By Andrew Costigan Basketball season starts in a week and Batavia’s team is excited to take the court again after finishing with a 15-14 record last season. Batavia has nine returning seniors playing this season and hope to use this depth to continue to improve and make Batavia a basketball powerhouse. The Spectator was able […]

By Davis Ward It’s no surprise that the Batavia Bulldogs are in the playoffs for football again. With a record of 8-1 it looks like they could advance deep into the playoffs again this year. Coach Dennis Piron has very high hopes of this season,  “We’re at a point here now where we can compete with […]

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 Alyssa Stanczak Hoisted five-feet-high off the ground by two fellow cheerleaders, a small error resulted in a dramatic change for Lauren Wegner. While practicing a stunt for cheerleading her sophomore year, Wegner was dropped, hit her head, and obtained a concussion, which caused her to lose her sense of smell and sense of taste. […]

By Seth Winkle Football: Everyone knows the Batavia has a great tradition of football. Head coach Dennis Piron has not lost a conference game since he took over in 2011. Piron only lost one regular season game this season in a nail-biter against Oswego. Many of the Bulldogs are going on to play in college, […]

By Seth Winkle As Jake Birkhaug ended his wrestling season February 7 and began auditioning for the school play ¨Little Brother¨ a few days later, all amidst his studying for AP classes and working towards improving the school as student ambassador, many wondered if Jake’s effort was going to be worth it. He would tell […]

By Brendan Jones Most athletes are either hard working or talented. It is rare to find both, but Glenn Albanese Jr. is both dedicated and a naturally gifted athlete. Standing at six feet and six inches tall, two-hundred and twenty pounds, Albanese Jr. is a student-athlete at Batavia High School. As a 16-year-old he verbally […]

By: Anastasia Gelardi   While Batavia Public School District 101 is preparing for the 2015-2016 school year, the Batavia High School administration has made the decision to eliminate Dance from the P.E Curriculum at BHS moving forward, leaving students, as well as teachers and parents, disappointed. BHS has offered a wide variety of different classes […]