Melstone Monthly Staff

Connie Hjelvik – Advisor

Abby Hansen– Editor

Thomas DeJaegher

Harry Griswold

Ty Meredith

Kimber Korell

Nienke Reijnen

Anna Verzelloni

Inside This Issue

Page 2: Toys for Tots, Border

Wall

Page 3: Recipe

Page 4: 4-H, Dumplin’, Foot-

ball Boys, JR Vezain Benefit

Page 5: Christmas Concert

Page 6: BPA, Business Chal-

lenge

Page 7: Christmas Puzzle,

Tree Lighting

Page 8: Senior/Staff Survey

Page 9: Locker Decorating

Page 10: Sex Ed

Page 11: Coyote Derby Re-

sults, Cookie Plates, FFA

Page 12: Fall Athletic Banquet

Page 13: Dutch School

Page 14: Basketball

Page 15: Calendar

Volume 4 December 2018

Thank You Melstone! By Anna Verzelloni

I can’t believe my time is Melstone is already over.

I arrived in August worried and insecure

because I didn’t know what to expect,

but from the first week, I started my

new, amazing life in this new country. To

become an exchange student has always

been my dream, and I wouldn’t change

one single part of this experience.

To be honest, when I first heard about

Melstone, I was surprised about the

number of people that live here. The

place I come from in Italy is completely

different, but I understood that changes

are not a bad thing and that the place is

not important: What is really important is who you have the oppor-

tunity to meet.

I have to thank the Melstone High

School that made me live my Ameri-

can dream in a high school with my

so desired locker! Everything that I

always saw in the movies became

part of my everyday life, and I still

can’t believe this. I met great people

that I surely will never forget, like my

classmates and all the teachers, so

different from my home country. I

loved the relationship with all the

teachers, who I felt were like my parents.

I will remember forever playing volleyball with my team; it has been

probably the most beautiful experience I ever lived in my entire life. I

felt part of a group as I never experienced before, and just to let you

know, I have played volleyball for 13 years. As a team we achieved

big results and the first volleyball trophy in Melstone’s history. As a

person I grew a lot, and even if it wasn’t always easy as it can seem,

I am glad I played with every one

of my teammates.

I have to thank my host family,

the Brewer family, for hosting

Nienke and me, because I found

a Dutch and an American sister;

but also for all the amazing expe-

riences that I lived with them. I

loved the Labor Day weekend at

Yellowstone; I had really a great

time! (Continued next page)

We are also online at

melstonepublicschools.org

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(Continued from previous page) In a few

days I’ll be back to Italy, and it will be difficult to

restart my old life there because now I feel a little

bit American too. Even if I will

be back, I will always continue

drinking from my water bottle

and going to school with my

slides, like everyone here

does!

Thank you Melstone; I’m

proud I was part of this big

family and I’ll definitely come

back!

Once a Bronc, always a Bronc!

Why Build a Border Wall?

By Ty Meredith

Throughout history people have built walls around cit-ies to protect themselves from thieves, murderers, criminals, and foreign in-vaders. Walls gave people peace and security because people who wanted to en-

ter the city would have to pass through a gate that was guarded by officials. This way officials would have some control over who was coming in and going out. Today’s debate is about a larger area—a national border, not a city.

Many people object to building a wall be-cause they believe we should be a nation that wel-comes immigrants. What they don’t understand is that many immigrants come illegally. I agree that our nation should welcome immigrants, but I be-lieve they should have to come legally. Without a wall many illegal immigrants might be tempted to risk death by walking across miles of desert to come into the U.S. just to live in fear of being dis-covered. This diminishes respect for laws and de-stroys our recordkeeping functions because the immigrants that come illegally are breaking the law and coming into the country without the gov-ernment having any record of them. For example the caravan of nearly 1,200 Central American mi-grants currently marching through Mexico toward the southern border of the United States includes multiple gang members and people with criminal records. These criminals are threatening to come illegally into our nation just as they did in Mexico.

