Battle of the Classes was a major success this year! Battle of the Classes is one of Marlboro High School’s most successful and largest events held in the school year, which brings competition to the table! Events leading up to Battle of the Classes included Mustang Mondays(Class Color,Red/White/Blue, and Mustang Apparel), Find the Mustang, Penny Wars, Theme Day, and STUCO Squares. Mustang Mondays are new this year, in which you have to wear your class color, Red/White/Blue, or Mustang Apparel on a specified day, then you show that your wearing it in the main lobby and your grades BOTC team earns points. Find the Mustang is an event in which the BOTC teams are each given the riddles/clues, to find a staff member in the building. Penny Wars is an event ran by MS for MS in which pennies equal positive points and silver coins/dollars equal negative points. Theme Day is a day where the BOTC teams dress up. STUCO Squares is an event where the BOTC teams collect money during their lunch period, to be donated to charity. Every $5 equals a spirit square which counts as points. The events on the night of BOTC include the Scooter Triathlon, the Egg Toss, Turkey Time,Heave-Ho, Thinking Event, Bulls Eye, Tug-a-War, and each grades Lip-Sync. Scooter Triathlon involves Three guys from each grade line up on one side of the gym and the girls on the other. Each must complete one length of the gym floor and tag off with their partner who will return to the other side of the gym in the same position. At the end of one complete lap, they will tag off and the new pair will switch to the next position. The three positions are swimming(going length of floor on stomach), bicycle(going backwards using just your feet), and running(hands on the scooter, bent over, running) The egg toss is when each pair tosses the egg to their partner. If they catch it without breakage two times, they will take three steps back. This repeats until only one person has the Egg. Turkey Time is where each grade level picks a person on their team to wear a turkey mask and wrap in plastic wrap, until it runs out, then the person wrapped needs to hobble over to the center of the gym. Heave-Ho is where one member from each team will start out by pulling a piece of material with one member of their team on it. When they reach a certain distance marked with tape on the floor, another team member will get on the tarp. We will continue to see which team can have the most members pulled the farthest within a set time. The pocffint of this Jenna or the thinking event is that Mrs. Henderson, the host of BOTC, will say pull a color that is.... and then you have to pull a piece that is that color in a set time. Then whoever is last standing wins! Bulls Eyes is where one member from each team will roll a ball to the target each team will try to get closest to the target, while gaining points. Tug-a-War is where two grade levels will test their strength. The Lip-Sync is where each team will perform their dance or lip-sync for about 5 minutes. There will be 5 judges evaluating their outfits, lip syncing ability, originality, and synergy. The Sophomores won Mustang Mondays, the Seniors managed to win both Find the Mustang and Penny Wars, the Juniors won STUCO squares, and the Sophomores won Theme Day, in which their theme was the Day of the Sophs! The other grades themes were Toys R Frosh, Junior Rhyme Time, and Senior Citizens.
The day has come! It was finally time for Battle of the Classes 2017! At approximately 6pm students were crowding outside the main entrance of Marlboro High School anxiously waiting to get in. As the doors opened, students entered the auditorium for a brief security check and then they were let out to the main gym, where the event was being held! BOTC started off at about 6:25pm with the Marlboro High School Cheer Team doing their performance! The Cheer Team did an outstanding job performing and got the crowd pumped up at BOTC! After the cheer team cleared out, the freshmen introduction song played! As the freshmen entered the gym and got closer to their grades section you could hear the enthusiasm from the Class of 2021, as they cheered on their grade! The Sophomore and Junior Section did the same thing as their grades’ introductions played! The Senior section got especially rowdy as the senior BOTC team walked into the gymnasium! After the introductions were played, then began the first event of BOTC, which was the Scooter Triathlon! On your mark, get set, GO! Each grade level cheered on their team as each pair went across a length of the gym and tagged off! The seniors won the Scooter Triathlon, second place were the Juniors, third place were the Sophomores, and fourth place were the Freshmen. Next up, the Egg