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Shawn Sturgill, 18, had a clique of his own at Shelbyville High, a dozen or so friends who sat at the same long bench in the hallway outside the cafeteria. They were, Shawn says, an average crowd. Not too rich, not too poor; not bookish, but not slow. They rarely got into trouble. Mainly they sat around and talked about Camaros and the Indianapolis Colts...
These days the bench is mostly empty. Of his dozen friends, Shawn says just one or two are still at Shelbyville High. If some cliques are defined by a common sport or a shared obsession with Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, Shawn's friends ended up being defined by their mutual destiny: nearly all of them became high school dropouts...
...JANUARY 2006, SANTA ANA, CALIF.: English teacher Sarah Bench-Salorio, 29, was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to 29 counts of lewd conduct (sex with three boys--two of her former students and one of their friends--ages...
...have] lots of versatility from guys in the lineup and guys on the bench,” Brown said. “That’s definitely going to be exploited. We’ve been limited by travel regulations. We’ll see freshmen play that we haven’t seen...
...further damage by forcing sophomore Matt Vance to pop up and strand two runners, the damage had been done.“We don’t have that many lefties,” said sophomore Shawn Haviland, “so if [Taylor] can come off the bench and hit off a powerful rightie like he did today, that’s great.”The Bears would not put together another serious threat for the rest of the game, as Brunnig came in after the fifth and threw four nearly perfect innings, allowing no hits and recording...