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The Dart "All the news that is fitting and to the ." Volume XIII, Issue II Winter 2013-2014

Red Sox Preview from the younger players. I expect Felix By Patrick DuFour Doubrant to have a breakout season and become After defeating the St. Louis Cardinals a future ace for the Sox. The Red Sox should in the , the Sox are faced with a win 93 games and have a shot at the World difficult challenge of defending their title. As Series. This will only happen if players can stay puts it, “People say, well, how are healthy, specifically the starting pitching. If you going to defend [the title]? I don’t look at it can start over 20 games, the Red as defending; we have to go get it again. And Sox will have an incredible season. Large that’s a drastically different mindset.” John expectations loom over the 2014 Red Sox, Farrell doesn’t want the team’s focus to waver; opposite of a year ago. As we saw last year, he wants them to continue to put hard work in. anything can happen. The Red Sox had a relatively calm offseason.

The departures of , Jarrod

Saltalamacchia, and maybe Stephen Drew are damaging, but controllable. was able to bring in AJ Pierzynski, Grady Sizemore, and Edward Mujica. By re-signing , the Red Sox kept a great power hitter in the lineup. My projected starters for 2014 are as BC Hockey Trip follows: Gomes in left, Victorino in , By Will Fox and Henry DeMatteo Nava in right, Middlebrooks at third, Bogaerts On January 10, 2013, seventh and eighth at short, Pedroia at second, and Napoli at first. grade students piled into two buses to attend a Catchers will vary, based on who is pitching on Boston College vs. Providence men’s hockey both sides and maybe on the emergence of game. The bus ride was a good time for young Ryan Lavarnway. The 2014 Sox have a everyone, and all were excited for the game. BC much deeper bullpen and will see more action came into the game as the number two team in

the country. Providence was ranked fifth, so it was planet. The planetarium was a great way for the kids likely to be a great game. to relax and learn. Next, they took on a space The group of Arrows sat in section KK, mission to land a shuttle on Mars. Each person was which didn’t have the greatest seats ever. However, assigned a different task and was able to talk on a all attending were still into the game. The majority headset with people on the shuttle. The launch and of the Arrows were rooting for the Eagles, while a landings were successful. The Challenger Space few decided to cheer for the Friars. Museum was ultimately a great way for them to BC started off the game with an easy learn out of the classroom and get to know each from their dominant first line, consisting of Billy other even better. Arnold, Johnny Hockey, and Kevin Hayes. Providence answered with a goal in the first period. Each team notched another goal in the second period. It was all tied up entering the third period.

BC’s dominant five goals per game average came alive during the third period. Scoring two goals moderately easily, they sealed the game with an empty-net goal by senior Kevin Hayes. The hockey trip was a great time for everyone because we got to see the best men’s hockey team in the United States Olympic Hockey By Jack Moffatt and Marty White country. We also bonded as a class throughout the The Sochi Olympics were packed with experience. The trip will definitely be a highlight of energizing events, but the hockey tournament was the school year! by far the most exciting. The Russian team came

into this tournament with high expectations both

because they had a high powered offense and

because they were the home team. The Russia

versus America preliminary game was a real thrill. Challenger Trip By J.P. Milbury The Russians got on the board first with a second Recently the seventh grade had the privilege period Pavel Datsuyk goal that excited the Russian of visiting the Challenger Space Museum in fans. Then on an American power play, Cam Framingham. The interactive challenges made the Fowler of the Anaheim Ducks ripped an absolutely trip a wonderful experience for all who attended. beautiful shot from the point to beat Bobrovsky low First, the boys had the opportunity to enjoy the to the glove side. Later on in the third period, planetarium that the museum had to offer. They Patrick Kane made a beautiful saucer pass across watched a movie, which went into detail about each the crease to a streaking Joe Pavelski, who made no

