8 Broadcaster Press January 28, 2020 www.broadcasteronline.com January 2020 Vermillion High School’s Student Newspaper vermillion.k12.sd.us Rock Me Amadeus! BY LIVI REGNERUS Building an Education BY LILLY MOCKLER Construction is on its way for the fifth housing project in the Residential Construction class at Vermillion High School! In this class, the students build houses to be placed around town. These houses usually take a full year to complete, but the time investment is made up for in lessons learned on community involvement and the skilled trade of carpentry. The current house project has seen the floor completed and the walls are starting to go up. Mr. Mark Pier is the teacher overseeing this whole process. He has been teaching at VHS for 26 years. When asked what his favorite part of teaching this class, Pier responded: “I like to get out and get active, I don’t like to stand behind a podium and talk and preach to everybody, I like to get out and do stuff.” He “...I like to get expressed that he enjoys working with out and get all of the students. active” His least favorite part about building these houses is “Probably when things go wrong and we have to do them over, and when we have to rebuild what we already built.” Mr. Pier enjoys both building these houses and giving this opportunity to students! One of those students, Haylee Radigan, VHS senior, recanted, “I would not feel comfortable building a house for anyone to live in if I wasn’t comfortable living in it myself.” Photo By Sophomore, Lilly Mockler The Vermillion High School one- act theatre group is embarking on their own version of the play Amadeus.The one-act director, Mary Begley states that, “It is a funny and tragic story about the life and death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.” The one-act will be performed publicly on January 24 at the Vermillion High School Thomas H. Craig Center for the Performing Arts and Regionals will take place in Dakota Valley on January 28. Then, on February 4 the Drama Department will provide the students of VHS with a performance during the school day. The leading actors are Jack Fuller playing Mozart and Ian Kocher playing Antonio Salieri. Last year VHS received a Superior play award at the State festival. “It is fun to take the play to the Region contest and see the other schools productions. The shorter play allows me to spend more time on each moment in the play and focus on acting more than the technical aspects like set and lights,” explained Begley. She has been directing one-act plays here at VHS since 2000. Amadeus is sure to highlight the talent of Vermillion High School’s student body! Send your story ideas to ZA3103@k12.sd.us Sports WINTER CHECK-IN BY MYA DEJONG Boys Basketball The boys’ team this year has been a team to fear scoring over 70 points in more than half their games. They started their season with three wins in a row, then after a tough game with last year's state champions, Tea Area, VHS fell short by only four points. They are back to their winning after their most recent games against Tri-Valley and Parkston. Sadly, after a head to head game against the Lennox Orioles we fell short by four points. This ranks our boys 4th in our region with a record of 5-2. Sam Ward and Max Mayer are the two seniors representing the team this year. Head Coach, Jay Drake, said, “Our boys basketball team has done a real nice job at all three levels this first month of the season. Our guys are working hard and giving a good effort and we feel we’re representing our program, school, and community in a positive way. We expect to continue to improve as the season goes on and hope to be playing our best basketball at the end of the year when the post season rolls around.” The student body wishes the boys good luck for the rest of their season! The Boys’ Basketball team’s next game is January 24th at home against Garretson at 8pm. “Celebrating 60 Years of Service!” 105 E. Cherry St., Vermillion, SD (605) 677-5214 • www.vermillionfcu.com Girls Basketball Vermillion High School’s Girls’ Basketball team started their season with a crushing victory against Bon Homme, they followed this victory with a stretch of highly competitive teams. This led them to their winning streak against the undefeated Tri- Valley Mustangs, Parkston Trojans, and the Madison Bulldogs. After playing against Lennox the 10-1 team. The girls are currently ranked 3rd in our region with a record of 4-4. The girls are led by their four seniors Kenzie Mockler, Lexi Saunders, Cami Regnerus and Morgan Kerkman. The head coach, Jon Brooks said, “So far this season we are happy with the way Tanager Merchandise, Greeting Cards, Candies, Home Decor and Bush Dry Cleaning Services! 5 W. CHERRY ST. VERMILLION 624-4444 all the girls have bought in to what we are doing. We have a lot of young girls and due to some injuries have kids playing in a lot of different spots. This will help us build depth for the rest of the season. We have suffered a couple of close losses early in the year to some really good teams, which will make us better for upcoming games. It was nice to get a good win against Tri-Valley at home the other night. Our conference is really tough again this season and those games are starting to hit now so we will find out a lot about ourselves over the next few weeks.” The Girls’ Basketball team’s next home game is January 24th against Garretson at 6:30pm in Vermillion High Schools gymnasium. Wrestling The wrestling team this year holds a lot of solid talent within their members, and they’ve proven it this far into the season. So far, the wrestling team has wrestled at nine wrestling meets, competed against twelve schools and beat six of them. Putting their record at 6-6, ranking them 15th in class A. The four seniors Lucus Anglin, Kobe Culver, Brock Voss and Adriel Blue are wrestling hard for their last season as Tanager Wrestlers! Head Coach, Joe Delvaux, says “Wrestling season started really well, we exceeded most of our expectations for our young guys. We hit a little bit of a mid season spat of injuries but we’re training hard, working hard, staying positive, and preparing for the second half and the postseason.” Vermillion High School’s wrestling team’s next home meet is on February 6th at 6pm. Photo by Sophomore, Mya DeJong.