Rosado Among STLToday Area Athletes of the Week
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March 10, 2010
A 5-foot-8 junior guard, Rosado poured in 33 points to lead the Golden Eagles to their first-ever district championship, a 58-50 triumph over host Whitfield. Rosado led the Golden Eagles in scoring in all three district-tournament games. Rosado, who was named all-tournament at Eureka and all-district, averages a team-best 13.9 points to go along with 5.4 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 3.2 steals.
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Golden Eagle Rally Lifts NorthTech to Playoff Victory
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March 10, 2010
Class 3 sectional • Golden Eagles come back from 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter to claim their first playoff victory in school history.
ST. CHARLES — The North County Tech girls are making history. The Golden Eagles trailed Bowling Green by 10 points early in the fourth quarter of Wednesday night’s Class 3 sectional basketball game at St. Charles West High School. But North Tech rallied, despite missing nine free throws in the final four minutes, and defeated Bowling Green 64-61 with an impressive late charge to advance to Saturday’s quarterfinal round. “We’re excited,” guard Angela Randall said. “This is Tech’s first time winning districts and going on. We have to bring our fans out to support us. Nobody really supports Tech like that — they think that Tech is just a small school. We have a lot of potential at our school. People just don’t know. We’re trying to put us on the map this year.”
North Tech (20-5) advances to play either California (23-2) or Macon (24-4) in the Class 3 quarterfinals at 1 p.m. Saturday at Hannibal High School. California is ranked third in Class 3; Macon is ranked 10th. “Hopefully we can make a run that can put us on the map,” coach George Merritt said. “North Tech has a hard time finding a map, so just to be on there would be nice.” The Golden Eagles were led by 21 points from guard Yelena Rosado and 19 from Randall, who gave North County Tech its first lead of the night with a steal and a layup with 1:32 remaining. Alarra Bill-Binder added 10. Bowling Green (24-4), ranked fifth in Class 3, led 13-11 after one quarter, 31-24 at halftime and by as many as 12 in the third quarter.
 “Their athleticism is so much better and they get after it a whole lot more than what we normally see,” Bowling Green coach Bobby Spoonster said. “As a group, they are just so much more athletic than we normally see on an everyday basis.” The Bobcats ran into trouble late in the fourth when their top two players — 6-foot-3 McDonald’s All-American and University of Texas signee Anne Marie Hartung (18 points) and forward Talia Brown (22 points) — fouled out in a two-minute span. With Hartung and Brown out, North Tech held Bowling Green to four points in the final two minutes. North Tech missed seven straight free throws at one point but scored seven points in the final two minutes to pull out the Golden Eagles’ first playoff victory in school history. “It would have been really sad to lose this game because of free throws, but we did some other big things that came through for us and some doors opened up at the end,” Merritt said. “Getting those two players out definitely helped.”.
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Rosado Roasts Whitfield in District Title Game
By Brett Auten  Suburban Journals
March 10, 2010
NorthTech junior guard Yelena Rosado scores 33 points in the district title game.
You name a shot and Yelena Rosado had it in her repertoire Friday night. Aside from dunking it, the North Tech junior guard did everything else in the Golden Eagles' 58-50 Class 3, District 5 championship victory over Whitfield. Rosado exploded for 33 points and pulled down six rebounds. Now, with that momentum, North Tech (17-5) enters Wednesday's sectional showdown at St. Charles West against Bowling Green.
"It's been a good season but we're going to keep pushing and try to win a state championship," Rosado said. "We play good together, we have chemistry and like to talk." The 5-foot-7 Rosado, who is the North County Journal Athlete of the Week, can be as inconsistent as she is versatile. There have been stretches throughout the season when she has scored four, six, eight points. Prior to Friday's blowup, she was averaging 12 points a game. But coach George Merritt has always been able to count on her to play well at any position. "I can put her anywhere from one to five and she is going to do a great job," Merritt said. "It's about where we need her in a particular game. She goes where we need her." That fact was on display against the Warriors. After a putrid first quarter, the Golden Eagles were down 9-1. "It seemed like there was an invisible person up there knocking the shot out," Merritt said. "Once we got into a rhythm, things kind of fell into our favor."
