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In This Issue
*Mock Accident * Pgs. 2-3 & 7 School News * Pgs. 4-6 Sports * Pg. 8, Student Spotlight/ Question of the Issue
Hundreds Impacted by Mock Accident By: Taylee Raba
Roughly 270 ninth graders from 13
different schools and 75 adults came
to Lemmon on September 14 to partic-
ipate in this year’s Freshman Impact.
This is an annual event that takes place
in Lemmon to inform the freshman on
the dangers that drinking, texting, and
being distracted while driving can do
within just a matter of seconds. There
are seven morning stations that all the
freshman get to participate in. The five
stations that have stayed the same for
the past years have been the fire and
medical, walking and driving with the
alcohol impairment simulation gog-
gles, suicide prevention, cyberbullying
and drug prevention. Two new stations
were added this year, the water chal-
lenge which had kids transferring water
with PVC pipes into a bucket and the
seatbelt challenge which had the stu-
dents timed in every spot in the car
racing and putting their seatbelt on.
After the seven morning classes and
the lunch break is when things really
got serious. This year’s main speaker
told the freshman how his two sons
were walking a friend home when a
drunk driver going 60 miles per hour in
a 15-20 miles per hour zone hit one of
the boys and took his life. Following
the speaker was the mock accident,
funeral, and trial. This year’s mock acci-
dent incorporated texting. JoLinda Hay
stated, “The accident is just so real and
you feel like you actually lost the peo-
ple.”
LHS Freshman Jenaya Lockrem stat-ed, “I was sad, mad, and scared
throughout the whole day. I was like an emotional rollercoaster.” Which comes to show that the program is effective in making the freshmen realize what could happen to themselves, a loved one, or anyone. By the end of the mock trial scene, the freshmen learned that the person would be in prison for 20 years and that they would owe the families for restitution, medical bills and a funeral cost which came up to a grand total of over a 100,000 dollars. Freshman Chloe Trogstad stated that “Freshman Impact will help me think twice about the decisions that I make in life.”
Above: Preston records the firefighters demonstrations to the freshmen.
Above Right: Doing her best to stay on the line Morgan performs a mock sobri-ety test with a local police officer.
Right Bottom: Mesha participates in the team building exercise at Freshman Impact.
Issue 1
Sept. 29,2016
Squeezer Lemmon High School
Volume 91 Squeezer Staff: Editor: Taylee Raba
Jessica Lopez, Avery Haase, Kodee Bolte, Sierra Peters, Amber Ellison
-School– Page 2
By: Amber Ellison
New to LHS this year is Superinten-
dent Mr. Johnson, as well as the many
changes that he doesn’t even consider
changes, as he states this is how he has
always run things.
Many changes weren’t optional and
had to be enforced, such as the new no
-driving policy and the removal of the
vending machines. The senior class
suffered a loss with the no-driving poli-
cy, which prohibits driving in all in-
stances during the school day, but the
addition of a senior lounge and senior
trip has helped soften the blow. Pres-
ton Baumgarten admitted, “Getting rid
of our driving was hard at first, but the
senior trip and lounge is making it al-
most halfway better.” Already the sen-
ior lounge is being utilized, with the
class of 2017 working on their dual
credit classes, playing “friendly” games
of trashketball, and stocking the room
with snacks. The seniors are looking
forward to their senior trip, a four day
retreat that is proposedly going to take
place during the break between winter
and spring sport seasons.
The senior trip will be possible due to
the reduction of prom spending. In-
stead of spending almost $10,000, the
prom budget will be limited to around
$2,500. Krista Miller agreed with the
cutbacks, arguing, “It
seemed like a wasteful
amount of money to
be spending on one
night.” Already Mr.
Johnson and Mr. Pe-
terson are coming up
with ideas to save
money while still
maintaining a fun
evening for the stu-
dents.
