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*Boys Basketball * Pgs. 2-3 School * Pgs. 4-6 Sports *Pg. 7 Word Search *Pg 8. Student Life

Pass, Shoot, SCORE Cowboys Gear Up for LMC’s

Issue 4

Jan. 31

Squeezer Lemmon High School

Volume 92 Squeezer Staff: Editor: Avery Haase Assistant Editor: Beth Tennant

Taylee Raba, Morgan Dauwen, Macyn Flatmoe, Ronny Nehl, Chun-Han (Hank) Chou, Madison Weishaar, Kole Reede, Alena Mollman, Tally Katus, Kaitlyn McCartney, Lauren Weishaar, Abbie Hulm, Zayda Dirk, Megan Nehl

By: Beth Tennant

While the Cowboys started off their

season with a 3-9 win/loss ratio, the

boys are a young team that are contin-

uously in the building process men-

tioned coach, Sheri Anderson.

During the Newell game on January

5, Cody Thompson was the leading

scorer with 17 points, and following

right behind him was Jacob Hetzel with

13 points. Peyton Anderson ended the

night with 9 rebounds, 2 being offen-

sive, and 7 being defensive. The Cow-

boys won with the final score of 55-47.

“Jaden Kelley had a good offensive

game,” commented Coach Anderson

after the Dupree game on January 11.

Kelley led the Cowboys that night with

a total of 17 points while Anderson had

11 rebounds. The Cowboys fell just a

little short of a win during this game

with the final score being 43-49.

Britt Oliver hurt his ankle during the

Belle Fourche game and was out for

several games. After weeks of healing,

he returned to play late this month.

The Cowboys are gearing up to play in

the LMC Tournament February 1-3.

Coach Anderson commented, “We

never give up, we play hard, and we

want to get better.”

Cowboys Varsity Basketball

Opponent W/L Score

McLaughlin L 37-73

Beach L 41-67

Hettinger/Scranton L 41-73

Grant County W 33-32

Belle Fourche L 32-58

Newell W 55-47

Bowman L 45-65

Dupree L 43-49

Tiospaye Topa W 51-34

Faith L 33-41

New England L 35-55

Herreid-Selby L 45-67

Cowboys Junior Varsity Basketball

Opponent W/L Score

Timber Lake L 37-39

McLaughlin L 17-51

Beach L 40-43

Hettinger/Scranton L 37-57

Grant County L 29-37

Belle Fourche L 42-64

Newell W 38-30

Bowman L 15-47

Dupree W 37-33

Tiospaye Topa W 48-19

Faith W 45-42

New England L 32-50

Left- Cody

steps up to

the line to

shoot free

throws.

Right- Steven

passes the ball to

one of his team-

mates.

Above- Peyton goes up against Timber Lake during the tip off.

-School– Page 2

One Act Play Advances to State By: Chun-Han (Hank) Chou

The play selected, “13 Ways to Screw up Your College Interview,” is a come-dy about two college recruiters who have to find one more student to ad-mit before the end of the day or else they will be fired. The 13 interviews all go wrong in one hilarious way or an-other. The members of this comedy include, Jessica Colville, Sage Peterson,

Jasmine Styles, Taylor Drayton, Camryn Shockley, Jade Witt, Dillon Reede, Jake Ellison, Sierra Sattler, Ronny Nehl, Ma-cyn Flatmoe, Alena Mollman, and Kait-lyn McCartney. The director is Jenny Dirk, assistant director is Abby Flatmoe, and lighting technician is Aubrey Weishaar. The One Act team competed at region competition on January 17 and placed first out of seven schools.

Now they compete at the State One Act Play Festival on February 1-3 at Brandon Valley High School near Sioux Falls. During the region competition, six students received outstanding per-former awards which include Sage Pe-terson, Jake Ellison, Macyn Flatmoe, Taylor Drayton, Jasmine Styles, and Sierra Satter.

Left– Ronny, Jade, and Macyn act out one of the scenes in front of a performance for the student body. Right– Jake interviews Jasmine dur-ing the performance.

Biology I Studies Genetics By: Madison Weishaar In Biology I, the sophomores have learned about genetics through various labs. One lab in specific was a genetic simulation where students had to choose one cell from three different boxes to make a gene cluster. Each of the three boxes contained shapes that

resembled different gene types. After repeating this step multiple times, the students made a list of all their combi-nations. “I found it very interesting that there are many combinations of dominant and recessive genes,” Britt Oliver com-mented. Teacher, Mr. Swanson, added

how important it is for kids to under-stand the basics of genetics, especially if they are going into a biology career in their future. Overall, the students learned that there are over trillions of different combinations of genes and how each cell connects with another.

