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Happening NOW •Softball: State Tournament 11 a.m. today through Saturday at Sherman Park •Football: Varsity 7 p.m. at T.F. Riggs High School in Pierre •Festival of Bands: Saturday in Sioux Falls— parade 8:30 a.m. downtown; field prelims 10 a.m., field finals 6 p.m. at Howard Wood Field •Girls Tennis: JV and varsity vs. Madison 10 a.m. Saturday at WHS •Cheer and Dance: Rough Rider Invitational 11 a.m. Saturday at Sanford Pentagon •Girls Soccer: Quarterfinal game vs. O’Gorman 2 p.m. Saturday at McEneaney Field
Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Tomato soup, grilled cheese, corn •À la carte lines: Cheese pizza, bean and cheese burrito, chef salad, sandwiches
Group Meetings •Art Club: Will meet at 3:40 p.m. Monday in C-104. •Renaissance Committee: Members will meet at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday in E-112.
Other Reminders •Students: Who placed a late yearbook order may now pick them up before or after school or during lunch periods in A-133. •Free Dental Care: Is available for students—see school nurse to qualify. •Bus Passes: For October will be sold at the WHS welcome window beginning this week. NOW Friday Staff
Co-Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . Taylor Anderson and Sydney Stallinga Assistant Editor: . . . . . . Maddie VanderFeen Staff: Rachel Boer, Kylee Haub, Megan Nolan, Erika, Lehan, Shoniya Stonehouse, Alejandro Martinez, Logan Barber 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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Girls tennis team goes 1-2 Thursday at WHS Warriors beat Vermillion, fall to Lincoln, Roncalli By Logan Barber arrior girls tennis team members defeated Vermillion and fell to Lincoln and Aberdeen Roncalli in a quadrangular meet Thursday at WHS. In their first meet of the day, they lost in a 9-0 clean sweep at the hands of Lincoln, losing all six singles and three doubles matches. Their next opponent was a heartbreaking loss to Aberdeen Roncalli 5-4, including three singles match wins from eighth grader Katelyn Nesheim, senior Skylar CloseSmith, and eighth grader Taylor
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Olson and a doubles win from CloseSmith and senior Maddie VanderFeen. Finally, WHS faced Vermillion, earning a confidence-boosting 8-1 win with individual wins coming from junior Sadie Goodhope, Nesheim, CloseSmith, Olson, and VanderFeen. VanderFeen said the beautiful day featured a lot of tennis Thursday. “It was a long day of good competition, and we really grew as a team and are getting prepared for state next week,” VanderFeen said. The state meet begins Thursday in Rapid City.
Photo by Mitch Waddell SMASH—Senior Maddie VanderFeen returns a volley in the Lincoln match.
Warrior boys dominate golf triangular Boys Golf
By Rachel Boer Varsity boys golf team members dominated a triangular with Mitchell and Brookings by 24 strokes Thursday in Brookings. WHS won with 314 strokes, followed by Brookings with 338 strokes and Mitchell with 353 strokes. The medalist was junior Nathan Woodall with a score of 75. Following him were three other Warriors, including junior Sam Torbert with 77, senior Devin Gilbertson with 81 and junior Hank Eggebraaten with 81. This meet ends the regular season for the Warriors, who will participate in the state meet Monday and Tuesday in Aberdeen.
Cross Country
By Maddie VanderFeen The varsity cross country teams took second for the boys and fourth for the girls Thursday at the 10-team Watertown Invitational. The varsity girls finished with an average time of 20:40. Senior Kelsi Kearney achieved
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a personal best with a time of 19:29, taking fourth place and junior Carlie Kray earned 10th with a 20:14. For the boys, junior Yonas Sadi came in fifth and junior Topher Zahn finished in eighth. Zahn said it was a good day. “I am happy with our results, but the season isn’t over yet,” he said. The teams next travel to Alexandria, Minn., Oct. 8.
Volleyball
By Alex Martinez The varsity volleyball team defeated Pipestone, Minn., Area High School in four sets Thursday night at WHS. Senior Emily VanBockern and freshman Laura Petterson combined for a total of 29 kills to lead the team. “It was a fun win with the team and a large turning point in our season,” senior defensive specialist Isabel Kinzer said. The JV and freshman teams both fell to Pipestone in three. The Warriors play in Huron Saturday.
