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Mary Poppins Jr. takes to Titusville stage

3/12/2024

Olivia Clinton lights up the Colestock Theater stage with her portrayal of the title character in this year's Titusville Middle School's production of Mary Poppins Jr. set to open at 7 p.m. March 14. Shows are also slated for Friday, March 14 at 7 p.m., Saturday, March 18 at 2 p.m. and another show at 7 p.m.

MARY POPPINS: Olivia Clinton
BERT: Ty Witosky
JANE BANKS: Willa Kirvan
MICHAEL BANKS: Piper Chamberlain
GEORGE BANKS: Ian Hironimus
WINIFRED BANKS: Ella Donaldson
MRS. BRILL: Bailey Prather
ROBERTSON AY: Katrina Sauerland
JOHN NORTHBROOKS: Novalee Hodak
BIRD WOMAN: Mia Savinda
MISS ANDREW: Madilynn Huth
MRS. CORRY: Tilly Foxberg
NELEUS: Kiernan Fullerton
CHAIRMAN/POLICEMAN: Nora Goodnough
VON HUSSLER: Kiptyn Hunt
MISS SMYTHE: Isabella Holcomb
MESSENGER: Mykenzie Jackson
KATIE NANNA: Dakota Lott

DANCE CAPTAIN/Student Choreographers: Ella Lavery
Kylie Crocker

DANCERS:
Janae Dawson
Addisyn Edwards
Sydney Edwards
Mackenzie Jones
Aubrey Schmude
Taylor Tang

ENSEMBLE:
Taylor Emick
Ava Gates
Zoey Helmbold
Kadence Hicks
Bailey Schmude
Maddison Shontz

STAGE CREW:
Zoey Atwood
Karlie Beatty
Evan Clinton
Wyatt Farren
Andrew Gray
Olivia Happoldt
Elijah Kennedy
Chicquita LaRocque
Sophia Locke
Abigail Lucas
Frederick Michalek
Kaylan Plemmons
Keaton Rhodes
Sagel Ricke
Savannah Shreffler
Claire Turner
Mya Wencil
Arik Yochum

HIGH SCHOOL CREW:
Chloe Preston-Student Director
Liz Watkins-Student Director
Chris Warner-Student Choreographer
Flynn Kirvan-Student Director
Charlotte Winger-Student Director
Oliver Chapel-Spotlights
Kerington Hancock-Flys
Maddison Caldwell-Spotlights

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Rocket's and Knights look toward good showing at states

3/5/2024

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The strength of the 2023-24 Titusville swim team is quite evident. This year records were broken, some that stood for over 40 years. As the boys and girls competed in the District 10 championships this past weekend for a chance to compete in the state championships, they again notched names up on the all-time leader board at their school.
Joe Herman smashed his own record set a year ago with a 51.64 swim in the 100 yard butterfly. He broke his record by more than a second. The swim earned him the ninth best time of the year in Pennsylvania where he’ll get a shot at bettering it next week at Bucknell University in the state championships. He is only a couple seconds off the top swimmer. He is hoping for good swims and earning a medal in his junior year. Fellow junior from Franklin, Camden Smith, who has recorded the second best time this year in the state at 50.10 only about a second off the leader.
Alex Reynolds also broke into the record books with 1:00.97 in the 100 meter backstroke that was previously held by David Hauptman set in 2022. His swim is the 22nd best time in the state which also qualified him for states.
The pair also teamed up with Max Chatham and Aiden Patterson for the 200 meter medley relay to get a state qualifying time that is the 29th best of the year. They have a lot of water to make up, being 10 seconds off the top time this year, but they will be in the pool looking for their best time and if all goes well a medal.
Last year only Herman made it to the big dance, so this shows a great improvement for the team.

Joining them are a fairly strong contingency of swimmers from Venango County in the Class AA group. Among them is the district's outstanding swimmer, Camden Smith, who is within breathing distance of a state title in the 100 butterfly and freestyle. He set a new school record in the event with his first place win. He broke his own record he set last year.
Franklin is also the fourth-seed in the 200 medley relay. Kye Winslow, Nathan Pfennigwerth, Camden Smith, Jordan Stumpf took second with a 1:36.95 which also broke the school record previously held by Mike Hart, BJ Frederick, Andy Frederick, Phil Emerson back in 2011.
Jordan Stumpf and Nate Pfenningwerth will also compete in the 200 and 50 freestyle respectively.Pfennigwerth became the first District 10 champion for Franklin in five years.

Oil City’s Caleb Stover will also compete in the 50 free.
For the girls, Oil City’s Kallie Smith qualified in the 200 individual medley and 100 backstroke. Dani Erdley will swim the 500 freestyle for Franklin.
Other Crawford County swimmers are Jaidyn Jordan of Meadville in the 200 freestyle. Fellow bulldog Julianne Gowtetski will be competing in the 100 backstroke and butterfly events.
As the weather warms and we turn toward spring sports, there is still some unfinished business in the pool.

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A pair of Rockets, a Tiger and a Knight close to the big dance

3/3/2024

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A pair of Rockets, a Knight and a Tiger just missed the podium Saturday at the Class AA Northwest Regional championships in Sharon.

Seniors Nate Stearns and Landen Wolfkiel were top the placers for Titusville, both finishing with fifth place wins.

Stearns pinned Brody Myers of Fort LeBoeuf in 1:43 to close out his career with the Rockets with 95 wins. The 133-pound senior was 36-13 this season and was 4-2 on the weekend to record his highest placement in regionals.

Wolfkiel ended his weekend with a 5-1 decision over Burke Fleming of Brookville, who he had also defeated with a pin earlier in the tournament. The senior has a remarkably improved season at 152 over last year. Wolfkiel ended the year at 37-12. His run in the post season included a first place at sections, a fourth at districts and a fifth in regionals.

Fellow senior regional qualifiers Gavin Donaldson (160) and Kaleb Brunst (189) both went 1-2 on the weekend. Also representing the Rockets in Sharon were Sawyer Wolfkiel (114) and Parker Miller (127) who also went 1-2 and Kameron Mong (172) who was 0-2.

Cael Dailey was the lone Saturday afternoon competitor for the Franklin Knight's wrestling team. The Rocky Grove (that co=ops with Franklin) senior was 2-2 on the weekend. He finished off his career with a fifth place finish at 121 pounds by recording a 7-2 decision over Ian O'Shea of Port Allegany. Gary Kiselka, Franklin's other regional qualifier was 2-2 but did not place in the 189 bracket.

Maplewood also had a fifth place finisher. Senior Chase Blake was 3-2 in the 127 bracket to fall just short of the podium. He won by injury default over Aiden Beimel of St. Mary's to close out his career as a Tiger. Blake earned his 100th career win last weekend and ends his career at 104-42.