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School News 2007-2008

Area Volleyball Playoffs:

Homecoming Court:

The Ladyhorn volleyball team ended a terrific 2007 season with a loss against D'Hanis. Congratulations to a great group of girls.

2007 Homecoming King and Queen are Melanie Pascarella and Andrew Chevelier!

The other members of the court are:

Jaci Crowe escorted by Cutter Bernhard

Brittany Tatsch escorted by Colin Lee

Claire Jones escorted by Sammy Winters

Tiffany Williams escorted by Oren Draznin

The Ladyhorn volleyball team is heading into playoffs with high hopes of making it to state. Their first playoff game will be on Tuesday, October 30, in Bandera against La Pryor at 7:00.

Sports:

Varsity Football--Our Longhorns trampled over the Medina Bobcats winning 63-0. Their next game on November 2 will be the last home game of the year against Johnson City. Kickoff will be at 7:30.

Longhorns had no trouble last week beating Center Point 63-0 for the homecoming game, putting them 1-0 in District and 5-1 overall.

The Longhorns were defeated in overtime the 2A Mason punchers 21-14 in a nail biting overtime game bringing their record to 4-1.

Varsity won 41-6 in the September 21 game against the Eldorado Eagles, bringing their season record to 4-0. The Longhorns defeated the Irion County Hornets 38-0 on September 14.

Varsity Longhorns beat Menard Yellow Jackets 40-7 on September 7, putting their record at 2-0.

The Harper Longhorns trampled the Sonora Broncos August 31, 21-7.

JH & JV Football--

JV played in Johnson City for a 14-0 loss against the Eagles.
Jr. High stomped the Eagles 32-0 placing their undefeated record at 8-0.
Jr. High and JV will play again Thursday, November 8 for the final game against Leakey. It will also be Jr. High’s annual victory night.
On September 13, JH beat Irion Country 52-28.

They also won 36-0 September 20th against Eldorado.

Harper’s Junior Varsity team dropped their first game 26-34 on August 30 here in Harper.

JH & JV will play September 13th in Irion Country. Kick-offs will be at 5:00 and 6:30.

Volleyball--

Ladyhorns won Thursday, Nov. 1, in Tilden McMullen County Gym defeating Santa Maria in three.

The Ladyhorns defeated the La Pryor Bulldogs in 3 to advance to the Area Playoffs.

Varsity defeated Center Point 25-13, 25-14, 25-10, putting their district record at 6-2 and 22-10 overall.

JV came out victorious winning 25-13 and 25-14. Freshmen finished with a heartbreaking loss to the Pirates 18-25, 25-16, 24-26. Their next game will be at Johnson City on Saturday, October 20, beginning at 5:00.

Harper played September 25th in Medina, and all three teams came out victorious. The scores were as follows:

Varsity won 25-16, 25-15, and 15-13, bringing their District 29A record to 1-1 and 17-9 overall. JV won 25-13 and 26-24 Freshmen won 25-5 and 25-10.

The Ladyhorns lost their district opener game against the Leakey Eagles 25-14, 22-25, 24-26, 6-15.

September 11, 2007: F, JV, & V teams will play their first home game against Sabinal.

Results of the Harper Tournament on September 6th and 8th:

9/6 -- Harper defeated Our Lady of the Hills 25-6 & 25-15 and Sabinal 25-8 & 25-20.

9/8 -- Harper defeated Medina 25-14 & 25-21 and Junction 21-25, 25-20, & 25-22.

Tournament Champions- Harper Lady Horns

Tournament Runners-up- Junction Lady Eagles

On Tuesday, September 4, Varsity Volleyball defeated Blanco 25-21, 25-23, 23-25, 21-25,15-9. Their record is now 10-7.

Harper JV defeated Blanco 25-23, 19-25, & 25-11.

Harper Freshmen defeated Blanco 25-11, 20-25, & 25-20.

Cross Country-- All the Harper cross country teams competed for their district meet in San Antonio at Lackland AFB-Stacey High School. October 17 Jr. High competed. The girls came out in third place as a team, and 4 of the 9 girls placing in the top 10. The boys were District Champions with one of our eighth grade boys winning it. October 22, the high school cross country team competed at their district meet. The boys and girls teams both qualified for the regional meet, placing third, which will take place Saturday, November 3.

Football Playoffs:

Volleyball Honors:

The Longhorns defeated Thorndale 11/16/07 in Dripping Springs 7 to 6 for the Bi-District Championship. Friday night, Nov. 23, they defeated Chilton in Pflugerville Hendrickson by a score of 28 -13. The Horns thrashed Sabinal Friday November 30 at 7:30 in Hondo 32-0. On December 7th the Horns were defeated 21-18 in an exciting conclusion to a great season.

Pictures Photo Gallery!

All–State- Jaci Crowe

Academic All–State: Jaylyn Hagen, Claire Jones, Jaci Crowe,

Ruthann Mounce, Brittany Tatsch

All–District: Claire Jones- Defensive Player of the Year

Jaci Crowe- Offensive Player of the Year

1st team- Jenea Esquell, Jaylyn Hagen

2nd Team- Mackenzie Haag, Brittany Tatsch

Honorable Mention- Autumn Davis

Picture Photo Gallery!

