Back Row: Brady Bierema, Kaeli Wallinga, Macy Voigt, Kinley Doom, Mylie Bares, Lila Vanderlei, Jasmin Frank and Landon Mudder. Middle Row: Caleb Wallinga, Landon Thury, Trace Pelton, Noah Watchorn, Tyler Tjeerdsma, Courtney Sees, Sarah Swier, Kalee Mixon and Kley Heumiller. Front Row: Tiffany Pelton, Katie Gretschmann, Eli Watchorn, Lincoln Thury, Haden Cahoy and Jaden Stahl. Courtesy Photo.
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Sophomore, McKenna Kocmich.
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The second through fourth grade boys basketball coach, Joe Sees, commented on the boys season this year.
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The Gregory Athletics Club hosted the 29th annual East- West Shootout on Monday, March 21, 2022. The event features area high school seniors and gives them the chance to have a night of fun on the court playing together with friends, whom are sometimes rivals during the regular season.
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With the basketball season over, Conference Awards were announced for both the boys and girls teams. In the boys’ division, Lincoln Thury (12) and Landon Thury (10) made the Great Plains Conference Team and Eli Watchorn was selected for Honorable Mention. Landon was also selected for the LMVC 2nd team, and Lincoln was selected for the LMVC 3rd team.
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Avon High School had its first annual mock election on March 10. Keegan McAdaragh (Republican candidate), Haden Cahoy (Democratic candidate), and Riley Rucktaeschel (Reform candidate) voiced their political parties’ beliefs. There were 26 questions in total with five “zinger” questions. These questions had to be answered off of the candidates’ knowledge about their parties’ beliefs on the subject.
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On March 21, band director Mataya Larsgaard took selected students from the 7th through 12th band to the Area Band Festival at the Scotland High School. Throughout the day they performed a variety of jazz, lyrical, and march music with a variety of schools such as Viborg-Hurley, Parkston, Menno, Bon Homme, Alcester-Hudson, Armour, Irene-Wakonda, and Scotland.
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