If you think of population, an open border would hurt the American economy. The U.S. popu-lation today is 328 million. The population of the world is 7.6 billion, or 23 times the U.S. popula-tion. If we allowed in everyone who wanted to en-ter as many as half the world’s population might want to come. That would be ten times our current population. Even if only 10% of the world came in through open borders, the U.S. would suddenly have to deal with the impossible task of trying to govern 760 million new immigrants in a nation of 328 million.

Some people may regard the wall as a waste of money, but actually, the price is cheap if it buys a solution to this stubborn problem. The wall is estimated to cost anywhere from $4 billion to $12 billion. A fun fact is that $324 million of that money has gone to Barnard Construction, a Montana company out of Bozeman that is ex-pected to work on 32 miles of the border wall near Yuma and Lukeville, Arizona, in April.

In conclusion, the government spends about $1.8 billion on deportation. If a border wall slowed deportation, then the government could have more money to spend on other important things. This would be a good idea to help the American economy, cut down on illegal immi-grants, and save the government money in the long run.

Season of Giving (Toys for Tots) By Thomas DeJaegher

Toys for Tots was founded in

1947 by Major Bill Hendricks

after his wife tried to donate a

Raggedy Ann doll to a needy

child but couldn’t find any or-

ganization to do so. He gath-

ered a group of local Marine

reservists who coordinated and

collected roughly 5,000 toys for

local children that year from

collection bins outside Warner Brothers’ movie the-

aters. Now it is run by the United States Marine

Corps Reserve which distributes toys to children

who are unable to get Christmas gifts. In 1980

the Marines were no longer able to dedicate drill

hours to refurbish toys; therefore, from that point

on, only new toys were collected. In 1995, the

Secretary of Defense approved Toys for Tots as an

official mission of the Marine Corps. Being founded

71 years ago, the charitable organization has

grown to be a very successful foundation. As of

2016, the Toys for Tots Program and Foundation

had collected and distributed more than 512 mil-

lion toys. Since 2001 the organization has been

ranked one of the top charities. People donating to

this great cause give so many children a happy

Christmas and hope for the holiday season. There

are lots of ways to donate to this great charity;

you can donate online at www.toysfortots.org or

donate in memory or in honor of someone, donate

toys directly, or donate by mail.

The mission of the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation is to assist the U. S. Marine Corps in providing a sign of hope to economically challenged children at Christmas. The stated goal is to "deliver, through a new toy at Christmas, a message of hope to less fortunate youngsters that will assist them in be-coming responsible, productive, and patriotic citi-zens.”

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Overnight Blueberry French Toast

Ingredients: 12 slices day-old bread, cut into 1-inch cubes 2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese, cut into 1 inch

cubes 1 cup fresh blueberries 12 eggs, beaten 2 cups milk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/3 cup maple syrup 1 cup white sugar 2 tablespoons cornstarch 1 cup water 1 cup fresh blueberries

Directions: 1) Lightly grease a 9x13 inch baking dish. Arrange half

the bread cubes in the dish and top with cream cheese cubes. Sprinkle 1 cup blueberries over the cream cheese and top with remaining bread cubes.

2) In a large bowl, mix the eggs, milk, vanilla extract, and syrup. Pour over the bread cubes. Cover, and refriger-ate overnight.

3) Remove the bread cube mixture from the refrigerator about 30 minutes before baking. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

4) Cover and bake 30 minutes. Uncover and continue baking 25 to 30 minutes until center is firm and surface is lightly browned.

5) In a medium saucepan, mix the sugar, cornstarch, and water. Bring to a boil. Stirring constantly, cook 3 to 4 minutes. Mix in the remaining 1 cup blueberries. Re-duce heat and simmer 10 minutes until the blueberries burst. Stir in the butter and pour over the baked French toast. Enjoy!