By: Zayda Dirk

For the second year in a row, the high

school girls’ basketball team has dedi-

cated themselves to teaching elemen-

tary girls in grades one through six

about basketball through a camp

called Mini-Cowgirls.

Meeting four times throughout the

season at the F. J. Reeder Armory, the

high school players taught fundamen-

tal basketball skills, such as ball-

handling, shooting with good form,

layups, and defense. However, the

camp was also designed to instill a love

of basketball within both the elemen-

tary and high school players.

Tally Katus, one of the high school

players, commented that her favorite

part of Mini-Cowgirls was “seeing how

much fun the younger girls have.”

High school girls basketball head

coach, Ryan Kohn, stated, “I think it is

awesome that we have 42 kids coming

to our camps, and that all of our high

school players are here working with

them. I love to see the looks on the

younger girls’ faces when they work

with the high school girls. The older

girls don’t realize how much of an im-

pact they have on the younger girls.”

Lemmon Cowgirls Teach Basketball Fundamentals

Dinner Theater Presents Lemmon’s Got Talent By: Kaitlyn McCartney

Lights, camera, action! Dinner thea-

ter is coming up soon. Mrs. Ham has

chosen a very unique theme: Lem-

mon’s got Talent. Mrs. Ham is making

many different changes. Some of the

changes this year is that there will not

be an actual meal, but there will be

snacks. Mrs. Ham is also trying to

make it so more kids of all different

ages will be able to join in this event.

Mrs. Ham estimates that there will be

around 70 kids involved in Dinner

Theater. She revealed her goals for

dinner theater are “to incorporate

more students, to make it entertaining

and to make sure the audience and

the kids enjoy it.”

“I’m excited to be working with Mrs.

Ham and trying new things and seeing

how things work out. I think she has

some good ideas, and I can’t wait to

see how they turn out,” stated Krista

Schopp.

Megan Nehl stated, “I like the

theme ,and I’m excited to see what

Mrs. Ham does with it.”

Seventh grader, Katelyn Arnold stat-

ed that she has never been in Dinner

Theater before, but she is looking for-

ward “to playing with the band.”

You can get your tickets for Dinner

Theater in the beginning of February,

and don’t miss the show on March 17.

Page 3 -School-

By: Kole Reede

This semester, due to schedule con-

flicts and changes, Mrs. Heil is teaching

Computer Applications to the fresh-

man class.

Mrs. Heil thinks this class is very im-portant to the students. She stated, “Technology is the way we do things,

and the more we know about pro-grams, the better we can use our time wisely.” She also talked about how she will be teaching skills that students would be able to use in their jobs and daily lives in the future. Mrs. Heil said the class is one that covers various dif-ferent applications, from Word to Google Drawings and publishing

spreadsheets. She also said that the class is more of a hands-on, learn at your own pace, type of class. Fresh-man, Tya Peterson stated that taking this class has already helped her to learn about Google Drawings, Mi-crosoft Word and Publisher, and other computer applications.

Students Learn Important Computer Skills

The Pilgrimage to Pass the Bill for Life By: Ronny Nehl There were four students from Lem-mon who went on the March for Life in Washington D.C. This march is a peaceful annual march to protest abor-tion and stand up for the rights of the unborn in our nation. There were two freshmen, Kole Reede and Megan Nehl; one sopho-more, Korrie Zentner; and one junior, Jadyn Zentner. All of them had to raise $450 each to go on the pilgrimage. They traveled to Rapid City, and from there they boarded a bus at St. Thomas More High School. They enjoyed a 28

hour ride to Washington D.C. where they bonded with other students and chaperones. Some of the places they saw or visited were the Washington Monument, The Capitol, many fast food places, Notre Dame, and The Ba-silica. Jadyn Zentner and Megan Nehl, ex-pressed how much they loved it there and how peaceful it was. The girls mentioned that they made friends with their bus mates and the chaperones on the trip. Megan said that she found a girl on trip that looked like her, and

people kept on asking if they were twins. The morning before they went to the march, Jadyn Zentner stated that one of the Chaperones named Eric pulled them aside and said, “If we go to this march, and we have over 100,000 peo-ple there, and only changed one per-son’s mind, we did our job.” They hope to go back next year, but they also hope they won’t have too if the bill for abortion to be illegal is passed. President Trump, Vice President Pence and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan gave speeches at the march.

