By Tommy Maren 51-7. 56-7. After 2 straight weeks with blowout victories over Streamwood and Pekin, the Batavia Bulldogs (9-1) will travel to Chicago’s Gately Stadium to face a tougher Simeon squad (8-2) at 7 pm on Fri., Nov. 6 in a second round IHSA playoff matchup. Now facing one of their biggest challenges this […]

By Davis Ward If anyone thought that Pekin was going to be a challenge then prepare yourself for Simeon. Simeon was 7-2 this regular season, scoring an average of 34 points a game, and beating its opponents by an average of 23 points per game. So it’s no doubt that the Wolverines will be well […]

By Tommy Maren Two years ago, Batavia baseball had one of its most successful seasons of all time. Finishing as Upstate Eight Conference champions and making a deep run in the state tournament, the future looked bright for the Bulldogs. However, after a disappointing 2015 campaign, Batavia looks to get back on track with new […]

By Aaron Viland There are plenty of great albums that are included on every top ten list, and which have a name that seems to carry more weight than the music itself, but what about the great albums that don’t get as much recognition? Here’s a list of ten great albums you might not have […]

By Brandon Abbs Let’s say theoretically that I showed up to school one morning wearing a shirt bearing an inflammatory racist statement. Obviously, that would be bigoted and objectively wrong (racists aside – in my opinion, objective does not have to mean everyone agrees with it). But if you were to say, ¨That’s not politically […]

By Collin Cadle Every month, The Chicago Tribune, chooses an athlete of the month based on internet voting. The athlete with the most votes wins. In our school, senior quarterback Kyle Niemiec won this month. “I feel honored, and grateful to have the people in this community to give me all the support that they give […]

By Grace Borchert The Batavia girls’ cross country team is ranked third in the state and heading towards IHSA Regionals on Sat., Oct. 24 with high goals. The varsity team already won its second consecutive Upstate 8 Conference meet, averaging 18:09 as a team in the three-mile run. Emma Stephens, a sophomore and top runner, […]

By Maddie Rea and Alexandra Davis Our school has a tennis team? Surprise ladies and gents, we do. Other sports tend to be taken more seriously at Batavia. When I tell people I play tennis, the response back is usually negative. They laugh or make jokes about how easy it is to play. In fact, tennis […]

By Sam Fricano The time has come around again where the green leaves turn to a beautiful red-orange and the air becomes crisp as a new season begins. While everyone is sad to see summer go, in my opinion fall is the most beautiful season of them all. The entire world around us changes color. […]

By Grace Borchert Batavia High School has started a new orchestra class, Sinfonietta, for the 2015-2016 school year. Sinfonietta is a sophomore class where orchestra students have the chance to grow and prepare for the audition into one of the two orchestra classes, Symphony and Philharmonic. Students are placed in orchestras that they can grow […]