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Friday, Jan. 13, 2017

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Happening NOW •Speech: Silver Bowl Debate and Oral Interp Tournament 2 p.m. today-Saturday at Lincoln High School •Gymnastics: JV Invitational 5:30 p.m. today at Madison High School; Varsity Invitational noon Saturday at Pierre T.F. Riggs High School •Show Choir: Star Struck Invitational 8:50 a.m. Saturday in Waukee, Iowa—Classic Connection competes in prelims at 2:40 p.m. •Eighth Grade: Information day 9 a.m. Saturday in auditorium •Wrestling: Varsity Tiger Invitational 10 a.m. Saturday in Harrisburg •Basketball: Saturday at Brookings—freshmen 10:10 a.m. at Mickelson Middle School; JV 10:30 a.m., sophomores noon, girls varsity 1:30 p.m., boys varsity 3 p.m. at Brookings High School

Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Cheeseburger, french fries, peas •À la carte lines: Cheese pizza, bean and cheese burrito, baked potato bar, chef salad, sandwiches

Group Meetings •R&R Book Club: Will meet to discuss “32 Candles” fifth period today in the library. •Drama Club: All members will meet at 3:30 p.m. Monday in the Little Theatre

Other Reminders •Student Council: Election petitions for potential new members are now available in the student services office. They are due back Jan. 27. Candidates must attend a lunch-time information session Jan. 26 or 27. NOW Friday Staff

Co-Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . Taylor Anderson and Sydney Stallinga Assistant Editor: . . . . . . Maddie VanderFeen Staff: Rachel Boer, Kylee Haub, Hailie Schock, Megan Nolan, Erika Lehan, Shoniya Stonehouse, Alejandro Martinez, Logan Barber, Abdisa Baneta Editors-in-chief . . . . . . . . . Carson Herbert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and Maham Shah Adviser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jason Lueth The News of Washington is a publication of the Orange & Black Staff Washington High School–Sioux Falls, S.D. WHSNOW.COM Some material courtesy of American Society of Newspaper Editors/ TNS Campus High School Newspaper Service

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Boys defeat cross-town rival Lincoln Pats 61-55 Boys, girls play at Brookings High School Saturday

By Erika Lehan arrior boys basketball team members took on their biggest rival, the Lincoln Patriots in Metro Conference action Thursday, winning the varsity game 61-55 at WHS. Head coach Craig Nelson said the team came together for the win. “We played really hard defensively and we were solid,” Nelson said. “We did a really good job of taking care of the basketball.” WHS led 33-26 at the half, and maintained the lead throughout the game for the win. In their previous three games, the Warriors averaged just 49.9 points per game, so the 61 Thursday was what needed to happen for them. Individually, the Warriors were led in scoring by three players in double figures, including juniors Logan Uttecht with 15 and Topher Zahn with 14. Senior Isaac Goeman added 10 points and nine rebounds. Senior Jack Talley was pleased with the win. “It’s good to get a win against a city rival and everyone stepped-up when they needed to,” Talley said. “Now, we have to get ready for Brookings on Saturday.” In sub-varsity action, the freshman A Team won 54-47. The JV lost 63-48, the sophomores fell 65-57 and the freshman B Team lost 61-38. The WHS play at Brookings at 3 p.m. Saturday. The girls take the floor at 1:30 p.m. Sub-varsity games begin at 10:10 a.m.

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Photo by Maham Shah LEADER—Junior Logan Uttecht puts up a tough shot in Thursday’s win over Lincoln. He led all Warriors with 15 points.

Wrestling team competes in Iowa event By Logan Barber, Kylee Haub and Alex Martinez Warrior wrestlers headed to George, Iowa, Thursday, earning a pair of wins. The Warriors first faced Kingsley-Pierson, Iowa, earning an impressive 72-12 win. The Warriors next faced Central Lyon/George Little Rock, Iowa, losing a hardfought battle 51-24. They then

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earned their second win of the night over Rock Valley/ Boyden-Hull, Iowa, 48-27. Head Coach Lance Peters said the team wrestled well at the event. “We will get a good practice in today and individuals will work on improving their positions,” Peters said. “We suffered an injury at 132 last night, but besides that we will have a full Warrior Nation Events

