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Student Newspaper of Caney Creek High School

Creek Compass
Student Newspaper of Caney Creek High School

Creek Compass
James Ochoa

James Ochoa, Reporter

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LAST ONE.Senior Eduardo Ortiz and Carlos Gonzalez are on the ground as the last whistle was blown to their playoff game against Macarthur High School in March. 23, 2023. This was the closing game to their high school run for all of the seniors in the team which brought a wave of emotions as they came short of taking the win. “There’s times where you’ll be faced with many downs but it’ll always matter more how hard you are able to come back up,” Gonzalez said. “I think that this team will and has to come back, I have hope for them.”

RECAPS 3/27-3/31: Boys soccer ends

James Ochoa, Reporter
Mar 28, 2023
ONE LAST HUG. Coach Gretchen Kloes hugs the seniors from the varsity team after their victory against New Caney High School on March 17, 2023. Having so many seniors who contributed to the program for as long as they have, it was a special night for them having their families there celebrating their success. Because of their leadership and because they wanted to send them out with a positive positive note and they're the first team to play six a soccer here at Caney Creek and that comes with pressure. And that comes with expectations and Kloes thought they handled themselves really well, "We've actually never have such a good game, it was 1-1 until the very end and then managed to score with three minutes left to take the win and when you have that kind of emotional game, you're emotional because of that," Kloes said. She experienced something new after the game from any other year, "After a game they all kind of came together and wanted to like each person talk and say something about like, we're going to miss this and we're going to and that hasn't happened before and I think they really understand like what it means to be a team and what it means to be a family and so it was it was very emotional for everybody. There were lots of tears."

RECAPS 3/21-3/24: Soccer wins Senior Night

James Ochoa, reporter
Mar 22, 2023
POWER. Junior Nicole Rodriguez attempts the deadlift for the first time at the regional girl’s powerlifting meet at Alvin High School on Feb 25, 2023. Rodriguez had attempted the squat as well and came a bit short in certain events, “ I was really nervous with not getting my lifts up, which I didn't” Rodriguez said “It was a bunch of emotions at one time.”

RECAPS 2/27- 3/03: Female student qualifies to state for powerlifting

James Ochoa, Reporter
Feb 28, 2023
POWER THROUGH! Senior Ruby Sanchez competes at Willis high school on Feb 16,2023. Ruby got first place in her weight class and will be going to compete in the girls regionals meet on Feb 25, 2023 at Alvin high school.

SPORTS RECAPS 2/21- 2/24: Girls powerlifting sends 6 to regionals

James Ochoa
Feb 22, 2023
PASS IT ON. Freshman Andrea Rangel running the first line in the girls 4x1600 on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023, Varsity Track competed against many other schools at the Lake Houston relays at Huffman.

SPORTS RECAPS 2/13-2/16: Track runs 1st meet of season

James Ochoa, Reporter
Feb 14, 2023
UP IN THE AIR. Sophomore Erik Carbajal Benitez controls the ball with his chest at the Willis stadium on Feb. 4, 2023. The boys varsity team was able to successfully beat the Kats 4-1. “I feel like our team definitely has the chemistry and also the passion,” said Carbajal “I try to always do my role on the team and make us as successful as possible.”

RECAPS: 2/6 – 2/10: Senior powerlifters take first at Conroe Invitational

James Ochoa
Feb 7, 2023
SPORTS RECAP 1/23-1/27: Powerlifting competes for the first time

SPORTS RECAP 1/23-1/27: Powerlifting competes for the first time

James Ochoa, Reporter
Jan 24, 2023
Junior Paul Ntasin celebrates after scoring a goal during the final match for the Kilt Cup Tournament on Saturday Jan, 7. 2023 at Caney Creek High School. The entire duration of the game both teams were tied until the second half of the match. “It felt really amazing being able to score the first goal for my team,” Ntasin said “I think it motivated our team and because of that we were able to score a second goal and win the match.”

SPORTS RECAP 1/9-1/13: Boys, Girls soccer take the win

James Ochoa, Reporter
Jan 11, 2023
DRIBBLE. Junior Erick Chavelas dribbles the ball down to go score on Jan.14 , 2023. They went to score.