Some controversial
policies are being in-
troduced. Students on
the newly renamed
“Friday School List”
due to discipline or
failing grades will be assigned to Friday
school. Mr. Johnson feels it will give
students more incentive to not be on
the Friday School List. Along with this
policy comes the new rule that states if
a student gets in trouble, the school
will no longer send home a note to
their parents. The student must tell
their parents themselves and bring a
note from their parents back to school
that confirms the parent received the
message. Lastly, students must sign out
when they leave the school and again
when they return. This may seem like a
hassle to some, but Mr. Johnson wants
to be cautious so that in the case of a
fire or other emergency situation, the
school will know where each of the
students are. All of these modifications
of how Lemmon High School is run are
in the entire school’s best interest,
even though a couple may take some
time to accept.
Changes Bring Mixed Emotions
By: Avery Haase On September 21, Mrs. Gebhart’s eighth grade class and Mrs. Knuth’s third hour class rode the bus to a field near the cemetery to listen to Kent Cooley inform the classes on the im-portance of our soil and land. Kent Cooley is a soil scientist from the Natural Resources Con-servation Service and spoke about soil health, management, structures, profiles, land capability classes, textures, and career opportunities.
A group of seniors work on their dual credit classes and homework while sit-ting on the new furniture in the senior
lounge.
Students Analyze Soil Qualities
Above: While analyzing soil, a group of eighth grade girls finds a worm.
Right: Kelly examines the texture of the soil.
Page 3 -School-
By: Avery Haase
In Mrs. Knuth’s wildlife and fisheries
class, eight students had the oppor-
tunity to learn about the stages of mi-
tosis.
The students had to create a model
of the stages using pipe cleaners and
completing an activity sheet later on.
The goal of this activity was to learn
about the duplication of cells in ani-
mals. The stages that the students had
to create included interphase one, pro-
phase, metaphase, anaphase, telo-
phase, and interphase two.
“One thing I learned from doing this
project was that there was another
interphase stage, which was the sec-
ond resting stage before the cell com-
pletely separates into two cells,” added
Allison Preszler.
Mrs. Knuth’s Wildlife and Fisheries class has an upcoming activity in which
students will be learning about differ-ent biomes for wildlife and species. Above left: Michael builds his mitosis model out of pipe cleaners and pom-poms. Above Right: Allison writes about each stage of mitosis after creating it.
Apps, Downloads, Do You Know the Risks? By: Avery Haase
You’ve downloaded the new game
that everyone’s raving about, but what
information are you really giving out to
have that game? Pokémon GO is one
of those games that requires a lot of
personal information. According to the
Google Play Store, they can modify or
delete the contents in your storage. In
addition to going through your stor-
age, they can also take your identity.
Games for children like My Talking
Tom and Angry Birds are just as harm-
ful. My Talking Tom has access to read
your phone status and identity. Angry
Birds can also modify or delete the
content in storage. Save your identity
by reading through the permissions
before downloading, then making the
choice whether or not you’re going to
download the app.
Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, and
Instagram are some of the apps that
are greatly used by teenagers, but they
all require more information than we’d
like to give them. Most of the apps I
previously listed can be tracking your
location at any given time. Location
services can track you any minute of
the day which can be considered an
invasion of privacy. Although, there are
some benefits to having your location
services on; for example, GPS can help
you find your destination. If you’re try-
ing to find a radio station nearby, loca-
tion services also work great for that.
If bad weather is coming and location
services are turned on, your phone has
the ability to alert you. Turning off
your location services can also save
battery life—who doesn’t want their
battery percentage higher?
If you give an app permission to ac-
cess your camera, a hacker can poten-
tially hijack your phone camera and
watch you at any given time. Accord-
ing to university student, Szymon Si-
dor, the hacker keeps a tiny preview
window open so the app keeps run-
ning in the background. Sidor also
mentioned that most hackers go for
apps like Facebook, Instagram, or
Snapchat because of the amount of
daily users.
To conclude, simply reading through the permissions and researching be-fore you download apps is essential in protecting your privacy and keeping yourself and your device safe.
Wildlife and Fisheries Develops Mitosis Models
Right: Close-up parent Kim and Close-up member Raechael sell
pumpkins donated by Jay and Holly Moser to raise money for
the Close-up trip this coming spring.
Putting the Fun in Fundraising
Left: Cameron pays a dollar and serves a volleyball to try win-
ning a Powderhorn pizza. The volleyball team is raising funds to
help defray medical expenses in Jennifer Kilzer’s ongoing battle
with cancer .