2 mistake, burying the puck deep in the net. It was Olympic Issues By Jack Moffatt and Drew Dorsey now 2-1 in favor of the USA. The Russian fans The Olympics ended this past Sunday, and were silenced, shocked, and disappointed, but not all the great memories are written into the history for long. Pavel Datsuyk of the Detroit Red Wings books. However, just before the Twenty-Second scored the equalizer to lock the game at 2. The Olympic Winter Games began, there were some Russian bench and crowd soon exploded in joy at major concerns. Zdeno Chara, the Boston Bruins what they thought was their winning goal. But Captain and Slovakian flag bearer, had a room with because of international rules, the goal was a bed that was too short for him. To make up for it, disallowed since a goalpost was dislodged, though officials had to put a footstool at the end of his bed. only by a tiny bit. The game stayed tied at 2-2 for This was definitely an issue for the six foot, nine the remaining time left in regulation and through a inch defenseman, but it was not life threatening. five-minute four on four sudden death overtime. United States bobsledder, Johnny Quinn The game then went on to a complicated shootout. found himself trapped in his hotel bathroom while In the first three rounds the teams had to vary their in Sochi. He had no cell phone and no way to reach shooters. USA chose T.J. Oshie, Joe Pavelski, and anybody. His attempts to alert his teammates were Phil Kessel. After the first three rounds, the to no avail. Eventually he just started pounding on shootout was tied 1-1. Then the shootout got crazy. the door until he saw daylight. After the incident, T.J. Oshie took five consecutive shots, capping the Quinn tweeted, “With no phone to call for help, I game off with a five hole goal that shook the used my bobsled push training to break out. Olympics. The Russians didn’t come to play against #SochiJailBreak.” Overall the Sochi Olympics were the Norwegians with elimination at stake. This was a success, but they still had more than their fair a shocking upset and put the Russian hockey fans in share of problems. a bad mood for the rest of the tournament. In the semi-finals, the United States team went up against

Canada after their women counterparts had lost to

Canada in the Gold Medal game. Canada scored a goal and the Americans never came back. After this shutout, the Americans went to the Bronze Medal game and had their worst performance of the tournament. Going into the third period, they were The Boston Bruins down 2-0. They never came back and were By Michael Dailey and Devlin McCool humiliated in their 5-0 loss. Canada beat Sweden in The Boston Bruins are headed into the the final game 3-0, finishing their Gold Medal run. Olympic break in first place in the Atlantic Although there were many great moments, the Division. They have a safe lead seven points ahead American and Russian teams went home unhappy. of the Tampa Bay Lighting. Although they are first

3 in the Atlantic Division, the Bruins are seventh in team since the 2006-2007 season, so most Bruins the league. Boston is behind the Colorado fans are happy that he is finally getting his chance Avalanche by one point, and behind the San Jose to be named the starting goaltender. Along with Sharks by two points. Their first game back from Rask, the Bruins acquired goaltender Chad Johnson, the Olympics is against the last place Buffalo who has been great so far this season. If the Bruins Sabres. It is an expected win considering the Bruins can keep up their performance, they will surely earn have as many losses as the Sabres do wins. The a spot in the playoffs and hopefully make it to the Bruins Captain Zdeno Chara is in his first game finals once again. back from missing two games before the break for the flag for Slovakia. His physical presence will help the Bruins greatly. They are missing Dennis Seidenberg, Adam McQuaid, and Dougie Hamilton, so they need a fresh defenseman to fill their roster space. The Bruins’ forwards consist of many great players including Patrice Bergeron, Loui Eriksson, and David Krejci who all represented their countries in the Olympics. Patrice Bergeron won a gold What a Season By Peter Julien medal with Team Canada, Loui Eriksson earned a silver medal with Team Sweden, and David Krejci All the kids on Fourth Basketball waited participated. The Bruins have 176 goals on the anxiously for the season to start. Once that day season so far, leading the Atlantic division by eight came, hype filled the air, and we hit the court with goals. The Bruins have a tough schedule coming up, high confidence, our first game against BB&N just and the team has a few players who are recovering days away. Though behind in the closing minutes, from injuries, so hopefully they will play well with we were able to bring home the victory with the the players that are healthy now, and the injured help of Johnny Stankard’s late game free throws. players are back on the ice soon. Our next big achievement occurred in the Roxbury Ever since the Bruins lost Tim Thomas, who Latin tournament. We all had high expectations led the team to a Stanley though we were matched with Belmont Hill and Cup victory in 2011, Catholic Memorial in our bracket. After fighting Tuukka Rask has stepped through a double-overtime game, we won our up to the starting position bracket, advancing to the championship game. and has been a solid Though the championship game wasn’t much of a goaltender so far. Tuukka challenge as we beat Nobles 29-8, we took home Rask has been with the the plaque and bragging rights. More nail-biters

4 came with our games against Thayer and BC High, 6-4 win over Thayer. We were impressed with the but we brought back the victories. We had another new players this year as well as with those who close game at Roxbury Latin where we suffered a returned. Building upon our major improvements heartbreaking loss. In our last home game, we had this year, we should be ready to shoot for an to face RL once again. Looking for revenge, we undefeated season next year. won a hard-fought victory. Though we did suffer losses to Nobles, Dexter, and Thayer afterwards, we ended the season with a strong record of 13-4.

