Freshmen aren’t usually the star players or participants on high school teams, but that wasn’t the case for this year’s Haines Glacier Bards.

Freshmen Tiaya Ruggirello and Sheeshao White took two pieces to finals at last month’s state Drama, Debate and Forensics competition in Anchorage.

Ruggirello and White claimed second place in duet acting with David Ives’s “Sure Thing.” The piece involves the chance meeting of two characters whose conversation is continually reset by a…