(Back – left to right) Chaperone Serena ,

Jadyn, Kole, Korrie and Megan visit the

Basilica in Washington D.C..

Jadyn gets ready to go to

the March.

A group of students in Mrs. Knuth’s Intro to AFNR class enter their finances while playing the Farming Game.

By: Lauren Weishaar

Yet another year of the Farming

Game has gone by for Mrs. Knuth and

her Introduction to Agriculture, Food,

and Natural Resources (Intro to AFNR)

class.

The Farming Game is similar to Mo-

nopoly, but instead players purchase

plots of land, animals, equipment, and

crops. However, each harvest comes

with an unavoidable cost of doing

business.

Days previous to playing the game,

students learned about income, ex-

penses, current and non-current as-

sets, and liabilities. Then students car-

ried out what they learned by record-

ing and calculating money coming in

and out their own farms. Mrs. Knuth

said that she enjoys teaching the

Farming Game to her students be-

cause “It’s a fun way to bring record

keeping into real life and take owner-

ship of it.”

After the completion of the game,

students recorded their ending bal-

ances, and a winner was picked from

each of the groups. Jim Klein stated,

“My favorite part of the board game

was finally paying off $20,000 of debt.

I don’t like having to take out so many

loans and having no money.”

Ag Students Get Down to Business

-School/Sports– Page 4

By: Abbie Hulm Mrs. Gebhart’s eighth grade science class has been studying passive and active transport in cells and recently conducted a lab to observe osmosis in eggs. “The students are supposed to learn how to explain changes that occur in a

cell as a result of diffusion and distin-guish hypertonic and hypotonic solu-tions,” said Mrs. Gebhart. The class conducted the lab over a three day period on January 22-24 in Mrs. Gebhart’s classroom. Mrs. Gebhart explained the lab pro-cedure performed by the students:

“They weighed two eggs and put them in vinegar which broke down the shell. Then weighed the eggs again put one egg in a solution of water then one egg in a solution of corn syrup then finally weighed the eggs again to ob-serve the increase or decrease of the mass of the egg.”

Cracking the Case of the “Egg Lab”

Talon observes the weight of an egg during the Osmosis Lab.

During the eighth grade Osmosis Lab Riley records information.

Justin carefully re-adjusts the egg, making sure it doesn’t roll off, on the scale as he gets ready to record the weight of the egg.

Wrestlers Compete in Multiple Meets By: Macyn Flatmoe

The Cowboys came back after the

Christmas break to kick off the New

Year at the Hettinger Classic Wrestling

Invitational, where multiple wrestlers

placed. “My favorite match was when

Jordan Maier wrestled a very impres-

sive match and caught it in the last few

seconds and won. Another highlight

was when Braydon Peterson pinned

the number two kid from Wyoming.

Overall, I’m super proud of all of the

kids,” Coach Scott Peterson mentioned

after the Hettinger tournament.

After that, the team participated in

four other meets including the Gettys-

burg Tournament, Mobridge Quad,

Moorcroft Tournament, and the Lem-

mon Round Robin. At the Lemmon

Round Robin on January 23, all of the

wrestlers from Lemmon competed, and

there was great support from the Lem-

mon community. “I look forward to the

region tournament and to seeing how

many people advance to state,” Bray-

don Peterson commented.

Coach Peterson’s goals for the rest of

the season are to continue to improve

daily, and he looks forward to watching

the wrestlers compete.

Hettinger Classic Wrestling Invitational

Weight Class Name Placing

170 Kaleb Bucks 3rd

Heavy Weight Jake Ellison 3rd

Heavy Weight Braydon Peterson 1st

Gettysburg Wrestling Tournament

Weight Class Name Placing

170 Kaleb Bucks 2nd

Heavy Weight Jake Ellison 4th

Heavy Weight Braydon Peterson 2nd

Moorcroft Tournament

Weight Class Name Placing

160 Dylan Witt 6th

170 Kaleb Bucks 4th

Heavy Weight Braydon Peterson 1st

Kaleb wrestles in weight class 170 against a Moorcroft wrestler at the Hettinger Classic.

Above- Jake fights to pin his opponent at the Moorcroft tournament. Left- Dylan goes for a reversal during his match at the Lemmon Round Robin.

