Boys Golf Headed to State

Congratulations to our boys golf team as they are headed back to state! The following is a blurb from the SJ-R.

HAMILTON — Spencer Allender shot an 83 Monday at par-72 Deer Run Golf Course to lead Pleasant Plains to a second-place finish in the Class 1A Hamilton Sectional and a team berth in this weekend’s boys state golf tournament.

Plains shot a 350 team score. Quincy Notre Dame won the meet at 331, and Rock Island Alleman took third at 358. The top three teams advance to the 1A state meet.

“Spencer Allender (the Cardinals’ lone senior) came through for us, and so did (sophomore) Christian Darush (who shot 90),’’ Plains coach Paul Kastner said. “He was really on fire until the last couple of holes, then he kind of struggled. He shot a 42 on the front nine, which was huge for us. That’s his best round of the year.”

Plains qualified for state for the fourth straight year and the sixth time in the last eight seasons.

“The (state berth) in 2012 was the most surprising,’’ Kastner said. “We were really young that year. This one’s surprising, too, but I knew we had a chance. We just had to put up a number. The kids did a great job in tough conditions. The wind was howling.”

Boys Regional Golf Champs.

Congratulations to Coach Kastner and the boys golf team for winning the Greenview Regional with a score of 344. Individual scores are below. Congrats guys!!

Pleasant Plains

TJ Painter (So.)	77
Corbin Tullis (Jr.)	87
Spencer Allender (Sr.)	88
Mitch Bergmann (So.)	92
Christian Darush (So.)	93

Also, Congratulations to Maggie McGrath for shooting an 82 in the Williamsville Regional to advance to sectionals!!

Getting Back In Touch

Greetings, 

It has been a while since my last post, and I wanted to share some good news about our students at PPHS. Please see below.

Tyler Johnson just won the Clayville Scholarship award.  This is the 3rd consecutive year that a student in our AP English course at the high school has won this scholarship.  I highlight this because students are required (through a mini unit in AP) to complete both college application and scholarship essays.  Each year students in AP are required to write the Clayville essay as a part of this unit.  They may then choose to submit the written essay for the competition if they wish.  Also of interest to note -- this is also the 3rd year that we have done this.

Henry Houser and Alec Saebeler have been named Commended Students in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program. About 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise.  Although they will not continue in the 2016 competition for National Merit scholarship awards, Commended Students placed among the top five percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the competition. 

construction pictures

Here are some pictures of the construction progress.

Construction Project

laying the floor

new science classroom

outside of new social science class

PPHS Art Students

Jacob Delong, (Mr. Boehme holding Jacob Delong's certificate because he could not attend), Allex Langley, Sarah Livingston, and Leah Klepzig were honored with having their artwork featured in the 28th annual Sangamon County Art Exhibit hosted by SIU School of Medicine April 27 - May 15, 2015.

The awards ceremony was held on Friday, May 15th at the SIU School of Medicine art gallery.

2015 Graduation Pictures.

PPEA representative Christine McGraw presenting the PPEA Scholarship Award.This year's recipient was Connor Riddle

Salutatorian Zach Ross 

Senior Choir: Shi Kluge, Touren Paulsen, Adrianne Reese, Faith Tyler, Morgan Mayer, Venla Rajamaki, Bill Johnson, Jonathan Hagmann, Mikey Holmes, Danyalle Downey, Emily Shaw, Rachel Lange

Valedictorian T.J. Covey

High School Band

Senior Class Officer Emily Yakel giving the welcome address

CLASS OF 2015!!!