LMS Competitions Bring out the Best!

Taylor Krakar wins the school-wide Geo Bee and LMS Spelling Bee finalists get to compete at the Kaw Valley Spelling Bee!

7th grade boys basketball looks to KU for Inspiration By Ilani Mann

Basketball for the 7th grade boys this year has been intense and exciting. This is their first year playing for the school and facing more challenging competition. When asked what’s your favorite thing about playing for LMS, Kade Randall said “playing,” and Ryan Jaqua commented, “[I like] shooting!”
With Kansas being such a basketball-crazed state, it seems the team could not help but look up to some of the stars at nearby KU and K-State. Some of the team members were asked their favorite college players. Graham Forrester replied, “Josh Selby- he’s a beast.” Sam Twitchel said “Marcus Morris.” Kyle Verhaeg said “Josh Selby- he’s the bomb,” Ethan Woods said “Marcus Morris- he’s awesome.”
Good luck for the remainder of your season, basketball players!

Girls Basketball Pictures

Lady Lions Basketball finishes off a great season! By Celester Vanhoozier

Girls Basketball has done especially well this season. The 7th Grade has won a total of 14 of 18 games (not counting tournaments) since the season started. Many of the girls that played this year adapted very well to playing for the school since they have never done it before. I interviewed one girl from each team (A or B) and each grade about how they thought the season went, who they think the toughest team was, and what their favorite moment was in the entire season.



(Chelsea Stelter 7th A) “The season went totally freakin' amazing. The toughest school would probably be Piper. My fave [moment] would be when Sierra scored the winning point in overtime against Clark.”

(Cynthia Ferguson 7th B) “The season went very well because we lost only one game. The toughest team would probably be Mill Creek. And I loved playing my friends for Tongie.”

(Kija Commock 8th A) “This season went very good. Piper was the toughest team in my book. My best moment was when I was shooting free throws and everybody laughed.”

(Dani Harvey 8th B) “We worked very hard this season. Just like Kija I thought Piper was the toughest. My fave moment was when Kija knocked out somebody from Mill Creek.”



As we can see it’s been an amazing season this year for both 7th and 8th girls. Many girls can’t wait ‘til next year. Sadly this year’s 8th graders will be beginning their first year as high schoolers. Hopefully they will play throughout high school and then college. Our 7th graders will have tougher competition next year, so get ready!

Google vs. YAHOO! Which do you think is better? By Mekayla DePaolis

People have debated over it for years, Google or YAHOO!? Some people say Google is better because most people use it as a verb, as in “Oh, I’ll just Google that.” Well our LMS students weighed in and these are the outcomes:

Google: 339

YAHOO!: 66

When asked why they liked one or the other these students/teachers answered:

Google: ~ Shelby Ogden, “It’s just way better.”

~Devan Johnson, “Google has more variety.”

~Mr.Hoffman, “It’s fast and I like the new search function”

~Claire Jacobs, “Google reminds me of google-ly eyes and I like google-ly eyes.Yahoo sounds like a yodel and yodelers scare me.



Yahoo: ~Mr.Carmichael, “I don’t know I just do it’s really awesome.”

~Raina Perez, “I don’t know, I think because it’s fun to say Yahoo.”



Wow a lot of LMS students have weird reasons to like Google or Yahoo. By far Google seems to rule LMS but some kids asked about Bing. Does Google have better competition than Yahoo to worry about?

Waffles vs. Pancakes by Hannah Dean

We took a poll from LMS students on WAFFLES VS. PANCAKES. Which one is better?
And these are the results………………..

WaFfLeS: ~~~~~~ 86

PAnCAKeS:~~~~~~~ 73

So in honor of waffles winning, I found the most amazing Waffle recipe EVER!!!! It’s called

Chocolate Brownie Waffles (from mrbreakfast.com)

* 1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
* 3 tbsp unsweetened cocoa
* 1/3 cup chopped walnuts
* 1 and 3/4 cups pancake mix
* 2 tbsp sugar
* 3 tbsp vegetable oil
* 1 and 1/3 cups water
* Heat waffle iron to its medium setting.
In a medium-sized mixing bowl, sift together the pancake mix, walnuts, chocolate chips, cocoa and sugar.
Add water and oil; mix with wire whisk just until large lumps disappear. Let batter rest for at least 5 minutes.
Pour desired amount of batter into well greased waffle iron. Bake until indicator light goes off or until the steam stops.

Wrestling Team Starts off with Success!