The Bunkhouse
Culbertson Public Schools
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Important Dates
March 6- 2pm Dismissal
March 7- NO SCHOOL
March 9- Day Light Savings Time Ends (clocks spring forward an hour)
March 10- NO SCHOOL
- Missoula Children's Theater Auditions
March 11- HS Golf and Track Practice Begin
- MTCM Math Competition in Sidney
March 18- ASVAB
March 21- 5th-8th Music Festival in Froid
March 24- Jr. High Track Practice Begins
March 25- Jr. High Band Concert @ 7pm
March 26- HS Academic Olympics
March 39- PROM
April 3- 1pm Dismissal
End of Regular Season Basketball
by Bella Petersen
Friday, February 14th, the Cowgirls and Cowboys traveled to Bainville to play the Bulldogs for their last home game of the season.
The JV girls started the day off playing first. At halftime the Cowgirls were up 9-12. The final score was 26-25 the Bulldogs taking the game. The JV boys played the Bulldogs shortly after the girls. At halftime the Cowboys were winning with a score of 12-17. The Cowboys finished the game with a score of 21-29. Following the JV game was the Senior walk-out for the Bainville girls.
The Cowgirls played the first Varsity game of the night against the Bulldogs for their Senior Night. At halftime the Bulldogs had already taken a lead on the Cowgirls with a score of 22-8. At halftime Culbertson's Beau Becker made a half court shot, surprising all the fans. Finishing the game off strong the Cowgirls fell to the Bulldogs with a score of 51-18.
Following the Girls Varsity game was the Bainville Boys Senior walk-out then the start of the Varsity Boys warm-ups. At Halftime the Culbertson Boys were up 13-34. The Cowboys finished the night with a win; 41-57.
That Saturday, the Cowboys and Cowgirls played the MonDak Thunder. For the last home game of the season which was also Senior Night. The first game was the JV girls. The Cowgirls were up at halftime, and took the game with the final score of 49-24. The JV boys played next and the final score of their game was 37-11, the Cowboys winning.
After the JV games, the Girls Varsity played next. At halftime the Cowgirls were up 17-16 to the Thunder, The Cowgirls finished the game strong and won their first game of the season with the final score of 33-28. In between games the Star Quilt Ceremony was presented by Colin Purvis where he gave out two beautiful quilts. His first one went to Josue Mena, a classmate and friend as his, and his second to Mr. Solem, a teacher and coach.
The Boys Varsity played the final game of the night. At halftime the Cowboys were up 32-19.
At the beginning of halftime was the Culbertson Senior walk-out. Nine Seniors shared the floor for the last game of the night; Jazzmin Fugere, the captain of the Cheer team, Colin Purvis, Josue Mena, Reese Moon, Dawson Bergum, Mark Kirkaldie, Bridger Salvevold, Angel Burciaga, and Gavin Deen. The final score of the game was 72-39, the Cowboys taking the win.
District High School Basketball
by Bella Petersen
On Tuesday, January 28th the Cowboys and Cowgirls traveled to Poplar to play the Poplar Indians. The boys played the first games of the day due to changes in Class B school games.
Starting the day off was the Culbertson JV boys vs. the Poplar JV boys. At halftime the Cowboys were down by nine points; 30 to 21. The Poplar Indians took a good lead on the Cowboys in the beginning of the 4th quarter and finished the game with a score of 61-28.
The JV girls kicked off next against Poplar. 24-11 was the halftime score; the Cowgirls down. The final game score was 44-25, where the Poplar Indians took another win.
The Varsity boys started off strong. At halftime the Cowboys had the score of 24 points, but still the Poplar Indians had the lead with 31 points. The final score was 61-57, Poplar winning.
The Varsity girls finished the night off with the final game. The Cowgirls sadly couldn’t pull off the game and lost to the Poplar Indians.
On Friday, January 31st the Cowgirls and Cowboys played the Froid- Medicine Lake Redhawks in our home gym. Due to a short number of boys there was no game for the JV boys. The JV girls played first but lost with a score of 19-27.
Following was the Varsity Girls. The girls played well and finished the first half of the game with a score of 18-29. The RedHawks took the game and finished with the final score of 37-47; the Cowgirls losing by ten.
The Cowboys finished the night off with a win to the RedHawks by 50 points, making the final score was 76-27.
On Tuesday, February 4th our girls and boys traveled to Fairview to play the Warriors. With Fairview being a Class B school the Boys teams played first. There was no Girls JV game due to Fairview having a short amount of players.
The JV boys started the day off playing first. The Cowboys started off well with Kaden Featherston scoring in the first 5 seconds of the game. He was assisted by Cal Steppler. At halftime the Cowboys were down 13 to 18. They finished off the game with a score of 22-29.
The Varsity boys played the Fairview Warriors next. Starting off slow the Cowboys picked up some points and ended the first half of the game with a score of 17-19; Fairview winning. Starting the second half of the game the Cowboys were neck-and-neck with the Warriors. With multiple fouls in the fourth quarter that sent Fairview to the line our boys lost with a score of 43-39.
Finally the Cowgirls started the final game of the night. The Cowgirls came out strong looking for their first win. At halftime they were down 14-19. The Cowgirls sadly didn't pull off the win, and lost with a final score of 29-40.
On Friday, February 7th the Savage Warriors traveled to Culbertson to play the Cowgirls and Cowboys. The first game of the bay being the JV girls started at 3:30 p.m. The girls played four 4 minute quarters due to a short number of players. The Cowgirls lost by 2 points to the Warriors with the final score of 11-13.
The JV boys played a full game that started after the JV Cowgirls. At halftime the Cowboys were up with a score of 10-3. The Cowboys finished the game off strong and won with a score of 31-20.
The Varsity Girls played the third game of the night against the Savage Warriors. At halftime the Cowgirls were down with a score of 7-15. The Savage girls took the game, and won by 12 points; 24-36.
The Cowboys finished off the night with a good game against Savage Warriors. At halftime our boys were up 26-18. Winning to the Savage Warriors the Cowboys finished with a score of 50-40.
On Saturday, February 8th the Culbertson teams traveled to Brockton to play the Warriors. The JV girls started the day off strong, but still sadly fell to the Warriors. The Cowgirls lost by 5 points with the final score being 34-39.
JV boys started shortly after. At Halftime the Cowboys were down 13-19. The boys came back and won with a score of 36-27.
Playing the Warriors next were our Varsity Cowgirls. At halftime the Cowgirls were down 16 to 28. The Brockton Warriors won with 54 points and the cowgirls finished with 41.
The Cowboys finished the night off against the Warriors. It was a tense game with both teams taking turns having a lead on the other. But at halftime the Warriors and Cowboys were tied at 30 points. In the 4th quarter the Brockton Warriors were in the lead and ended up winning 64-55.
- It is impossible for most people to lick their own elbow. (try it!)
- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
- A shrimp's heart is in its head.
- It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
- The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is believed to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
- If you sneeze too hard, you could fracture a rib.
- Wearing headphones for just an hour could increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
- In the course of an average lifetime, while sleeping you might eat around 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders, or more.
- Some lipsticks contain fish scales.
