Sturgis East Student Council Candidates 2013

By the Stormwatch Staff     

     On Thursday, May 30, during advisory, the freshman, sophomores, and juniors will be voting on their class representatives for the Sturgis East Student Council, or STUCO, for the 2013-2014 school year. These same grades will also be voting on a president-vice president pairing for student council next year, as well as STUCO's secretary and treasurer. Here is a breakdown of the student council candidates:

* The incoming freshman Class of 2017 will be holding their class representative elections in September.

2013 Sophomore Class Rep: 
Maura Coughlin
Katie Curran
Victor Dominatto
Holden Ramage

2013 Junior Class Rep:
Kevin Agostinelli
Matthew Cappucci

2013 Senior Class Rep:
Quinn Coughlin

2013 President-Vice President: 
Adam Bennani (Senior) - Kit Freddura (Senior)
Kaleigh Fallon (Senior) - Maggie Randall (Junior)
Meredith Sullivan (Senior) - Liam Prendergast (Junior)

2013 Secretary: 
Catherine Etienne (Senior)

2013 Treasurer: 
Laura Sirhal (Junior)

The following video features each candidate's campaign speech, in the following order:
Freshman Class Rep, Sophomore Class Rep, Junior Class Rep, Senior Class Rep, President-Vice President,  Secretary, Treasurer.
Here is the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsApPbX2jIM

Boys' Baseball State Game This Friday at Lowell Park

By Jacob Tobey, staff reporter  
 
With the fourth seed in the Division 4 state tournament, it was revealed on Tuesday that Sturgis East will face Westport on Friday, May 31, at 4:00, at the Storm’s hometown ballpark of Lowell Park in Cotuit. Come with friends and family to show school pride and support the Sturgis Storm in their quest to win the first state tournament game in school history!

If you can’t make it to the game or just want to listen to it, you can listen to the first-ever live broadcast of a sports game for Sturgis. I will be conducting the radio broadcast, and I will be joined by former Boston sports radio commentator and current history department director Jim Barasso, sophomore commentator Nick Goetz, and our sophomore producer Parth Patel. We will be using the website http://www.blogtalkradio.com/, so look for a specific link from this website to be posted on the front page of the Sturgis Charter School website, http://sturgischarterschool.org/, and on the front page of the Stormwatch website, http://sturgisstormwatch.blogspot.com/. 

Boys’ Baseball Completes Historical Regular Season

By Jacob Tobey, staff reporter

The Sturgis boys’ baseball team finished the 2013 regular season with a 13-3 record, the best record in Sturgis baseball history.

    On Wednesday, May 22, the Storm played their rivals Sturgis West for the third time this season.  After beating them 13-0 in their last game, it shockingly took ten innings to finish this one as East came out with a well-deserved 2-1 win. The game was characterized by an exciting pitcher’s duel between East junior Luke Chevalier and West junior Tom Cunning, both of whom pitched all ten innings, with Chevalier eventually emerging as the victor, recording a season-high 14 strikeouts.

    In the bottom of the seventh inning with a man on third, Tom Cunning hit a RBI single to tie the game up at one to send the game to extra innings. In the top of the tenth inning, sophomore Ryan Havey gave the Storm a 2-1 lead on a sacrifice fly with the bases loaded to drive in a run. Then, in the bottom of the tenth, with a runner on second base, Chevalier caught a line drive and threw it to second for the double play, ending the game and giving Sturgis East another impressive victory. Although East’s offense was really contained in this game, both Austin Taubert and Connor Bryant had two singles.

    The boys next played New Testament on Thursday, May 23. They won with the final score of 12-0, with Coach Levine sitting some of his starters, giving Kyle Garvey, Chevalier, and Havey a rest. Sophomore Cooper Gavin got his second start on the mound this season and struck out six. He was on his game against a poor New Testament lineup. With Havey getting the day off, junior Ryan Bracken got the start at second base and went 4-5 with two doubles, and senior first baseman Ben Duncan went 2-4 and scored twice.

    Several milestones were achieved during the 2013 season for the Storm.  Along with having the best record in Sturgis baseball history, another accomplishment was senior Kyle Garvey becoming the winningest pitcher in school history after attaining 8 wins. The third milestone was making the state tournament in back-to back years for the first time in Sturgis baseball history. This goes to show that Sturgis East sports are clearly on the rise and becoming more competitive.