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Friday, Jan. 6, 2017

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Happening NOW •Debate: Westside Invitational in Omaha, Neb., and CFC in Lennox today and Saturday. •Wrestling: Big Stone Therapies Border Battle 10 a.m. Saturday at Milbank High School •Gymnastics: Bobcat Invitational noon Saturday at Brookings High School •Show Choir: “Taste of Show” 6 p.m. Saturday in auditorium—chicken dinner to follow in commons

Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Popcorn chicken, dinner roll, corn •À la carte lines: Cheese pizza, bean and cheese burrito, baked potato bar, chef salad, sandwiches

Group Meetings •SMASH Book Club: Members will meet during fourth period to discuss “Starters” and fifth period to discuss “The Diviners” today in the library. •Girls Soccer: Players will meet at 7:45 a.m. Tuesday in A-120. •Poetry Out Loud: Informational meeting 3:15 p.m. Wednesday in A-227.

Other Reminders •Seniors: The deadline to submit a photo for publication in the 2017 Warrior Yearbook is approaching Jan. 13. See a staff member in A-134 with questions fourth period. NOW Friday Staff

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Warrior wrestlers fall to O’Gorman 43-26 Thursday Team headed to Milbank Border Battle Saturday

By Erika Lehan arrior wrestlers fell to the O’Gorman Knights 43-26 in Metro Conference action Thursday at O’Gorman. Individually, sophomore Tupak Kpeayeh and juniors Brock Walker and Brody Etrheim all took a win over the Knights. It was Walker’s first varsity match, and he pinned his opponent in his debut. Seniors Taylor Schimitz and Alex Lorenzini also took wins, Schimitz by technical fall and Lorenzini with a pin in just 36 seconds. Head coach Lance Peters has high hopes as the team moves on to Milbank at 10 a.m. Saturday for the Big Stone Therapies Border Battle. “We will get in a great practice session today to help us get ready for the weekend,” he said.

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Photo by Jack Bren DEBUT—Junior Brock Walker wrestles in his first varsity match. He earned a pin in four minutes over O’Gorman’s Nick Hillberg.

Girls bowling team remains undefeated By Hailie Schock Warrior bowling teams recently competed in two separate matches, winning three of four varsity contests. On Dec. 19, 2016, the team bowled against Canton High School at Canton Lanes. The girls varsity team defeated the C-Hawks 28-22. Junior Adrianna Spaethe bowled a 223 game and 602 series to lead the Warriors. Senior Alexandra Rote followed close behind with a 190 game and freshman Cassidy Van Noort had a 512 series. The JV girls lost to Canton 9½-30½. The varsity boys fell to Canton 39-11. Coach Troy Duffy said it was a hard loss. “One of the disadvantages of traveling to different centers is not knowing how the lanes

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will play,” Duffy said. “Our biggest issue was getting out of the comfort zone of our most trusted equipment, which is difficult for any bowler.” Duffy said he was still pleased with his team, however. “The Warriors started strong and never gave up,” he said. “We bowled well, considering all factors, and the matches were actually a lot closer than the score shows. We bowled well and showed improvement everywhere.” The JV boys won 31-19. Freshman Miller SoutarBishop rolled a 223 game and 570 series in the win. Sophomore Noah Kaske had a 177 game and senior Braeden O’Brien a 169 game. The second match was Tuesday vs. Vermillion High School at the Yankton Family Warrior Nation Events

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Fun Center. The varsity girls extended their winning streak to 5-0 with a win of 49-1, tying them with cross-town rival Roosevelt for the best record in the State. Spaethe again led the team with a 223 game and 602 series. Senior Samantha Huber and freshman Trinity Bartels had 184 and 180 games, respectively. The varsity boys also pulled off a 47-3 win with junior Jacob Sorenson, junior Jake Sofield, sophomore Jadyn Schumacher and sophomore Collin Lax all having 600+ series. Soutar-Bishop played for the varsity vs. Vermillion, bowling a 234 game. The girls and boys JV teams bowled unopposed in the Vermillion match. The next match for all teams is vs. Roosevelt Jan. 13. All WHS News

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Freshman basketball Two show choirs offer teams take on Knights a taste of their shows By Sydney Stallinga Freshman basketball teams faced O’Gorman Thursday, winning two and dropping one game. The boys teams visited O’Gorman as the A Team lost a close battle, 53-51. Freshman Cole Johnson had 16 points. The B team won 57-45 as freshman Cayden Wittrock had 16 points. Coach JJ Heyden said the boys played hard.

