By Jamie Withorne, Tyler Versluys and Zac Lupica

Warrior varsity softball team members wrapped-up their regular season with two wins over the Watertown Arrows

Monday night at Sherman Park in Sioux Falls. The Warriors ended the regular season at

23-7 as they won the first game of the double-header 9-2 and concluded the regular season with a 5-4 win over Watertown.

In Game One, Watertown held an early 2-0 lead, which quickly ended in the fourth inning as the Warriors scored three runs. Freshman Ashley Brower hit off the Warrior scoring with a double, scoring junior Tannah Goens. Likewise, junior Madisen Owan drove two batters in and singled in the second, third and fourth innings.

WHS pitcher freshman Abby Lint struck out four Arrow players and only allowed four hits in the win.

In Game Two, the Warriors were led by senior Emily Winckler who went 3-4 and hit a triple in the third inning. Senior Michaela Mayer went 3-4 at the plate in the win, as well. Winning pitcher senior Alyssa Aschlager allowed only one run throughout three innings.

Junior Maycee Trujillo said she was proud of her team’s efforts in the games.

“We had a rough start for both games,” Trujillo said. “We picked it up against Watertown, and I feel confident going into state.”

The Warriors will go for another state title in their state tournament beginning Friday at Sherman Park in Sioux Falls.

Happening Now•Boys Golf: Varsity Metro Conference Meet 1 p.m. at Brandon Municipal Golf Course; JV City Meet 4 p.m. at Kuehn Park•Girls Tennis: vs. Roosevelt 4 p.m.—varsity and JV at Kuehn Park; JV-B at WHS•Football: Freshmen vs. O’Gorman 4:15 p.m. at McEneaney Field •Volleyball: vs. Roosevelt at WHS—JV and freshmen 4:30 p.m., sopho-mores 5:45 p.m. varsity 7 p.m.•Staff: Wellness class 4:30 p.m. in auditorium

Lunch Time at WHS•Today’s lunch: Pizza burger, pasta, beef fajita, baked potato bar, chef salad, sandwiches

Group Meetings•Photography Club: Will meet to organize at 3:10 p.m. today in A-125.•Quiz Bowl: Team members will meet to practice at 3:15 p.m. today in A-159.

Other Reminders•Juniors: Register for the PSAT to prepare for the SAT test. It will be administered Oct. 16 and costs $15. Information in the counseling center.•Students: Who received an Honor Roll certificate Monday can stop for an ice cream sundae during lunch periods today or Wednesday in the commons, courtesy of the Renaissance Committee at WHS.

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Softball Warriors end regular season with pair of wins over Watertown

State tournament begins Friday at Sherman Park

By Kelsey Knecht and Miranda Rios

The No. 5 rated Warrior varsity volleyball team will host the No. 2 Roosevelt Rough Riders for the second time this season tonight at WHS.

In the first meeting of the two teams in the Warriors’ first game of the season Sept. 5 WHS fell in four sets, so they will be looking for a little revenge on their home court tonight.

Winning will not be the

only goal, however, as the team takes time to recognize each player’s most valued teacher during their annual Teacher Appreciation Match tonight.

Junior Rochelle Ramharter is determined to defeat the Rough Riders.

“We know it’s going to be a tough battle,” Ramharter said, “but if we work hard and play our game, we will have a great game tonight.”

Ramharter has selected Trecia Rickenbach, a health

teacher from Patrick Henry Middle School, as her special teacher tonight.

Each varsity player will select one teacher from their past who has influenced them tonight. Custodian Mike Semmler will also be honored as the team’s pick tonight.

The JV and freshmen teams will play at 4:30 p.m. tonight, followed by the sophomores at 5:45 p.m. and the varsity match around 7 p.m. in the Warrior gyms.

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By Tia Nathand Carly Knutson

The sophomore football team is unde-feated and 5-0 on the season, and will cel-ebrate by giving back to the WHS commu-nity tonight.

This week, because of a bye week in their

schedule, the team will be showing off their skills as food ser-vice workers instead of football players at the 41st street Pizza Ranch from 5:30-8 p.m. tonight.

Coach Steve Kennedy said the team wants to give back to

those in need. “Our proceeds

will include tips and 10 percent of profits during that time,” Kennedy said. “The money we raise will be donated to a charity at WHS—not money for us, but money for someone that really

needs it. This is a spe-cial group of boys—they need to do special things.”

