HE HIEFTAIN TMONTVILLE HIGH SCHOOL O AKDALEC, CT 06370 ISSUE #8 2017 Thanksgiving Culture Racing to Victory By: Katarina Turchetta Staff Editor Thanksgiving is a time when people stuff their faces with delicious food. The food they eat on Thanksgiving usually varies depending upon their cultural background. The typical American Thanksgiving consists of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, biscuits, green bean casserole, gravy, and cranberry sauce. A traditional pie is usually served as a dessert. A Chinese favorite traditional dessert on Thanksgiving is a mooncake. A mooncake is a flaky pastry that is stuffed with a sweet or savory filling. The main traditional dish for a Korean Thanksgiving is Songpyeon, a rice, kneaded into little cakes and filled with beans and chestnuts. Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving a few weeks earlier with an American style Junior, Mady Whittaker. Photo By: Tessa Rummel Thanksgiving meal. There are diverse foods people By: Mady Whittaker and Staff Editor can eat on Thanksgiving, yet many Montville High School’s Cross- also successful, placing in tenth and people think vegetarians do not eat on Country team placed in the top 10 at finishing with power. Many girls say they this holiday. Vegetarians however still the Eastern Connecticut Conference felt extremely nervous before the race. enjoy Thanksgiving. Many vegetarians championship and also had an individual Morgan Orr, a junior said, “I think the eat tofu as an alternative for turkey. There winner on the girls’ team. The Norwich team did really well. Everyone was happy are multiple ways to cook tofu: tofu can Golf Course was filled with life on and worked hard.” When she was asked be cooked whole, cubed, cut, or even Thursday, October 19, when over 200 about all the hills, she said the first thing crumbled. Tofu is a superfood and it can be runners raced on the 3.2-mile course. she thought was, “How am I going to get prepared to imitate even a turkey dinner. It had been 32 years since up all those hills?” Vegetarians also still eat all the sides like Montville High School had a female Norwich Golf Course is known potatoes, vegetables, and desserts. student take first in the varsity race. for being one of the toughest courses on Families who serve a vegan dinner In 1985, Kelly Hawkes won the the Cross-Country circuit. The course has can also alter their meals by making tofu championship but now the drought has over eight hills. However, it challenges and substituting everything made with ended. Junior, Mady Whittaker, took first runners to push themselves until the very dairy. Some dairy-free products vegans place beating the other females by over a end of the race and to overcome every use to make their Thanksgiving dinners minute. challenge. are almond or coconut milk. As for the whole team, the 15-year Montville’s coaches, Steve One of the American drought of Montville not placing in the LaBranche and Erika Grove were Thanksgiving Day traditions is the top 10 is also over. The boys’ team came thrilled with the team’s hard work and breaking of the wishbone. Two people in ninth place and were just points away improvement. The bus ride home was pull on a bone and make a wish, whoever from beating their arch-rival, Stonington. filled with lots of smiles and laughs. gets the larger half of the bone will have Many boys, such as Noah Caskey, Sean The team then went on to the state his wish come true. Ventresca, and Jayden Colon, ran their championships at Wickham Park in best races this season and were close to Manchester on November 3. new personal bests. The girls’ team was Page 1 THE CHIEFTAIN SPORTS Broken Ankles Girl with Robotic Hand Broken Season Throws First Pitch By: Maddy Dawley The New York Giants are going to have a tougher season than they expected. A few players have already been injured within the first five games of the season. Four wide receivers for the Giants are expected to be out for multiple games this season due to injuries. Odell Beckham Jr. fractured his ankle during the fourth quarter of the game against the Los Angeles Chargers. Beckham will have surgery and is expected to be out for the rest of the season. Another wide receiver and the Giants’ primary kick returner, Dwayne Harris, will undergo surgery to repair his foot after fracturing it during the loss against the Chargers. Brandon Marshall and Sterling Shepard are also suffering ankle injuries from the Chargers Hailey Dawson Stock Photo game. After losing so many players in By: Marissa Hendrickson one game, the Giants are going to need a Seven-year-old Hailey Dawson is Hailey’s plans, official baseball team plan to get back on track and start winning on her way to breaking the world