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Wednesday, April 6, 2016 Special Testing (two-hour late) Schedule—see below, right
Happening Now •Testing: Juniors take Dakota STEP Science test 8:10-10:05 a.m. in adrooms
Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Thai chicken and rice over chow mein noodles, cauliflower •À la carte lines: Cheese lasagna, cheese enchilada, baked potato bar, chef salad, sandwiches
Warrior Olympics •Three-Legged: Partner race 7:30 a.m. today in gym •Duct-Tape: Challenge 3:30 p.m. today in commons •Current Standings: First—Staff Infection; Second —605 Queens; Third—Dunkoholics
Group Meetings •Collision: Christian fellowship group will meet at 3:10 p.m. Thursday in A-135. •SALSA: Volunteer group will meet at 3:15 p.m. Thursday in C-111. •Disc Golf: Organizational meeting at 7:30 a.m. Friday in A-209.
Other Reminders •Yearbook: 2016 pre-orders are now being taken at jostens.com and Tuesdays and Thursdays at lunch. NOW Wednesday Staff Co-Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caroline Point and Ty Smith Assistant Editor . . . . . . . . . . Carly Knutson Staff: Michael Enalls, Aaron Johnson, Makayla Uithoven, Keenan Sorgdrager, Seth Randall, Rheannan Bills, Stephen Cordell, Joe Simko, Mckyla Moon 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
Vol. 21 • No. 124
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Boys basketball team members honored
Season-end banquet held March 29 in commons By Aaron Johnson arrior boys basketball team members celebrated a successful season March 29 in the commons. Individual awards handed out included senior Sam Siganos with the Warrior Foxhole Award for team spirit. Best Defensive Player awards went to sophomore Logan Uttecht for varsity, sophomores Seth Benson and Alex Bertram for the JV/sophomore teams and freshman Gabe Person for the freshman team. The Warrior Team Attitude award for varsity went to senior Carter Keller, junior Nolan Behr, Benson and sophomore Topher Zahn for the JV/sophomore teams and freshman Adam Durland for the freshman team. Senior Jacob Skogstad, Zahn, Bertram, and freshman Ben VanBockern won the Best Practice Player for the varsity, JV/sophomore and freshman teams, respectively. The Most Improved Player Awards went to sophomores Zach Heins, Chol John and Manny Akot and freshman Garrett Mayer. Coach Craig Nelson said it was a great season. “We had great leadership out of our seniors and a lot of younger kids that learned from them,” Nelson said. “They were our hardest workers and great kids.”
Photo by Carter Keller HONORED—Freshman Aweys Abdimaalim accepts a certificate from coach Craig Nelson at the boys basketball banquet March 29.
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Boys tennis team opens with loss to O’Gorman
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Juniors begin state-mandated testing in special ad-rooms today. Testing............................8:10-10:05 a.m. Freshmen-juniors in special ad-rooms 1st Period......................10:10-10:42 a.m. Seniors report to first period at 10:10 a.m. 2nd Period....................10:47-11:19 a.m. 3rd Period.....................11:24-11:56 a.m. 4th period.................... 12:01-12:52 p.m. 4a 12:01-12:24; 4b 12:29-12:52 5th Period...................... 12:57-1:48 p.m. 5a 12:57-1:20; 5b 1:25-1:48 6th Period........................ 1:53-2:28 p.m. 7th period........................ 2:33-3:05 p.m.
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Boys Tennis
The varsity boys tennis team fell to O’Gorman 8-1 Tuesday at McKennan Park to open the season. Junior Elliot Hartwig had the lone win at No. 1 for WHS. The next match will take place April 15 against Lincoln High School at 4 p.m. at WHS.
Baseball
The JV baseball team opened the season with two losses to Lincoln Tuesday at Harmodon Park, falling 5-2 in Game One and 6-5 in Game Two. The freshman/ sophomore teams lost 11-2 and 14-0 in their doubleheader with the Pats. The varsity plays at Harrisburg Thursday.
