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Fighting Eagles Shut Out Wardlaw For Homecoming Victory!

PCA's Varsity Eagles shut out Wardlaw Academy 56-0 on a beautiful Homecoming night. The mighty Eagles rolled up 385 yards of total offense while our dominant defense limited Wardlaw to only 81 yards offensively.

The Fighting Eagles offense was fueled by a host of Eagles.. Connor Rourk was 13 of 16 passing for 212 yards with 4 TDs and he rushed 9 times for 89 yards with 2 TDs. Carson Rourk caught 6 passes for 104 yards with 2 TDs, Kendall Chakeris added 42 yards rushing with 1 TD and caught 3 passes for 46 yards, Ethan Lowther caught 2 passes for 36 yards with 1 TD and added 3 tackles on defense. Wyatt Shogren caught 2 passes for 26 yards with 1 TD while Colson Gunn rushes 2 times for 42 yards.

Defensively, the Eagles once again were led by a host of players. Joe Pascutti had 11 tackles, 1 sack, 1 tackle for loss, 2 fumble recoveries and a safety. Carson Rourk had 10 tackles, 2 tackles for loss, 1 pass breakup and caused a fumble. Wyatt Shogren added 8 tackles, 1 tackle for loss and a safety.. Kendall Chakeris had 8 tackles, 2 tackles for loss, 1 sack and 1 fumble recovery.. and Colson Gunn had 8 tackles and caused a fumble.

"What a great way to celebrate homecoming with a big win over a quality opponent and get everyone on the team some valuable playing time in front of our awesome home crowd. Our guys practice hard and we're focused all week and it showed in our win. We were sharp in all phases of the game."

PCA will travel to Batesburg next Friday night to take on W.W. King Academy with a 7:30 pm kick-off. 

Shadows

Peter Pan isn't the only one who likes to chase his shadow, our first grade classes have also found out that playing with shadows can be fun and educational.

Last week, each class learned about the properties of light as well as how shadows are formed. Eager to demonstrate their new knowledge, the first graders participated in some hands-on activities, such as tracking their shadows through chalk drawings. 

"The shadow activity was an investigation about how shadows change when the position of the light source changes," said first grade teacher Denae Beckett. "They drew their shadow in the morning and then stood on it again in the afternoon to compare and note the movement of their shadow due to the different location of the sun in the sky."

Payton Ralph said, "It was fun to create stuff and I learned that there are little waves that come out of the sky from the sun."

Shadows don't just come out in the sun, though, they can also be used to tell shadow puppet stories.

"This project allowed them to observe what happens when things are closer or farther from the light source," continued Beckett. "We also observed how light behaves when it shines on different materials." 

First grader Jacob Cox learned that "when you look at the light it shows how the light is made and it looks like rainbows."  While Kingston Surrat found out that, "shadows can't get smaller than your hand."

"ELA was included in the shadow puppet activity," Beckett explained. "Creating stories that had a beginning, middle, and an end...each team performed their story for the class. The children did a great job introducing their story, telling their story, and then bowing at the end."

 With the lesson spanning across the curriculums, the first graders enjoyed a  week filled with shadows, lights, and rainbows.