Fourth graders carved pumpkins with their first-grade book buddies on Monday morning! They had a great time designing the perfect spooky or cute faces for their pumpkins! Fourth graders made it educational and fun by practicing counting skills. The pairs counted pumpkin seeds by separating them in groups and counting by odd numbers, even numbers, fives and tens! Mixing grade levels teaches leadership, following directions, sharing, and allows more practice for skills both first and fourth graders need every day!
High School held a Homeroom Halloween decorating challenge! A celebrity panel of judges have tallied their votes and the results are in! Our Celebrity Guest Judges comprised of Mr. Johnson, Deputy J and Coach Red/Mr. J McGill had their hands full selecting from 6 Halloween decorated homerooms. It was an epic battle this year between our top 2 performing rooms. Our top 2 rooms delivered on the WOW factor with lights, décor, acting and thrills, but when the votes were cast there could only be one overall winner. This year’s grand champion Halloween Homeroom is ….Mrs. Arnold with her spooky cast and Haunted Mansion. In second place by only a few points is Mr. Cotrell’s Homeroom which featured epic lights, perfect music and on-point dancing. The competition rounded out with Mrs. Robert’s room in 3rd with excellent use of resources, Mrs. Spencer’s room in 4th, Mrs. Harmon’s room in 5th and in typical fashion, honorable mention goes to Mr. Lynxwiler’s homeroom. In the spirit of Fall Fun, Key Club will provide a full dessert party to Mrs. Arnold’s HR and consolation prizes will be delivered to Cotrell and Roberts for their valiant efforts. Thanks for everyone for participating.
Our Kindergarten and first graders had so much fun at their harvest parties on Friday. We are thankful for so many parents that took the time to organize, donate, and attend the parties for our students!
We have the best school counselors! Students were excited to see them dressed to impress this morning! How fun!
Youth basketball registration is now open through November 12th. Little Dribblers and youth registration should follow directions on the flyer below for more information.
It was another great weekend to be a Tiger!
Thursday: Girls Soccer team won the District Title! They are 19-0 and will play tomorrow night (Tuesday) at 7pm at Loveland HS against Mariemont in the regional semi-final game.
Friday: The football team defeated Valley HS in the first round of the state playoffs and raised their record to 10-1. For the first time in school history, the Tigers secured hosting the second-round playoff game at home game this Friday against Tri-Village.
Saturday: For the very first time in school history, both our Girls Cross Country Team AND our Boys Cross Country Team won the REGIONAL TITLE in Troy. This year marks the 13th trip to state for our girls program and the 22nd trip to state for the boys program. Both teams will compete at the State Meet on Saturday at Fortress Obetz in Columbus. Our girls will run at 10am and our boys at 10:45am.
Also on Saturday, the cheerleaders competed at the OHC Cheer Competition at Mechanicsburg High School! Alaina Irving received OHC Honorable Mention and won the highest-level tumbling division against OHC North and South!
Be sure to congratulate our athletes and coaches and wish them well this week!
High School students in Pages, had their first visit this month with Wexner Center for the Arts Artist in Residence, Maggie Smith. Maggie is an Ohio Poet, with several anthologies published, including the book 'Good Bones'.
Maggie briefly explained her life as a working writer, as well as her personal creative process. Later in the session, Maggie gave various writing prompts for students to work on and develop after today's meeting. Pages students will eventually work with Maggie again when they visit OSU's Wexner Center in November.
Contact Morgan Sullivan for more information! Practices start soon!
The All District volleyball team has been announced! Congratulations to Bailey Poppe, Olivia Wilcox, Ava Poppe, Naomi Cole, and Division 3 D9 Coach of the Year, Annie Kauffman!
The West Liberty-Salem Tiger Cheerleaders will compete in the OHC Cheer Competition tomorrow at Mechanicsburg High School. Our Cheerleaders will take the mat right at 11:30 am. Come out and support them and cheer loud! Good luck, ladies!
We spotted a lot of Tigers helping at the annual Spooktacular last evening!
The West Liberty-Salem Tigers host the first home playoff game tomorrow night at Tiger Stadium. There is a $5.00 cash only fee for parking Tickets for the game can be purchased online at OHSAA.com or at the gate.
West Liberty-Salem students enrolled in Physics through Edison State built an awesome water rocket as a part of their unit on Newton’s Law and Friction! Mrs. Brandie Roberts, who also teaches high school physical science, assisted her class in a successful launch on Friday morning! They spent several days building the rocket followed by a test launch, and ultimately very successful final launch. Students were required to use an astroblade and calculus to determine the height of the rocket in several different launches. This interdisciplinary approach that combines math and science allowed students to understand how a scientist uses more than one area of study in a single experiment. The class also developed a t-shirt launch earlier this year that was used at our Pink Out game to launch several shirts to our fans! Keep up the great work!!