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JR Vezain Benefit

December 29th

Dinner, Dance, and Benefit starting at 5 p.m. at the Roundup Community

Center

Tickets- $15 per person

To donate items, please contact Liane (358– 2357) or Silvia (358–

2355)

4-H Gives to the Veterans

The Keggie Koulee 4-H club made Christmas

tree decorations for the veterans on Sunday,

November 18th

Football Awards

Ty Kombol - All-Conference

Nathan Zard - All-State

All-Conference

Brody Grebe – All-State

All-Conference

Dumplin’ By Kimber Korell

Dumplin’, a Netflix original, takes place in a small Texas town. Willowdean Dickson, nicknamed "Dumplin" by her mother, Rosie, and "Will" by everybody else, spends much of her childhood primarily raised and taught by her Aunt Lucy, who introduc-es Will to Ellen Dryver, who becomes her best friend. Rosie is a past beauty queen and celebrity in their small, Texan town. Will is often faced with confusion when people find out Rosie is her mother due to Will's more heavyset figure. After finding an application to try out for the Miss Teen Bluebonnet Pageant from Lucy when she was 16, Will decides to try out in an act of a "protest in heels.” After Will signs up, Millie - who is enthusiastic and pitied by Will - decides to sign up as well, as well as Han-nah Perez, who is an edgy teenager. Rosie inter-prets Will's application as a mockery of the pag-eant industry and warns Will that pageants are harder than she thinks. At first, Will doesn’t take the pageant seriously and skips out on a bunch of practices, leaving Millie and Hannah hanging. After discovering a brooch of Lucy's she'd been looking for, she is inspired and decides to take the pag-eant seriously. At the preliminary event, Rosie is touched and impressed by Will's presentation, and it results in Ellen and her making up. At home, Ro-sie and Will reconcile over memories of Lucy. At the pageant, Will performs a Dolly Parton tribute and is a success with the crowds. Millie performs a Christian song, which is also a success. While Ro-sie is overwhelmed with pride, she is forced to dis-qualify Will due to modifications made without her approval and in order not to be seen as making an exception for her daughter. After Ellen's boyfriend is unable to escort her for the formal wear presen-tation, Will does so, as no rule prohibits a disquali-fied contestant from escorting a participating one. Millie is awarded first runner up, and Bekah wins the pageant queen title. I definitely recommend this movie to all age groups because it has an emotionally impactful message of self-acceptance wrapped in Dolly Par-ton music. Who could go wrong?

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Regional Success!

By Ty Meredith

Regionals has come and passed once again. On

December 17th and December 18th our BPA chapter

left at 5:30 A.M. both days to compete at Montana

State University Billings for a chance to make it to

the state BPA convention. Members who placed

will now be busy preparing for state, which takes

place in March. Our BPA chapter hopes that our

members will do well at state and hopefully make

Nationals in California. Good luck to the state qual-

ifiers this year! We hope everyone has happy holi-

days and a very Merry Christmas!

BPA Results

Megan Brewer– 1st Adv. Office Procedures, 3rd Adv. Word, 4th Interview Skills, 5th

Medical Office, 1st AS Concepts, 1st Parli-Pro Kimber Korell– 6th Extemp. Speech, 5th In-tegrated Office, 9th Adv. Office Procedures, 9th Adv. Word Brody Grebe-1st Adv. Spreadsheet, 2nd Adv. Word, 4th Integrated Office, 10th AS Con-cepts, 1st Financial Math Abby Hansen-3rd AS team, 6th Adv. Office Procedures, 1st Adv. Word, 21st AS Con-cepts, 8th Parli-Pro, 1st Fundamental Desktop Carson Hein– 22nd Fundamental Spread-sheet, 12th Fundamental Word, 12th Financial Math Nathan Zard-7th AS team, 9th Basic Office, 16th Fundamental Spreadsheet, 10th Funda-mental Word, 17th Financial Math Shayden Cooke– 11th Adv. Office Proce-dures, 10th Adv. Word Draya Wacker– 2nd AS team, 8th Basic Of-fice, 1st Fundamental Word

Tyler Kombol-10th Adv. Office Procedures, 2nd Fundamental Spreadsheet, 7th Interme-diate Word, 8th Medical Office, 9th AS Con-cepts Sarah Robertson– 3rd AS team, 8th Extemp. Speech, 8th Intermediate Word, 1st Legal Of-fice Anna Verzelloni-7th AS team, 16th Basic Of-fice, 12th Fundamental Spreadsheet, 5th Fun-damental Word Ty Meredith-8th Adv. Office Procedures,7th Adv. Word, 9th Fundamental Spreadsheet Kaigen Rosekelly-3rd AS team,12th Adv. Of-fice Procedures, 6th Intermediate Word, 16th Medical Office Kelsey Thurston-2nd AS team, 20th Basic Office, 18th Fundamental Word .

