Tiger Tales
MARCH 10, 2014
VOLUME 2 ISSUE 8
Wrestlers Go To Regions
On Saturday February 22, 2014, the
Mobridge Pollock Tigers went to regional wrestling in Rapid City. It was
a long and tiring day with at least 4
wrestlers that where short 1 match for
qualifying. Chase Schoenhard took
first; beating number 3 ranked in
state B, Logan Ammons of Phillip
Area. David beat David Sigdestad
from Custer for the 3rd place win.
Isaac Olson Lost against Jack Whaley
of Stanley County and finished 4th.
Schoenhard, Jensen, and Olson will be
heading to state B wrestling in Aberdeen on Saturday, March 1st 2014.
They will hopefully work their way to
the top and be supported the whole
way. Good Luck to the 2014 Mobridge
Pollock Tiger Wrestling State Qualifiers.
By Brett Lang
Wrestlers Go To State
State B Wrestling tournament was held
on February 28th and March 1st in Aberdeen, SD. Three wrestlers traveled
down to Aberdeen to represent the
Mobridge-Pollock school district and
these people were Isaac Olson an 7th
grader, David Jensen and Chase
Schoenhard both juniors. Isaac Olson
unfortunately lost both his matches.
David Jensen placed 3rd wrestling 1-0
over Herman Fennell III of Stanley
County. Lastly, Chase Schoenhard
placed 2nd losing to Brady Reiff, last
year’s State Champion, 9-2.
By Tiffany Stickney
Staff: Gary Street; Advisor, Keshia Milliken; Editor, Tiffany Stickney; Editor, Joseph Avalos, Allie
Bonn, Cayla Hintz, Kaitlin Johnson Goodshield, Brett Lang, Tyler Larsen,
Alexia Laundreaux, Shawna Madison, Justice Keller, Jordyn Mertz, Skyler Meyer, Ronna Moser,
Robert Pollock, Sadie Pollock, Tanner Quenzer, Sampson Weleba.
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Tigers Defeat The Buffaloes
The Mobridge Tigers overwhelmed the
Stanley County Buffalos with a 73 to 42
win to keep their win streak going. There
was four tigers in double figures and they
were Preston Frederick with 11 , Mitchell
Heumiller with 22, Jason Hill with 17, and
Mason Keller with 17. The Tigers had a
strong lead due to them only having 4
turnovers while the Buffalos had 22 turnovers leading to many of the Tiger points.
The Mobridge Pollock Tigers JV also won.
By Sampson Weleba
Tigers Show Warriors What’s Up
win streak to 6 against the Winner Warriors on February 21. Mitch Heumiller led
the Tigers in scoring with 19, going 8-8
from the free throw line. Mason Keller had
four threes and finished with 16 points.
The Tigers led by 12 at half time but the
Warriors rallied back, but could not take
the lead. The Tigers won 59-52.
By Jordyn Mertz
The boys basketball team extended their
Tigers Lose To Braves
Mobridge-Pollock boy’s basketball team
traveled to Eagle Butte to play the CEB
Braves on February 24th. It was the last
regular season game for both teams. The
Braves dominated Mobridge outscoring
them in three of the four quarters. The final score was Braves-68 Tigers-47. The
leading scorers for the Tigers were Preston
Frederick with 10 points including two 3
pointers, Mitchel Heumiller had 17 points
including 3 three pointers. Leading rebounder for the Tigers was Reece Wientjes
who had 8 rebounds. Eagle Butte had three
players in double digits Creighton LeBeau
lead the team with 19 points, Kamden
Rousseau Clown had 11 points and Xavier
Norris also had 16 points and had a game
high 10 rebounds. The next game for both
teams will be in Regions MobridgePollock will be the #4 seed and play #5
Winner Warriors, Cheyenne Eagle Butte
will be the #1 seed and have a first round
bye.
By Skyler Meyer
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Warriors Dominate Lady Tigers
Warriors dominated the Mobridge-Pollock
Tigers by 65 points. The final score was
15 Tigers – 80 Warriors. Tigers had a
tough time shooting because of the tough,
pressing defense. The Winner Warrior is
one of the best rated Class A teams in S.D.