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Track teams compete at Yankton Quadrangular By Caroline Point Warrior track and field teams competed outside for the first time this season in a quad meet with Yankton and Sioux City, Iowa, East and West Tuesday at Yankton. WHS had a good showing, placing in the majority of events. Starting the meet off with the 4x800 meter relay, the girls placed second while the boys placed first with a time of 8:54.9. The boys continued to dominate, winning the 4x400 relay and sweeping the 100 dash with junior
More extreme weather on Ethan McKinney first, senior Isaiah a time of 1:49.4 and the 4x100 relay way for west Feterl second and freshman Tupak Kpeayeh third. Feterl also received first in the 400 dash. In long distance races, senior Alex Derr took first with 2:01.2, senior Alec Kray second and Austin Miller third to sweep. In the 1,600 Kray blew away the competition with a time of 4:30.9 for first and senior Nick Rovang took second. In hurdles, senior Mike Enalls won the 110 and freshman Nate Freese took second, but came back in the 300 to win. The girls won the 4x200 relay with
with a :51.7. In individual events, the girls had sound placings in the 800 run with junior Kelsi Kearney in second and Megan Etrheim in fourth. The 100 meter dash also had top placings with sophomore Hayley Christopherson in second with :12.5, sophomore Darline Suah third with :13 flat and junior Tara Oren close behind with a :13.3 in fourth. The varsity will next be in action Saturday at the Brandon Valley Invitational and the JV Thursday in a city meet at O’Gorman.
Senior learns life lessons from Batman
One can learn many life lessons from the greatest superhero of all time, Batman. As a huge fan of the Bat, I would love to share some of the things I’ve been taught as I have watched and grown up with him over the years. The first is that life is fair, because it is unfair to everyone equally. Most would say Hear me. . . Bruce Wayne had it easy growing up—he lived in a rich home with Michael Enalls caring parents. The fact of the matter is that he had his own hardships, however, dealing with the death of both of his parents. While you may look from the outside and wish you could be someone else, it’s more than likely they are dealing with something in life just as difficult as you, or more so.
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The second is that you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. In life, especially if you’re good at something, people will see a positive figure and attempt to throw dirt on your name. Anyone they perceive to be doing better than them becomes an immediate threat. The best way to combat people who are looking for you to do something wrong is to never, or more realistically, rarely do things that you wouldn’t want the general public to be aware of. The third is a lesson not from the Caped Crusader himself, but from his father. Thomas Wayne asked Bruce in times of distress, “Bruce, why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up.” When you mess up, the worst thing you can do is stay down. Dust yourself off, pick yourself up, and make something of your situation. Sometimes life is hard, but if you live your life like a hero things will be much easier in the long run. Take it from me, and from Batman. Senior Michael Enalls thinks Batman is way cooler than Superman.
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By Laurel Hamers San Jose Mercury News (TNS) STANFORD, Calif. — Stanford University researchers who studied trends in the atmospheric circulation patterns that affect California’s rainfall have found that conditions linked to the hot, dry weather during the state’s latest drought have become more frequent in recent years.
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While this year’s El Nino-driven storms may have brought temporary relief to the state’s parched soil and depleted reservoirs, Californians can expect more frequent droughts in the decades to come, said the study published Friday by Science Advances. The researchers examined the “Ridiculously Resilient Ridge” — a persistent area of high atmospheric pressure over the north Pacific Ocean. The ridge can divert the path of storms destined for the West Coast, like a boulder in a stream forces water to move around it. “We have a pretty narrow rainy season — really only a handful of months to see all of our annual precipitation,” said Daniel Swain, a Stanford University researcher who participated in the study. This ridge can seriously throw off the year’s rainfall total if it sits off the coast at the wrong time of year, Swain said, which has been the case during the past few drought-stricken years. Swain’s analysis found that the atmospheric conditions that lead to ridging have become more common since 1949 — and that those triggering wet weather might also be increasing. But California’s reservoir system, which relies heavily on the Sierra Nevada snowpack to gradually replenish, wasn’t set up to handle such conditions.