Kaylee Thurston-7th AS team, 13th Adv. Of-fice Procedures, 12th Intermediate Word, 6th Legal office Nienke Reijen-11th Basic Office, 10th Funda-mental Spreadsheet, 8th Fundamental Word Oxane Mbiguino– 12th Basic Office, 13th Fun-damental Spreadsheet, 3rd Legal Office Kayla Kombol-2nd AS team,7th Basic Office, 20th Fundamental Word, 6th Medical Office

Brody Grebe,

Megan Brewer,

Nathan Zard,

and Carson Hein

Winners of the

Fall 2018 Montana

Business Team !

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CHRISTMAS CROSSWORD

Remembrance

Tree of Lights

Tuesday December 11th,

2018

Sponsored by the

Student Council

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SENIOR/STAFF SURVEY This month’s senior is Harry Griswold, and his staff member is Mr. Teini.

Harry’s answers will be marked with H and Mr.

When did you learn how to drive?

H: 14.

T: About 5 I drove the feed truck, but 15 in drivers Ed on

public roads.

What famous person would you like to meet?

H: Napoleon, to tell him he started a trend with the

French and a white flag.

T: Donald Trump.

Do you have any pets?

H: No.

T: 2 cats.

Do you prefer reading a book or watching a movie?

H: Reading a book, preferably next to a fire on a winter

night.

T: Movie.

What is/was your favorite subject at school?

H: History.

T: Science/Math

Are you scared of flying on a plane?

H: Yes, only on takeoff.

T: No, but scared of crashing.

How technological are you on a scale of 1 to 10?

H: 8.

T: 7.5 (computers 6 and equipment 9).

What would you like to change about yourself?

H: Nothing, I don’t ponder about what if’s.

T: New knees.

Are you right-handed or left-handed?

H: Left-handed.

T: Right-handed.

If you could identify with one fictional character (from a

book, movie ,or show) who would it be?

H:The Roman poet Virgil from the Divine Comedy.

T: Movie: Tony Stark.

Do you like climbing?

H: Yes.

T: Mountains yes, rock cliffs no.

What was the proudest moment in your life?

H: Wearing a black Beret and seeing my friends by my

side.

T: 1990 AAU Wrestling State 2nd Regional 1st and na-

tional 3rd.

Walmart or Target?

H: Neither.

T: Neither, North 40 Outfitters.

What movie could you watch over and over and never

get tired of?

H: The Interview.

T: Varsity Blues.

Would you like to have a tree house?

H: No, I would have no escape routes.

T: Yes, from September to November.

What is your favorite food?

H: Steak, with a glass of bourbon.

T: Taco.

Who do you think has had the largest influence on the

person you are today?

H Lady Liberty and her friend Uncle Sam!

T: Parents.

Do you like surprises?

H: Yes, if it involves food (preferably steak).

T: Yes.