Page 5 -Sports- The Junior High Cowgirls Never Give Up

By: Morgan Dauwen

“Our biggest strength this year is our ability to get down the court, and also how we never give up,” stated Coach Jessica Byre. The girls were gaining much experience and learning what it is like to work as a team. Coach Byre said that the best game was Dupree. She commented that the girls always came alive and played well as a team. The 6

th and 7

th grade record was

2 wins and 4 losses. The 8th

graders record 3 wins and 11 losses. The Cow-girls last game was against McIntosh and the young Cowgirls won 44-10.

Above- Kelly takes the ball to the hoop, in hopes of a shot.

Left- Dara brings the ball down the floor on a fast break.

Jr. High Girls Basketball

8th Grade

Opponent Score W/L

Faith (9-41) L

Timber Lake (27-33) L

Hettinger (15-20) L

Bison (25-38) L

Elgin (24-30) L

Dupree LMC's (18-16) W

Timber Lake LMC's (15-29) L

Bison LMC's (25-32) L

Harding County (31-44) L

Dupree (22-16) W

Hettinger (19-24) L

McIntosh (44-10) W

6th and 7th Grade

Faith (12-27) L

Timber Lake (16-26) L

Hettinger (22-19) W

Elgin (10-34) L

Harding County (6-18) L

Hettinger (16-15) W

Young Cowboys Showing Some Success By: Beth Tennant

The junior high boys basketball team consist of 4 sixth graders, 3 sev-enth graders, and 3 eighth graders. On January 22, the boys played against Rock Creek and won with a score of 37-32 in both games. They were close games, and they all worked together as a team to pull through. During the 6

th and 7

th grade game,

Avery Peterson had a total of 12 points, while during the 6

th, 7

th, and 8

th

grade game, Talon Trogstad had a total of 21 points. Just recently, the boys played the Faith Longhorns and fell short with the final scoring being 20-34. Trogstad had 10 points, and following right be-hind him was Justin Schopp and Riley Tennant both with four points. January 27 the 6th and 7th graders played in the Junior High LMC Tour-nament in Timber Lake. This young

team lost their first two games of the tournament. The Cowboys will be winding down their season soon.

Avery looks for a teammate to pass the ball to.

Sawyer get his hands up for defense against one of the Grant County players.

Riley jumps to try and steal the ball.

Cowboys Junior High Opponent W/L Score

Grant County W 42-34

Dupree W 33-10

Faith L 20-34

Rock Creek W 37-32

-Sports– Page 6

Cowgirls Lay-Up a New Basketball Season By: Avery Haase The Cowgirls basketball season has kicked off for the year with six wins and seven losses after the LMC tourna-ment. One of the exciting games that took place was against Newell. During this game, Meza Ham scored 16 points and Taylor Drayton followed closely behind with 15 points. The free throw percent-age for this game was 83% as well. The game went into overtime and Aubrey Weishaar made the game winning point. “Honestly, I was a little scared when Meza fed me the ball because I thought she was going in for the lay-up, and it wasn’t part of the plan. After the shot, my heart was literally pound-ing out of my chest,” commented Weishaar. Head Coach Ryan Kohn also com-mented on this game, “The Newell game stuck out to me this season. They came out shooting the lights out and kept the lead until the last four minutes. We battled back to win that game in overtime. Those games will

always stick out.” The Cowgirls also participated in the LMC tournament on January 18-20. The ladies competed against Harding County, Timber Lake, and Dupree. Dur-ing the Harding County game, Drayton had 8 total rebounds while Camryn Shockley and Ham tied with 6. Shock-ley also led with 4 steals. For total points, Ham had 18 and Drayton had 10. Shockley commented, “Our first LMC game against Harding County stuck out to me because I felt like our entire team was super hyped and excit-ed to play that night.” For the Timber Lake game, Shockley had 5 assists and Weishaar had 5 re-bounds. For total points, Drayton led with 12 while Tayte Kohn and Tally Katus tied with 9. During the Dupree game, Katus and Morgan Dauwen led with 7 rebounds while Drayton was closely behind with 6. Shockley had 5 steals as well. For total points, Drayton led with 8 while Katus and Kohn tied with 6. Coach Ryan Kohn commented, “We played

well the first night against Harding County. We were playing very well against Timber Lake the second night until Meza had a season ending injury. The head coach from Timber Lake told me ‘We have lost a couple of games this year, but your team had us frazzled as bad as anyone to this point.’ Once you lose a player during a game like that, it really changes the momentum. I was proud of our team for fighting through that unfortunate incident.” One of their goals for the rest of the season is to re-group in offense and defense. “We will be having different personal playing in different spots and we need to get the timing of that fig-ured out. It might take a few games to get going again, but we should be peaking about the end of the season which is perfect for regions,” stated Ryan Kohn.