Fifth Basketball By Billy Seidl, Griffin Wagner, Nate Kocho

This year the Seventh Grade Basketball Fourth Hockey Strikes Again! By Tim Kiley, Tomas O’Brien, and Jack Kerwin Team had a large roster with seventeen players. The Fourth Hockey, arguably the best group of season consisted of ten games and many tiring, eighth grade hockey players to lace up the boots and grueling practices. The season started off with a toss on the buckets, finished with a solid 3-7-1 blow-out win against BB&N. After that game the record. Some might say this isn’t a successful team thought that the season would be a breeze. Our record, but compared to last year, we improved an thoughts were quickly changed when we took our incredible amount. In the first game, we opened up talents to Belmont Hill. We faced stiff competition with Fessenden. Last year, we played the Fessenden and good basketball players. The game was tied at JV team and won 6-0. But this year, playing their the half. We kept pounding and playing hard until varsity team, we came up two goals short, losing 3- the buzzer sounded and the scoreboard was not in 1 with an empty net goal. Every game we played our favor. We lost by three points. Later in the was close, and everyone worked hard. It was a fun season we faced Fessenden for the second time. We season and we had two great coaches, Mr. Thomas were down by nine when Billy Seidl and Connor and Mr. Weihman. We had four over-time games Bertsch made some clutch shots with time ticking during the season, and sadly we came away with a away. With eight seconds left we inbounded the 1-1-2 record. If a couple of pucks bounced our way, ball to John Farley, who quickly passed to Will without a doubt, multiple “clapbombs” would have Frisoli. Will got the ball and immediately shot from been ripped “where mama hides the cookies.” We the three-point line, draining a bank shot. The whole wrapped up the season on a high note with our solid bench went crazy, and Fessenden was shocked and

5 didn’t know what hit them. The was Eighth Grade Team, but with goals from James definitely the highlight of the season. With the Donovan, Trevor Martin, Alex Cherry, James season coming to an end, we were matched up Davenport, and Riley Hughes as well as a lights out against the same Belmont Hill team once again. goaltending performance by Jack Moffatt, we This time we played at home, and the team would prevailed. The next game against Catholic not let Belmont Hill slip away with a win. We Memorial was played in their barn, Roche Arena. played a great game, winning by twelve points. This game did not turn out as we hoped. They Overall the team had a great season and learned lots jumped to a quick 5-0 lead, and the game ended in a of new techniques and strategies from Coaches 6-2 loss. The highlight of that evening, however, Albertson and Keefe. was Mr. Foley saucing out a McDonalds post game trip after hours in the parking lot. We ended the season in style with a commanding win over Belmont Hill. We had them scrambling from the start after a first shot goal by Alex Cherry. Other

highlights included Peter Blake’s “filthy”

breakaway goal and Robert Lapsley’s “bar down

snipe.” We won 8-1, our shut out obliterated with Seventh Grade Hockey just minutes left. It felt great to end the season by By Drew Dorsey, Jack Moffatt, and Robert Lapsley sweeping our rivals Belmont Hill. From post game The Seventh Grade Hockey Team started off snacks to “sniping genos,” it was a great year. their season with a commanding win over the

Winchester Wolf Pack. That momentum carried over to the next week’s game against archrival

Belmont Hill. We didn’t know what kind of team they had, but in our first meeting with them we pulled out an 8-4 win. The next game against Duxbury was an evenly fought battle. It was a back Fourth Wrestling By Chris Sebastian, Patrick Ryan, and forth game with both teams never giving up. In and Henry DeMatteo the end we squeaked out a 6-4 victory. We then had This year there were six athletes, all eighth to defend home territory from the infamous graders, on the Fourth Wrestling Team. They were Belmont Hill School. Our second game against the Patrick Ryan, Chris Sebastian, Henry DeMatteo, Hill resulted in our second straight win over them. Finn Mulligan, AJ Santosuosso, and Thomas Olson, Our clear cut best game of the year was our first Thomas being the only one new to the sport. game against Catholic Memorial. We came into the The team was limited to only one regular game as the underdog, for they had beaten our practice a week because other teams took up the

