting of FCHS students Stephanie Pellicane, Erin Morris, Morgan Baker, Maggie Benvenutti, Mary McGehee, Hannah Corbin, and Jelly Morris—took fi rst place in their team challenge. A second high school team, called Capillary Action, took second place in a different team challenge. Capillary Action members include FCHS students Olivia Staff, Jackie Cook, Michaela Kritzer, Brenden Otten, Kyle Day, Taylor Walters, and Heather Bomberger. On March 3, all of school teams in the region competed at Western Albemarle High School. For most teams, it was an all-day affair. “The competition was really long, SMARTER. BOLDER. FASTER S O L D LET US DO THE SAME FOR YOU! Welcome New Homeowers! “Thank You Keith and Yonna for all the hard work and time you have spent in selling our home at “The Acres”. 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Teams competed in an Instant Challenge, in which students are suddenly presented with a problem to solve and only have minutes to discuss it, come up with a plan, and perform their solution in front of judges. “It’s a lot of work and balancing,” said Erin Morris of the Hammmes team. Teams also present a category challenge which they’ve worked on for months. The Hammmes team chose the “Coming Attractions” challenge in which they had to create a live movie trailer with a soundtrack and special effects. The Capillary Action team took on the “Build It” challenge. It required building a structure to hold up to 350 Monticello Properties The Y.E.S. Team Keith B. Smith REALTOR® Cell: 434-531-0795 keithsmith011163@gmail.com A group of U-18 Travel Soccer players from Fluvanna capped off an undefeated season by winning the High School Division of the Richmond Indoor Soccer Experience (RISE) soccer league championship held Saturday March 10 at the RISE facility in Richmond. The Fluvanna team playing as the Flucos earned the top seed in the season ending tournament by going undefeated in the regular season with a 7-0-1 record pounds while other team members performed a skit. This is the second year the Capillary Action team has gone on to the state competition, and they also won the Global competition in Tennessee last May. As there are so few teams competing in their particular challenge, they already know they will once again go on to the Global Finals this May too. “We are starting much further ahead now with fundraising, because we don’t want to have to rely on the school district for funding [for the trip to Globals],” said Capillary Action team member Olivia Staff. “We’re planning on redoing some of our props from scratch if we have the time and funds so we can compete better at Globals,” she added. Nick Bianco, Brandon Eck, Sean Dean, Alex Williams, Cristian Franco; back: Kevin Williams (Coach) Dale Ludwig, Jake Domenic, Jake Bachman, Jake Dean, Riley Hicks Indoor soccer league champs against teams from the Richmond metro area. The Flucos faced off against a Powhatan team in the championship game. The Flucos claimed the championship with a hard fought come from behind 7-5 victory. Most of the Fluco players are on the Fluvanna High School team and will begin their spring season this week.
A look back at the last two great games BY DUNCAN NIXON CORRESPONDENT Flucos Fall to Cave Spring 76-59 in state semi-fi nals Over the past two seasons Coach Munro Rateau’s Flucos’ basketball team has piled up an impressive number of wins: 48 to be exact. Many, if not most, of those wins were by double digits. Very often, the Flucos’ opponents surely went to the locker room shaking their heads and saying “we just couldn’t stop that guy with the unusual fi rst name (i.e.YaYa Anderson.) Unfortunately, the tables were turned on the Flucos on Tuesday (Mar 6), as Cave Spring High School rode to victory behind 29 points by Amin Abuhawwas, their unstoppable star. For the second year in a row, the Flucos have fallen short of the state fi nals. However, as Coach Rateau noted in the post game interview, he told his team that it is the journey that counts. The Flucos had quite a journey this season. They started the season with only two returning starters: Ya Ya Anderson and Taylor Lintecum. These two were certainly a solid start. But, Coach Rateau faced a lot of unknowns after these two. He added two back-up players from last year: Jake Smith and Blake Hills, to his starting line-up, and then mixed in a number of players moving up from an outstanding junior varsity squad. Two of these were freshmen: Vinnie Agee and Jalen Harrison. This was generally regarded to be a team with raw talent and potential. However, a return to the state semi-fi nals did not appear to be very likely. As the season progressed, the players began to blend together much better and more easily than would have been expected. And, the victories started to pile up. The Flucos repeated as Jefferson District regular season champions. They failed for the second year in a row to win the Jefferson District playoffs. However, for the second year in a row they captured the Region II Division 3 title. For the second year in a row their season ended at the state semi-fi nals. They were 24-4 on the year. Not a bad journey at all. In their game with Cave Spring, the Flucos opened up strong. They led 14- 11 after the fi rst quarter, and scored the fi rst six points of the second quarter to go up by nine 20-11. Anderson had eight at this point and Cave Spring’s star guard had gone to the bench with two fouls. It looked like the Flucos might coast to the state fi nal. Unfortunately, the game turned completely around. Cave Spring brought its sharp shooter back in and he hit three consecutive three point