RNE hosts Coming Home pep rally

Lyra Pinner, Editor • February 2, 2024

The Coming Home King and Queen contestants are announced as the crowd cheers in the background.

This Friday, Richland Northeast hosted its winter sports pep rally a few hours before the Coming Home basketball game against Lugoff-Elgin High School that evening.

To kick off the rally, RNE’s Cavalier marching band performed their routine as students were ushered into the gym.

The Cavalier marching band is playing as the students enter the gym.@RNECavaliers @RNEAthletics pic.twitter.com/Y5BXHoaH4p

— The Saber (@RNESaber) February 2, 2024

The members of the bowling team were introduced right after, followed by the girls’ basketball and boys’ basketball teams.

Here’s your girls basketball team! @GirlsBasketbal6 @RNEAthletics pic.twitter.com/4CNK7UcrdV

— The Saber (@RNESaber) February 2, 2024

The Coming Home King and Queen contestants were announced soon after. The Coming Home Prince and Princess were both named at the pep rally, but the King and Queen would be announced later that evening at the basketball game.

Here are the coming home king and queen contestants! The winner will be announced today at the basketball games! @RNECavaliers @northeaststugov pic.twitter.com/rQBeUzuuCN

— The Saber (@RNESaber) February 2, 2024

Next up was a performance put on by Allan University’s “Band of Gold” to further hype up the crowd for the oncoming game.

After their performance was the long-awaited game of Family Feud, repped by upperclassmen and underclassmen wearing orange and blue to celebrate the last day of spirit week. The upperclassmen came out victorious with a score of 4-0.

The upperclassman beat the underclassmen in family feud 4-0! @RNECavaliers pic.twitter.com/AVxXPYCGOn

— The Saber (@RNESaber) February 2, 2024

The fun continued with a dance-off between one of RNE’s Student Resource Officers and upperclassman “Big Country” Mosely, followed by a game of “Finish the Lyrics” with the student body as a whole. The rally was concluded with the singing of the alma mater before students were dismissed back to their fourth block classes.

Big Country and one of our SRO’s putting on a show for @RNECavaliers pic.twitter.com/28ukJdsKVe

— The Saber (@RNESaber) February 2, 2024

The games of underclassmen vs upperclassman continue with a game of finish the lyrics
Upperclassman: 5
Underclassmen: 1 pic.twitter.com/to66zTwPz7

— The Saber (@RNESaber) February 2, 2024

The Coming Home basketball game between Richland Northeast and Lugoff-Elgin began that evening at 6:00 p.m at RNE. The winners of the Coming Home court would also be announced during the event.

About the Contributor

Lyra Pinner, Staff Editor

Lyra Pinner is currently an 11th grader at Richland Northeast and is an editor for the online newspaper, the Saber. She's active in the Book Club as well as the Horizon magnet program. She is currently in Journalism 3 and plans on being an active member through her senior year. Lyra enjoys listening to music, reading, and writing and puts her literary skills to use on the Saber as well as in the yearbook. After graduation, she plans on majoring in English in college and pursuing a career as an author in her adult life.