6 small gym during our scheduled Thursday practice. without two of our star skiers, Reid Walsh and The great pair of coaches, Mr. McCarthy and Mr. Henry Finnegan, the start of a dynasty and tradition Carr, helped the team improve their technique and had begun at St. Sebastian’s. Our JV team consisted increase their wrestling awareness and skills. The of seventh graders Jack Dumouchel and Ted Duffy; short practices consisted of learning new moves, they were joined by freshman Sam Cullen at the playing competitive games, and conditioning at the beginning of the year, but when he was unable to end. The six wrestlers continued to have fun, try continue, we had to pull down sophomore Matt new moves, and become more disciplined. Aisenberg from the Varsity. The Varsity Team Everyone improved as the season progressed, and consisted of two eighth graders, Peter Murphy and almost everyone had at least one win. It was Reid Walsh and upperclassmen Luke Jones, Jack difficult to compete with other teams that practiced Brugger, Seve Mustone, Doyle Silvia, Henry every day, but the six wrestlers continued to work Finnegan, and Richard Arms. Our Monday hard and fight and occasionally prevail. practices were, though grueling, great for team The team was disappointed when no seventh bonding and had many benefits for some of our graders joined, but they are hopeful that some newer skiers just starting to race. By the end of our decide to join next year because the group will be regular season, we had begun to look like a team. moving up to the high school team. If you are The season seemed very short, and some of our interested in joining wrestling, you are invited to members were really pulling their mechanics of come and participate. It is a great time with racing in and putting all that they had learned into Coaches McCarthy and Carr, and you will become a their racing, especially the two seventh graders, better athlete and be in better shape. Jack Dumouchel and Ted Duffy, who had been climbing up the pole of JV standings. Next thing we knew, the short but sweet regular season was over,

and the Varsity was on their way up to Mount

Sunapee where the NEPSAC Championship was

being held. They had four races at Sunapee

consisting of two slalom and giant slalom races.

The team was able to have three top ten finishes in

slalom and two top ten finishes in giant slalom. This

was enough for the team to clinch the NEPSAC Skiing Champs By Peter Murphy championship. But this wasn’t the end of it. After The Ski Team, led by Captains Richard the race there were multiple placing mistakes that Arms and Henry Finnegan, may have initially made it appear that we had not won the looked weak to some. However, although we felt championship; instead Salisbury mistakenly had like underdogs at the beginning of the year, being been deemed the winner! Our racers were

7 devastated and confused, but with the combined and evenings when we practiced there and also were efforts of Ms. Rynne and our two senior captains, grateful for their hospitality following our last the scoring problems were uncovered, and St. match with them. Finally, we want to thank our Sebastian’s took home the trophy. This was the first coaches, Mr. Moore and Mr. Brown, for their NEPSAC Skiing Championship in our school’s leadership. history. We never thought that we could do it, but through hard work and concentration at the hill, we were victorious!

NHL Playoff Predictions By Jake Milbury The Western Conference has been

dominating the league for the entire season. The

Anaheim Ducks currently are leading the way with

91 points. While the Bruins are ten points behind the league leader, they are second in the East to the Squash By Mac Fotiades Pittsburgh Penguins. The Eastern Conference looks The St. Sebastian’s squash season was as if it will continue to be a tight race for the wild overall very successful. We had some great matches card spots, but I think the Stars and Wild will and some not so great. We had a great outing when maintain those Western wild card spots till the end. we traveled to the Brooks School. We played their In the East the two wild cards are the Leafs and JV squad. All of the matches came down to the Wings, but the struggling Wings continue to get wire. One notable match pitted Mario Oliva against smacked with injuries, and it will be tough to keep a tenth grader. They went back and forth scoring that last spot with Washington and Columbus right points. The first game went to the Brooks player. behind them. In the West the heavy favorites look to Then the second game was won handily by Mario be the Blues and Ducks, and with the newly 11-7. Taking the next two games, Mario pulled out acquired Ryan Miller and Steve Ott, the Blues’ a nice win. A not so great memory was created after chances seem to be even better. In my opinion the our long trek to Milton Academy where we ran into Ducks and Blues will face-off in the Western a much stronger team. One of their players, a Conference final, and the Blues will win in six. In freshman girl, had a beautiful stroke when hitting the East the Capitals look as though they will take the ball, her match catching the attention of both Detroit out of the picture and play the Penguins in teams. Though she dropped the first game to one of the first round. For the Bruins to have a long run in our younger players, she grabbed the next three, the playoffs, Cam Neely and Peter Chiarelli need to winning all but three points. We appreciated find a stud defenseman that can sauce one upstairs Nobles sharing their courts with us on the mornings with Zdeno Chara on the point. If they can find this

