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

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