record accounts started positively replying. The games. Two spots have already been filled. for the number of ceremonial first pitches New York Mets’ Twitter account replied Travis Rudolph has been promoted from at every Major League Baseball stadium. with, “Please DM us Hailey’s info, so we the practice squad to wide receiver. They Hailey was born with a congenital disease can get in touch with her.” The Boston also signed Tavarres King. King played called Poland Syndrome that caused her Red Sox account tweeted, “Looks like seven games last season for the Giants but to be born without three fingers on her we need to get you to Fenway, Hailey.” was waived in September. right hand. Dawson has a 3-D printed Other teams interested include the Atlanta There is still one more wide “flexy” hand, created by University of Braves, Chicago Cubs, Detroit Tigers, receiver spot that needs to be filled. An Nevada Las Vegas’s engineering program, Minnesota Twins, Pittsburgh Pirates, option for the Giants is Victor Cruz. He which allows her to write and even play Florida Mariners, San Diego Padres, is currently a free agent, but Cruz knows t-ball with her dominant right hand. The Oakland A’s and San Francisco Giants. everything there is to know about the prosthetic, which she has worn since she Even non-Major League teams Giants. He knows the offensive system, was four, is made with hard plastic digits are asking Dawson to come to their the personnel, and the quarterback, Eli and controlled by fishing wire. She has stadiums, including the Florida Gators, a Manning. During the offseason, Cruz about six different hands for different college team, and the Sacramento River was signed by the Chicago Bears but purposes. Cats, a minor league team. “Hailey’s never made the roster. Travis Rudolph, Having this condition didn’t get in inspirational story captured our attention Ed Eagan, and Marquis Bundy are on the the way of Hailey’s lifestyle. After already and our teams have overwhelmingly practice team and could be considered for having thrown out two first pitches, one in embraced her goal to throw a first pitch filling the final spot. Rudolph has been August of 2015 and one in June of 2017, at every MLB ballpark,” MLB Chief the most impressive during training camp she decided she wanted to throw the first Operating Officer Tony Petitti said (L.A. and in preseason games. He could be the pitch at every MLB park. Doing so would Times). Giants’ first option. break the world record for most first pitches thrown at MLB stadiums. After twitter account “Bleacher Report” tweeted Page 2 THE CHIEFTAIN SPORTS LaMelo Ball By: Jayden Long Daddy knows best. Sixteen-year- LaMelo and his older brother LiAngelo. old, LaMelo Ball was supposed to start However, with LiAngelo heading off to this year as a junior at Chino Hills High his first season at UCLA, and Melo now School, but will no longer be playing being pulled from the system, the future for the Huskies. His father, LaVar Ball of Southern California basketball is at recently made the decision to home stake. The pair sold out gyms and helped school his child and has made it clear that the Huskies get to championship games Melo won’t be playing for any team. Ball with LaMelo’s iconic 92-point game last told the Los Angeles Times, “I’m going to season. The impact of their absence will make him the best basketball player ever.” be major. LaVar was struggling last season Yet, is this decision looking out to get along with the coaching staff, so for Melo’s best interests? Fans won’t be when news broke out that Chino Hills seeing LaMelo on the court until spring would be getting the third head coach of next year when he competes in travel they’ve had in the past three years— ball. Not being able to get that national LaVar wasn’t about it. Ball claimed that exposure and competitive gameplay may the new coach, Dennis Latimore, would hurt his draft stock. This gives his two serve as a distraction to his son, and threats, Zion Williamson and R.J. Barrett, potentially try to limit Melo’s talent. Last an advantage. It’ll be interesting to see year, the Huskies finished the season with how successful Chino Hills basketball Stock Photo a 30-3 record, partially due to the duo of remains without the Ball Brothers. NBA All-Star Game Change By: Zach Southard The NBA All-Star Game format and the league have done to improve words than to describe last year’s game as has been changed. Have you ever wanted the All-Star Game, which has been a “an absolute joke and mockery.” Reggie to see Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving play priority for all of us,” said Chris Paul stated, “What we saw last night was a alongside each other? Or have you ever of the Houston Rockets.