Toss! Freshmen won the Egg Toss! Now, it was Turkey Time! Seniors had a little bit of trouble, but managed to win the Turkey Time event! Freshmen came in second for Turkey Time, Juniors third place, and sophomores fourth place. Heave-Ho was next up! The seniors won Heave-Ho, sophomores came in second, freshmen came in third, and juniors came in fourth. Next up was the Thinking Event, which was Jenga! The Freshmen won that event, the juniors came in second, seniors came in third, and sophomores came in fourth. Next up was Bulls Eye! Juniors won that event, freshmen came in second, seniors came in third, and sophomores came in fourth. Now is to test which grade is the strongest, Tug-a-War! First round was Sophomore Girls vs Senior Girls! The sophomore girls proved whose boss as they beat the senior girls in Tug-a-War! Next round was Freshmen Girls vs Junior Girls! Junior Girls won the second round of Tug-a-War against the Freshmen Girls! Next round was Sophomore Boys vs Senior Boys! Senior Boys won this round! Next round was Freshmen Boys vs Junior Boys! Junior Boys won this round. Next up was Senior Girls vs Freshmen Girls! Senior Girls won this round! Next up were Sophomore Boys vs Freshmen Boys! Sophomore Boys won this round! Next round were Sophomore Girls vs Junior Girls! Sophomore girls won this round! The last round were Senior Boys vs Junior Boys! Seniors won this round! Now, the Marlboro High School Dance Team performed! Some songs included in their performance include "Be Humble" by Kendrick Lamar, "Mi Gente" by J Balvin, etc! After the dance team performed, the Freshmen Team performed their lip-sync dance! Some songs/bits in their performance included “Bring Them Out” by T.I., “Replay” by IYAZ, Bop to the Top, “Buttons” by the Pussycat Dolls, “Kill the Lights” by Alex Newell , “Stronger” by Kanye West, Scene from Finding Nemo, “Umbrella” by Rihanna, “Take on Me” by a-ha, “Take me Home” by Cash Cash, etc! Next up was the Sophomores performance! Some songs/bits in their performance included “We Ready” by Archie Eversole, “Bring Them Out” by T.I., 7/11 by Beyonce, Mi Gente by J Balvin, “Womanizer” by Britney Spears, a scene from the Sandlot, Scene from Titanic, “September” by Earth,Wind, and Fire , “Physical” by Olivia Newton-John, etc! Next up was the Junior performance! Some songs/bits in their performance included "Promiscuous Girl" by Nelly Furtado, Angry Elf scene from Elf the Movie, "Bye Bye Bye" by NSYNC, "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor, The Purge Announcement, "Umbrella" by Rihanna, "It's Raining Men" by The Weather Girls, "Domino" by Jessie J, “Sweet Lovin” by Sigala, etc! Last but not least, was the Class of 2018’s last BOTC lip sync! Some songs/bits in the senior performance included “Stayin’ Alive” by Bee Gees, “Kiss me Thru the Phone” by Soulja Boy, “Good Grief” by Bastille, “Feel it Still” by Portugal. The Man, “I Fall Apart” by Post Malone, “I Lived” by One Republic, “Here’s to Never Growing Up” by Avril Lavigne, etc! After the lip-sync dances came the announcement of the BOTC winner! Seniors remain undefeated as they win once again! Juniors and Freshmen tied for second place and the Sophomores came in third place. Sad to say that it was our last BOTC as students of Marlboro High School. It has really been a experience going to Battle of the Classes these past four years! We will truly miss going! As for people who have never experienced it, you must go! It is really a experience that you don’t want to miss! As for our winners, the Class of 2018 Seniors, CONGRATULATIONS SENIORS YOUR CHALLENGE IS COMPLETE! Listed below is each grade levels team members!
Freshmen:
Boys: Girls:
1) Caden Lawless 1) Taylor Urbach
2) Angelo Tropeano 2) Hailey Derosa
3) Bryden Delaney 3) Samantha Jay
4) Josh Glazier 4) Emma Jay
5) Jack Schwartz 5) Olivia Matrone
6) AJ Aquilino 6) Mackenzie Werther
7) Matt Kaplan 7) Halle Scarpa
Sophomores:
Boys: Girls:
1) Anthony Galante 1) Mikayla Umanzor
2) Alex Ratner 2) Lily Kamras
3) George Manos 3) Brianna Diaz
4) Jacob Plotkin 4) Andrea Lipkus
5) Logan Toran 5) Lexie Seidler
6) Noah Rosen 6) Rebecca Helff
7) Joseph Iacovano 7) Samantha Spano
Juniors:
Boys: Girls:
1) Vincent Aquilino 1) Olivia Amabile
2) Carson Friedman 2) Isabella Basile
3) Dylan Kaufman 3) Olivia Hornik
4) Nick Massato 4) Sydney Bohm
5) Omar Ozbay 5) Sydney Dictrow
6) Oscar Ozbay 6) Madison Rallis
7) Jerry Vakshlyak 7) Jamie Zwirn
Seniors:
Boys: Girls:
1) Brian Levine 1) Sarah Gottdenker
2) Zachary Scarpa 2) Skylar Simon
3) Jonny Helff 3) Carly Cooper
4) Davonte Smith 4) Shelly Chikis
5) Justin Marcus 5) Sarah Ricci
6) Jacob Schmid 6) Lauren Calvaruso
7) Robert Aberman 7) Danica Stern
By James Cernivani
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