8 player, the Bruins may score enough genos to find playing in the southern Florida area. This team, the themselves competing for the Cup once more. , is expected to play in the football However, if they can’t complete this task, the East stadium of Florida Atlantic University, which can will be very interesting to watch. Recently the seat a crowd of anywhere between two to ten Rangers, who were beaten by Boston, beat thousand people very handily. Montreal, and Montreal demolished Boston. Tampa The Launch, who have to start building their could possibly be successful with Stamkos making roster from the ground up, were able to pick up a return that has been anticipated by everyone in the some very players that should help them this league. If he comes back to be his old self, Tampa year. These players are Kieran McArdle of St. could be a legitimate contender. No matter who John’s University, who is one of the most talented comes out of the East, I believe the Blues will be players in college , and the grizzled veteran raising the Cup at the end of the year. goalkeeper Brett Queener, who is in his sixth MLL season and has won two championships. The Florida Launch should help spread the game and make kids in non lacrosse-oriented areas help pick up the sport and learn why it’s the fastest game on two feet. Lacrosse will one day be one of the Launch Lacrosse biggest sports in the United States and in the world. By Alex Gainey

Until about five years ago, when you mentioned the sport of lacrosse, people would look at you with blank faces. Now, in our modern day, you can find lacrosse players all over the country and lacrosse being broadcasted on TV. and there Rube Goldberg even is a professional league. There are kids in By Marty White and Will Fox almost every state that play lacrosse. There are over Though lacking in members and in meeting four hundred teams in the United time, the Rube Goldberg team had a lot of fun and States alone. Lacrosse has grown all over the world enjoyed a great learning experience. We had three to the point that they have their own world games members- Marty White, Will Fox, and Jack Leetch- that include countries from Canada to Uganda to who worked hard to make a great machine. Rube Thailand. Goldberg is a club that builds a very complicated This professional league, Major League machine to accomplish a simple task. Our task this Lacrosse, has grown from four teams to nine and year was to squeeze a centimeter of toothpaste onto plays a sixteen game schedule. It has teams all over a tooth brush. Building a great machine requires the country, from Boston to Denver, and as of this great creativity and a strong work ethic which the upcoming season, an expansion team will begin team members possessed. Due to snow days and an

9 already tight schedule, we were not able to meet as Marty White, watch a play performed by Jack often as we would have liked. Our final machine Goldman and Will Hentschel. The elderly will be showcased on March 11 in the rotunda. threesome, especially Louis, played by Marty, Come check it out and consider joining the team constantly interrupt the actors as Will Hentschel next year! struggles to propose to his “girlfriend” Jack Goldman. With their perfect timing and hilarious interjections, the older people kept the audience

laughing. Finally, Richard, played by Hentschel,

cracks and insists that the trio leave the theater

“immediately.” Not long afterward, however, Louis

returns to retrieve his cane. Richard storms off and

Jack Goldman follows. Winter Play If you were unable to attend, you really By Patrick Ryan and Marty White missed out on two great performances. The two This year’s winter play was a great success. funny skits accompanied the play “On the Same Five seventh, eighth, and ninth graders, Patrick Page,” written and directed by Jack Goldman. If Barron, Will Hentschel, Marty White, Patrick Ryan, you are interested in acting next time, you should and Andrew Elcock, were joined by Jack Goldman really consider joining the Drama Club. in their play, which consisted of two separate skits, both involving a play within a play. They were directed by CJ Santosuosso and Mac Morris. With their ingenuity and ideas, we were able to develop the skits to make them funnier. Unbeatable Book Review In the first skit, the two Patricks star as two By Patrick DuFour American men acting like British men in a play Once a year, one Division I college football where everything goes wrong. The director of the team raises a trophy. The 1988 Notre Dame “play” becomes very angry every time someone Football team stands out from those teams. In order forgets his lines or when the drunken man in the to properly tell the story of the 1988 season, the tech booth randomly plays incorrect sound effects. author describes the preceding seasons. Reaching as Two lesser characters in the skit are an upper class far back as 1977, the book tells the story of coaches woman played by Marty White and a private to be, Gerry Faust and Lou Holtz. While Gerry investigator played by Will Hentschel. A special Faust seems to play a minor role in the book, some shout out should be given to Shawn Lynch for of his actions lead to great achievements. The book doing a good job as the intoxicated tech man. accurately describes the challenges and glory of In the second skit, three senior citizens, coaching Notre Dame. Father Hesburgh and the played by Patrick Barron, Andrew Elcock, and University decided to take the team in a different

10 direction after a couple of mediocre years under

Gerry Faust. Coach Holtz is hired in 1985; three years later the team would be a national champion.

