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Vince Lopez and fellow members of the Winters High School band are among
the many music students throughout the district who will benefit from
funds raised at next month’s “Grand Night of Singing.”
Tickets for the Feb. 24 a capella concert are available at Shirley Rominger
Intermediate School, Winters Middle School, Winters High School and Pacific
Ace Hardware.
Photo by Debra Hemenway
Event
benefits
music programs
By DEBBIE HEMENWAY
Staff writer
Perhaps best described as “Glee meets The Sing-Off,” this
year’s annual fundraiser for music in Winters schools will feature
an evening of “singing, dancing and vocal excitement,” says
music teacher Lynne Secrist.
The official title of the benefit is “A Grand Night of Singing,”
and the Community Center will be filled with voices from the schools,
the community and beyond on Friday, Feb. 24, at 7:30 p.m.
Representing the Winters schools will be choral groups from Shirley Rominger
and Winters Middle Schools, under Secrist’s direction, and Winters
High School, led by teacher Tania Mannion.
“I’m really excited about my group,” says Mannion, “and
they’re excited too. We have some really talented soloists.”
Octapella, an adult vocal group that meets in Winters weekly, will add
their “love of singing” to the mix.
In what promises to be the highlight of the evening, four groups from
UC Davis have volunteered their time to round out the program. Fresh off
a major competition at the university, they will be “at their best,”
says Secrist. Mannion describes the Davis groups as “awesome.”
They include “The Spokes,” an all women’s group; the
all male “Afterglow”; and “One Note Stand” and
“The Liquid Hotplates,” two mixed groups. . . .
Sarah
Kimes goes up for a layup during a recent Lady Warriors basketball game.
Photo by Mikenna Sims
Opperman leads
girls team to two wins
By ERIC LUCERO
Express sports
Baylee Opperman scored 22 and 21 points in the Lady Warriors’
last two games to help lead Winters to victory over both opponents.
Winters hosted Gridley on Tuesday, Jan. 24, and picked up a 64-48 Butte
View League victory over the Bulldogs.
Winters put on a dominating performance in the first half and played
solid in the second.
Opperman scored 22 points to lead the Lady Warriors. Maddy Cooper scored
10 points, Jaqui Plasencia scored seven points, Sarah Kimes scored six
points and Emma Young scored four points.
On Friday, Jan. 27, the Warriors traveled to Sutter and came home with
an impressive 51-38 victory.
Opperman again led the Warriors with 21 points, Kimes scored 11, Ashlynne
Neil scored eight and Plasencia scored seven, while Cooper and Young
each scored two points for the Lady Warriors.
Warriors win two,
lose two on the court
Geerts continues
to lead the Northern
Section in scoring
By ERIC LUCERO
Express sports
The Winters Warriors varsity boys basketball team hosted the Dixon Rams
on Tuesday, Jan. 14, and suffered a 78-56 non-league game loss. A slow
offensive start put the Warriors in a hole they couldn’t get out
of.Skyler Geerts showed why he leads the Northern Section in scoring,
putting 26 points on the board to lead the Warriors. John Botro scored
11 points, Henry Nicholson scored five points, Eli Layne and T.J. Anderson
each scored four points, Chris Mayes scored three and Keli Callison
scored one point. . . .
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