Bowyer Excited about the Future; Boys Basketball Team Returns a Wealth of Experience as Cubs Prepare for Turkey Shootout
Ashlyn White, Staff Reporter
November 19, 2018
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With the Madison Consolidated High School girls basketball team's season already in effect, and the boys' season getting ready to tip off, there is some renewed hope and loftier expectations for this year's squads. This year the boys team will play 26 varsity games, and the girls will play 22. Of cour...
MCHS Wrestling and Swimming Previews
Clare Wilber, Staff Reporter
November 13, 2018
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The time of the year has come for the arrival of the two traditional winter sports: swimming and wrestling. While basketball receives much of the limelight, these two sports deserve recognition as well due to the amount of effort and commitment the wrestlers and swimmers have to give to achieve succ...
The Complete List of Athletes Who Made the HHC All-Academic Team
November 2, 2018
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Here are the student athletes that earned HHC All Academic recognition for the fall sports: Girls Golf: Hannah Huff, Bethany Tucker, Emma Cammack, Ariannah Harris, Jenna Imel Boys Tennis: Russell Stallard, Cooper Yancey Boys Soccer: Bergen Cornelius, Isaac Hanson, Alex Mason, Jobe Miller, Alec ...
“Little” Sports Still Want Recognition and How MCHS is Helping
Clare Wilber, Staff Reporter
September 6, 2018
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Football, baseball, softball, and soccer are likely the four main sports a person may think of when high school athletics teams come to mind around the country. While these sports take up most of the limelight, how do lesser known sports feel about the publicity of their sport? Also, does it affect th...
MCHS Welcomes Five New Coaches
Ashlyn White, Staff Writer
August 15, 2018
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With everything going on in the past two years at Madison Consolidated High School, it can be hard to keep up with all the new changes. From getting a new principal, renovations, new schedules and new teachers sometimes we overlook things such as new coaches. This year alone, MCHS has hired five new ...
NFL Provides Four MCHS Students Trip to the Draft
Will Davis, Sports Writer
April 26, 2018
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Near the end of the summer, the Madison Cubs football team was the focus of a widely publicized story put out by The New York Times. From that article, which focused heavily on drug abuse in the area, one positive effect has come to light. The NFL chose four players, Coach Patrick Morrison, and Athletic Directo...
2018 College Basketball March Madness Review
Colling Birge, Sports Writer
April 19, 2018
Just three weeks after the final game of March Madness, it’s gone in what seems to be in the blink of an eye. It was a crazy year for college basketball as there just seemed to be no clear-cut favorite to win this year’s tournament. For the first time in history a 16 seed defeated a one seed, an...
MCS Athletics Unveils New Website
April 6, 2018
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The Madison Consolidated Schools athletic website has received an upgrade. The new website, which is now available here, has been designed to streamline all athletic events for MJHS and MCHS in one place. “With this new launch, we are able to have all athletic events in one location for Madison...
NBA Trade Deadline Review
Collin Birge, Staff Writer
February 28, 2018
The NBA trade deadline date was an eventful one around the league. Teams finalized their rosters to either make a run for the championship or look forward to the draft coming up in June. No superstars were traded this year which is not normal compared to last year’s blockbuster trade when the Sacr...
MCHS Boys Swim Team Finishes 7th in Sectional Competition
February 19, 2018
The Madison Consolidated High School boys swim team finished in seventh place out of 14 teams in sectional competition Saturday at Floyd Central with 121 team points. The Cubs had two top eight relay finishes and three top eight individual finishes. The 200 Medley Relay team of Dillon Ray, Eoin McMahon,...
Cubs Wrestlers Bow Out Gracefully After Semi-state Defeats
Will Davis, Sports Writer
February 15, 2018
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Over the weekend, the Madison Cubs High School wrestling team had six wrestlers attend the semi state competition in Indianapolis. However, no Cubs wrestler made it to the state finals. Four of the six wrestlers did not advance past the first round of the meet, but Madison did have two members of the tea...
New NBA All-star Game Format Hopes to Add Some Life; MCHS Makes Predictions
Collin Birge, Sports Writer
February 15, 2018
There might not be any defense being played in the annual NBA All-Star Game in Los Angeles on February 18th, but the teams will be very different from the past. For the first time ever, the all-star teams won’t be the traditional Eastern Conference against the Western Conference; instead it will be ...