Lancer rally promises eagles will be skewered

By: Raven Rodriguez


The last day of spirit week finally arrived on Friday, October 28, 2011. In honor of the Homecoming game, the day’s theme was crazy blue day. Dressed in Lancer Blue everyone filled the stands of the gym for the last rally of Spirit Week, along with one smurf named Tim Boore.

The rally started off with an introduction by Athletic Director Karavedas (ADK) and a promise of free admission to the game later that night. This was followed by an exciting performance by the WC cheerleaders. After their showcase, the student body rallied behind their fall sports teams: cross country, varsity volleyball, junior varsity football and varsity football players who made an epic entrance through the football sign (note: jv volleyball was not introduced).

Coach Oberlander started this segment off by getting the crowd pumped up with cheers of “GO WESTERN CHRISTIAN, BEAT ACA.” Then he introduced the senior players Michael Mendoza, Blake Bader, Michael Panossian, Sam Zuno, Issac Yeh, Ricky Villanueva, Mitchel Shigo, Alan Zheng, and Jacob Prince who are “the heart and soul of the team.” The students cheered as they got more and more excited for the upcoming game against Arrowhead. The captains gave a few speeches about how they wanted everyone to come and support them in their predicted victory over arrowhead; which was a great intro for the following skit put on by ASB.

It was a brilliant skit that had the entire student body laughing and invoked school spirit. It went a little something like this: “Once Upon a Time there was an eagle…BOO!.” As the gym filled with boo’s, an eagle wearing an Arrowhead Christian Academy shirt came out. Next came another sign that read, “Then there came a Lancer…CHEER!” and they had a battle of epic proportions. As the gym filled with cheers the Lancer Mascot emerged and commenced the battle. It raged on for a minute or so and ended with a Lancer victory. Finally, the last sign came out and it read, “and what happens to dead eagles?” The answer was a Lancer eating a Bucket of KFE (Kentucky Fried Eagle). Everyone laughed and cheered in response.

Class yells closed out the rally, and although the sophomore class put up a good fight, the senior class ended up on top with their deafening cheers. As students left the gym, many were pumped up to attend the night’s Homecoming Game and help their Lancers defeat the Arrowhead Christian Eagles.