-Sports– Page 4
By: Sierra Peters
The Cowgirls went into the LMC as
the fourth seed ranked under Harding
County, Bison, and Faith. For five girls,
this was their last Little Moreau Confer-
ence Tournament. Heading into the
tournament, senior, Amanda Riley,
stated, “I’m excited, but sad to know
that the season is half over and I’m
expecting great things.” Another sen-
ior, Shelby Klein, also added, “My focus
for this tournament is to encourage my
teammates to play to their best poten-
tial and to have no regrets.”
The Cowgirls first match of the tour-
nament was against the Dupree Tigers.
The Cowgirls came out strong in the
first set, but later let the Tigers back in
the set. The Cowgirls found their fight
and won the set 27-25. After winning
over Dupree in two sets, the Cowgirls
moved up the bracket to face the un-
defeated Bison Cardinals. Although
both sets were very close, the Cowgirls
lost. They would need to keep winning
and work their way through the losers’
bracket if they were to make into the
championship game.
The third match for the Cowgirls was
against the Timber Lake Panthers,
whom the Cowgirls had faced earlier in
the season. After winning in three sets,
the Cowgirls found themselves playing
their third back to back match against
the Faith Longhorns. The Cowgirls lost
in the third set against Faith eliminat-
ing the Cowgirls from the champion-
ship game and leaving them with a
fourth place finish at the Little Moreau
Conference Tournament.
Outside hitter, Camryn Shockley, and
setter, Sierra Peters, were named to the
All-Tournament Team.
Head Coach, Kelli Penfield, com-
mented, “We received the ball well off
serve for the most part and did a great
job moving the ball around to utilize
many different attacking options, in-
cluding more direct attacks from our
setter on the 2nd contact.”
With the season about half over, the
Cowgirls are putting their focus into
defense, communication, and
making aggressive plays every
time the ball comes onto their
half of the court. The Cowgirls
are 7-7 this season after los-
ing in a home court rematch
with Bison on September 27.
Cowgirls Place Fourth at LMC Tournament
Junior High Volleyball Team Dominates with Small Numbers By: Amber Ellison
With only eleven girls in 6th
through
8th
grade playing junior high volleyball
this year and still playing two games
with each opponent, they are doing a
great job of overcoming that obstacle.
On Saturday, October 1, the Cowgirls
placed 2nd in the Junior High LMC
Tournament in Lemmon. They won in
two sets against Bison and then New-
ell, and lost in two close sets to Faith in
the championship game.
Sheri Anderson, the junior high vol-
leyball coach, is trying to work with
their numbers by rotating the girls
constantly to be able to play two
matches a night. “I have already seen
some big improvements in these 11
girls,” Anderson shared; “They all love
the game of volleyball and it shows.”
They have practiced with the high
school volleyball team multiple times,
playing short court games and receiv-
ing tips from the older players.
These junior high girls kicked off
their season with a win against Harding
County. They also participated in a
tournament in Faith on September 17.
During this tournament they pulled out
wins against Cheyanne Eagle Butte and
McIntosh. They ended with a 3rd
place
finish, with their single loss to Philip, an
intense match that went into a third set
that finished 9-15. “At first we were
intimidated by them,” Tayte Kohn, 8th
grade player, stated. “We definitely had
potential to beat them, though. Overall
our team played great!”
The Cowgirls also won two games
both in two sets against Grant County
at home.
Below: Regan approaches for an attack during the Grant County game, while
Macy, Dara, and Jecoliah cover.
Above: Junior, Abby, attacks the Faith Lady Longhorns during the first junior varsity game of the season.
