Brandts Attend Honor Bands

                                                       BRANDTS ATTEND HONOR BANDS

   

    Jordyn and Trystan Brandt, children of Roger and Dianne Brandt of Exeter, participated in the Wayne State College Honor Band Festival on Feb. 2.  Jordyn, a Sophomore, played flute in the Honor Wind Ensemble.  Trystan, an 8th grader, performed trumpet in the Jr. High Honor Band.  Participants attended from Nebraska, Iowa, and South Dakota and were selected by recorded auditions.

    Jordyn was also honored to be selected as a member of the Hastings College Honor Band Feb. 7-9.

Exeter Cub Scouts Attend Night at the Stars

Exeter Cub Scout Pack 218 attended the Scout Night at the Lincoln Stars Hockey game Friday night.  The Stars hosted Sioux Falls Stampede but lost 4 – 1.  It was poster night so the scouts that came early enough were able to get free posters.  After the game was over the Scouts in uniform were invited on to the ice for an exclusive autograph session. 

Exeter-Milligan Update: 8th Grade History

Mr. Brian Murphy's classes have been busy doing a variety of activities this semester.  Eighth grade American History is just starting to produce a digital newspaper about westward expansion.  High School American History is entering a unit on U.S. involvement in World War II.  The Post World War II History class has been investigating the 1960s.  In freshman World Geography, students prepared travel brochures for U.S. regions or states.  This semester, there is a map quiz each week over different regions, countries, cities, and landforms of the world.  

Pictured are eighth graders Joan Strate, Sydney Hall, and Haylee Sheffield researching for their digital newspaper project.

Exeter-Milligan Update: Math Matters 2

The Math Matters 2 Class at Exeter-Milligan is beginning a unit on Geometry.  The class, under the tutelage of Mary Kay Pribyl, is currently learning basic definitions and properties.  Shown are Nathan Oliva and Robert Harre playing a matching game to study and review the definitions. 

Exeter-Milligan Hosts Junior High Basketball Tournament

Exeter-Milligan hosted a junior high basketball tournament this weekend with three other teams participating.

The Meridian Mustangs girls met the Exeter-Milligan girls to start the tournament with Exeter-Milligan coming out on top 34-11.  The Exeter-Milligan boys team then defeated Meridian 29-13.

The next two teams in the bracket were The Friend Lady Bulldogs who handed the Bruning Davenport Shickley girls a berth in the consolation match up with a win of 37-10. 

Boys were up next with Class C-1 Central City taking over the court defeating Friend 46-17.

The consolation matchup between the girls, BDS and Meridian, found BDS on top.

Next up were the Friend boys and the Meridian Mustangs in the consolation bracket.  Friend won the game.

The girls championship matched Highway 6 rivals, Friend and Exeter-Milligan with Friend coming in first winning 30-24.  Exeter-Milligan got within five points during the third quarter but Friend held onto their lead bringing home the first place trophy.

The Exeter-Milligan boys fought hard in the boys champion bracket but were unable to overcome the Central City Bison, losing by a score of 64-23.