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Happening NOW •Oral Interp: At Marshall Speech Spectacular today and Saturday in Marshall, Minn. •Debate: At Lewis and Clark Invitational today and Saturday in Yankton •Bowling: vs. Yankton 4 p.m. today at Yankton Family Fun Center •Girls Basketball: vs. Roosevelt—JV and freshmen 4 p.m., sophomores 5:30 p.m., varsity 7 p.m. tonight in gyms •All-State Band: Auditions Saturday at Lincoln High School •Show Choir: Executive Showcase Competition 10 a.m. Saturday at Roosevelt High School •Boys Basketball: JV at Sioux Valley tournament 9 a.m. Saturday in Volga •Wrestling: Bobcat Invitational 9 a.m. Saturday in Brookings •Gymnastics: Metro Conference Meet 11 a.m. Saturday at Lincoln High School
Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Grilled cheese sandwich, tomato soup, peas •À la carte lines: Cheese pizza, bean and cheese burrito, baked potato bar, chef salad, sandwiches
Group Meetings •Spanish Club: Members will ice skate from 7:30-10 p.m. tonight at the Scheels Iceplex. Indicate your intention to attend at the club’s Google Classroom site.
Other Reminders •Student Council: Election petitions for potential new members are due today in the student services office. Candidates who did not do so Thursday must attend a lunch-time information session today. 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 fall to Lincoln at all levels Thursday Warriors looking to get back to winning Monday
By Kylee Haub arrior boys basketball teams at all levels fell to the Patriots Thursday night at Lincoln High School. After leading 22-15 after one quarter, the varsity team was unable to make a comeback in the last quarter and fell to the Patriots 73-63. Senior Jack Talley led the team with 21 points. “It’s always hard losing to your biggest rival,” Talley said. “We have many things we need to work on as a team if we want to pull off the next win.” Following Talley were senior Isaac Goeman adding 14 points and junior Logan Uttecht with 10.
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The Warriors will next host Brandon Valley Monday at WHS in a game postponed from Tuesday. Uttecht said he is feeling confident going into Monday night’s game. “We are going to work hard in practice over the weekend to be prepared and take the win Monday, as we have not lost a home game yet,” Uttecht said. All sub-varsity teams also fell to the Patriots Thursday—the JV 65-53, the sophomores 75-66, the freshman A Team 50-39 and freshman B Team 56-29. The JV Warriors will also play in a small tournament at 9 a.m. Saturday as they travel to Sioux Valley High School in Volga.
Girls host Rough Riders tonight By Erika Lehan Warrior girls basketball team members (8-2) will host the Roosevelt Rough Riders (6-5) tonight at WHS. Senior Emily VanBockern is ready for tonight’s game. “We’ve had a couple of really good practices to prepare for the Riders,” VanBockern said. “We are excited to take them
on in our own gym.” JV and freshman games begin at 4 p.m. today, followed by the sophomores at 5:30 p.m. and varsity at 7 p.m. Prior to the varsity warmups, National Women and Girls in Sports Day recognitions will take place tonight. Coaching staff from WHS have nominated these female
athletes whom they thought were outstanding athletes in South Dakota High School Activities Association events. Honors will also be given to the team members for their work with Project Warm-Up along with raffle tickets being available to the fans to purchase chances on special blankets to support Project Warm-Up.