The build up to the championship shows the adversity that the team conquers while also presenting the coaching style of Lou Holtz, a very strict and intelligent man. Lou Holtz changes the

Notre Dame brand, once again cementing Notre

Dame’s dominance as a national powerhouse.

The constant goal at Notre Dame is to win Lone Survivor Book Review championships, a feat that had not been By Chris Sebastian accomplished in many years. Lou Holtz and his Lone Survivor starts off in Navy Seal team embarked on a three-year journey to win a training camp; it is here that Marcus will become a championship. In three years their accomplishment Navy Seal. The book first describes what it is like to would be fulfilled. “Rice threw his no. 1 finger in go through the training camp of a Navy Seal. As the air as the seconds ticked away” (270), the author you can imagine, it is very hard. You have to wake describes. The team had one goal coming into the up every day at 3:00 a.m. and train all day with season and now they are national champions. some of the hardest training-- from swimming in the “What is true is that the 1988 cold ocean with all your gear on to doing pushups. Fighting Irish were After Marcus finishes training camp, he is unbeatable” (271), the author sent to Afghanistan to try and stop a Taliban describes. Defeating every communicator. Marcus and three other Seals make opponent they faced in ‘88 is it to their destination but not before running into a an accomplishment on its own. group of goat herders whom they decide not to kill. Add on top of that, they The goat herders end up telling the Taliban, and accomplished something that has never been done Marcus and the three others get in a brutal fight before or since. “The ‘88 Irish remain the only against the Taliban. After much fighting Marcus is national championship squad to beat four teams the only survivor, his three companions having been ranked in the top seven of the final poll” (270), the shot. Luckily, Marcus comes across locals who help author states. If any team had accomplished one of and take care of him. Marcus ends up living. I those feats, their season would be a success, but recommend this to someone who wants to know Notre Dame accomplished all three. more about the military or to someone who respects Throughout the entire book there is one the military and wants an action-packed, underlying theme-- Notre Dame is unbeatable. meaningful book.

11 Captain Phillips Movie Review rescuers from the Navy included snipers. The Navy By Devlin McCool sent out a small boat to negotiate with the pirates Captain Phillips is obviously about a captain and provide them with some supplies. They also whose last name is Phillips. He was the captain of determined what seat Phillips was sitting in so that the container ship the Maersk Alabama when it was they would not shoot him later on. The Navy suddenly controlled by Somali pirates. He did what attached a towline to the life boat in order to haul it every captain would have done; that is, pretend to slowly towards their ship and retrieve Phillips, but cooperate. His crew had just performed an they had to act quickly when they realized the emergency drill when they saw something on their Somalis were about to kill Phillips. The Navy Seals radar. Captain Phillips looked through his were unable to get a clear shot at all three Somalis binoculars to see two small ships full of Somalis in the boat with Phillips until the last one popped up speeding toward his ship. He called for an his head next to a window. At that moment all emergency throughout the ship and then radioed for turned silent around Phillips, who started to cry and help. The crew and captain had known that this didn’t stop until he knew he was completely safe. could happen, but they were still in shock. The This movie was a mix of action and Somalis boarded the ship and shot at the captain. emotion. On a scale of one to ten, I would rate it an The crew was already eight. Out of five stars, I give it three and a half or in the engine room four. It was an interesting movie because, as I said hiding. The pirates before, it had action and emotion. You don’t get wanted money so that very often these days. they took Phillips on a “tour” of the Alabama. Phillips From the Dart Staff:

noticed that one of Thanks to all the 7th and 8th grade students who worked so hard on their articles. the pirates had no We welcome new writers, cartoonists, and photographers for future issues of the Dart. shoes, so he used his walkie-talkie to tell the crew to put glass at a Editors: Patrick DuFour, Patrick Ryan, Marty White darkened doorway to tear up his foot. The cunning plan worked, and the pirate could barely walk. Faculty moderators: Mr. Cornish, Mr. Deschenes The Somalis found the money and took Captain Phillips onto a life boat because their boat was somewhere in the water. Captain Phillips wanted to help the Somali with the bleeding foot, but the others wouldn’t allow him. The crew back on the Alabama called for help, and it came. The

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