“We just have to learn how to play smarter and adjust to the higher level of competition of high school basketball,” Heyden said. The girls hosted O’Gorman at WHS in one game, winning 37-22. Freshman Abbie Witt had 15 points. “We came away from this game realizing that we have a few things that we need to work on,” coach Brad Kennett said.

By Logan Barber and Alex Martinez The Classic Connections varsity show choir and Stage Lights JV show choir will be performing their full shows at the annual “Taste of Show” preview and dinner beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday in the auditorium. This will be their first full public performance this season, and will be followed by an all-you-care-to-eat catered chicken dinner in

the commons. Tickets for the show are $5 and can be purchased from any of the show choir members or in room E-108 after school today or at the door Saturday. Tickets for the chicken dinner are $10 Saturday or $8 in advance. Sophomore Liam McKay said they are ready. “It’s going to go great,” McKay said. “We’ve been practicing a lot and our hard work should pay off.”

It’s time to get ready for semester tests All right, Warriors, it is time to get to business. After this week, we will begin a very grueling and intense semester review week. It is only appropriate to expect a couple sleepless nights and bad attitudes—not to mention everyone looking their absolute finest. I mean it, don’t Hear me. . . mention it! As awful as that sounds, it is OK. This is my seventh semester Maddie VanderFeen of high school, and I can assure you that if you buckle down, listen and cut back on side conversations in class, you are sure to remember and relearn all the information you felt like putting off until

now. I know you’re lying if you tell me you can remember exactly what was learned in the first few weeks of school. Lucky for us, we have the best teachers and staff that will refresh us and help us to brush up on all the information we lost. With finals looming, we cannot keep ignoring them for long. My biggest piece of advice is the usual “eat your breakfast.” Probably not cold pizza, but if that is what gets you going, do what you have to do. Also, get plenty of sleep. If you are cramming the night before, it is probably more beneficial to rest your brain rather than drain it. Lastly, but most importantly, wear a really cool pair of socks (for maximum results, with sandals). On semester test day you are sure to find me dressed my worst. However, my sock game is out of this world! Good luck Warriors! Senior Maddie VanderFeen is really nervous for her newspaper final.

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Modified corn the tallest ever

By Ashley Yeager Science News Today (TNS) ALLEGANY— Western New York is getting its own kind of rural skyscraper: giant corn stalks. A researcher there in Allegany now reports growing corn nearly 14 meters, or 45 feet, high. That makes it about as tall as a four-story building. They appear to be the tallest corn plants ever recorded.

Science Friday A corn stalk typically grows to about 8 feet tall. One strain from Mexico is taller, sometimes 10 feet or more. But when the nights are short and the days are long, corn has more time to tap growth-fostering sunlight. Then it can grow even more, sometimes taller than 20 feet. Raising it in a greenhouse can add another 10 feet. Now, scientists have tweaked a gene called Leafy1 to add more height. Putting these factors together can cause a new strain, Chiapas 234, to ascend nearly 45 feet into the air, notes Jason Karl. He is an agricultural scientist who helped turn some corn plants into such giants. “Usually, people try to make maize shorter, not taller,” Karl notes. “So it is plainly funny even to consider adding Leafy1 to the tallest strain.” For his experiment, Karl grew the Chiapas 234 in a greenhouse with artificially shortened nights. Materials in the greenhouse walls filtered out some types of light. This allowed more reddish — or longer wavelength — light to reach the plants. This made the plant grow to nearly 45 feet with about five times as many corn cobs as a normal plant.