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Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017

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Happening Now •Photo: Retakes 7 a.m.-1:30 p.m. today in gymnasium foyer •Academic Letter: Presentation to juniors second period today and to sophomores reading and third period Thursday in commons •Faculty: Meeting 3:20 p.m. today in Little Theatre; in-service 1:30-3:45 p.m. Thursday at Lincoln High School and other locations •Basketball: Open gyms—girls 5:30-6:30 p.m. today, boys 6:15-7:30 a.m. Thursday in main gym •Early Start: In-service schedule 7:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. Thursday; no school Friday •ASVAB: Test 1:20 p.m. Thursday in A-104 •Football: Varsity vs. Lincoln 8 p.m. Thursday at Howard Wood Filed •Oral Interp: Orange and Black Invitational 8 a.m. Friday at WHS •Bowling: Team tryouts conclude 4 p.m. Friday at Eastway Bowl •Volleyball: JV and varsity vs. Rapid City Stevens and Central 4 p.m. Friday at Lincoln High School •Athletic Hall of Fame: Induction ceremony 5:30 p.m. Friday at Washington Pavilion •Marching Band: At Quad State competition 10:50 a.m. Saturday at Dakota Dome in Vermillion—WHS performs 2:15 p.m. •Cheer and Dance: State AA competition 11 a.m. Saturday at Rapid City Stevens High School •Cross Country: State Meet noon Saturday at Hart Ranch in Rapid City

Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Philly beef sandwich, tri-tater, green beans •À la carte lines: Pepperoni pizza, cheese enchilada with chips, baked potato bar, chef salad, sandwiches

Reminder •Thursday: Is an early start in-service schedule day at WHS—classes 7:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

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Football team takes on rival Patriots to end regular season Parents’ Night introductions precede game By Nathan Rietz arrior varsity football team members will finish up their regular season Thursday, as they take on the Lincoln Patriots at 8 p.m. at Howard Wood Field. Thursday is also Parents’ Night for the Warriors. Starting at 5 p.m. in parking lot D, the parents are hosting a Pink Out Chili CookOff. Students are asked to bring desserts to share to the tailgate, and the football families are supposed to bring chili or soup to share. Senior Payton Jahnke explains the Warriors have a game plan. “We are looking to come out with a lot of energy and put points on the board first,”

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Jahnke said. With a win Thursday WHS would make it a perfect regular season and take the City and Metro Conference titles. Junior Nate Freese cannot wait for the game. “We’re very excited to play our cross town rival,” Freese said. “We hope to have a big supporting student section out there tomorrow night.” Post-season playoff brackets are not set yet, but if they started today, WHS would be the No. 1 seed and host the No. 8 seed Rapid City Central. Lincoln is 2-6 and the No. 9 seed at the moment in 11AAA, and would currently be the only team to not make the playoffs, if they started today.

Warriors go 3-2 at Iowa event By Logan Uttecht Varsity volleyball team members went 3-2 at the Heelan Invitational Saturday in Sioux City, Iowa. The Warriors defeated Lawton-Bronson, Iowa, 21-17, 21-6; Sioux City North 21-18, 21-19 and LeMars, Iowa, 21-12, 22-20 and fell to Iowa 3A No. 1 Sioux Center 16-21, 17-21 and Iowa 4A No. 3 Heelan 19-21, 18-21 at the event.

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Junior Peyton Rymerson had seven aces and 64 digs on the weekend, and junior Lily Bartling had 37 kills. Sophomore Phekran Kong had 11 blocks. Coach Kelly Schroeder said it’s always great to play some solid north-west Iowa teams. “They play a different style of volleyball, and don’t make a lot of mistakes,” Schroeder said. “You have to earn every point from the good teams. We

are playing some solid volleyball, but still have some things that we need to improve upon if we are wanting to reach our goals by the end of the season.” WHS will now play Rapid City Central and Stevens on Friday at Lincoln High School. Sub-varsity teams also hosted Western Christian from Hull, Iowa, Tuesday as the freshmen lost 15-17, 25-10 and the JV won 12-15, 25-13, 15-9.

Quiz bowl team starts new season strongly A team of seniors led by Matthew Questad earned second place overall at a quiz bowl competition Monday at Sioux Falls Christian High School. Team members are (front, L-R) juniors Tory Shafer and Joseph Simko; sophomores Anna Anderson and Pema Sherpa; (back)junior Jennifer Nguyen; freshman Riley Nold; seniors Samantha King, Matthew Questad, Noah Witt and Levi Rustand and sophomores Abigail Witt and Carson Price. Read all the News of Washington each school day in your e-mail! Log in with your regular Chrome book credentials.