FFA:

District Leadership Contest Results:

1^st place – Jr. & Sr. Chapter Conducting, and Jr. Quiz

2^nd place – Sr. Skills & Radio Broadcasting

These teams will all advance to the Area Contest in Seguin next Wednesday.

Jr. Chapter Conducting team: Kallie Davenport, Kandace Davenport, Kyle Davenport, Kolt Meeks, Robert Smith, Jennifer Hale, Taylor Brands, Taylor Clark, Tyler Watson.

Sr. Chapter Conducting team: Oren Draznin, Amber Bowlin, Jana Wiginton, Mackenzie Haag, Zach McMahon, Amelia Herring, Paige Parker, Rhett Townsend, Alex Stinson

Sr. Skills: Kaitlin Rangel Josh Trieber, Mackenzie Haag

Jr. Quiz: Kandace Davenport, Kyle Davenport, Cody Kruse, Tyler Watson.

Radio Broadcasting Team: Oren Draznin, Paige Parker and Amber Bowlin

Fine Arts

The art competition results were wonderful for us. Over 500 hundred pieces of art from the entire San Antonio area were submitted this year. Five of our students won 2nd place ribbons. They were: Tommy Morris, Megan Shepherd, Lindsey Pate, Daniel Flores and Ashley Vaughn. Third place awards went to: Ruthann Mounce, Jesse Ovard, Amber Bolin and Alyssa Wright. Their work is on display in the high school trophy case until they take it home for Christmas gifts:)

Band:

The Association of Texas Small School Band announces its 2007-2008 All-State Jazz Ensemble as follows. Harper students and their rank in the state are listed below. This marks the 6^th consecutive year that Harper will have at least 1 all-state musician; the longest such streak in class A. Previous all-staters include:

2006-2007: Tyler Krueger, Hannah Leinweber, Courtney Sander

2005-2006: Courtney Sander

2004-2005: Molly Leinweber

2003-2004: Courtney Sander

2002-2003: Brooke Toole

INSTRUMENT

RANK

STATE

FIRST

LAST

SCHOOL

Tenor Saxophone	8		Jeffery	Butterworth	Harper HS
Tenor Saxophone	21		Seth	Mendoza	Harper HS

Baritone Saxophone

Nathan

Drimmel

Harper HS

Trumpet	22		Tyler	Krueger	Harper HS
Trumpet	27		Tesca	Korbelik	Harper HS
Tenor Trombone	1	ALL-STATE	Hannah	Leinweber	Harper HS

The Harper High School Mighty Longhorn Band flexed its muscles in the old-fashioned Harper way at Monday night’s UIL State Marching Contest Finals before returning to Harper at 1:15 Tuesday morning. Coming out of the preliminary round in 7^th place, I met with the band about their trying to play too loudly. Our discussion focused on our being the band that we were; not the other bands in the competition. During the 42 minute warm up period, the band was asked to do things that they had never done before and do them on the field with the state championship on the line in front of a large crowd. Those people in attendance were absolutely amazed at the performance and the improvement from prelims to finals.

1^st place Gold Medals went to the Forsan Buffalo Band (placing 1^st on 4 of 5 judge’s sheets) and 2^nd place Silver Medals went to the 6 year defending state champion band from Sundown. Your Harper Longhorn Band was awarded the 3^rd Place Bronze Medals (finishing 1^st on 1 of 5 judge’s sheets). During the competition, comments were received such as “You have the best feet of any band I have seen today!”; “Your marching fundamentals are as clean as 5A bands…Thanks for your attention to detail!” and “Super Job!”

The Harper Band has a strong reputation as one of the finest bands around the state, no matter the classification. This year marked the 9^th trip to the state marching contest in 10 cycles. The band has finished in 3^rd place on 4 different occasions. In its last 3 trips, the band has improved greatly on each trip; starting at 14^th place in 2003; 6^th place in 2005; and 3^rd place in 2007.

As you see the band students today congratulate them not only on their fine showing but more importantly congratulate them on their diligence in going around obstacles that would have derailed others.

The members of the Mighty Longhorn Band finished in 1^st place at Saturday’s South Texas Area Marching Contest. Because of their fine showing, the Harper Band is one of 16 Class A bands that will appear at the Alamodome on MONDAY, November 5^th, for the state marching contest preliminaries. Finals will be held MONDAY NIGHT with the performances of the top 7 from prelims.

The official schedule for next Monday can be viewed below. The band will do a sneak peak performance for you to meet and well-wish the band members on Sunday afternoon at 3:00. There will be a send off for the band at 7:00 Monday morning.

October 13 the Harper Band earned superior 1st division ratings from ALL of the judges at the Blinn Marching Festival.

