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Girls Soccer: Sept. 20, 3-1 Win

Josh Benjamin, Staff Writer • Sep 30, 2010

Opponent: Churchill

Score: 3-1, Win

Highlight: The Lady Wildcats played a great game, and are on their way to beating many other teams.

Player’s Insight: “The Churchill game was amazing. We basically swaffed them like no other.” –Junior Megan Brody

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Record: 5-1

Next Game: Wednesday, Sept. 22 at 4:30, B-CC at WJ

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Josh Benjamin
Josh Benjamin, Staff Writer
Josh Benjamin is a sophomore at Walter Johnson High School. Besides doing hours and hours of homework and studying for tests after school, Josh enjoys playing guitar and piano. He hopes to start another instrument soon.  He also loves going on Facebook for hours on end.  He also wants to start a new sport this spring season. For the school newspaper, The Pitch, Josh has written for the online site and the print newspaper as well. He has written about upcoming HBO shows as well as having done interviews with students at WJ.  In addition, he has written about the Redskins on the online site. His hopes are to first, get into college, second, work hard in college and third, get a great job. His dreams for the future are (hopefully) to do something in the music industry, from helping record music, to learning how songs are produced.
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