Our Ag Science students cut and cleaned more than 75 pumpkins for the Village Spooktacular tomorrow. Children are invited to enjoy carving pumpkins at the event, and the help from our students will let them concentrate on their designs! Thanks for all your help, students!
Congratulations to Bailey Poppe, OHC Player of the Year! And congratulations to our All OHC 1st snd 2nd team All Conference players Bailey Poppe, Olivia Wilcox, Ava Poppe, and Naomi Cole!
The West Liberty-Salem girls soccer team will continue their historical season on Thursday, October 26 at Doug Adams Stadium at 506 Dayton Ave., Xenia at 7:00 PM. There will be a $5 charge for parking at the event. Tickets can be purchased online at https://www.ohsaa.org/tickets. We are D3, then search for ‘West Liberty-Salem’ to purchase your tickets. Tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for students online, or $10 cash at the gate. Photo credit: John Coffman
The West Liberty-Salem girls cross country team won its seventh consecutive DIII Southwest District title Saturday at Cedarville University. The Big Orange currently ranked #3 in the OATCCC State Coaches poll held off #2 ranked Ft. Loramie and #10 ranked Botkins for the win.
Team Scores: 1st WLS 62, 2nd Botkins 71, 3rd Ft. Loramie 81, 4th Versailles 155, 5th Brookville 183, 6th Cedarville 193, 7th Covington 214, 8th Milton Union 230, 9th Anna 250, 10th Russia 253, 11th Mississinawa Valley 300, 12th Franklin Monroe 317, 13th Troy Christian 325, 14th Legacy Christian 345, 15th Ansonia 407, 16th Fairlawn 417, 17th Lehman Catholic 481, 18th Bethel 509, 19th Yellow Springs 510, 20th Houston 511
Malia Miller led the Big Orange placing 4th overall with a career PR of 19:16.6. The Big Orange went on to place three more runners in the top 15 with Ashley Yoder placing 11th (20:02.78), Breece Gullett 12th (20:04.64), Addison McAuley 14th (20:16.32). Placing in the top 25 were Hattie Jacobs 21st in a career PR of 20:54.21 and Gwen McCullough 25th (21:05.56). Mallory Bostick rounded out the WLS placers in 41st (22:11.90).
"Coming into the race, we knew we had to run smart and disciplined against two of the best teams in the state," said WLS head coach, Ann Vogel. "I really liked how we stuck to our race plan and didn't get drawn out too early. The girls were focused and showed a lot of determination in the second half of their race."
WLS will compete at the DIII SW Troy Regional next Saturday at 10:00 a.m.
Carter Titus and Tommi Payne were treated to the Logan County Kiwanis hosts the Senior of the Month Luncheon on Thursday. They enjoyed lunch at The Syndicate where they provide boxed lunches for all Logan County Senior of the Month recipients. Students get to see how Kiwanis runs their meetings from start to finish while being recognized. Kiwanis is the parent organization to Key Club, and Carter is this year’s Key Club president.
What a weekend for our Tigers! WL-S experienced a number of successes this weekend.
Starting last Thursday night: Our OHC Champion and #1 seed Girls Soccer team defeated Shawnee 8-0 in tournament play. They will play again today (Monday) against Dayton Christian at Ben Logan HS at 7pm.
On Friday night, our Football team defeated Fairbanks 55-0 to finish the regular season 9-1 and they secured a share of the OHC Title. They will host Valley HS this Friday in the first round of the OHSAA Football Playoffs. In addition to cheering at the game this coming Friday, our Cheer Squad will also be competing at the OHC Cheer Competition this coming Saturday.
On Saturday, our OHC Champion Girls Cross Country Team won the District Meet for the 7th year in a row. They will run at Regionals on Saturday at Troy HS at 10am and will compete for a chance to go back to the state meet.
On Saturday, our OHC Champion Boys Cross Country Team won the District Meet for the 2nd year in a row. They will run at Regionals on Saturday at Troy HS at 10:45am and are also looking to qualify for state.
Also on Saturday, our #1 seed Volleyball Team beat Preble Shawnee in 3 sets. They play again today (Monday) at 7:30 at Brookville HS versus Archbishop Alter.
Also on Saturday, our Boys Soccer Team travelled to Dixie and won their 2nd tournament game of the post-season, defeating Dixie 2-1. They will play Troy Christian on Tuesday night at Troy Christian at 7pm.
And finally, last night, our Marching Band with Flag Corps and Majorettes put on an outstanding performance here at Tiger Stadium in front of a great crowd of supporters.
One byproduct of having outstanding sports teams and experiencing post-season success is the many opportunities we have to go out and support them. As a reminder, all competitions are OHSAA tournament games – including the home football game on Friday. No sports passes will work. All tickets can be purchased online via the OHSAA website. There will also be a cash option at the gate. Please consider attending games this week to cheer on your friends and classmates.
Ticket purchase:
https://www.ohsaa.org/tickets?mibextid=S66gvF
Go Tigers!!