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Locker Winners

Teigan Schiffer-Locker #57

Bryce DeJaegher-Locker #61

Bryce Grebe-Locker #55

Draya Wacker-Locker #52

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How the Absence of Sex Education Is Failing America’s Youth

By Kimber Korell

In the sixth grade, all the girls in my class made our way down to the library. I remem-ber being anxious and a little scared. We all knew we were going to be talking about sex-ual education. If I

had known that would be the last time it would ever be talked about in school, I might’ve paid more attention. When only thirteen states in the nation re-quire sex education to be medically accurate, a lot is left up to the interpretation of teenagers. Of course many pre-teens and teenagers pick up on sexual health information from sources other than school such as parents, social media, friends, and medical professionals; this information may not even be factual. Thirty-seven states don’t even require sex education to be medically accurate. State and local policy makers should modernize and rethink sex education programs in public schools and make sex education a class or course in middle and/or high school because it shouldn’t all be up to our parents. Sex education also teach-es about consent; it could prevent a lot of teen pregnancies, and sex is becoming more and more common. Sex education should not be up to our par-ents for multiple reasons. One reason is that in areas where sex education isn’t required, states assume that parents will educate their children at home, but studies show that pre-teens and teen-agers are increasingly more likely to seek infor-mation from social media and/or online communi-ties. Another reason it should not be up to parents to teach children about sexual health and educa-tion is because it’s not something they’re super knowledgeable about unless they’re a nurse. Our parents can only teach us their experiences, and sometimes it can be hard to talk to children about sexual education and health. However, to a school nurse or even health teacher, it should not be. It should be something that teacher is already expe-rienced and knowledgeable in. Another reason it should not be up to our parents is because some kids don’t have parents that are always there or that they can talk about sex with. People who come from families that believe in abstinence until marriage are missing critical information: how STDs spread, how birth control works, or some-thing as simple as different kinds of protection.

On average, there are 321,500 victims (age 12 or older) of rape and sexual assault each year in the United States. Of these 321,000 victims, 60% are in high school. In Montana, the education curricu-lum does not demand that sexual health educators talk about healthy relationships, consent, or even what to do if a sexual assault occurs. Because no-body is talking about these important things, the statistics of pregnancies from consensual and non-consensual sex is appalling: “Studies suggest that the chance of getting pregnant from one-time, un-protected intercourse is between 3.1-5%, depend-ing on a multitude of factors, including the time of month intercourse occurs, whether contraceptives are used, and the age of the female. The average number of rapes and sexual assaults against fe-males of childbearing age is approximately 250,000. Thus, the number of children conceived from rape each year in the United States might range from 7,750—12,500. This is a very general estimate, and the actual number may differ.” This shocking statistic from RAINN, the rape, abuse, and incest national network, can really open a per-son’s eyes to how important sexual education and teaching consent is. The impact of sex education polices be-comes clearer when considering that in 2016, the United States had higher rates of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease than most other industrialized countries. Also, in 2014 states that did not teach sexual education in their schools had three times more teen pregnancies compared to states that did teach sex education at all or only taught abstinence-only. What feels like progress at the state level can be seen as mere catch-up to the policies of other developed nations that require teachers to discuss sex education as early as kin-dergarten! How can we condemn being pregnant at sixteen as wrong when some states aren’t even teaching sexual education? For America being the most “dominate” country, we’re really dropping the ball on preparing our country’s children to be responsible and smart when it comes to sexual health.

Consent is something that either is or should be discussed in sexual education, and only eight states require it to be talked about in a sex education course.

Talking about sex with adults can be un-comfortable to some teachers, and in some cases, the adult. Here’s why it shouldn’t be: sex is a part of nature, and it’s a common practice human’s do. Whether a person likes to admit it or not, sex is becoming more and more common these days. The media and pop culture have made sex, along with other things, honestly, quite normal. Exam-ples of this include things like hearing sex allega-tions all over the news, songs all over the radio that hint or even blatantly talk about sex, and movies now PG-13 or higher with sexual refer-ences. For something that is so common in the media world, which adolescents are exposed to everyday, sexual health and education are not be-ing talked about as much as they should. (Continued next page)

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Student Council

thanks you

for the wonderful cookie

donations!

(Continued from previous page)State and lo-

cal policymakers should modernize and rethink sex

education programs in public schools to help better

prepare students for the intimidating world in

which they live. By having new and updated stand-

ards, policymakers could encourage sex education

requirements that include medically factual infor-

mation on STDs, intimacy, consent, communica-

tion, healthy relationships, and sexual assault pre-

vention. Without formal and truthful sexual educa-

tion, states are missing a great opportunity to

guide young people with quality information that

would help make them safe, healthy choices.

