By Patrick Saaleephiwand Nick Sokolovits

Warrior boys basket-ball team members opened their home

season with a 54-39 win over cross-town rival Roosevelt Tuesday at WHS.

Leading the Warriors to victory were senior Deng Geu with 21 points and 11 rebounds. Junior Carter Keller had 10 points in the win.

The game featured an exciting, hard-fought battle for most of the game until the fourth quarter when the Warriors pulled away for good.

Geu said he thinks it was a good win for the Warriors to open the city schedule.

“We closed out the game really well,” Geu said. “The guards got the ball down low which opened up shots on kickouts.”

In sub-varsity action, most

Warrior teams saw success. The JV Warriors won 48-36, and the sophomores 62-54.

The freshman games were both very exciting, coming down to the final seconds. The freshman A Team won 45-43 on a last-second shot by fresh-man Zach Heins. The B Team lost on a last-second Rough Rider shot 44-41.

The Warriors will have little time off during the upcoming break. On Friday, they will play a boys/girls doubleheader in Yankton with the girls varsi-ty playing at 6:15 p.m. and the boys following around 8 p.m.

The Warrior boys will also be participating in the fifth annual Mike Miller Classic and both the boys and girls will play several games at the Sanford Pentagon in Sioux Falls. The girls will also play in an invitational in Marshall, Minn.

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Winter Break•Semester Tests: Will be held during special 7:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. school days Thursday and Friday at WHS.•CTE Students: Will have special schedules for testing days. Block I will load the bus at 7 a.m. Thursday and return to WHS at 10 a.m.; Block II will load the bus at 9:15 a.m. Thursday and return to WHS at 11:45 a.m. and Block III will load the bus at 9:15 a.m. Friday and return to WHS at 11:45 a.m.•No Classes: Will be held after Friday until Jan. 5, 2015, at 8:30 a.m. in ad-room.•No NOW: Will be published during break. Publication will resume Jan. 5, 2015.

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No. 2 WHS takes care of No. 5 Roosevelt in 54-39 win

Warrior boys prove they are force to be reckoned with

Semester tests end semester Thursday, FridayBy MacKenzie Jensen and Zach Heintz

Semester testing worth 15 percent of the final grade in each class will commence Thursday and Friday of this week to end the fall semester.

School will run on a spe-cial schedule from 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. each day for testing—periods 1-3 Thursday and 4-7 on Friday.

Senior Devon Huber said he is ready for the testing.

“I filled out study guides for all my classes and feel really prepared,” Huber said. “I am excited because it’s my last first semester tests.”

Psychology teacher Alison TerHorst said the exams test how far students have pro-gressed.

“It lets the teachers know how much the students have learned over the semester,” Ter-Horst said.

Senior Hope Maunders said she is prepared for the tests.

“I am not nervous because I have had four years of prac-tice,” Maunders said. “I stud-ied throughout the semester, so I don’t have to cram everything in last minute.”

Students should bring No. 2 pencils as instructed to each class.

Photo by Tryg AndersenLAY IT UP—Senior Deng Geu takes a lay-up in Tuesday’s game.

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As I’m sure you’re all aware, it is only two weeks until the final day of 2014, and I think it’s time we look back at all of the crazy things that happened this year—from

Ebola to the Kardashians.

First and most obviously, WHS was named the greatest school of all time by the New York Times!

OK, it was selected by the WHS NOW, which is close enough for me.

Anyway, how about that World Cup match where Germany surprised the world by beating Brazil with a score of 7-1? And what’s even more crazy, is that scientists

have successfully landed on a comet. And hopefully soon, torture methods, as made popular by the CIA and other government agencies, will soon be a thing of the past.

But not everything this year was all happy and jolly like the upcoming holidays—such as the world’s newest terror-ist threat, ISIS. Another scary threat in the news in 2014 was the most dramatic outbreak of the Ebola virus so far that everyone couldn’t stop talking about.

And possibly the most horrible thing to happen was when we lost one of Hollywood’s most beloved actors and comedians this year, Robin Williams.

But overall, 2014 was a great year. The highlight of my year would probably have to be getting to know a special girl just a little bit better. But it’s not over yet, we still have two weeks left. So make them count.

Senior Doug Wilber can’t wait to go to the falls over break.

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With the death at San Diego Zoo Safari Park of a northern white rhino, the species is five animals away from extinction.

The death of Angalifu, a 44-year-old male north-ern white rhino, leaves an elderly female at the park, three in a Kenyan pre-serve and one at a Czech Republic zoo.

There were more than 2,000 northern whites in 1960, according to the World Wildlife Fund, but poachers obliter-ated the population. By 1984, there were about 15 of the rhinos left. That population was doubled by 1993 through aggressive conservation efforts. But heavily armed poaching gangs have now virtually annihilated the species, the WWF says.

Poachers are known to use helicopters, guns with silencers and night-vision equipment to harvest rhinos’ horns, which are in huge demand in Asia and sell for as much as $30,000 a pound.

And the penalties are not nearly as severe as for selling drugs, as the International Business Times reported in April. It’s a deadly formula for the rhinos.

The white rhino—which has southern and northern subspecies—is the largest of all the rhino species and ranks as the second-largest mammal on land, after the African elephant, according to the WWF. The white rhino can reach 6 feet in height at the shoulder, with females weighing about 3,500 pounds and males nearly 8,000. The head of the rhino alone can weigh as much as 1,000 pounds.

Conservation efforts with southern white rhinos have been succeeding—the San Diego Zoo Safari Park boasts the most successful captive breeding program for rhinos anywhere on the globe. But the program for the northern white rhino hasn’t been so successful.

Northern White Rhinos nearly extinct

Your green world

Doug Wilber

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Senior reviews highs and lows of 2014

Ugly, beautiful sweatersPhoto by Zach HenitzREADY FOR THE HOLIDAYS— Some of the Warriors who participated in the annual “Ugly Sweater Day” today pose for a group photo this morning.