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Just like Practice

On January 11th the gymnasts will be traveling to Britton-Hecla to make up a gymnastics meet that was missed on the 20th of December. The meet was postponed at the time due to bad weather. Going to Britton I can say is not one of my favorite things. It is a two hour bus ride, that seems like it takes four. The only reason it seems like that is because there really isn't a whole lot to look at outside on the way there, that would be why a lot of the girls bring pillows and blankets to take a nap. Another great thing is that the parents provide food for the gymnasts. Which is nice because then you don't have to worry about bringing something to school for yourself, you just know that there will be something there for you to eat when you get on the bus.

Defeat of the Dolphins!

The Lady Cardinals traveled to Toronto last night to take on the Deubrook Dolphins. This was the Dolphins first game of the season, while the Cards held a 2-0 record.

The Cardinals struggled to make their baskets but made up for it on defense. After the first quarter it was 12-10, with the Cardinals leading. At half time it was 28-18. The third quarter was a struggle for the team, making only 3 shots. They went into the 4th quarter at 31-26. The ending score of the game was 42-34, for a Cardinal victory. The Varsity is now 3-0.

The JV team ended their game 22-24, as their first loss of the season. The JV is now 2-1.

Both JV and Varsity are playing very well together and have fun out on the court. Hopefully the teams continue to keep ending their nights with "W" throughout the season!

**Photos courtesy of Doug Becht

Sr. Hailey Schake

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Parent's night.

Tonight is parents night at Deuel High School, and it is time for Interpers to try their hardest to impress the judges, to make it to regionals. Regionals is very important and to each interper it is important. Each person brings something interesting to the team, but realizing that only one in each catagory can make it to regionals, so it will an emotional night. On the bright side, there will be pizza and voting on interp rewards. Parent's night is deffenatally a good night for interper and their families to get together and show how much they care about their child, or about interp.

Pumpkin Stakes

    October 30th the Deuel Interp team went to Watertown High School For pumpkin stakes. We did all right for having no one in Drama. Our readers Theater should of made it into final rounds, but it did not. Deuel did do well, but no one won a pumpkin or a cup this time around. The same thing happened here at the Deuel meet, happened at Pumpkin Stakes, Lincoln to over, well mostly. Lincoln did have allot of people who made it to the Finals, but Sioux O- Gorman really stepped up their game, along with Aberdeen Central.

Last Lap

Getting closer to the finish line is Brock Hanten, Drew Trautman, and Shaina Mack. These three are the seniors are this year's cross country team.

Brock Hanten is going on his second year of cross country. His favorite part are the bus rides to the meets. Hanten likes the Deubrook course because he thinks he does the best there. His goal for this year is to improve his time from last year. Hanten said, “I will miss the in depth talks and conversations on the bus rides.” His favorite memory is when the team attermped to build a fifteen person pyramid at the Desmet meet. Hanten plans to go to college after high school but doesn't know where or for what.

First time's a charm. This is Drew Trautman's first year in cross country. Trautman's favorite course is the Webster course because it's very flat. He also got his best time there. “I will miss all the fun the team had together throughout the year,” said Trautman. He plans on going to college to get a degree in Business Management after high school.

Shaina Mack has been in cross country since 7^th grade. Her favorite part about cross country is the bus rides and Shirley Krause's, cross country runner Adam Krause's grandma, cookies. Mack has set many goals for herself this year. She wants to place top twenty every meet, qualify for state, and place at state. She has accomplished the goal of making it state, both as part of the team and individualy. Mack said, “I will miss all of my teammates and the friends I made while participating in the sport.” After high school Mack plans on attending SDSU for nursing.

Brookings Oral Interp

      Monday October 25th was the Brookings OI meet. Brookings High School was a bit confusing. The high school is still under construction, so the auditorium was off limits. The scoring was a little weird. One round some one would get an amazing score but then another round some one would get a three with a twenty-nine. All though on the bus coaches Jenny Keller, and Miranda Wells were disappointed in the teams lack of practice, only three Interpers have been coming in everyday, (Not naming any names) so every on the way to Brookings, Keller lectured the team on their lack of practice.

State FFA Convention

Every FFA competitor deserves an award once and awhile. To celebrate FFA and to recognize schools from different counties in South Dakota, there was a reward ceremony at SDSU on the 18th through the 20th of April. In order for the students to attend, they had to participate in at least two competitions throughout the year up until this State Awards Ceremony. At the FFA State Convention you must wear official dress, which usually consists of the traditional FFA jacket and black dress pants or a skirt.

At the convention there are speeches that are given from State Officers and awards delivered to specific people for judging whichever category of their choosing. There are also chapter awards given as well. "The most interesting thing about FFA is that there are a lot of people involved in it," said senior Nicole Pederson. Pederson judges horses, because it's something that she really enjoys doing. Pederson said, "FFA will benefit my future, because I plan to go into a ag/animal related field. So as you can see State Convention is very important and worth attending."

By: Brooke Peterson and Tina Gniffke

Lets talk Art

Have you ever want to go some place and just capture the beauty of art? Well, go to the Granary Art Show, which is an All Dakota High School Fine Arts Exhibition. You were to register to participate in the art show and the deadline was March 1st. This art show starts on April 22nd and finshes on April 23rd. There are six students at Deuel going with art teacher, Mrs. Barb Miller. The six students are freshmen Gage Schake, Sawyer Geise, and Haley Donahue, juniors Stephanie Stee and Brooke Miller, and senior Ashley McCormick. "I would have all my art classes go, but you can only pick six students to go," said Mrs. Miller.

Usually the art show takes place on a piece of land near Groton that was donated to the South Dakota Art Council, but this year it is flooded so they had to change the place in which it will be held. On both days there are about ten to fifteen schools that attend.The art show has been going on for fifteen years and this year it is put on by the Dacoatah Museum, but last year it was put on by the South Dakota Art Council.

At the art show there are several workshops that you can attend. The workshops presented there are Museum Mural, Glass Fusing, Story Illustration, and Ceramic Chinese Tea Bowls. "Glass fusing, I'm very excited about, we are making them right now in class," said Mrs. Miller. As well as workshops there is a keynote speaker named Brad Bachmeier who is a College Art Professor and Ceramic Artist from Fargo.

By: Brooke Peterson and Tina Gniffke