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Happening Now •Poetry Out Loud: WHS contest 3:30 p.m. in A-227 •Girls Basketball: vs. Harrisburg— JV and freshmen 4 p.m., sophomores 5:30 p.m., varsity 7 p.m. in gyms •Community Education: ACT prep course 4:30 p.m. in A-114 •Gymnastics: Triangular vs. O’Gorman and Yankton 5:30 p.m. at Yankton High School •Eighth Grade: Registration night 6:30 p.m. in auditorium
Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Chili dog •À la carte lines: Pasta, soft taco, baked potato bar, chef salad, sandwiches
Group Meetings •Chess Club: Members will meet at 3:15 p.m. today in A-136. •Warrior Young Poet Society: Will hold an organizational meeting following the Poetry Out Loud local contest at 3:30 p.m. today in A-227. All interested are invited. •Concert Choir: Members will meet to turn in variety show tickets between 7-8 a.m. Thursday in front of the auditorium. •Chemistry Club: Members will meet at 3:15 p.m. Thursday in A-217. All current, former and future chemistry students welcome. Theme: Elements and Reactions. •FCA: Members will meet at Central Baptist Church at 7 p.m. Sunday to challenge Lincoln members in dodgeball. NOW Tuesday Staff Co-Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maham Shah and Carter Keller Assistant Editor . . . . . . . . Kendall McMahon Staff: Josh Freese, Isiah Fetrel, Erin Thompson, Jenson Amdahl, Jared Gully, Matt Farniok, Madi Forseth, Elizabeth Nachtigal, Lauren Olson Editor-in-Chief . . . . . . . . . . . . Maddie Wiley Managing Editor . . . . . . . . . .Hannah Smith Adviser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jason Lueth The News of Washington is a publication of the Orange & Black Staff Washington High School–Sioux Falls, S.D. Some material courtesy of American Society of Newspaper Editors/ TNS Campus High School Newspaper Service
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Warrior girls earn pair of wins over recent weekend WHS defeats both Watertown, Marshall in tough road games
By Josh Freese and Jared Gully arrior girls’ basketball team members had a great deal of success over the recent semester-end three-day weekend, earning a pair of road wins. On Thursday, they traveled to Watertown and swept the Arrows at all levels but one. The freshmen started off with a 51-42 loss, but the sophomores won 47-34 and JV won 55-37. The varsity finished off the Arrows, winning 59-49. Leading scorer for the Warriors was senior Anna Goodhope with 27 points. Goodhope also led the team in rebounds with 11. Senior Carly Knutson was happy with the turnout of the game.
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“It was really physical, and our defense helped contribute to the victory,” Knutson said. “It was a really good win over our rival WHS.” The Warriors then traveled to Marshall, Minn., on Saturday, where they took on the Tigers, again winning at all levels but the freshmen. For the varsity, seniors Sydney Arrington and Goodhope led the team with 13 and 14 points, respectively. Arrington also led the team with eight rebounds. “We plan to carry the momentum from the win into the rest of the season,” Goodhope said. In sub-varsity play Saturday, the JV won 35-29 and the freshmen fell to the Tigers 37-24.
Girls remain No. 1, boys return to poll The girls remain in the top spot, and the boys return to the poll (and even got a first-place vote) after a win over Watertown in the new poll, out today.
Girls AA Basketball Poll
School (First Place Votes) Record, Previous Ranking
1. WHS (4) 10-1,1 2. Aberdeen Central (1) 12-0, 2 3. O’Gorman (2) 11-0, 3 4. Lincoln 7-3, 5 5. Roosevelt 6-6, NR Others receiving votes: Harrisburg 2, Brandon Valley 1, R.C. Central 1.
Boys AA Basketball Poll
School (First Place Votes) Record, Previous Ranking
1. Watertown (4) 9-2, 1 2. Huron (1) 10-2, 2 3. Pierre (1) 9-2, 3 4. O’Gorman 9-4, 4 T5. Aberdeen Central 8-3, 5 T5. WHS (1) 8-4, NR
Girls return home, face Harrisburg tonight By Erin Thompson, and Isaiah Feterl The girls are back in action tonight as
they host Harrisburg. The Tigers are in third place in District 2. WHS is No. 1.