By Robbie Pollock
On Friday February 21, 2014 the Winner
Lady Tigers Lose To Cowgirls
On Saturday February 22nd, 2014 the Mo- came out with the win with a score of 54bridge-Pollock Lady Tigers faced the
37. After that game the Lady Tigers record
Lemmon Cowgirls. The Lady Tigers
is 1-19 and the Lemmon Cowgirls is 18-2.
played a very good game but the Lemmon By Tanner Quenzer
Cowgirls were just too much and they
Lady Braves End Lady Tiger’s Season
bridge-Pollock Lady Tiger season with the
score of 58 to 33. The Lady Tigers played
amazing in the first half against the Braves,
by the ending of the 2nd quarter the score was
32 to 23. Alexa Schaefbauer led the Tigers
scoring 11 points following was Aundrea and
Chelsy with 7 points. Kaitlin GoodShield led
the Tigers with 5 rebounds and ReAnne having 4.
By Kaitlin GoodShield
The Eagle Butte Lady Braves ended the Mo-
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January Students Of The Month
The January students of the month were
for 6th grade Reece Cerney, for 7th grade
Isaac Olson and for 8th grade Brittny Keller. Each month one student for 6th-8th is
elected by the teachers to be students of
the month. Teachers look at how well the
student is doing with school. They also
look at their overall attitude. These students have shown respect to their peers,
and to the staff. They go above and beyond to get their work done on time and
diligently.
By Ronna Moser
February Students Of The Month
The teachers in the middle school pick 1
student from each grade every month for
students of the month. This month the
teachers have chose Tyler Blankartz-6th
grade; Tobie Heib-7th grade; Sierra Wessel
-8th grade.
By Keshia Milliken
Student Profile- Daylon Fox
Daylon Fox is one of the seniors at Mobridge-Pollock High school. His plans are
to graduate high school, then take a year
off from school instead of starting right
up again. Once the year is over he wants
to go to Dakota State University for
Game Designing or for Graphic Designing. After that he hopes to get a job and
wants to be able to continue on his gaming. Which gaming is what he loves to do
every day it is pretty much his life.
By Lexi Laundreaux
Student Profile- Terri Baker
Terri Baker is a freshman at the Mobridge
Pollock High School. Her parents are
Jade and Charles Baker. Terri has 5 siblings. Her favorite colors are purple yellow and blue. Her favorite sport is soccer.
She loves riding horses. Her favorite class
is math. She is a cheerleader for the girls
basketball team. She says her favorite
thing to do in Mobridge is look at the sun-
set on the river. Terri’s hobbies include
running, eating and watching Netflix.
Terri has also lived in Eagle Butte, Aberdeen, and Timberlake. Fun Fact: Terri can
put one foot on the back of my head, and
stand on one leg. She does have advice
for underclassmen. “ Don’t back talk
teachers, respect is ideal.”
By Sadie Pollock
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Smarts Challenge Fun
The second annual Smarts Challenge competition
was held on February 20, 2014 at Scherr Howe
Arena. There were 3 teams from Mobridge that
participated in the challenge this year. The Challenge consisted on ten events: Thinking on Your
Feet, Rube Goldberg, Up, Up & Away, Bridge
Builder, Do As I Write, “On the Spot” Subs,
Mousetrap Drag Race, Cantilever, Marble Maze,
and Sling for Effect.
Eureka, Faith, Timber Lake, Wakpala, Linton/
Hazelton, McLaughlin, and McIntosh also participated. The Mobridge team was coached by Pam
Wells and Martin Looyenga. The Tiger 1 Team
finished with the first place title on Wednesday
afternoon.
In event was sponsored by Mobridge Chamber of
Commerce (3B), Oahe Area Retired Teachers, Dakota Bank, Jensen Rock & Sand, and the MPHS
Science Club.
Below is a list of the teams that participated from
Mobridge.