In the second quarter is when Rosado heated up. Trailing 13-5 with 5:26 to play in the first half, Rosado scored eight unanswered points, including two 3-pointers to give the Golden Eagles their first lead of the game. "She is a phenomenal player. I told her before the game, a true player wins games at the right time," Merritt said. "She has had games where she has scored two buckets. I told her I needed her tonight." Tyler Iuten's layup at the buzzer put Whitfield up 23-21 but Rosado had scored 17 of her team's 20 points in the period. "We were stopping everybody but she just hit a wave and got hot," Whitfield coach Melanie Marcy said. "She is a heckuva player but you can't let one person score that many points. She caught fire."
Rosado started the third with a pretty fake pass and layup and followed an empty Warrior possession with a nice baseline bucket to make it 27-23. With an 18-13 run, North Tech went into the 4th quarter up 39-36. "At first, we were a little sluggish but we picked it up. We came into the locker room and talked about what we needed to do and came out and did it," Rosado said. "Once one player scored it broke the seal on the basket and we all flowed." Rosado finished the night 12-of-20, including 3-of-6 from the 3-point line. She also drained six of eight free throws. "She came through when we needed her the most," Merritt said. "She can do great things at the right time."
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Golden Eagles Win First Ever District Championship
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March 5, 2010
The visiting North Technical Golden Eagles overcome the host Whitfield Warriors 58 to 50 in the Girls Basketball District Finals.
The North County Tech girls basketball team overcame a wobbly start to win its first ever district championship over host Whitfield 58-50 on Friday. Junior guard Yelena Rosado poured in 33 points and the No. 2 seed Golden Eagles, who are just in their fifth year of existence improve to 17-5. "This is big for our school. We just go hard," North County Tech Coach George Merritt said. "Tonight, just had a better team. They're not as good as we are. They could have won the game because (Whitfield coach Melanie Marcy) made some great adjustments with what she had to work with."
North Tech led 39-36 to start the fourth quarter but a quick 7-2 run, keyed by a three-point play by senior forward Alarra Gill Binder gave the Golden Eagles some cushion. Whitfield's standout freshman Stephanie Anderson pulled her team back with four unanswered points. But North Tech was proficient enough from the free throw line, making 5-of-8 down the stretch. "At first we were a little sluggish but we picked it up. We came into the locker room and talked about we needed to do and came out and did it," Rosado said. "Once one player scored it broke the seal on the basket and we all flowed."
 The No. 1 seeded Warriors, who started two freshmen and a sophomore finished the year 13-7. "I just think there were a lot of crucial moments and whoever made the last move was going to take it," Whitfield coach Melanie Marcy said. "We still had a shot until the end. It was just some big, athletic play with three or four minutes left that turned the tide their way." With Anderson leading the way, Whitfield led 9-1 at the end of the first quarter. "It seemed like there was an invisible person up there knocking the shot out," Merritt said. "Once we got into a rhythm things kind of fell into our favor."
In the second is when Rosado heated up. Trailing 13-5 with 5:26 to play, Rosado scored eight unanswered points, including two 3-pointers to give the Golden Eagles their first lead of the game. "She is a phenomenal player. I told her before the game, a true player wins games at the right time," Merritt said. "She has had games where she has scored two buckets. I told her I needed her tonight." Tyler Iuten's layup at the buzzer put Whitfield up 23-21 but Rosado had scored 17 of her team's 20 points in the period. Rosado started the third with pretty fake pass and layup and followed an empty Warrior possession with a nice baseline bucket to make it 27-23.
After Whitfield tied the game at 32 on a drive by Tyler Ituen, Brandi Riddle nailed a 3-pointer and Angela Randall's field goal put the Golden Eagles up 37-32 with 1:35 left in the quarter. With an 18-13 run, North County Tech went in to the 4th quarter up 39-36. Randall finished with10 points and 14 rebounds.