shots. Meanwhile, Anderson uncharacteristically, got into foul trouble as he was called for charging three times on drives to the basket. Rateau had to sit Anderson out, and the Knights from Cave Spring took over the game in the third quarter. Cave Spring’s lead went from two points at half to seventeen after three quarters and the game was YaYa Anderson takes a shot in the March 6 semi-fi nal game at the Virginia Commonwealth University. Photo by Fluvanna Sports Photography, www.FluvannaPhotos.com essentially over. Anderson fouled out, for the fi rst time in his career with 4:46 left in the game, and the Flucos down by 12. The Flucos tried hard to rattle Cave Spring with a pressing defense, but the Knights handled the ball extremely well, and made only six turnovers all game. Therefore, the Flucos were unable to get their running game going and Cave Spring defended well against the Flucos set offense. Coach Rateau noted after the game that Anderson’s competitiveness showed right to the end as he fouled out trying to take a charge, rather than letting his opponent have a clear drive to the basket. The charge versus block call is the most diffi cult call in basketball. Unfortunately, in his fi nal game, Anderson was on the wrong end of this diffi cult call four times. Anderson fi nished his career with another 20 point game, and he had ten rebounds. Rateau’s team next year will miss Anderson, who will be playing for Radford University. However, with Agee and Harrison returning, Rateau will have the foundation for a very good team. Both of these freshmen scored in double digits in a tate semi-fi nal game. Agee had 15, including two three point shots in the fourth quarter as he led the way in a futile attempt to bring the Flucos back. Harrison had 13 including a thunderous, crowd pleasing, dunk. Both teams had large and enthusiastic student sections on hand at the Siegel Center in Richmond. In the post game conference, Rateau announced that he believes that Anderson became the all-time Fluco scoring leader during Regional play, with over 1,700 points for his career. He also lauded Anderson for being “another coach on the fl oor.” Anderson had a truly outstanding career as a Flying Fluco. Quarter fi nal game The Flucos outscored the Yellow Jackets of James Monroe High School 25-6 in the fourth quarter of their state quarterfi nal game On March 2 to win going away by a 75-58 score. The game was played at the Convocation Center arena at James Madison University in Harrisonburg. The Yellow Jackets were a serious opponent. They were 13-1 in their conference this year and had a 19-2 regular season record. With their win over the Yellow Jackets, the Flucos went to 24-3. After the game, Rateau lauded freshman guard Vinnie Agee for making back to back fast break baskets off steals early in the fourth quarter that “turned the game around.” James Monroe led by two after three quarters and they got the fi rst basket in the fourth quarter to go up 54-50. Fluco post player Taylor Lintecum made two free throws to make it 54-52. Agee, playing at the top of the Fluco zone, then made a steal and took the ball the length of the court for the tying basket. On the next James Madison possession, Agee harassed the Yellow Jackets point guard, forcing a weak pass that freshman post player Jalen Harrison stole, Harrison fed Agee for another fast break basket, and the Flucos were on a run. Senior post player Jake Smith followed with a lay-up, and Agee followed that basket with another steal and a coast to coast fast break basket, and the Flucos led 60-54. James Monroe was never able to recover. Senior guard Ya Ya Anderson hit his free throws as time wound down, as the Yellow Jackets had to foul to try to get back in the game. Coach Rateau started his team out playing a man to man defense, and James Monroe also started in a man to man defense. Problems immediately developed for both squads. James Monroe was totally unable to handle Anderson with a one on one defense. Anderson put up 15 points in the fi rst quarter, on one three pointer and a dazzling array of driving lay-ups. The Flucos led 24-18 after the fi rst quarter and it looked like Anderson might be on his way to another scoring record. Last year, in the state quarter fi nal at JMU he was unstoppable, scoring a record breaking 47 points. James Monroe was not going to let that happen, however. For the most of the rest of the game, they went to a 2-3 zone, that had everyone focused on Anderson. Meanwhile, the Flucos had some problems with their man to man as well. James Monroe had an impressive six foot nine inch center, Te’Quan Alers, who was causing some problems. Coach Rateau went to his zone to pack the defense in on Alers, to respond to some foul trouble, and most importantly “to get Vinnie, with his long arms, out on top.” The zone worked exceptionally well, especially in the fourth quarter. The Yellow Jackets center had 13 in the fi rst half, but the Flucos held him to two baskets in the entire second half. Anderson led the Flucos in scoring again with 25, including 7 of 9 in free throws. Agee followed with 19. Senior post player Jake Smith had 12, and senior post player Lintecum had 10. Rateau lauded Smith “for a great game,” Smith was primarily responsible for holding off the Yellow Jackets big man, who was fi ve inches taller. But, as Smith noted after the game “I like to play a physical game” After the game, Anderson noted that making free throws to protect a lead is what a team leader is expected to do. He has done just that for the last few games. March 15, 2012 | FLUVANNA REVIEW | 21
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