“We are coming off two good wins, and are excited for the game tonight,” senior
Jade Visker said. Play begins at 4 p.m. today, with the varsity at 7 p.m.
Hunter O’Connor takes first at Pentagon event By Jenson Amdahl, Isaiah Feterl and Matt Farniok Warrior wrestlers took to the mats at the Sanford Pentagon, earning seventh place in the 13-team Pentagon Invitational Saturday. Senior Hunter O’Connor
took first place at 182 pounds in the four-state event, and said the team did well. “Our 220 pounder, (junior) Thomas Vissers really helped carry the team late in the tournament,” O’Connor said. “The team is looking to carry our good fortune into state.”
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Freshman Sam Quiah also finished in second; freshmen Tupak Kpeayeh and junior Jacob Wagner in fifth; eighth grader Simon Tiede, sophomore Alex Stoneall and freshman Malik Paulson in sixth and Vissers in seventh at the invitational.
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Honored for leadership...
Larry Toft, Marc Murren each nominated as national girls, boys assistant coaches of year
Photo by Jade Visker OVERSEEING—Larry Toft coaches the JV game Thursday at Watertown.
By Maham Shah Long time WHS assistant coaches Larry Toft and Marc Murren have been chosen as finalists for the National High School Athletic Coaches Association (NHSACA) Girls and Boys Assistant Coach of the Year. Toft is the assistant for girls basketball and Murren an assistant for football. The NHSACA is the oldest coaches association in the nation, formed by coaches for coaches and has been recogFeature nizing national coaches of the year since 1978. Eight finalists from across the nation will be honored during The National Coach of the Year Awards Banquet at the Galt House in Louisville, Kentucky, June 29. Toft has been coaching for the past 43 years, 20 in Sioux Falls schools. He coached 11 years at Roosevelt, and this is his ninth at WHS. He has been a part of 12 state champion teams. “It’s an awesome honor to be a finalist,” Toft enthused. “I’ve been really fortunate to be an assistant
coach under amazing head coaches. But you have to remember, you can’t win championships and be a good coach without Marc Murren quality athletes.” According to the NHSACA, Toft’s selection was based on longevity, service to high school athletics, honors, championship years and winning percentage. Murren has been coaching football for about 37 years, and has been a part of the Yankton, Canton, and WHS teams. He is the freshman football and varsity wrestling coach at WHS. In total, he has worked as a coach with eight state champion teams. Murren said he is humbled to be a finalist. “Overall, I’ve worked with great head coaches and I’m very lucky,” Murren said. “A lot of people deserve to be in this position. I hope that I will represent the best of the best assistant coaches around the nation!”
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Goldwyn buys rights to ‘Oz’ History.com (TNS) One of America’s best-loved movie projects got underway on Jan. 26, 1934, when the producer Samuel Goldwyn bought the film rights to the children’s novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum.
Our History Published in 1900, Baum’s novel told the story of Dorothy, a young girl on a Kansas farm who is swept away by a tornado and carried to the magical Land of Oz. Baum, who died in 1919, based his book on the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, and also drew inspiration from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. His own work of children’s literature became an instant classic. Production of The Wizard of Oz was plagued with problems, from numerous script rewrites to casting and directorial changes. In the end, the 101-minute-long film had modest success at the box office and earned several Oscar nominations–including a Best Song win for “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” and a special award for Garland as Best Juvenile Performer. In 1956, an estimated 45 million people tuned in to watch the movie debut on television as part of the “Ford Star Jubilee.” Countless TV showings later, “The Wizard of Oz” is one of the most beloved and best-known films of all time. In 1998, “The Wizard of Oz” ranked sixth in the American Film Institute’s poll of America’s 100 Greatest Movies.
