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High School Basketball
by Bella Petersen
On Monday the 15th of December, four 8th graders moved up to play on the girls High School Basketball Team. After a short day of school on Friday, December 23rd, our Cowgirls and Cowboys played the Richey-Lambert Fusion.
The JV boys started the day off with a win, 20-4. Varsity Girls played after, sadly losing. The final score of the game was 37-50, Fusion taking home the win.
The boys finished off the night with a win. With 3 minutes left on the clock the Cowboys were up 64-33.
On Saturday, December 21st the Cowboys and Cowgirls traveled to Plentywood to play against the Wildcats. The JV boys played at 3 p.m. The final score was 16-12, the JV Cowboys losing by a short amount.
The girls started the game off well, but fell to the Wildcats. The final score of the night was 44-18.
The boys Varsity played the last game of the night, and lost as well with the score of 79-32.
Saturday, January 4th, the high school basketball teams traveled to Medicine Lake to play the Froid-Lake Redhawks. There were no JV games. The Cowgirls lost, but the Cowboys picked up another victory.
On Friday January 10th the Cowboys and Cowgirls traveled over to Savage to play the Warriors. The JV girls played their first game, but lost by one point. The final score was 13-14. The JV boys played after the girls but sadly lost as well.
Both Varsity teams played after the JV games. The Cowgirls lost with the score of 54-33. Sadly the Boys also lost with a score of 55-30.
The Brockton Warriors traveled to play us on January 11th. The JV girls started off the day with a win. The final score was 22-27. JV boys followed; they fell short to the Warriors with a score of 32-38.
The Varsity girls followed with warmups shortly after. At halftime the girls were down 6 points: the score being 16-22. By the end of the game the Warriors had fully taken the lead and won with a score of 42-53. The Cowboys played after; the halftime score was 18-33. They finished the game winning by 25 points. Final score was 65-40.
Elementary Basketball
by Bella Petersen
The Elementary Basketball teams had their first practice on January 2nd.
On January 11 Culbertson hosted elementary games where Brockton, Circle, and Culbertson all competed. Both boys and girls played at the same time.
Boys:
Culbertson vs Brockton was the first game of the morning. Culbertson won with the score of 36-22.
Circle vs Brockton. 50-20 Circle winning by 30.
The last game was Circle vs Culbertson where Circle won with a score of 41-31.
A second game was played against the Circle Wildcats where the Cowboys won.
Girls:
Culbertson also took on the Brockton warriors first. Brockton won with the score of 14-12.
Second game of the morning was Brockton vs Circle. Brockton’s girls took the game with a score of 14-6.
Circle played against Culbertson for the final game of the day. Tied with the score of 15 the Wildcats and Cowgirls went into overtime. The final score was 17-16, the Wildcats winning.
Speech and Drama
by Bella Petersen
Our Speech and Drama team traveled to Frazer on Saturday, January 4th, for the first meet of 2025.
Competing and placing were:
Josie Simonsen 1st in MPA
Harrison Green 1st in Impromptu
Harper Anderson 1st in Dramatic Solo
Peyton Jahns 2nd in Program Oral Interpretation
Jaxon Flinn 2nd in Informative
Kaylee Kohl 3rd in Dramatic Oral Interpretation
Colt’n Rees 3rd in MPA
Gavin Raaum 3rd in Mime
The Speech team placed 1st in Class C Speech Sweeps. The Drama team placed 3rd in Class C Drama Sweeps.
The Culbertson Speech and Drama team had a fantastic time hosting our invitational tournament on Saturday. We had 4 schools drop because of bad roads, but everyone rolled with the punches and helped keep the tournament on track.
Placing for Culbertson were:
Josie Simonson 1st
Colt'n Rees 2nd in MPA
Harper Anderson 1st in Dematic Solo
Harrison Green 1st in Impromptu
Jaxon Flinn 2nd in Informative
Peyton Jahns 3rd in POI
Reagan Chilson 7th
Emma Henry 5th in Hum Solo
Felix Becker 2nd in OO
Culbertson Placed 1st in Speech and 3rd in Drama Sweepstakes.
1. Beavers don't actually live in dams. Technically, beavers live in a lodge that they build behind a dam, within a deep pool of water.
2. The average dinosaur lifespan was surprisingly small. The Tyrannosaurus rex, for example, reached full size between 16-22 years old and lived up until 27-33. The largest dinosaurs such as the Brontosaurus and Diplodocus tended to live up to between 39-53 years old, maybe reaching the heights of 70.
3. It rains methane on Saturn’s largest moon. Titan is the only moon in our Solar System with a dense atmosphere and the only body except Earth with liquid rivers, lakes and seas fed by rainfall. This rainfall isn’t water, though; it's liquid methane.
4. Giraffes hum to communicate with each other. It’s thought that the low-frequency humming could be a form of ‘contact call’ between individuals who have been separated from their herd, helping them to find each other in the dark. Some researchers think they sleep talk too.
5. Glass sponges can live for 15,000 years. This makes them one of the longest-living organisms on Earth. The immortal jellyfish, however, could theoretically live forever (but scientists aren’t sure)
6. You have a 50 per cent chance of sharing a birthday with a friend. In any group of 23 people, two people will share a birthday, according to the maths. To find the probability of everyone in the group having a unique birthday, multiply all 23 probabilities together, giving 0.493. So the probability of a shared birthday is 1 - 0.493 = 0.507, or 50.7 per cent.