Below: During the home game against McIntosh, the Cowgirls come together
Page 5 -Sports- Cowboy Football Brings Intensity
By: Kodee Bolte The Lemmon/McIntosh Cowboy football season is off to a 4-1 start af-ter beating the Grant County/Flasher Storm 46-36 at home September 30. The Cowboys led 38-14 at the end of the 3rd quarter. The Storm turned up their passing game in the fourth quar-ter and scored three touchdowns to the Cowboys one, but the Cowboys prevailed and put up some big stats in the game. They earned 10.3 yards per rush and 39 yards per catch. Dirk Wolf had 241 rushing yards and three touchdowns. Duell Tomac made 18.5 tackles, 13 of these solo, and Kaleb Bucks had 9.5 tackles on the night. Their first game against the Bowman County Bulldogs came down to the fourth quarter, after a scoreless first three quarters for the Cowboys, they pulled off an 8-6 win. With just 5:06 left on the clock, senior quarterback, Wyatt Huffman had a complete pass to senior tight-end, Jace Kocer, in the end zone for a touchdown. This tied up the score at six a piece, but after a successful two-point conversion run by junior, Kaleb Bucks, the Cowboys were up two on the board. Senior, Duell Tomac led the team in tackles with a total of nine, followed by senior, Braydon Katus, and Bucks, who each added seven. In week two, the Cowboys battled the Nighthawks for the wooden nickel in the Battle of the Border. Unfortu-nately, Lemmon/McIntosh fell to Het-tinger/Scranton 14-34 and had to turn over possession of the traveling tro-phy.
Week three brought Cowboys play-ing the Timber Lake Panthers, where they came out with a 43-6 win. Accord-ing to head coach, Brent Dirk, com-pared to the first two games, “We played much better verses Timber Lake, and we came out and dictated the tempo of the game.” Senior full-back, Preston Baumgarten had a total of four touchdowns, 129 rushing yards, and 57 receiving yards. Baumgarten commented, “One person, can’t be on their game, the whole team has to be on their game in order to play good. None of my touchdowns were possible without my blockers.” Tomac again led the team in tackles with 9.5. Tomac commented on the season, “It started out strong. We got a win with Bow-man, but we still made a lot of mis-takes, which showed our weaknesses when we lost to Hettinger/Scranton. But the next week in practice, we came out more physical, and that followed to the field when we beat Timber Lake 43-6. Our bye week came at a good time with quite a few injuries. We’ve been a lot more physical in practice preparing for upcoming games, and I hope this shows on the field.” The Cowboys faced off against the Newell Irrigators next resulting in a 53-6 win despite an hour storm delay. Baumgarten contributed three touch-downs, one of which was an 80 yard kickoff return, and 204 rushing yards. Senior, Dirk Wolf rushed for 114 yards and added two touchdowns. Peterson also added two touchdowns. The Cow-boys rushed for a total of 389 yards on
28 attempts compared to Newell’s 152 yards on 39 attempts. The Cowboys have outscored their opponents 164-89, averaging 32.8 points a game. Tomac leads the team in tackles thus far, with 58 total, 37 be-ing solo tackles. Dirk Wolf has rushed for a total of 545 yards for 6 rushing touchdowns and Baumgarten has rushed a total of 475 yards with an av-erage of 15.3 yards per carry and has 11 touchdowns. Huffman has thrown for 426 yards and 6 touchdowns.
By: Kodee Bolte Eight games into the junior high football season the boys have a record of 5-3. The Cowboys were undefeated in the Lemmon Jamboree. Coach Brad Derschan, commented on the goals of the season saying, their “main goal is to have fun, relax and play football.” They are also learning the basics, including hanging onto the ball, block-ing and tackling. So far this season, the boys have improved in many areas. “Mainly working together and taking it one play at a time. We had a tough time doing that early in the year,” commented Derschan. The boys are also working on, doing their own jobs and not worrying about what they
players next to them are doing. There are 22 players on the junior high team,
so they have been working
on being focused and disciplined. The team has two games left this season against Faith on October 3, and Mott/Regent on October 6.
Junior High Football Learns Basics
Above: Duell lunges for a tackle against the Bowman County Bulldogs. Below: Touchdown. Senior, Jace comes down in the end-zone put-ting six points on the board for the Cow-boys.
Above: The junior high offensive line keeps the defenders away from quarter-back, Talon Trogstad as he hands the ball off to Cord Beer.
Right: The junior high football team gets on the line for an offensive play against the Bowman County Bulldogs
-Sports– Page 6
By: Jessica Lopez
According to cross country coach,
Mr. Pelkofer their team goals for the
year include improving throughout the
season, getting as many kids to state
as they can, and placing as high as
they can in the conference and region.
Amber Ellison’s goal this year is to go
to state for the fifth consecutive time.