Coyote Derby Results 1st place Miller team

2nd place Jefferson team

3rd place Carderlla/ Burlson

Heaviest Coyote: Miller Team (36.6 lbs.)

Lightest Coyote: Jefferson Team (15.1 lbs.)

Most Coyotes: Carderlla/ Burlson (11) 51 coyotes in all

Jackpots Rabbits

Robinson Brothers (11 rabbits)

Raccoons & Porcupines H&P Team (7 porcupines & 3 coons)

Landowner Rifle: Matt Roen

Hunter Rifle: Teresa Harriet

Melstone Mechanics

Contest

February 4th

No School

School Friday the 8th

What’s Up, FFA? Submitted by Abby Hansen

With the Coyote Derby just wrapped up, our FFA Chapter has a little down time from now until Feb-ruary. Our Annual Mechanics Contest will be on February 4th. For the Coyote Derby, our chapter president, Thomas DeJaegher, and our chapter vice president, Abby Hansen, called into the KGHL morning show to advertise on the radio. We re-cently just ended our fruit sales and got all of our fruit delivered. The Chapter would like to thank everyone who bought fruit or donated to our chap-ter. It is really great that the community buys fruit during the busy holiday season. On December 5th, Kimber Korell and Ivy Pinkerton, from our chapter, traveled to Billings with Ms. Mitchell to compete in the fall district speaking competi-tion. Kimber placed 3rd in Ex-temporaneous Speaking, and Ivy placed 9th in the same con-test. On behalf of the whole Melstone FFA Chapter and the Officer Team, thank you for your endless support!

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Come down

The Dutch School System

By Nienke

The school system in the Netherlands is very different from the American school sys-tem, and it is very complicated, but I’ll try to explain it. After you’ve been to kinder-garten, you’ll go at the age of 4 to elementary school where you have 8 years of school. When you’re in 7th &

8th grade, you have to take 2 big tests which will determine what high school you’ll go next. We have different high schools for different levels. The lowest level is VMBO; this takes you 4 years. The middle level is HAVO, which is 5 years. The highest level is 6 years and is called VWO. If you graduate from VMBO, you can go to college which is called MBO, or you can take two more years of high school to graduate from HAVO. If you graduate from HAVO, you can go to the college called HBO or take two more years of high school to graduate from VWO. And then, if you graduate from VWO, you can go to university (the highest) or to HBO. If you don’t pass a year, you’ll have to redo that year or go to a lower level. In high school, we have test weeks. One year is divided into five periods of each about 8 weeks. At the end of each period, we have a test week. This means that you only have tests that week every day-- mostly two and some-times three tests. You just go to school to take 2-hour tests, and you have no lessons or homework. Talking about homework, we do get homework, but it’s our own responsibility. We never have to hand in our homework to our teachers, so a lot of students don’t do it. If you do it, it might help you prepare for your tests. So, the only grades we get are during test weeks. We only get five chances to keep up our grade. Our grades go from 1 to 10. You’ll get a 10 if you have everything correct (which never happens). A sufficient is a 5.5, and you’ll can still pass a year if you have 2 or less av-erages of a 5.5 per subject. School is way more difficult than in America. If you get a 7.2, for ex-ample, for a test, that is pretty good, and no one is complaining about that. We cannot choose our subjects during the first 3 years of high school. In the fourth year, we choose “a profile.” You can choose a profile with history, economics & lan-guages, or you can go to the math/physics/chemistry side, the biology/chemistry side, or the art/language/music/history side. I choose the pro-file with the subjects Dutch, English, Math B & D (I had two types of math), Economics, French, Phys-ics and Chemistry. In May during your last year of high school, you have the central exams.

