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Silhouettes give preview of season with performance at halftime

The Yellow Medicine East Silhouettes Junior Varsity and Varsity High-Kick Dance teams gave a preview of their performance this season during the Varsity Girls Basketball game’s halftime. This year’s costume and music selections feature a 1970s theme. The team performs next December 10th in Albany. Their next home performance is January 21st at their Home Invitational.

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A Regenerative Future?

It was 1997 that North Dakota rancher Gabe Brown attended a livestock profit seminar. He had just lost his crop due to natural causes for a third year in a row, and was wondering how he was going to keep his farm.

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YME Cross Country travels to championship

Last week, the Yellow Medicine East Boys and Girls Cross Country teams traveled to the Section 3A Championships at Luverne High School. Leaders for the boys team were Dylan Castillo, finishing 93rd with a time of 20:33.70 and Connor Olson, finishing 125th with a time of 22:49.60. The girls team took the 15th place spot with a score of 397. Leaders included Sanjana Pullan in 42nd place with a time of 22:07.39, Anjeli PUllan finishing 43rd with a time of 22:07.76, Karina Jahn finishing 107th with a time of 25:50.25, Evelyn Martin finishing 109th with a time of 26:08.86 and Izabella Anderson finishing 125th with a time of 29:43.84.

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YME finishes season 7-17

On Friday, the Yellow Medicine East Varsity Volleyball team traveled to Clara City to take on MACCRAY in the playoffs. The team took a loss, 1-3, ending their season with a final standing of 7-17. Scoring from that game follows: YME (7-17) 21 14 25 22 MACCRAY (20-10) 25 25 21 25

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YME Football team defeats MACCRAY 20-6

Yellow Medicine East’s football team hosted MACCRAY in their last regular season game last Wednesday for a 20-6 victory. Leaders in the game included Cody Dahlager who ran 83 yards in 15 runs with three touchdowns. Scoring from that game follows: YME (5-3) 0 14 0 6 — 20 MACCRAY (1-7) 0 0 0 6 — 6 Scoring Plays YME – Cody Dahlager 3 run (Andrew Flaten pass from Dahlager) YME – Dahlager 10 run (pass failed) M – Michael Thein 2 run (pass failed) YME – Dahlager 12 run (pass failed) Individual and Team Scoring: First downs: 15 Penalties: 0-0 Rushing (Individual and team): Nahum Tarin 5-11, Nolan Hildahl 12-45, Cody Dahlager 15-83, Owen Cherveny 14-54, Jake Odegard 3-0. Total: 51-182.

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Girls Cross Country team takes 4th

The Yellow Medicine East Varsity Cross Country teams hosted the Camden Conference Invitational at the Granite Run Golf Course last week. The girls team took home the 4th place spot with a score of 123. The top five scorers for the girls team included: 13th Sanjana Pullan 21:52, 18th Anjeli Pullan 22:20, 32nd Karina Jahn 25:28, 34th Evelyn Martin 25:51, 44th Bella Anderson 29:37.

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TRAP season ends on a high note

The Yellow Medicine East TRAP Team ended their season with three of the shooters lettering for the year for the first time since joining TRAP. “It’s not easy to shoot the clays, let alone shoot that lettering score,” says YME Trap coach Sandra Berthelsen. Pictured are (L-R) Garrett Cobb shot 22/25, Riley Haar shot 20/25, and Archer Schmidt shot 20/25. “So very exciting, congratulations. You did it and we are very proud of you,” Berthelsen says.

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