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Marching band does Four teams head well in Nebraska west for state meets event begins at 11 a.m. and awards will be around 4:30 p.m. The competition will air on South Dakota Public Broadcasting 2. “I’m very excited for my last state dance competition,” senior team member Kinsey Strom said. “We have been working on the finishing touches on all of our routines.” The cross country state meet will begin with the AA girls at noon Saturday at Hart Ranch. The boys AA race will be at 1:30 p.m. with awards around 3 p.m.

By Jada Cunningham Four Warrior teams have chances to earn state titles Saturday in Rapid City, as the competition cheer and dance teams compete in their state meet Saturday at Rapid City Stevens High School and the Cross Country boys and girls teams compete at Hart Ranch in Rapid City. The competition dance team will kick off things with their Hip Hop routine at 11:55 a.m. Saturday. The competition cheer team competes at 1:07 p.m. The

Freshmen end season with loss yard touchdown reception by Feterl, followed by a 2 yard touchdown by Feterl moments later. Both catches came from Boyum. Feterl said he thought the season was enjoyable overall for the team this season. “This season didn’t go as well as we all expected,” Feterl said. “But I had a lot of fun this season.” No B game was played.

By Jacob Smith Freshman football team members fell to Watertown 26-12 Tuesday afternoon in Watertown to end their season at 3-5. For the Warriors, freshman Jaden Feterl scored twice on receptions from freshman quarterback Tyler Boyum.   The Warriors finally got a touchdown after 26 unanswered points on a 36

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By Grace Kolb and Mallory Junso The Warrior marching band earned a Division 1 Superior Rating with a score of 85.5, their highest score of the season so far, at the Lincoln Public Schools Marching Festival Saturday in Lincoln, Neb. The Warriors’ score for their show, “Rags to Riches: A Cinderella Story” was up by 13 points from their previous high score this season. Director Kiley Coyne said the weather made the

competition more difficult than usual. “It was raining all day and foggy, and I know the students felt like they didn’t have their best run ever,” Coyne said. “However, I think an important lesson that we learned is that we are always our own worst critic.” The band will now compete in the Quad State Field Marching Competition, Saturday at the Dakota Dome in Vermillion. Events begin at 10:50 a.m., with WHS at 2:15 p.m.

Interp team sees success at LHS By Katelyn Smith The WHS oral interp team took second place in the Class AA Sweepstakes race at the Stars and Stripes competition Saturday at Lincoln High School. At the event, sophomore Blake Anderson and junior Maddy Morgan took second place in Varsity Duo. Morgan also won second place in Varsity Humor. Junior Lainee Mentzer

placed second in novice Humor. Freshman Phoebe Wallace took fourth place in novice Poetry. Sophomores Haroni Sahilu and Skyla Sanders placed third in novice duo. Juniors Reanna Rohrer and Tatiana Chance placed first in novice storytelling. The oral interp team will host the Orange and Black Oral Interp Festival Friday at WHS.

Is this California’s new normal? By Stuart Leavenworth McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS) As portrayed in novels, the California of the future is barely habitable. Brutal storms alternate with crushing droughts. Mudslides and wildfires create waves of climate change refugees.

Your green world Fiction? Perhaps less so after the past week. The wildfires in northern California obliterated neighborhoods; thousands evacuated or made homeless; fire authorities stunned by fast-moving blazes and tinderbox conditions that, as Gov. Jerry Brown said, “we’ve never seen.” “It is pretty frightening,” said T.C. Boyle, author of “A Friend of the Earth,” a 2000 novel that depicted a California ravaged by extreme weather and environmental devastation in the year 2025. “People say I was prescient by what I predicted for 2025,” he said in an interview Thursday. “The sad joke is I should have said 2015. It is frightening how quickly we got here.” California knows extreme weather. Throughout its history, it has endured natural disasters, like floods and heat waves. But many scientists say the wildfires of the past week are not completely natural. Park Williams, a Columbia University research scientist, said the fingerprint of climate change “is definitely there.” Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, agreed. “Increasing temperature plays a significant role in making these fires more explosive, and covering ground more quickly,” Swain said.