Kennedy encour-ages all to support the team at Pizza Ranch tonight.

Sioux City, Iowa, East is up next for the team Oct. 8.

Sophomore football players give back tonight

By Alison RollagYou know the stereotype

of a librarian—glasses-on-nose, always sushing stu-dents, scanning books fero-ciously, a real no-nonsense woman.

WHS assistant librar-ian Denise Vig is not this woman.

Vig has worked as a library assistant at WHS for 16 years, and during this time has worked to know her students, supporting

t h e i r c a r e e r a m b i -

tions and always recom-mending good books.

Vig knows her product. Reading 40 plus teen nov-els a year and working to stay on top of up and com-ing technology, she is the model of a modern library assistant.

Vig was honored for her efforts recently when she was surprised with the honor of South Dakota

Library Association Support Staff of the Year at the asso-ciation’s annual meeting in Sioux Falls Thursday.

Vig said she was sur-prised with the honor.

“It was totally a sur-prise,” Vig said. “The stu-dents and staff at WHS are great. Read, and enjoy the moment. It goes by way too fast.”

Vig said her main goal is to make sure all library patrons have something to read that meets their needs.

“Just give a book a chance,” she said. “Pick up a book, something you are interested in. If you don’t like it, we’ll try something different. You always have to try something different.”

She has even inspired the career goals of some. Ally Stowe, a 2013 WHS graduate, wrote in her rec-ommendation for Vig that she may have helped deter-mine her future.

“I have a dream to become a library assistant or even a librarian, and it’s all because of her,” Stowe wrote.

Head Librarian Kerri

Smith also recommended Vig for the honor.

“Denise does all she can to guarantee everything the library does is successful,” Smith wrote.

History.com (MCT)On Oct. 1, 1890, an

act of Congress created Yosemite National Park, home of such natural wonders as Half Dome and the giant sequoia trees.

Environmental trailblazer John Muir (1838-1914) and his colleagues campaigned for the congressional action, which was signed into law by President Benjamin Harrison and paved the way for generations of hikers, campers and nature lovers, along with countless “Don’t Feed the Bears” signs.

In 1889, Muir dis-covered that the vast meadows surrounding Yosemite Valley, which lacked government protection, were being overrun and destroyed by domestic sheep graz-ing. Muir and Robert Underwood Johnson, a fellow environmentalist and influential maga-zine editor, lobbied for national park status for the large wilderness area around Yosemite Valley. On Oct. 1 of the following year, Congress set aside over 1,500 square miles of land (about the size of Rhode Island) for what would become Yosemite National Park, America’s third national park. In 1906, the state-controlled Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove came under federal jurisdiction with the rest of the park.

Yosemite’s natural beauty is immortalized in the black-and-white landscape photographs of Ansel Adams (1902-1984), who at one point lived in the park and spent years photo-graphing it. Today, over 3 million people visit the park annually.

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Denise Vig honored by South Dakota Library Association Thursday in Sioux Falls

From Staff ReportsThe Warrior varsity

football and volleyball teams remained ranked, despite the volleyball team’s loss to O’Gorman in three sets a week ago and the football team’s devastating 56-14 homecoming loss to Brandon Valley Friday.

Since the volleyball team’s loss, they have come back to defeat Brookings in three straight sets Saturday at WHS. Tonight they face higher-ranked Roosevelt to prove they deserve to be rated higher.

The football team, play-ing in the new AAA Class

this season for the first time, will next face AA Huron in non-conference action Friday at Tiger stadium.

Ratings, voted on by South Dakota sportswriters and out today, include, in AAA Football, 1. Lincoln (5-0), 2. Roosevelt (4-1), 3. Brandon Valley (4-1), 4. O’Gorman (2-3) and 5. WHS (2-3). Also receiving votes was Aberdeen Central (2-3).

In AA Volleyball, 1. O’Gorman (9-0), 2. Roosevelt (10-4) 3. Aberdeen Central (9-2), 4. Huron (7-2) and 5. WHS (6-2). Also receiving votes was R.C. Stevens (9-6).

Football, volleyball teams remain ranked

Photo courtesy Kerri SmithHELPING HAND—Denise Vig, an assistant librarian at WHS, (left) poses for a photo with assistant librar-ian Brenda Baninbridge (right) and head librarian Kerri Smith (middle) at the South Dakota Library Association annual meeting Thursday in Sioux Falls.