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The Spearhead

The student news site of Battle High School

The Spearhead

The student news site of Battle High School

The Spearhead

Junior Ellie Buxton competes in 100m freestyle

Just Keep Swimming

Breleigh Moore, Coverage Editor February 6, 2025

While the Battle High School Swim Team is a small collection of mainly beginners, they have seen continuous growth during the 2024-2025 season. The team gained another member from the previous season,...

Poster for Love/Sick hanging outside of the guidance office.

Sick of Love

Grant Hughes, Photography Editor February 4, 2025

The new semester brings a new line of rehearsals to Battle Performing Arts. The new play put on by the theater is Love/Sick written by John Cariani. The play follows a series of nine different relationships...

Ja'Kobi LaBoy (10) taking the ball up the court.

Nothing But Net

Corbin Buechter, Marketing Editor January 31, 2025

The Battle Men’s basketball team has started their season with an 11-4 record in their first fifteen games. They have also won their first two conference games over Smith-Cotton and Rock Bridge. Battle...

Opinion: AMI, Am I Doing This?

Opinion: AMI, Am I Doing This?

Coen Buxton, Layout Editor January 29, 2025

On Sunday, January 5, Columbia Public Schools experienced the first snow day of the 2024-2025 school year. But something was new, students were faced with a new form of online learning called the Alternative...

TikTok is on the Clock

TikTok is on the Clock

Zachary Wood, Lead Editor January 23, 2025

TikTok has had a rough few days after the app was temporarily banned last Saturday but was almost immediately unbanned the next day. Senior J.R. Caine said, “It’s really whatever, I wasn’t super...

Carter Peck, Brandon Schoeneberg, Sarah Moore, Helena Duvnjak, and Grant Hughes participate in an intensive game of corn hole.

Your Backyard Friends

Amin Gozal, Copy Editor January 21, 2025

Backyard Club was approved at the October meeting of Battle’s Executive Council. The new club, influenced by Rock Bridge’s Pickleball Club, wanted to create an environment in which students could get...

Snowvember

Corbin Buechter, Marketing Editor December 4, 2024

November weather can change quickly. It is one of the months with the largest difference between the highest and lowest temperatures.  The highest recorded temperature in November for Columbia was...

Battle Speech and Debate team pose for photo with their medals and awards

Speaking to a New Audience

Amin Gozal, Copy Editor November 20, 2024

The BHS Speech and Debate team has lost multiple seniors since last year, however, the club has grown in numbers due to an influx of novices. The club has roughly twenty members, many of them being new...

Free Dinner sign outside of the lunch lines.

Get a Loaf of This!

Coen Buxton, Layout Editor November 8, 2024

Starting November 6, Battle students were offered free dinner in the Commons every day after school from 3:45 to 4:30pm. Students can punch in their student identification number into the pin pads.  After...

Jostens order form and preview magazine on Sharla Hyler's desk.

Opinion: The Senior Meeting Felt Like a Sales Pitch

Amin Gozal, Copy Editor November 6, 2024

With some seniors fretting the costs of college, the additional fees for graduation seem intimidating. Even though seniors already had a lot to think about, Battle held a mandatory senior meeting on October...

Battle's Offense gets set for the snap

District Finale

Corbin Buechter, Marketing Editor November 6, 2024

On November 1 Battle Football played Ft. Zumwalt West in a win-or-go-home game in the first round of district play. Battle went into the game with a record of 1-8 and Ft. Zumwalt West went into the game...

Raising Awareness Through Talent

Angel Collins October 30, 2024

Junior Kaia Mawhinney will be hosting this year's winter talent show.  “It ties into my advanced seminars and investigations class, which just helps me run it. It gives me a sponsor guarantee but...

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