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team for the weekend.” Sophomore Tupak Kpeayeh went 3-0 on the night and pinned his Central Lyon/ George Little Rock opponent in just 16 seconds. Seniors Alex Lorenzini and Jacob Wagner also went 3-0. The Warriors will now travel to the Tiger Invitational Saturday at 10 a.m. in Harrisburg. All WHS News

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Show choir opens Gymnastics team competition season competes at events By Hailie Schock Classic Connection show choir will open their competition season at the Star Struck Show Choir Invitational and Jazz Choir Festival Saturday in Waukee, Iowa. The event will feature groups from around the region performing in the new Waukee Fieldhouse. Classic Connection will compete as the fourth group at 2:40 p.m. in the

preliminary round. Senior Morgan Scholten is hopeful. “We are all really excited,” Scholten said. “But it’s going to be one of the hardest competitions that Washington has ever gone to. If we work together, we can pull off a high rank.” Director Jeff Spencer is also optimistic. “We will get to see some of the best from around the country,” Spencer said.

By Taylor Anderson Warrior gymnastics team members will be in action today and Saturday in two events. The junior varsity team will compete at an invitational at 5:30 p.m. today at Madison High School. Coach Ellen Engebretson is excited for the team to return to the floor. “Our junior varsity has not competed for six weeks, and will return to

competition in Madison at a 10-team invitational,” Engebretson said. The varsity gymnastics team will compete in an invitational at noon Saturday at Pierre T.F. Riggs High School. Freshman Kia Gjoraas is ready to go. “My team is really excited to see how much we have improved and show the other teams what we are made of,” Gjoraas said.

1980’s video game answer to all your ills The first step in fixing any problem, is first admitting you have a problem. My name is Maddie, and I am a Tetris addict. With the semester slowly coming to an end, I am suddenly flushed with some free time on my hands… mostly. Yes, I know I should be using Hear me. . . this time to review for semester tests, but that can be a struggle. In fact, it is Maddie VanderFeen very likely if you see me with my Chromebook open, I am playing a wicked game of Tetris. If you are not sure what Tetris is, it is a tile matching puzzle video game, originally designed and programmed

by Russian game designer Alexey Pajitnov and unleashed on the world in 1984. What started as just a hobby to fill my free time has slowly, but surely, turned into an addiction. Most nights I fall asleep to the vision of Tetris pieces falling perfectly into place. Although, I know I need to start managing my Tetris time more carefully, I’ve discovered that this addictive puzzle matching video game does have many benefits for a developing teen’s mind. A study in the international journal Addictive Behaviors reveals that playing Tetris for only three minutes can reduce your cravings for food and potential vices such as drugs, coffee, alcohol and cigarettes by 20 percent. From my own personal Tetris experience I have been seeing an increase in my own hand/eye coordination. Maybe that will help on those semester tests! Senior Maddie VanderFeen is determined to beat her friends’ Tetris scores.

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Antarctica ice shelf sheds ice

By Thomas Sumner Science News Today (TNS) One of Antarctica’s largest ice shelves is nearing its breaking point, scientists warn. A colossal crack in this ice shelf, known as Larsen C, abruptly grew by 18 kilometers (11 miles) during the second half of December 2016. (That was the height of the region’s summer.) Members of Project MIDAS, an Antarctic research group, reported the crack’s dramatic growth on January 5. This separating ice is now only about 20 kilometers from Larsen C’s edge.

Science Friday Ice covers nearly all of Antarctica’s 14 million square kilometers (5.4 million square miles) of land. In some places, that ice is nearly 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) thick. It formed as snow piled up over many thousands of years. Gradually, the snow compacted into ice. Scientists call this vast, frozen blanket an ice sheet. A second, smaller ice sheet covers much of Greenland. An ice sheet may look stationary, but it is always moving. The lower layers are under crushing weight — in some places more than 350 times the pressure of Earth’s atmosphere (or 5,000 pounds per square inch). This pressure squishes the hard ice like soft putty. The ice oozes, flowing from the interior of the continent out toward its edges. In some places, this flow is very slow — only a meter or so per year. But scientists have also found fast-flowing corridors where the ice moves hundreds of times that fast. These ice streams — better known as glaciers — can be 40 kilometers wide and hundreds of kilometers long.