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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.
Read moreAHS juniors are especially excited for the approaching end of the year, and for their “year of tests'' to be over. In October, the class took the ASVAB, the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery. According to their website, this is “a multiple-aptitude battery that measures developed abilities and helps predict future academic and occupational success in the military. It is administered annually to more than one million military applicants, high school, and post-secondary students.”
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Trinity Chaisson was born on January 13, 2003, to Jaime Poignee and Erik Chaisson. She has four siblings, Tristin Poignee, Jessica Streit, Alexander Chaisson, and Iris Newman.
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As spring rolls around, so does Prom…and a lot of responsibilities for the junior class. The theme of this year's 2022 Prom is Unlock the Enchanted Night. It is March 26 with the junior and senior class banquet at 6:00 p.m., Grand March at 7:30 p.m., and the dance from 8:30-11:30 p.m.
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Rachael DeJong was born on December 4, 2003 to Dean and Christa DeJong. She has two brothers, Jason and Riley DeJong.
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The Lady Raiders traveled to Brookings last Wednesday to partake in the State A Girls basketball tournament. The support Wagner had made it feel like three home games. Wagner would take on the Red Cloud Crusaders in the opening round of the tournament that was loaded from top to bottom. Both teams would start out fast as the Crusaders would hold a 18-15 lead after the first. Both teams would score 17 in the second as the Crusaders would hold a 35-32 lead. With a shot at the buzzer Red Cloud would post a 12 point lead entering the 4th and would increase it to 14 early. Wagner would begin to chip away hitting big shot after big shot and shutting down the potent Red Cloud offense and out score the Crusaders 22-4 in the 4th and post a 68-62 victory. Emma Yost would post a double-double with 17 points and 12 boards. She would also dish out 5 assists and come away with 2 steals. Ashlyn Koupal would also net 17 off the bench and grab 7 boards and dish out 3 assists. Shalayne Nagel would be the third Raider in double figures while also posting a double-double with 16 points and 11 boards. She would also dish out 4 assists. Lydia Yost would add 9 points off the bench, grab 4 boards and dish out 2 assists. Macy Koupal would chip in 6, grab 5 boards, and dish out 5 assists. Eve Zephier would round out the scoring with 3 points, grab 4 boards and dish out 2 assists. Wagner was 25-56 for 45% from the field while holding Red Cloud to 38% from the floor. Wagner crashed the boards with 43 against only 26 from Red Cloud. Wagner committed 15 turnovers against 5 from Red Cloud. “Talk about two teams lighting it up on the score board. 20 made threes, 10 from each team. We did a great job controlling the glass the second half get 12 offensive rebounds that half and finishing with 16. Defensively in the 4th we locked down once we fouled out Derby. The girls were resilient and just kept working to finish the game.”
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