Fall sports schedule!

Murtaugh Middle/High School Football and Volleyball schedule for the 2009-2010 school year.

Middle School Football 9/9 @ Richfield 2:00, 9/23 @home 2:00, 9/30 @Dietrich 2:00, 10/21 @Carey 2:00.

Middle School Volleyball 9/9 @Richfield, 9/16 @home 2:00, 9/23@home 2:00, 9/30@Dietrich 2:00, 10/7@home2:00, 10/21 @ Carey 2:00.

High School Football 8/28 @ home 7:00, 9/4 @home 7:00, 9/11 @ Carey 7:00, 9/18 @ home 7:00, 9/25 @ Jackpot 7:00, 9/30 @ home 7:00, 10/9 @ Richfield 7:00, 10/24 @ North Gem 4:00, 10/30 @ Home 7:00(Sr Night)

High School Volleyball 8/27 @ MVC(1 game) 6:00, 8/31 @ home 6:00, 9/10 @ Richfield 6:00, 9/15 @ Camas County 6:00, 9/17 @ home 6:00, 9/21 @ home 6:00, 9/22 @ home(1 game) 6:00, 9/29@ Community school@ 6:00, 10/1 @ Carey 6:00, 10/6@home 6:00, 10/13 @ Dietrich 6:00, 10/15 @ home 6:00 (Sr Night). 10/17,19,20 Districts @ CareyThere you go! Any questions just ask!!

GO RED DEVILS!

8th Grade Play.... The Story Of Anne Frank

The 8th graders have been studying the Holocaust this year. Their wonderful teacher Ms. Ainsworth challenged and encouraged them as a class to do the play about Anne Frank and her family while they were in hiding.

The class worked very hard for months studying their lines and preparing. They finally preformed the play last week for the Middle School and the 5th graders.

Here are some random pictures.














This was the first experience for many if not all of these kids to be in a play and they did awesome!

Great job guys!!!

Athletic Awards Banquet

Murtaugh High had their end of the year athletic banquet on Friday April 10th. It was a little different than years past, the dress was Semi-formal and Terri Andersen and Rhonda Reed made a wonderful dinner. A great deal of work went into organizing this, with Coach Johnson & Mrs. Ainsworth working along side our Learn & Serve and Natural Helper Students. The track and golf awards are not all presented since we are still in the heart of golf and track. Following is a list of presented awards.

VOLLEYBALL-
JV Player of the Year-Kelsey Adams
JV Offensive Player of the Year-Guadalupe Gomez
JV Most Dedicated Player of the Year-Makenzie Titcomb
JV Defensive Player of the Year-Fatima Miranda
Varsity Player of the Year-LaNelle Simmons
Varsity Player of the Year-Ashley Bridges
Red Devil Award- Takisha Baxter
Varsity Offensive Player of the Year-Nikita Huizar
Varsity Defensive Player of the Year-Hayley Bridges
Most Improved Player-Jera Adams

FOOTBALL-
Player of the Year-Zach Cummins
Offensive Player of the Year-Manuel Pacheco
Defensive Player of the Year-Austin Stanger
Red Devil Award-Daniel Hepworth
Best New Player-Humberto Pacheco
Most Inspirational Player-Corbin VanLeewen

JV BASKETBALL-
JV Player of the Year-Isaac Huizar
JV Offensive Player of the Year-Filiberto Martinez
JV Defensive Player of the Year-Luis Aburto
JV Most Improved Player-Ramon Aburto

VARSITY BASKEBALL
Varsity Player of the Year-Manuel Pacheco
Varsity Offensive Player of the Year-Zach Cummins
Varsity Defensive Player of the Year-Humberto Pacheco
Red Devil Award-Trey Perkins
Most Inspirational Player-Daniel Hepworth

TRACK
Four Year Senior Awards-Jera Adams, Daniel Hepworth, & Skiler Oliverson

TOP MALE ATHLETE 2009-Daniel Hepworth
TOP FEMALE ATHLETE 2009-LaNelle Simmons

These are all awesome kids along with all of their teammates. Each team was also awarded a special academic achievement award for maintaining their GPA's.
A huge thanks to all the coaches and people behind the scenes who keep Red Devil sports running.

Donkey Basketball

Marc Barry's donkey is not minding well.

Way to support the team Rod!! Jeremy Cummins is up for the shot.
Coach Johnson with his wife Rocio and his Mom! He needed a rest after his team won their first game.
Taylor's donkey does not want to play!

Nellie looks a little nervous.

Game 1! Tryin to get to know their donkeys.

Izaak, all by himself, where is everyone else?

Trevor Stanger, Daniel Hepworth, Taylor Titcomb, Izaak Williamson, & Coach Adam Johnson get ready for the game.

Standing is Hector Guevara(our exchange student) & Corbin VanLeeuwen. Starting with the Firemans hat is Trevor Stanger, Coach Johnson, man in the sombrero is DJ Stanger, then Drue Tolman and Taylor Titcomb.

Trey Perkins & Daniel Hepworth

We had our 2nd Annual Donkey basketball game and it was a roaring success. It was fun this year to have 7 of our senior class playing on a team and also several of the Murtaugh School Staff Members. Overall that night we earned close to $6000.00 for the students at Murtaugh. A huge thank you to all who attended and helped make Donkey Basketball a huge success.

I will post more pictures later Blogger website is acting up!

FFA's Drive Your Tractor To School Day...

Tractor parade

Academic All Star

KMVT has announced that the Academic All Star for Murtaugh High School is Daniel Hepworth.

Daniel likes football, basketball, and track, is also active in FFA and BPA. He is the captain on the Basketball team and was also captain on the Football team. He is Sr. Class Vice-President and the Student Advisor for FFA. Daniel is an Eagle Scout and is active in his church youth group. Daniel is planning on attending CSI to get a degree in either Sports Medicine or Physical Therapy. Daniel is the son of Ron & Shala Hepworth and grandson of Ray & Juanita Hepworth and Duane & Wynona Turner. KMVT will air the interview with Daniel on February 1st on the 10:00 news. It will also be available on www.kmvt.com. There is a link on the bottom of the first page for the Academic All Star. CONGRATULATIONS DANIEL!

Murtaugh VS Dietrich and VIP Night

Well we had an awesome evening. I am so proud of the way it turned out. After a lot of work by all our High School students and Mrs Perkins the VIP night went off very smoothly. The students at Murtaugh are amazing and I am honored to even associate with them.

I don't post scores but there is no way to tell you what a great game this was tonight without seeing the score. The winning basket happened in the last second. The boys from both teams played and exhibited such great sportsmanship and talent. I am so proud of how well they played.