The team has been to several meets
already including Mobridge/Pollock,
Faith, Wakpala, Gettysburg, Rapid City
and the LMC Conference meet in Lem-
mon.
At the Wakpala meet, Tayte Kohn
placed second and Alena Mollman
placed seventh for varsity girls. Varsity
boys, Dillion Reede, Daniel Dho, and
Kole Reede placed fourth, tenth and
fifteenth respectively. On average, the
distance varsity runs during a meet is
five kilometers and the junior varsity
runs anywhere between three to five
kilometers. When the team practices,
the distance they run varies and they
run, at times, up to seven miles.
At the Little Moreau Conference
Meet, the Cowgirls’ varsity team placed
fourth. Tayte Kohn placed 7th, Amber
Ellison placed 13th and Alena Mollman
placed 17th in varsity at the conference
meet. Dillon Reede placed 19th in the
boys varsity division.
According to Mr. Pelkofer, D. Reede
and Dho have improved a lot since
their first meet. Mollman has also im-
proved a great deal since last year and
had been running throughout the
summer.
Kohn stated that her main goal for
this year is to place top10 at regions
and top 50 at state.
Above right: Sixth grader Andrew goes
all out on a hilly course in Mobridge. Below Right: Alena passes a runner at
the Mobridge/Pollock meet and contin-
ues to run a steady pace.
Cross Country Team Focuses on Improving
The Lemmon School District Athletic
Department would like to thank Da-
cotah Bank for their generous donation
toward the purchase of the new score-
boards and shot clocks in the armory.
Over the past few years Dacotah
Bank has helped support the athletic
department by purchasing the volley-
ball net and standards used at our
home volleyball contests and this
spring will be the third year they have
sponsored the Dacotah Bank Relay’s
Track and Field Meet.
Thank you Dacotah Bank and the
Lemmon Dacotah Bank Staff for you
continued support of Lemmon High
School Athletics.
Below: President of
Dacotah Bank,
Travis Ellison, pre-
sents Lemmon Ath-
letic Director, Brent
Dirk with a check
to help with the
payment of the
new scoreboards
and shot clocks in
the Armory.
Armory Gets New Scoreboards and Shot Clocks with Help from Dacotah Bank
Page 7 –Sports
Opponent W/L Score
Faith W (22-25) (25-16) (25-17) (25-18)
Harding County L (12-25) (23-25) (16-25)
McIntosh W (25-20) (25-17) (26-24)
Edmunds Central W (25-17) (25-21)
Timber Lake W (25-21) (25-17)
Mobridge-Pollock L (24-26) (14-25)
Mott-Regent, ND L (20-25) (25-20) (22-25) (22-25)
McLaughlin W (20-25) (25-22) (25-15) (25-20)
Mobridge-Pollock L (14-25) (17-25) (20-25)
Dupree W (27-25) (25-19)
Bison L (24-26) (22-25)
Timber Lake W (25-21) (16-25) (25-23)
Faith L (26-24) (15-25) (18-25)
Bison L (22-25) (9-25) (18-25)
Score Box
Opponent Score W/L
Bowman County 8-6 W
Hettinger 14-34 L
Timber Lake 43-6 W
Newell 53-7 W
Grant County/Flasher 46-36 W
Varsity Volleyball Varsity Football
Cross Country
LMC CC Varsity Boys
Athlete Place
Dillion Reede 15th
LMC CC Varsity Girls
Tayte Kohn 7th
Amber Ellison 13th
Alena Mollman 17th
LMC CC JV Boys
Athlete Place
Kole Reede 3rd
LMC CC JV Girls
Tya Peterson 1st
Varsity Girls Faith 5000m
Athlete Place
Tayte Kohn 8th
Amber Ellison 11th
Varsity Boys Faith 5000m
Dillon Reede 17th
Danial Dho 27th
JV Girls M-P CC Invitational
Athlete Place
Alena Mollman 13th
JV Boys M-P CC Invitational