Bowling team travels to Yankton today By Kelsi Kearney and Madi Forseth Warrior bowling team members recently completed two matches and will travel to Yankton today. On Jan. 13, all levels fell to Roosevelt in a tough battle. In girls varsity WHS lost their first match of the sea-
son 46-4. The girls JV lost 46-4. The varsity boys lost 34.5-15.5 and the boys JV fell 31-19. Jan. 20 the teams hosted West Central at Eastway Bowl. The varsity girls won 43-7 as junior Adrianna Spaethe had the high score of 211. The
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varsity boys lost 34.515.5 as the leading scorer was junior Jacob Sorenson with 279. Coach Troy Duffy said it was nothing to hang their heads about. “We just didn’t close out when we needed to,” Duffy
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said. “Everyone bowled very well. I see this as a preview for the state tournament. We’ll get our revenge on Roosevelt at state.” The girls JV bowled unopposed and the boys JV won 25-0. The teams face Yankton today at 4 p.m. in Yankton. All WHS News
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Show choirs compete Speech students visit at Roosevelt event Marshall, Yankton By Taylor Anderson Classic Connection varsity show choir and Stage Lights JV show choir will compete at the annual “Executive Showcase” competition Saturday at Roosevelt High School. Stage Lights will light up the stage at 12:45 p.m. Saturday in the preliminary competition in the prep division. Classic Connection will take the stage for the preliminary round of the Tier I mixed
division at 4:45 p.m. The final round will start at 7 p.m. and showcase the top six groups from the day. Both groups won their divisions a week ago at the competition in Ralston, Neb., and Classic Connection took Grand Champions. Senior Kaytie Vroman is excited. “Roosevelt will have a surplus of good talent and tough competition,” Vroman said.
By Maddie VanderFeen Warrior speech teams will be in action Today and Saturday as the oral interp team is represented at the Marshall, Minn., Speech Spectacular and members of the debate team go to the Lewis and Clark Invitational at Yankton High School. Rounds in Marshall will begin at 1 p.m. today, with varsity finals at 2:20 p.m. Saturday and awards at 4 p.m. Saturday at the
Schwan’s Community Center for the Performing Arts at Marshall High School. In Yankton, Round One begins at 2 p.m. today, with finals at 3:45 p.m. Saturday. Freshmen Amy Centes and Esmeralda Sanchez will represent WHS in the Marshall event, and 13 varsity and novice debate team members will travel to Yankton for the Lewis and Clark event.
Face new challenges as a brave Warrior The start of a new semester and new classes and unfamiliar faces can be overwhelming to some, but there is no need to panic. We are all in this together, Warriors. For the seniors out there, there are only 124 days until we attend school at WHS for the last day, and 127 days until we walk across the stage Hear me. . . and turn our tassels at graduation. Appreciate this last semester together, because Sydney Stallinga soon enough, we will be going separate ways—be that college, work or the military. I am happy for my current friends and know that they are the most wonderful people in my life, but those people
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have been by my side since the awkward days of elementary school and middle school, and it seems foreign to have them starting new friendships without me next year. For the underclassman, cherish these years as a Warrior. They go fast, and before you know it, it’ll be your turn to decide what your plans after high school will be. As I leave WHS in a few months, I will take with me a great number of memories. The countless, unforgettable football games with my best friends, dances, cheering at my friends events and variety shows are amongst the things I will remember most. Change is good Warriors, so embrace the excitement of new journeys, be it in a new class this semester or at a new school or challenge next year. But always remember, your roots are here at WHS. Senior Sydney Stallinga can’t wait to be a Winona State Warrior next fall.
Earth breaks heat record again By Thomas Sumner Science News Today (TNS) For the third year in a row, Earth’s thermostat broke a new record: 2016 was the warmest year since record-keeping began in 1880. Two phenomena spurred this global fever. One was climate change. The other was a monster El Niño — a periodic warming of Pacific waters around the equator that goes on to affect climate across the planet. The global average surface temperature last year was 0.94 degree Celsius (1.69 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than the 20th century average of 13.9° C (57° F). That slightly edges out 2015, the previous titleholder, by 0.04 degree C.
Science Friday Eight months during 2016 set new all-time highs. These included July, which was the warmest month ever recorded. Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shared the new heat-wave statistics Jan. 18. This is only the second time that the annual temperature record has been broken three years in a row, Deke Arndt said in a news conference. Ardnt is chief of the monitoring branch at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information in Asheville, N.C. But the previous trio — 1939 through 1941 — don’t rank within the top 30 warmest years on record, he noted. Last year’s heat helped set other records as well. As of Jan. 17, the global area of sea ice is at its smallest point in potentially thousands of years.