By Shawna Madison
Tiger 1
Eric Looyenga
Jason Hill
Joey Heil
Shawna Madison
Kayleigh
Henderson
Jordan Feist
Bryce Hayes
Austin Borah
Ashton Weiderholt
Lexy While
Tyler Villbrandt
Mitchel Heumiller
Kristina Gonzales
Ellie Rabenberg
Jo’L Pretends Eagle
Tiger 2
Keely Moriarty
Tanja Moser
David Jensen
Ethan Kettering
Chase Schoenhard
Brandi Martian
Mason Keller
Kara Schneider
Kayla Schneider
Chelsy Hoffman
Treinae Schweitzer
Preston Frederick
Tanner Jerome
Tiger 3
Grace Jensen
Cassi Heumiller
Bray Harrison
Lauren Henderson
Aryn Looyenga
Naomi Stroeder
Lucas Ulmer
Autumn Schlomer
Trevor Brammer
Jordan Bachmeier
Cayla Hintz
Danielle Beadle
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Braves End Tigers Season at Round Two of
Regions
Mobridge-Pollock traveled to play the #1 seed
Cheyenne-Eagle Butte to play the Braves on
Thursday, March 6th for the semifinal round of
Regions. The braves came out and dominated
from the start of the game beating the tigers 76
-58, to end the Tiger’s season. Leading the Tigers in scoring was Preston Frederick with 13
Points (2-3’s), Mitchel Heumiller 14 points
and Mason Keller with 17 points (3-3’s), for
the Braves, Jeffrie Shaving had 12 points, Xa-
vier Norris had 17 points, and Creighton LeBeau led the team with 18. The leading rebounders for both teams were Keller (9), and
the Braves had 3 players with eight rebounds,
Wyatt Knight, Norris, and Shaving. The
Braves will play the Chamberlain Cubs in the
final round of Regions on Monday March 10th.
By Skyler Meyer
Smarts Challenge in pictures
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Middle School Festival Choir
The South Dakota Music Educators Association held its 5th Annual Festive Choir
on March 3rd. The Festival choir is sponsored by the SDMEA. Since it was the
celebration of NAfME’s Music in our
Schools Month, the Theme was Music
Makes Me ___! The festival took place in
the Mobridge Middle School Theatre. The
Choir was conducted by a guest conduc-
tor Maralee Sickler. They sang 5 songs:
“Una Sola Voz”; “Hodie Canon”;
“Inscription of Hope”; “Three Quotes by
Mark Twain”; & “Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel” . Eureka, McIntosh, Herried, Faulkton, Lemmon, Ipswich and
Mobridge-Pollock were the schools that
performed.
By Sadie Pollock
Small Group Contest
The scores for a solo, duet and a group
were based on how you performed. If you
performed without any mistakes, then you
received a superior. If you made minor
mistakes you got an excellent and if you
were good but had mistakes, you just received a good. There were 36 individual
groups over all. 22 of them were superior,
then 11 of them were excellent, and 3
were good. The people that where superior in this event were Kailey Jerome,
Miranda Eisemann, Kristina Gonzales,
Callie Mickelson, Jesse Roshau, Abigail
Fred, Taylor Brekke, Makaela Moser,
Jesse Roshau, Autumn Schlomer and
Shawna Madison for solos. Superior duets were Lexi Borah & Emily Dale, Danielle Beadle & Jo’L Pretends Eagle, Taylor Brekke & Abigail Fred, and Miranda
Eisemann & Alexis Frey. Group superior
were Taylor Brekke, Miranda Eisemann,
Abigail Fred, Alexis Frey, Kristina Gon-
zales, Kayleigh Henderson, Kailey
Jerome, Shawna Madison, Brandi Martin,
Kassy Nisbet, and Jesse Roshau the other
group was Lexi Borah, Alyssa Brewer,
Emily Dale, Reanne Kohlus, Makaela
Moser, Tanja Moser, Kennedy Pearson,
Madison Rau, Allie Sauer, Karlie Spiry,
Rachael Springfield and Lacy Steiger.
