Theater Guild to compete in Festival tomorrow

Leah DeCecco, shown here in last year’s Almost Maine production, will once again perform in the scene, “Sad and Glad.” photo by Georgia Panagiotidis

By Georgia Panagiotidis, Veritas Managing Editor

The Rockland High School Theater Guild will be setting up stage for the High School Festival Preliminaries at Joseph Case High School in Swansea on March 1, 2014  at 5:30 pm.

Last year the RHS Theater Guild entered the competition sponsored by the Massachusetts Educational Theater Guild for the first time since the 90’s with the play “Lets Get Angsty” which was written and directed by former RHS student Joe Palana.

With the experience of last year the RHS Theater Guild hopes to push past the perliminaries phase and go onto the Semi-Final Round which would take place on March 15th. Mrs. Armstrong, RHS Theater Guild advisor explained the value of last year’s experience. “We learned a bunch and are better off this year,” she said.

There will be 112 schools competing in fourteen different locations throughout the state.  In Swansea Rockland will be competing against Acton-Boxborough, Hingham, Joseph Case and four other schools. Mrs. Armstrong said, “Joseph Case was amazing last year. We are looking forward to seeing their performance.”

Mrs. Armstrong  explained that this year RHS will be performing four scenes from  Almost Maine, one of last year’s Theater Guild productions. She said, “I am hoping to do well, but the point is to learn and have fun.” She also explained that she hopes the students will take away a sense of camaraderie, the skills of teamwork, and self pride” because the scenes are completely student driven.

The scenes will include: “Sad and Glad,” directed by Pearse McNally with Chris Catania, Ella Engle and Leah DeCecco; “This Hurts,” directed by Chris Catania with Sean Vo and Jace Williams; “They Fell” directed by PJ Butler with Pearse McNally and Markus Rohwetter  and “Story of Hope,” directed by Nicole Cook with PJ Butler and Lauren Illes.

Tickets  will be available at the door of Joseph Case High School in Swansea for $10. Break a leg!

For more information you can go to the Mass Festival website at http://metg.org/festival/h-s-festival/high-school-festival-preliminaries-2014/

 

Hockey team continues their tournament down in Bourne on Sunday

By Alex Peppino, Veritas Sports Editor

The hockey team won their first tournament game 6-1 against Bourne at the Rockland Rink on Tuesday night. Shawn Kane scored 5 of the goals followed by Shane Murray with the final goal. Tim Daggett assisted on two of the goals.

Now with a great start into the tournament, they will play Diman Regional from Fall River on Sunday March 2nd at Bourne at 4:45 pm.

Click on this link to get the MIAA pairings.

Shawn Kane fires a shot.

Shawn Kane scores one of his five goals against Dennis Yarmouth. photos by Kelley Reale

Kyra Rose and Matt Nicholson named Players of the Year in South Shore League

At the recent basketball all-star meetings, the coaches of the girls and boys basketball teams in the South Shore League chose two Rockland High School players as Players of the Year! Congratulations to Kyra Rose and to Matt Nicholson.

Coach Mitchell said Kyra’s accomplishment is awesome. She explained, “The girls team hasn’t had a player of the year since 2000 and the fact that she’s a sophomore shows great potential.”

Both Matt and Kyra will be leading their teams into the Division 3 South tournaments starting tonight with the boys and tomorrow with the girls at home. Both games begin at 6:30.

Basketball players, Kyra Rose and Matt Nicholson were selected as Players of the Year in the South Shore League.

SAT class for juniors

Registration for an SAT prep class is available for juniors at RHS who will be taking the SAT’s this spring.

The deadline to sign up for the eight week class is this Friday, Feb. 28.

Click on this link to read Dr. Cron’s letter to students, parents and guardians about this course offered at RHS.

Attached is the SAT class application form: SAT Prep flyer

 

Boys basketball team honors senior players and cheerleaders

Last week the boys basketball team held its annual Senior Night before their game with East Bridgewater.  The senior players and the senior cheerleaders were recognized for their dedication to RHS! Photos by Kelley Reale.

Billy Brady and his parents

Gerard Saucier with his parents

Jake Burns with his parents

Matt Nicholson with his mom and dad.

Erik Arias with his family

Luke Quersher with his mom and brother.

Kate Sullivan, Haley Reardon and Sarah Fitzgerald

Steve Gauthier with his parents

Girls Basketball Seniors Honored

At Wednesday’s final regular season home game the senior members of the girls basketball team were recognized. They include Ally Cerrato, a four year varsity player, Sami Murray, a four year member of the program and Georgia Panagiotidis, manager of the team this year.

Congratulations to these senior girls basketball players.

Senior Ally Cerrato (left) with her mom and grandmother, Georgia Panagiotidis (center) and Sami Murray with her mother and father were recognized by Coach Diana Mitchell at the girls last regular season home game.

Senior Hockey Salute

Congratulations to the senior hockey players who played their last regular season hockey game yesterday and beat Mashpee 10-0.  Wow!!

Senior hockey players: Nick DeMarco, Shawn Kane, Andy Reardon, Tim Daggett, Nick Kinlin and Trevor Trudeau at the Rockland Rink. Photo by Kelley Reale