(Continued) This is extremely stressful; you have two weeks where you have to take an exam of three hours on every subject you took in high school. They ask questions about everything you’ve had the past few years and you’ll start studying for this about two months before the ex-am week starts. A lot of students fail their exams, which means they don’t graduate and cannot go to college or university. They’ll have to redo that year of high school and try to graduate one year later. We also have a program called TTO; this means bilingual education. If you follow this program, you’ll have your first three years of high school in English. I did this program during my first three years. Our schedules at school are also different than in America. We have different subjects every day. For example, on Mondays you start first period with English, but on Tuesdays you start with Phys-ics. Our school starts at 8.45 am and usually ends at 4.00 pm. We usually have 7 periods a day, but some days we have 6. That depends on your schedule. One period is 50 minutes, and we have a 20-minute break in the morning and a 30-minute break for lunch.

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UPCOMING BASKETBALL GAMES

All games are at 4.00, 5.30, 7.00 p.m.

DATE OPPONENT LOCATION

DEC. 21 WIBAUX WIBAUX

DEC. 22 CUSTER/

HYSHAM

MELSTONE

JAN. 4 JORDAN MELSTONE

JAN. 5 BROADUS BROADUS

JAN. 11 TERRY MELSTONE

JAN. 12 NORTHERN

CHEYENNE

NORTHERN

CHEYENNE

JAN. 18 TRI CITIES TBA

JAN. 19 EKALAKA MELSTONE

JAN. 24 JORDAN JORDAN

JAN. 25 WIBAUX MELSTONE

FEB. 1 TERRY TERRY

FEB. 2 PLEVNA MELSTONE (GIRLS

ONLY)

FEB. 7 CUSTER/

HYSHAM

CUSTER

FEB 8 BROADUS MELSTONE

(SENIOR NIGHT)

FEB 13-16 DISTRICT

TOURNA-

MENT

MILES CITY

Good Start for the Lady Broncs

By Nienke

This year’s Lady Broncs Basketball Team consists

of Megan Brewer (12th grade), Kaigen Roskelley

(11th grade), Oxane Mbiguino (11th grade), Nienke

Reijnen (11th grade), Kaylee Thurston (10th grade),

Kelsey Thurston (9th grade), Draya Wacker (9th

grade), Kayla Kombol (9th grade), Koye Rindal (8th

grade) and Teigan Schiffer (8th grade). The man-

agers are Ivy Pinkerton, Avery, and Maggie Eike.

Our coach is Ole Eike, and he is supported by

Michelle Kombol.

Mr. Eike said: “We have ten girls out for basketball

this year. Practices have been very competitive,

and we are improving daily. We open the season

with four great teams, so we will be challenged

early which is a great experience for us. I hope it

will pay off in February when tournament time

gets here. I believe we have a good chance to play

Saturday night at districts and move to divisional.

The ultimate goal would be to advance to the state

tournament, but we will take it one game at a

time.”

On the December 7th & 8th, the girls had a tip-off tournament in Manhattan. Their first game was against Townsend; they lost 34 to 39. They won their second game 43 to 27 against Manhattan Christian. The girls split last weekend, losing to Tri-Cities by a score of 69-40 and getting an over-time time win against Ekalaka 65-62.

It’s Basketball Season!

By Ty Meredith

Well, another season of basketball has started, and all the boys are excited for the season ahead. The boy’s basketball team consists of seventeen players: Nathan Zard, Holden Roskelley, Carson Hein, Harry Griswold, Brody Grebe, Thomas DeJaegher, Ty Meredith, Davon Meredith, Shayden Cooke, Chance Adams, Tyler Kombol, Brayden DeJaegher, Kaleb DeJaegher, Gus Adams, Colby Thurston, Bryce Grebe, and Paul Bergin. The team’s first game was on December 7th at the Manhattan tournament against Townsend. We won the game 63-29. The next night we played Man-hattan Christian and lost 55-40. The team’s goals this season are to get first at districts, first at divi-sionals, and hopefully to win the state title with only one loss this season. We also hope to keep our opponents to 50 or less points for the rest of the season. Get your popcorn; it’s about to be a great season! Last weekend the boys came away with two wins; Tri-Cities 60-22 and Ekalaka 67-24.

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