SPORT RECAP 1/4-1/6: Soccer begins tournament games

James Ochoa, Reporter
Jan 6, 2023
PINNED. On Saturday Dec. 10, 2022 the team went to Cy-Creek High School for a quad meet. Junior Talon Pryzymus won his match by pin.

SPORTS RECAPS 12/12-12/16: Wrestling competes in first quad meet of season

James Ochoa, Reporter
Dec 15, 2022
Freshman Elizabeth Sanchez attempts to gain control of the ball against Kingwood Park's player in a file photo from March 2022. "Well, I have learned a lot of things about soccer like my dribbling, my shooting everything has gotten way better. The people on the team, I love the people on the team they're so nice like I love them. It was a really good season, had really good games, we lost some games, but we won some games, we did really really good on them and I am proud of where the team has come," said Elizabeth Sanchez.

Soccer to hold tryouts

James Ochoa, Reporter
Nov 17, 2022
TOUCHDOWN. Chris Malott throws his hands up in a touchdown motion as the varsity football team scores at the homecoming football game on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022. Malott coaches the receiver on the Panther varsity football team. Mallet started coaching in 2018 at Mance Park Middle School, he then moved to Moorhead Junior High before coaching at Caney Creek. “I was excited, I am always excited for games. Whenever we do something positive, to me it feels better seeing them do better than I ever did,” Malott said. “I suppose I am doing something good; it is so much better seeing the kids that you are coaching do it.”

Former pro football player steps on turf as receiving coach

James Ochoa, Reporter
Nov 7, 2022
IT'S ALMOST OVER. Sophomore Cayle Mcgee prepares herself for the game against Channelview on Oct. 29, 2022 at Caney Creek high school. Mcgee sets up for a free throw on the line ready to shoot . “I was feeling a lot of anxiety because our point guard is out with a concussion so I had to step up and it was just stressful,” said McGee.

SPORTS RECAP 10/31-11/4: Girls Basketball starts season

James Ochoa, Reporter
Nov 4, 2022
COUNT ON ME. Junior Cayle Kelly runs toward the finish line during the Cross Country meet at Liberty on Saturday, Sept 24, 2022. The Girls Varsity team placed fourth overall with 70 points. "The fact that I was running for Varsity for the first time was what pushed me, and I needed to finish to do good," Kelly said. "Varsity was depending on me." Was what pushed Cayle forward on completing her race and crossing that finish line.

SPORTS RECAP 9/26-9/30: Football loses heartbreaker 34-27 against Cleveland

James Ochoa, Reporter
Sep 26, 2022

Student Council hosts “Kick Hunger” fundraiser

James Ochoa, Reporter
Sep 22, 2022

SPORTS RECAP 9/19-9/23: Football loses a close defeat against Grand Oaks 38-28

James Ochoa, Reporter
Sep 21, 2022
EYEING TO WIN. Sophomore Rudy Carassco watches the football game against Conroe at Buddy Moorhead Stadium on Friday, September 9, 2022. After playing on the freshman football team last year, his sophomore year he excelled and got on to the varsity team. This is the first time Caney Creek and Conroe have competed against each other in football. “I was feeling very confident and prepared for war,” Carassco said. “I was very accomplished with all the training I have done, I am glad that I'm on Varsity,”.

SPORTS RECAP 9/12-9/16: Football loses district opener in blowout game

James Ochoa, Reporter
Sep 13, 2022
Senior Alex Castillo competes at the Grizzly Invitational at Grand Oaks on September. 3. 2022. The boy Cross Country team placed seventh beating Conroe High and Willis. "we felt confident going into the race and it felt good Beating Conroe but we know we still have to keep working to make sure we beat them in our upcoming races." Castillo said. Beating these teams who are their rivals is a big accomplishment for the team.

SPORTS RECAP 9/6-9/9: Cross Country places seventh at Grizzly Invitational

James Ochoa, Reporter
Sep 8, 2022
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