By Maham Shah and Hannah Smith

Warrior girls will host the O’Gorman Knights in their final regular season game tonight at WHS.

The Knights, ranked No. 1 all season, are currently 19-0, most recently defeating Lincoln 82-56 Saturday. The Warriors most recently lost to Roosevelt 54-52 Friday. In the two team’s first meeting Feb. 6 at O’Gorman, WHS lost 67-49.

Junior Carly Knutson said she feels the team is prepared to do better tonight.

“We’ve had a few great practices,” Knutson said. “It’ll be a great match-up.”

Varsity coach Jamie Parish is happy the final game of the regular season will be at home.

“It’ll be a great game,” Parish said. “We will need to play our hardest and compete with such a good team.”

Fan dress theme for tonight is superhero.

Happening Now•Basketball: vs. O’Gorman—boys at O’Gorman, girls at WHS; freshmen and JV 4 p.m., sophomores 5:30 p.m., varsity 7 p.m.•Band Concert: 7 p.m. in auditorium

Lunch Time at WHS•Today’s lunch: Breaded chicken patty•À la carte lines: Pasta, soft tacos, chef salad, sandwiches

Group Meetings•Current National Honor Society: Members who did not attend this morning’s meeting must attend a meeting at 3:15 p.m. Today in A-211.•Spanish Club: Members will meet at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday in A-154. All current and former Spanish stu-dents are welcome.•AP Students: Will meet during reading period Friday in the audito-rium to review the AP Test registra-tion process.•Girls Golf: Potential team members must attend a meeting along with a parent at 6 p.m. Monday in the library.

Other Reminders•Volunteer: To welcome eighth graders to WHS March 4. Details and application at tinyurl.com/WHS2019—due by 4 p.m. today.•Vote: To support WHS as the top girls basketball program in the USA Today contest—registration in the state-level round is open through March 5 at contest.usatodayhss.com. Vote now and often.

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Bands perform in concert tonightBy Andy Heck

WHS bands will perform their annual February concert at 7 p.m. tonight in the audi-torium.

Each of the four concert bands—freshman, varsity, con-cert and symphonic—will per-form their own concert lasting about 20 minutes each.

Sophomore baritone sax

player Simon Keller said it is always fun playing concerts.

“We get to show how much we’ve grown musically in the last few months,” Keller said, “and also share a musical expe-rience with our audience.”

Band director Mark Diischer said the bands have all been very busy.

“They’ve been working

to improve technical aspects of their playing and apply-ing their lessons to new lit-erature,” Diischer, who will be conducting the freshman and symphonic bands, said. “Come check out what your student has been learning in band and enjoy a night of great music.”

Admission is $3 for stu-dents and $5 for adults.

By Trey DeCroock and Reagan StenzelWarrior boys will travel to O’Gorman tonight

for a matchup between the top-ranked Warriors (17-2) and the fourth-ranked Knights (14-5).

This will be the final regular season game for both teams before districts begin March 3.

The last time the teams met on Jan. 13, the Warriors won 46-30 at home.

Coach Craig Nelson said the team is ready.“We’ve got to finish out the season on a good

note, and have a great all-around effort tonight,” Nelson said.

Senior Cole Benson is excited for the game.“I feel like it will be a fun game, and I’m

looking forward to a loud crowd,” Benson said.Games begin at 4 p.m. today with the varsity

around 7 p.m.Fan dress theme for the boys game is prep.

Activity tickets are not valid at O’Gorman.

Boys travel across town for full set of games

Freshman A Teams defeat LincolnBy Meg Wolstenholm and Mariah Madsen

All freshman bas-ketball teams were in action with Lincoln Monday night.

At Lincoln, the girls A Team won 41-22, with leading scorers Aubrey Miedema and

Megan Nolan scoring 11 points each, and Kaylee Hanson scor-ing 9 points.

The B Team lost 53-32, with Camryn Aren as the lead scorer with 14.

A Team member Sidney Kennedy said

she was pleased with the game.

“We started out strong, and kept our endurance throughout the game,” Kennedy said.

At WHS the boys A Team won 70-49, with Zach Heins scor-

ing 26 points and pull-ing down 9 rebounds. The B Team defeat-ed Lincoln 59-47 as Davis McCullum had 21 points and 12 rebounds.

All WHS freshman teams play O’Gorman tonight at 4 p.m.

By Hannah SmithMany high school students have a passion for some-

thing, be it sports, theater, music or academics. But few are given the chance to showcase their abilities and talents on a global scale.

Sophomore Emera Gurath now has that opportunity. Gurath was recently selected as a member of the National Youth Orchestra of the USA (NYO-USA).

Gurath said she is extremely pleased to have been selected for such a wonderful opportunity.

“It hasn’t quite sunk in yet,” Gurath said. But, the process has not been easy. Like any activity,

Gurath said it takes years of practice to reach the level she is at.

“I have been playing the violin since I was 4 years old,” Gurath said. “I practice about two and a half hours each day, along with taking lessons outside of school.”

Gurath said the first step in the audition process involved technology.

“I had to send in an audition tape that included myself playing vari-ous pieces and answering questions,” Gurath said.

Gurath will have a special opportunity as a result of her selection. In its third year, NYO-USA will make a historic first-ever visit to Asia in July, giving seven concerts in China in some of the greatest concert halls across several different regions of the country.

The orchestra, led by swiss conductor Charles Dutoit, consists of the brightest young players from across the U.S. Members will participate in a two-week training residency with leading professional orchestra musicians this summer, then begin a nine-concert tour in Purchase and New York City, N.Y., where they will perform in Carnegie Hall. They will then travel to Beijing and other regions of China.

WHS orchestra director Karla Chiarello said she is impressed with the opportunity presented to Gurath.

“It is an amazing honor to be selected for this ensem-ble,” Chiarello said.

NYO-USA will begin their tour on July 10 and con-tinue until July 26.

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Making beautiful music. . .

History.com (TNS)On Feb. 24, 1938,

the entertainment trade newspaper Variety reported that the film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) had bought the rights to adapt L. Frank Baum’s beloved children’s novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” for the screen, and that the studio has cast 16-year-old Judy Garland in the film’s central role.

Production of “The Wizard of Oz” was beset by challenges from the beginning. The script went through numerous rewrites, and by filming’s end no fewer than four directors had worked on the movie.

By the time that Variety announced Garland’s cast-ing, Ray Bolger had already been assigned the role of the Tin Man, and Buddy Ebsen had been picked to play the Scarecrow. At Bolger’s insistence, he and Ebsen soon swapped parts. Just nine days after filming began, however, Ebsen dropped out of the production after he suffered a near-fatal allergic reaction to the aluminum dust used in his Tinman makeup.

In the end, “The Wizard of Oz” emerged from these challenges as one of history’s most enduring and best-loved films, ranking sixth on the American Film Institute’s list of the 100 greatest films of all time (compiled in 1999). “The Wizard of Oz” was especially honored for its pioneering use of the film process known as Technicolor, as well as for its now-iconic soundtrack.

As Dorothy, Garland first performed what would become her signature song, “Over the Rainbow”—a yearning ballad that only became more poignant over the years, as the iconic actress struggled with drug and alcohol addiction. She died at the age of 47 on June 22, 1969.

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Photo courtesy Emera GurathFIRST CHAIR—Sophomore Emera Gurath performs at All-State Orchestra Nov. 1, 2014, at the Sioux Falls Arena. Gurath earned the honor of first-violin, first chair at the event.