Kole Reede 20th
JH Girls M-P CC Invitational
Athlete Place
Tya Peterson 8th
JH Boys M-P CC Invitational
Andrew Dirk 5th
Wakpala CC Meet Varsity Girls
Athlete Place
Tayte Kohn 2nd
Alena Mollman 7th
Varsity Boys CC Wakpala
Dillon Reede 4th
Danial Dho 10th
Kole Reede 15th
Girls JV CC Wakpala
Tya Peterson 2nd
Boys JH CC Wakpala
Andrew Dirk 6th
JH Grade Girls Faith 1600m
Athlete Place
Tya Peterson 1st
JH Grade Boys Faith 1600m
Andrew Dirk 6th
Girls JV Faith 3000m
Alena Mollman 6th
Boys JV Faith 3000m
Kole Reede 5th
Rapid City CC Invite Boys Varsity
Athlete Place
Dillon Reede 77th
Rapid City CC Invite Girls Varsity
Tayte Kohn 59th
Amber Ellison 67th
Rapid City CC Invite Girls JV
Alena Mollman 47th
Rapid City CC Invite Boys JH
Kold Reede 108th
Rapid City CC Invite Girls JH
Tya Peterson 100th
Varsity Girls CC Mobridge-Pollock Invitational
Athlete Place
Tayte Kohn 10th
Amber Ellison 15th
Varsity Boys Mobridge-Pollock Invitational
Dillon Reede 22nd
Junior Varsity Volleyball Opponent W/L Score
Faith W (25-21) (25-17)
Harding County L (13-25) (25-15) (13-15)
McIntosh W (25-17) (25-21)
Mott-Regent, ND W (25-18) (25-9)
McLaughlin W (25-22) (25-22)
Mobridge L (18-25) (25-15) (14-16)
C-Squad Volleyball Opponent W/L Score
Harding County W (25-22) (25-23)
Mott-Regent, ND W (25-17) (13-25) (15-12)
Mobridge L (18-25) (25-15) (14-16)
Lemmon Invitational CC Varsity Boys
Athlete Place
Dillion Reede 19th
Lemmon Invitational Varsity Girls
Tayte Kohn 10th
Amber Ellison 16th
Alena Mollman 23rd
Lemmon Invitational CC JV Boys
Athlete Place
Kole Reede 5th
Lemmon Invitational CC JV Girls
Tya Peterson 2nd
Opponent Score W/L
Bowman County 6-42 L
Eagle Butte 6-20 L
Harding County 6-8 L
Hettinger- Scranton 6-0 W
Junior Varsity Football
Question of the Issue
Kelly Schopp named South Dakota High School Rodeo Queen
Camryn Shockley and Sierra Peters named to LMC All–Tournament Team
All State chorus: Krista Miller– Soprano, Krista Schopp– Alto, Kelly Schopp– Tenor, Parker Minh– Bass
FFA Officers– President-Aubrey Weishaar, Vice President– Raechael Seidel Secretary– Avery Haase Treasurer– James Odell Reporter– Jessica Colville Sentential– Steven Boeckel
Homecoming Court– Brandon Heil, Dirk Wolf, Wyatt Huffman, Jace Kocer, Duell Tomac, Kodee Bolte, Amber Ellison, Shelby Klein, Krista Miller, Amanda Riley Escorts– Sierra Peters, Kaitlyn Reimer, Dylan Wolf, Chris Harrison
NHS officers— President– Shelby Klein, Vice President Amanda Riley, Secretary/Treasurer– Krista Miller
Homecoming dress up days Monday– Redneck Day Tuesday– USA day Wednesday- Celebrity day Thursday- Favorite Athlete
By: Jessica Lopez If you were famous, what would you be famous for? 7
th grade
Macy Schiley: rodeo
Talon Trogstad: basketball
8th
grade
Tayte Kohn: running or playing basketball
Kole Reede: for being a musical artist
9th
grade
Alena Mollman: for being amazing
Alec O’Donnell: being the best at annoying people
10th
grade
Beth Tennant: dance moves
Jake Ellison: watching the most Netflix and binge eating
11th
grade
Taylor Drayton: taking the best snapchats
James Odell: having a lot of junk
12th
grade
Kaitlyn Reimer: marrying a famous guy because I’m not talented
Dylan Wolf: completing the American Ninja Warrior course and winning it.
-Student Life– Page 8
Student Spotlight
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