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Students Participate in Achievement Days 2010 Event
 On March 1st-2nd North Technical TREND members, Health Science students, and Culinary Arts students reached out to students with special needs in the 5th annual Achievement Days 2010 Event. In cooperation with the Special School District Character Plus Program, over eighty North Tech students served in a variety of roles helping to make this a day to remember for special needs students in both our cooperating schools as well as our SSD buildings. The theme of the Achievement Days event was to “Pave the Way for 4-H”. 4-H is a youth organization with the stated mission of "engaging youth to reach their fullest potential while advancing the field of youth development." The four focus areas of 4-H are head, heart, hands, and health. This is embodied by the 4-H Pledge which states "I Pledge my Head to clearer thinking, my Heart to greater loyalty, my Hands to larger service, and my Health to better living, for my club, community, my country, and my world." (4-H.org, 2009). Some of the roles carried out by our North Tech students at this event include exercise routines, pillow making, scrap-booking, puppet making, a food toss, a blood pressure measuring table, a food education table, and many other hands-on activities. It was a wonderful opportunity for North Technical students to develop leadership qualities and to enrich their lives by helping special needs children. Students found that reaching out to others can be a rewarding, gratifying, and enjoyable experience.
SkillsUSA Awards Ceremony Highlights Success
 NorthTech has its best showing ever as 55 Students head to the State SkillsUSA Competition held at Linn State Technical College in Linn, MO.
North Technical High School recently held its SkillsUSA Awards ceremony to recognize winners of the various SkillsUSA contests held throughout the school year at Lewis & Clark, Ranken, and Forest Park. Under the supervision of Esther Angelos, who was nominated as the Missouri Skills USA Teacher of the Year, North Technical garnered a tremendous list of medals and awards (complete list shown below), which included almost twenty 1st place honors. The school will be sending 55 students to the State SkillsUSA Competiion, which represents the largest contingent of students that North Technical has ever sent to the state level. The state competition will be held in late March at Linn State Technical College in Linn, Missouri. Ms. Angelos will be recognized for her recent SkillsUSA Teacher of the Year achievement at the Linn, Missori competition. Congratulations to Ms. Angelos, the SkillsUSA advisors, and all the students for such a successful year of competition!
Complete List of 2009-2010 NorthTech SkillsUSA Winners
Team of Rasheen Taylor, DeAndre Ross, Aaliyah Bruce, Kayla Alexander 2nd place Quiz Bowl Contest
DeAndre Ross 1st place Architectural drafting
Robert Turner 3rd place Architectural drafting
DeAndre Ross 1st place Architectural drafting written technical information
Team of Thaddaeus Pinkins, Don Rolley & Tyre Williams 1st place Automated Manufacturing Technology
Christopher Webb 1st place Automotive Service written technical information
Jessica Harvey 3rd place Carpentry written technical information
Terrell Hughley 1st place Carpentry written technical information
Jared Cheatham 1st place CNC Milling
Nick Moutrie 2nd place CNC Milling
Camerson Dozier 1st place CNC Turning-Lathe
Brian Rounds 2nd place CNC Turning-Lathe
Charles Rowey 3rd place CNC Turning-Lathe
Jake Thorn 1st place Collision Repair Technology
Asantee Turner 2nd place Collision Repair Technology
Nick Decker 2nd place Commercial Baking written Technical information
Jamar Vales 3rd place Computer Maintenance Technology
Sandi Bowers 1st place Computer Networking Technical information
Trenise Burns 1st place Cosmetology Written Technical information
Taylor Jones 2nd place Cosmetology Written Technical information
Lerie Gabriel 1st place Criminal Justice WrittenTechnical Information
Brook Sanders 1st place Grafphic Communication WrittenTech Information
Tyler Millard 3rd place HVAC written Technical information 2nd place HVAC
Tim Conley 1st place HVAC
Quincy Cooper 3rd place HVAC
Mike Jones 1st place Internetworking
John Greulich 3rd place Medical Math
Luke Seppelt 3rd place Medical Math
Christa Clark 1st place Nurse Assisting Written technical information
Jake Gonzalez 3rd place Precision Machining Technology
Natoshia Bates 1st place Pre-School Teaching Assistant written technical information
Carmel Bradley 2nd place Residential Plumbing Written technical information
Terrence Collie 1st place Residential Plumbing Written technical information
Tommy Forguson 3rd place Residential Wiring
Josh Joseph 1st place Residential Wiring
William Haynes 3rd place Technical Drafting 2nd place Technical written technical information | | | | |
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