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Football team travels Soccer girls face O’G in to Pierre Riggs today quarterfinals Saturday By Megan Nolan As the regular season is winding down, the Warriors will travel to Pierre for a non-conference game with T.F. Riggs at 7 p.m. tonight. The AAA Warriors are 5-0 going into their sixth game tonight. The AA Governors are currently 2-3. “We are looking to have a complete game, especially a strong second quarter,
and to get everyone some minutes,” junior kicker Brock Walker said. Many Warrior fans will travel on a fan bus for the game, leaving from the teacher entrance at 2 p.m. today. Sophomore running back Tupak Kpeayeh is ready for the game. “It will be an intense game and hopefully everyone gets to play,” he said.
By Shoniya Stonehouse and Hailie Schock After defeating Yankton 3-2 in a 3-1 shootout following an overtime Tuesday in the first round, the No. 7 seeded WHS girls soccer team will face No. 2 seeded O’Gorman at 2 p.m. Saturday at O’Gorman’s McEneaney Field in the quarterfinals. Senior Lily Larson said to pull out a win the Warriors will have to take
many shots to score. “We have been working hard and have a great shot at winning,” Larson said. Senior Skylar Moen is also optimistic. “O’Gorman is a tough team, but we’ve been working hard, so I am hopeful we can pull off a win,” Moen said. With a win, WHS will face Pierre or Roosevelt Tuesday in the semifinal round.
Give band, dancers respect they deserve Whether you’re hopping on a bus to Pierre this afternoon for the football game or dividing your time between the girls soccer team, the cheer and dance team, the volleyball team, the tennis team, the softball team and the marching band this Saturday, Warrior Nation has many opportunities to showcase our unmatched Hear me. . . spirit this weekend. The best part about being a Warrior is cheerTaylor Anderson ing on fellow Warriors doing what they love. Normally, WHS students are the best of the best when it comes to supporting the orange and black. But Warriors, we have some work to do. The past few football games have not lived up to the
standards the student section has previously set. No matter where you sit in the student section or how old you are, if you have a voice at the end of the game, you’re doing something wrong. Not only do we need to up our support during the game, but during the halftime shows as well. The Highsteppers have more talent and state championships than any other school in the state and the marching band has one of the most unique show themes to be done at WHS. The next time we are graced by the talents of these groups, we must be more respectful and give them the undivided attention they’ve worked so hard for. Besides, who doesn’t love watching the dancers perform their winning routines or the color guard maneuvering their way through a maze of lasers? Cool things are happening at WHS. Let’s give some Warriors the credit they deserve! Senior Taylor Anderson wants to watch her crush, drummer Jeff McKee, peacefully at halftime.
Marching band hosts band festival Saturday WHS earns Top Soloist honor in Minnesota
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By Kylee Haub and Erika Lehan The Warrior marching band missed second by less than a point, earning third place in class at the Rosemount Marching Festival last Saturday in Rosemount, Minn. The band earned the Best Soloist caption for senior Simon Keller, the band’s guitar player. This Saturday, the band will play host and perform at the 29th Annual Festival of Bands in Sioux Falls. The festival features a very full day of marching
activities with bands from South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska. WHS, Lincoln, Roosevelt and O’Gorman host, and are not eligible for awards. The Warriors will lead the parade downtown beginning at 8:30 a.m Saturday. Field preliminary competition will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday at Howard Wood Field, with finals at 6 p.m. WHS performs in exhibition at 6:45 p.m. Admission wristbands are $10 for adults and $5 for students.
Birds ‘drink’ water from their own fat By Susan Milius Science News (TNS) Birds need water to survive. When there isn’t any around, some can find a clever way to reuse water that is already in their bodies. Thirsty zebra finches, for instance, may tap their body fat.
Science Friday Researchers in Poland reported this new finding Sept. 1 in the Journal of Experimental Biology. When ultra-thirsty, birds sometimes will break down muscle or other proteins in their bodies to get access to life-sustaining moisture. But birds need muscle for flying and for organs such as the heart. So breaking down too much protein could do them more harm than good. Zebra finches are native to central Australia. It’s a region that can be very dry. And these birds are the first to be clearly shown to use their own fat, not protein, to get through a day without food or water, says Ulf Bauchinger. He works at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. As an evolutionary physiologist, he studies how the bodies of animals and plants change over time to adapt to their environments. Scientists have known that animals — including people — free up some water as their bodies turn food (fat, protein or carbohydrates) into fuel. The challenge in birds has been for scientists to figure out how to probe whether their bodies might free up water from stored energy — body fat. So Bauchinger, Joanna Rutkowska and other scientists studied zebra finches in their lab. Rutkowska now suspects other superthirsty bird species may respond to water shortages as zebra finches do, by focusing on fat breakdown.
