Senior Keegan Crabtree taking it to the rack.Photo Credit: Will Okun[/caption]
The Orange High School men’s basketball squad beat South Brunswick by a final score of 75-51 on Monday, advancing to the second round of the 3A State Playoffs. The Cougars of Brunswick kept it close early in the game, relying on their big men to take advantage of Orange’s relatively small lineup; however, with the score tied 27-27, the Panthers scored 12 straight points to cap off an explosive half. With the lead at 12 going into the second half, it proved to be insurmountable for Brunswick. The Panthers essentially ran away with the game in the second half, forcing several turnovers and scoring lots of transition baskets.
Orange was led by senior Keegan Crabtree and sophomore Eryk Brandon-Dean, who scored 21 and 16 points, respectively.
Orange’s second round game will be tomorrow, February 26, at 7:00 pm against 16-seeded, in-conference foe Chapel Hill.
Photo Credit: Jared Riley.[/caption]Orange High School is close to becoming a 4A school and crowded lunches are making this more apparent. The growing number of students has caused some classes to switch lunch periods. Seniors in third lunch have lost their privilege to leave five minutes early to go to the cafeteria. The new semester has brought about a few changes, but this one is the most aggravating to students affected.
OHS Assistant Principal Will Okun entered some classes on Friday, January 24 to move people around. Classes such as Journalism and the online classroom in the third wing basement were moved from their respective lunch to first lunch. This annoyed some students since they were used to the lunch they were in. Haley Moser, a senior, said, “Mr. Okun told us we could either go to first or third lunch but not second because it was too crowded.”
Affected classes will have the new lunch for a week and administrators will see if the lunch switches are making a difference.
Seniors who had third lunch had their lunch privilege removed because the other two lunches are 25 minutes with a small break in between and third lunch was 30 minutes. When seniors were leaving early, it did not allow the cafeteria workers a break to clean the lunch room. Okun said he would try to work something out with the seniors so they could still have a privilege of some sort since he figured what seniors were worried about was keeping their respective tables at lunch.