Above- Meza takes the ball down the court against the Timber Lake Panthers. Right- Tayte attempts to find a team-mate to pass the ball to. Far Right- Camryn looks to the hoop in hopes of making a basket.

JV Cowgirls Basketball

Opponent Score W/L

Timber Lake 48-13 W

Dupree 48-27 W

Beach 53-44 W

Hettinger/Scranton 47-42 W

Mobridge-Pollock 42-28 W

Belle Fourche 31-45 L

Faith 35-28 W

Newell 35-16 W

Flasher 47-18 W

Tiospaye Topa 50-6 W

LMC Tournament - Cowgirls Basketball

Opponent Score W/L

Harding County 59-29 W

Timber Lake 47-70 L

Dupree 30-48 L

Varsity Cowgirls Basketball

Opponent Score W/L

Timber Lake 45-64 L

Dupree 60-47 W

Beach 46-62 L

Hettinger/Scranton 59-70 L

Mobridge-Pollock 59-44 W

Belle Fourche 24-69 L

Faith 34-62 L

Newell 60-58 W

Flasher 62-56 W

Tiospaye Topa 67-44 W

Valentine’s Day Word Search

Angel

Bouquet

Candy

Chocolate

Cupid

Darling

Envelope

Flirt

Flowers

Fourteenth

Friendship

Girlfriend

Heartthrob

Hug

Kiss

Lovebirds

Moonstruck

Pink

Poems

Romance

Rose

Smitten

Sweetheart

1. 15%

2. California

3. Mardi Gras

4. Jell-O

5. The Academy Awards

6. Banana

7. Mars

8. Violet

9. Amethyst

10. Flowers

11. Polio

Page 7 –Student Life-

Page 8 –Student Life-

Question of the Issue

What was your New Year’s resolution this year? Have you kept it? By: Macyn Flatmoe Seniors Jasmine Styles- To be more fabulous, and yeah I’ve definitely kept it. Tristan Lopez- To live as a better person and to treat other’s as I would prefer to be treated. I hope I’ve kept it. Juniors

Sierra Sattler- Cook more food so that in college I don’t only eat take out. Dylan Witt- Go to the gym three times a week. For the most part. Sophomores

Arthur Harrison- To hold my breath all year, and no I haven’t kept it. It lasted a whole 35 seconds. Alena Mollman- To sleep more and eat less, and no. Freshmen

Tya Peterson- My New Year’s resolution is to re-binge watch Greys Anatomy, and I’m doing a pretty great job of it. Kole Reede- To listen to Macyn less, she gives terrible advice. :) Yeah I’ve kept it pretty well. Eighth Grade

Justin Schopp- I want to be able to lift my 300 pounds of weights by the end of two years. Yes I’ve been keeping it. Jecoliah Anderson- To be more outgoing, and yes. Seventh Grade

Sarah Hetzel- I would like to break my horse so I can ride him. Jim Stevens- To speak Spanish, yeah.

Allison Preszler reflected on her senior FFA trip. “The trip to Denver

was one of my favorites. Getting to tour the Broncos stadium was

one of my favorite places to visit since I am a Broncos fan. The

aquarium was pretty cool because I was able to see different types

of fish, sharks, a tiger, a parrot, and string rays. Red Rock Amphi-

theatre was another cool place to see because a lot of artists have

played there such as Tom Petty and Def Leopard. There were a lot

of other things we did too, but for me it was a fun time being able

to visit a new state and town where I could see the Rocky Moun-

tains along with meeting new friends. I will never forget this trip.”

FFA Trip Provides Many Opportunities

Above- Allison got the opportunity to visit Red Rock

Amphitheatre in Denver, Colorado during her FFA

senior trip with FFA Advisor, Mrs. Knuth.

February Trivia 1. What percent of women send roses to themselves on

Valentine’s Day? 2. Which state produces the majority of America’s roses? 3. What huge celebration occurs in Brazil in February? 4. Which dessert is celebrated from the sixth of February to

the twelfth? 5. Which awards show normally occurs at the end of

February? 6. Which fruit is recognized in the month of February? 7. Who is Cupid’s father? 8. What is the flower for the month of February? 9. What is the birthstone for February? 10. What is the most gifted item on Valentine’s Day? 11. Which vaccination was first given to school children on the twenty-third of February, 1954? *Answers located at the bottom of page 7