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First-Day Schedule
Happening Now •Boys Golf: Varsity Bobcat Invitational 10 a.m. at Brookings Country Club; JV City Meet 4 p.m. at Willow Run •Girls Tennis: vs. O’Gorman 4 p.m. at WHS •Band Booster: Meeting 7 p.m. in band room •Senior Class: Party parent planning meeting 7 p.m. in library
Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Chicken stir fry, egg roll, cowboy salsa •À la carte lines: Pepperoni hot pocket, taco fixings, chef salad, sandwiches
Group Meetings •DECA: The marketing organization at WHS, will meet at 3:10 p.m. Tuesday in A-103. All interested are invited. •Audition: For the first play of the year, William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Little Theatre. See director Julie Abraham with any questions. •Girls: Interested in playing basketball for WHS this winter will meet at 7:30 a.m. Thursday in the main gym. •Chemistry Club: Will meet at 3:15 p.m. Thursday in A-214 for the year’s kick-off meeting. All former, current and future chemistry students are welcome to attend. •SALSA: Volunteer organization will meet at 3:20 p.m. Thursday in C-111. NOW Monday Staff
Co-Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sophie Nieman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and Zach Heins Assistant Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . .Riley Jensen Staff: Cyler Melvin, Trevor Burkhart Editors-in-chief. . . . . . . . . . . . Madi Forseth and Libby Nachtigal 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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Football team remains perfect with 28-17 win Junior Tupak Kpeayeh rushes for 228 yards, three TD’s By Cyler Melvin and Zach Heins he Warrior football team is the only perfect team left in 11AAA football as they defeated No. 2 O’Gorman 28-17 in the opening game of the Presidents’ Bowl Saturday at Howard Wood Field to improve to 3-0 on the season. The Warrior offense was lead by junior Tupak Kpeayeh who had 228 rushing yards on 44 carries, including three touchdowns. Junior quarterback Jayden Johanson had one touchdown and 156 yards passing on the night. On the defensive side of things, the Warriors forced four turnovers, three interceptions and a fumble. Senior Logan Uttecht broke the WHS record of
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most receptions in a career Saturday. Uttecht has been a starter on the Warrior offense since his sophomore year. Senior Trevor Burkhart said it was a challenging game. “O’Gorman came to play,” Burkhart said. “But so did we, and we just came out on top. Simple as that. It was a slow first half, and then we found our momentum in the locker room for the second half.” Coach Chad Stadem said it was a well-played game by both teams. “I am very proud of our team for stepping-up when we needed to,” Stadem said. “We showed great maturity.” WHS next faces Mitchell, the only undefeated team remaining in AA, Friday in Mitchell.
Photo by Josh Jurgens, Jurgens Digital Media RUN—Junior Tupak Kpeayeh rushes in the Presidents’ Bowl. He had 228 yards on 44 carries.
Boys take second at Nike Preview Meet By Riley Jensen Warrior boys placed second in the 13-team Nike Heartland Preview cross country race Saturday at Yankton Trail Park. The varsity girls took seventh at the race. For the boys, senior Yonas Sadi took ninth place overall with a time of 16:30.86. Senior Bonheur Mvuyekure finished 10th with a time of 16:31.63. Mvuyekure said the race was a challenging one for all involved. “There was some tough competition,” Mvuyekure said. “But we all did our part, and the results turned out great. It can only get better from here.” For the girls, senior Carlie Kray paced the
girls team with a time of 20:57.35 in 29th place. The JV teams also did well as the boys placed third overall and the girls eighth. Head coach Shane Reilly said it was a good meet for the Warriors to be involved in. “It was a new meet for us,” Reilly said. “It had a fun and competitive atmosphere and we had a lot of people run very well. We went against some teams we rarely get to go against, also.” For the boys, Minnetonka, Minn., finished first with 25 team points. WHS had 65 for second, and Rapid City Stevens 111 for third. In the girls division, Willmar, Minn., took first with 43 team points. WHS had 170. The teams next travel to Huron on Saturday.
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Editor’s note: The Warrior Q & A is a weekly profile of a Warrior staff member with the goal of helping members of the WHS community come to know each other better. Subjects are chosen at random by the NOW staff. Assembled and photo by Sophie Nieman and Libby Nachtigal
Alicia Hess •Name: Alicia Hess •What is your position at WHS? I teach early history of mankind, government, and world history and next semester I will teach world geography, as well.
Monday, Sept. 11, 2017 •Other Assignments? I coach volleyball and will be coaching track. •Where did you grow up and attend high school? I grew up in Stickney. •Who are your family members? I have my parents, my older sister who is married and has two boys, my brother who is married and has one daughter and another older sister who lives in Sioux Falls. I also have a husband. •Do you have any interesting hobbies? I enjoy kayaking and golfing. •What did you do before you came to WHS? I taught in Newell for four years before coming here. I taught middle school and high school social studies and also coached high school basketball and volleyball.
Keep hurricane victims in mind
Unless you have been under a rock for the last three weeks, you have seen or heard the terms “Category Five” or “Evacuation” being mentioned every other word on the news. The definition Hear me. . . of a hurricane is a storm with a violent wind, particularly a Trevor Burkhart tropical storm in the Caribbean. Florida, Texas and Louisiana among other coastal states, have been plagued by these hurricanes for as long as we can remember, and though our southern citizens prepare as well as they can, nothing can defend from a storm like Harvey.
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The precipitation in Houston exceeded 70.82” since Jan. 1 this year, already exceeding the annual average of 50”. These record flood waters have already caused unimaginable property damage, as well as killing 70 so far. FEMA has stated that relief efforts persist and are going as well as can be expected. President Trump has issued several statements on the current status of government aid to salvage what can be saved, and to encourage all citizens to evacuate, rather than try to ride it out. “We see neighbor helping neighbor, friend helping friend, and stranger helping stranger,” Trump said. “We are one American family. We hurt together, we struggle together, and believe me, we endure together.” All Americans are encouraged to donate and keep the victims of these vicious storm cycles in their thoughts. Senior Trevor Burkhart will be praying for hurricane victims.
Hurricane Irma’s not done yet By Patrick J. McDonnell, Laura King and Evan Halper Los Angeles Times (TNS) NAPLES, Fla. — In a calamitous northward sweep from the Everglades to the Florida Panhandle, a weakening but still monstrously powerful Hurricane Irma battered a string of cities on the state’s palmfringed west coast Sunday before advancing toward Georgia and the Carolinas. Irma, downgraded Sunday afternoon to a Category 2 storm and expected to lose its hurricane status Monday, yielded watery misery and hours of scouring winds even in areas that avoided a direct hit, like Miami, and flattened buildings in the Florida Keys, where it first made landfall. So broad and punishing was the storm’s reach that no corner of Florida, the country’s fourth most-populous state, was unaffected. There were at least four deaths. A man in the Florida Keys drove his car into a light pole, and a woman driving on a toll road in central Florida ran into a rail. In a rural area southeast of Tampa, two law-enforcement officers died after their vehicles crashed headon. The storm’s passage by no means marks the end of the danger. “Once this system passes through, it’s going to be a race to save lives and sustain lives,” William B. “Brock” Long, the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator, said on “Fox News Sunday.” With the storm on a havoc-filled trajectory, much of Florida was a jumbled tableau of overflowing shelters, boarded-up buildings and deserted streets in normally bustling urban centers. Palm trees blew sideways, with fronds snapping under the assault; tree branches flew like missiles.