On Saturday, the band competed in the Hill Country Marching Festival in Fredericksburg. Again, this year the band chose to compete in Class AA for this event. Please congratulate your band students as you see them on Tuesday (or if you see them on Monday since they will be around for afternoon rehearsal) for the great job that they did. Below is a list of their accomplishments from Saturday. Each year, this contest is a giant push for the band since the band has always won the Outstanding Band in their class each year. I think that these awards show not only what they did on Saturday, but the intense work they have put forth since they started band with their trip to band camp. As you probably already know this is a state advancing year and it seems they are VERY focused right now on the job ahead in moving up from their 6^th place finish 2 years ago.

Class AA Awards-

Outstanding Color Guard-Comfort

Outstanding Drum Major-Harper-Hannah Leinweber, Addam Schraub, Becca Jackson, Bailey Baethge

Outstanding Drum Line-Harper-Cori Taylor, Cody Pepper, Addam Schraub, Ariel Fuentes, Michael Montoya, Marina O’Neill, Jacob Krebs, Sarah Lester, Alexa Guerrero, Bailey Baethge

Outstanding Music Performance-Harper

Outstanding Marching Performance-Harper

2^nd Place-Comfort

1^st Place-Harper

Outstanding Overall Band-Classes 1A-4A- This is a new category this year for Fredericksburg

8^th Place-Score of 905-Center Point (A)

7^th Place-Score of 959-Medina (A)

6^th Place-Score of 1214-Johnson City (A)

5^th Place-Score of 1216-Comfort (AA)

4^th Place-Score of 1310-Lytle (AAA)

3^rd Place-Score of 1387-Medina Valley (AAA)

2^nd Place-Score of 1389-South San (AAAA)

1^st Place-Score of 1459-Harper (A-Competing as a class AA for this contest)

This week the band will travel to Brenham to participate in the Blinn Marching Festival. We will be leaving at 5:00 AM on Saturday morning. The band takes the field at 1:30 PM. This week we will compete in Class A. Other bands in the contest will be Iola, Shiner, and Flatonia; all were Texas State Marching Contest participants in 2005! It should be a great contest. Scary thing is that one of the 4 who ALL have great traditions is going home out of the awarded top 3. This is probably going to be the toughest non-state marching contest in the state this year in any classification. I know it’s a long ride but it may be your big chance to see some really awesome shows.

Thank you for all you do to help us help our kids be as successful as they are!

Upcoming Schedule:

This week the band will travel to Brenham to participate in the Blinn Marching Festival. The band takes the field at 1:30 PM. Next week the band will travel to Hondo for UIL Regional Marching Contest. Harper will begin the contest as the 1:00 PM entry. Other bands (in order of performance) include: Charlotte, Brackett, Nueces Canyon, D’Hanis, and Medina. The 3 top bands chosen by the judges or all that earn 1^st division ratings will advance to the UIL Area Marching Contest at East Central High School on October 27^th to compete against class A bands from all over South Texas. The top 3 bands at area will advance to the Texas State Marching Contest in the Alamodome on November 5^th. Prelims are early in the morning featuring the best 15 Class A bands in the state (5 areas represented by 3 bands). Finals are that evening featuring the top 7 bands from prelims.

Our kids get REALLY excited when we take the field and all that green section comes to its feet, cheering us on and making lots of noise. We hope you can attend at least one of these contests and join in on the fun.

Clubs and Organizations:

Pioneer Club-- Pre-K through 6th grade starts September 19 after school at the Baptist Church. Parents, be sure to send permission slips.

Harper Youth Group--Inside Out Youth Group for students of the HIGH SCHOOL can come for food, fun, and worship. It will be held every Wednesday night (unless told otherwise) beginning September 12 at 6:15 in the Harper Community Hall in the park. Donations will be accepted.

See You At The Pole, September 26--See You at the Pole™ is a student-initiated, student organized, and student-led event. That means this is all about students meeting at their school flagpole to pray -- for their school, friends, teachers, government, and their nation. See You at the Pole™ is not a demonstration, political rally, nor a stand for or against anything.

See You at the Pole™ is scheduled annually across the nation on the fourth Wednesday in September, which is September 26 in 2007. Students will meet before school. Donuts and juice will be provided.

The book fair is scheduled for Monday through Wednesday of next week. It will open at 8:00 a.m. each morning and close at 3:30 p.m. On Wednesday, the book fair will also be open from 5:00 p.m. until ???? p.m. Teachers are asked to encourage participation and allow students to visit at times designated. Any student not having a scheduled time is encouraged to go to the book fair during lunch or tutorial time. All teachers should accompany their classes to the book fair. The book fair will be located in the HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY.

Elementary News:

Fifth Grade—Fifth grade attended the Texas Tech Outdoor School trip on October 1-4. They stayed overnight and participated in many fun outdoor activities. View Photos!

Once again Harper Elementary students brought home the First place trophy at the Elementary UIL contest. Harper Elementary has won the UIL contest for the last five years. Our students work hard and strive to do their best, and the students expect to win the contest every year. We also have great teachers, parents and grandparents here at Harper that help the students get ready for the contests. Shannon Kramer, one of our First grade teachers at Harper, also serves as the UIL Coordinator and does a fantastic job!

Elementary Principal - Jay Harper