The girl ensemble was Abigail Fred,
Mary Martin, Kassy Nisbet, Kylie Reinert, and Allie Sauer. The second group
was Taylor Brekke, Abigail Fred, Kenny
Helm, and Justin Nobles. The third group
was Lauren Henderson, Kailey Jerome,
and Aryn Looyenga. The fourth group
was Miranda Eisemann, Abigail Fred,
Kenny Helm, Brandi Martin, Rebecca
Martin, Justin Nobles, and Ellie Rabenberg. The last group was Lauren Henderson, Kailey Jerome, Aryn Looyenga, Autumn Schlomer, and Jesse Roshau.
By Joseph Avalos
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Benj Stoick to speak at graduation
Mr. Stoick has developed friendships
with many powerful people such as
former Governor Bill Janklow, Senator Tom Daschle and Senator John
Thune. His son, Jordan Stoick, is the
chief of staff of Representative Kristi
Noem. His father, Jim Stoick, was in
state government for eighteen years.
In January, Mr. Stoick visited with
John Boehner, Speaker of the United
States House of Representatives and
arguable the second-most powerful
Benjamin (Benj) Stoick, MPHS class of man in Washington.
’69, will present the Commencement Ad- “The speaker is a genuinely nice and
dress to the Class of 2014 in May. The
down-to-earth guy,” Stoick said of
senior class chose Mr. Stoick as the senior Boehner. “We do not see eye-to-eye on
class speaker because many in the class
every issue but on Education and Nafelt he would be a great speaker and he
tional security, we are definitely on the
had gotten to know many of the graduates same page,”
as his son Conner, a member of the class By Justice Keller
of 2014, grew up here in Mobridge.
The Mobridge-Pollock students who participated in the recent Festival Choir
News From The Administrator
March 7th is the ACT deadline for students planning on taking the ACT on
April 12th.
The anatomy and physiology classes are
going to Lake Area Technical Institute on
March 13th.
HS students who would like to take an AP
Course next year need to stop by the
school counselor’s office to register.
Prom sign-up sheets are in the HS office.
Prom forms are now available in the office. Everyone must return a Code of
Conduct form in order to participate.
Those bringing Non-MPHS guests also
need to make sure their guest returns the
Prom Guest Request form. Both forms are
due by March 28th.
HS Juniors: Boys and Girls who would
like to apply for Boys and Girls State
please pick up an application in the
school counselor’s office and return by
March 14th.
Scholarships
Curtis Marvin Hohn Scholarship is available for seniors attending a technical
school or university in SD. This is for
$1000 and has a March 15, 2014 dead-
line. Applications are available in the
school counselor’s office.
The Central Chapter of SD Engineering
Society is offering a scholarship for $800.
Applications are available in the school
counselor’s office with a March 15, 2014
deadline.
Mobridge Regional Healthcare scholarship is available in the school counselor’s
office. Applicant must be majoring in a
health related career. Deadline is the end
of March.
Daisy/SD 4-H Shooting Sports Application is for those who have participated in
three years of 4-H shooting sports. Application is available in the school counselor’s office with an April 1st deadline.
The Scottish Rite application $200 for
books for post secondary schools.
USD is hosting a Healthcare Career
Camp from June 15-20. It’s for students
entering grades 10-12 in the fall of 2014.
Applications are available at
www.usd.edu/med/health-careerscamp.cfm deadline is April 1st
By Allie Bonn
By Allie Bonn
Tigers win first round of 6a regions
On Tuesday March, 4th the Mobridge-Pollock
Tigers took their first step to State with a win
against the Winner Warriors. The Tigers came
out on top 56-51. The teams matched scoring
in the first quarter with 14 points each and the
Warriors finished the first half with a three
point lead, 31-28. The Tigers came back in the
second half outscoring the Warriors in both the
3rd and 4th quarters. The Leading scorer for
the Winner Warriors was Nathan Galbraith and
Brenden Harter with 13 points each. The leading scorer for the Mobridge-Pollock Tigers
was Mitchel Heumiller with 18 points. Jason
Hill finished the game with eight defensive rebounds and Preston Frederick contributed 13
points while Mason Keller added 12 points to
the winning cause.
By Tyler Larsen