Benton MS/HS

Girls Wrestling 2022 Apparel is now available to you to order. Store closes October 22, 2022. Thank you for your support. #BeABobcat #APlaceToBelong Update: For those still interested in purchasing apparel, we have added a coach pick-up to the order so you will not have to pay for shipping.

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Courtesy of Jim Magdefrau #BeABobcat #APlaceToBelong 2022 Iowa High School Cross Country State Qualifying Meet Assignments CLASS 1A - 4 p.m., Thursday, October 20 SOUTH HARDIN Belle Plaine BCLUW, Conrad Dunkerton East Buchanan East Marshall GMG, Garwin HLV, Victor Janesville Meskwaki Settlement Newell-Fonda North Butler, Greene North Linn North Tama South Hardin Tri-County, Thornburg Tripoli Valley Lutheran, Cedar Falls Wapsie Valley Waterloo Christian CLASS 3A - 4 p.m., Wednesday, October 19 PELLA Ballard Benton Community Bondurant-Farrar Carlisle Des Moines, Hoover Grinnell Iowa Falls-Alden/AGWSR Knoxville Nevada Newton Oskaloosa Pella Winterset

All Middle School Cross Country Runners: check your emails for a reminder from coach Cochrane about uniform turn in and a team outing on Thursday after school. #BeABobcat #APlaceToBelong

Homecoming Pictures: If you ordered Homecoming pictures they are ready to be picked up in the Activities Office.

Benton Community Art Club, will be hosting our Annual Blood Drive on Thursday, November 3rd from 10:15 to 3, in the IMC. In order to be eligible to donate, you must be at least 16 years of age, and weigh 110 lbs. All Benton students are required to have a signed parental consent form to donate, regardless of age. See Mr. Patterson in the Art Room, to sign up for a donation time, receive a parental consent form, or if you simply have any questions about the Drive.

Kasey Hullett is in his fifth year of teaching and second year at Benton. Kasey teaches Composition I & II, as well as Sophomore English—he is also the advisor for the D&D Club. Kasey is currently working on his second book, a YA novel titled "The Creatures of Misty Meadows".

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HS Girls Soccer: There will be a meeting on Thursday during 5th block in Coach Trainer’s room for all girls that are interested in playing soccer in the spring. If you can’t be there, please talk to Coach ahead of time.

Classroom and Passing Time Reminders: ● Students will be dismissed AFTER the Bells Ring! There will be no more leaving before the bell. ● No blankets are to be brought to class. Blankets are defined by 3x5 or 5x8 piece of cloth that keeps you warm and has no clothing designation. ● Lunch shift dismissals will also work off the bell. Students leaving early will be sent back. ○ "A" Lunch is dismissed from Lunch Room at 11:38 - WHEN THE BELL RINGS ○ MS Lunch is dismissed from Lunch Room at 12:21 - WHEN THE BELL RINGS ○ "C" Lunch is dismissed from Lunch Room at 1:05 - WHEN THE BELL RINGS. ● No Food from the Student Center is to be eaten in the hallway. Food needs to be consumed in the Student Center.

Courtesy of Jim Magdefrau #BeABobcat #APlaceToBelong Bobcats get big road win at Davenport Friday, Oct. 7, 2022, at Davenport Benton (5-2) 28, Assumption (2-5) 14 BC 14 7 7 0 – 28 DA 0 0 7 7 – 14 Benton’s Aidan Gallery was 8 of 11 for passing with 100 yards. Sam Wallace had five catches for 47 yards. Easton Pfiffner had two catches for 26 yards. Will Shaw had one catch for 27 yards. Benton rushed 334 yards. Carson Bruns had 38 carries for 243 yards and four touchdowns, including a 16-yard touchdown run. Gallery had 14 carries for 84 yards. Easton Pfiffner had 8.0 total tackles. Will Shaw had 1.5 sacks. Noah Franck had one sack. Brennen Blegen had 0.5 sacks. Sam Wallace had one kickoff return for five yards. Dylan LeFebvere had two returns for 55 yards. Easton Pfiffner had one punt return for four yards. Nathan Rottman had five kickoffs for 2-9 yards, and was 4 of 4 for points after touhdown. Assumption had 135 yards passing and 131 yards rushing. District 3A-4 scores Oct. 7, 2022 Central DeWitt 24, Vinton-Shellsburg 0 Mount Vernon 49, Maquoketa 7 Benton 28, Assumption 14 Oct. 14, 2022 Central DeWitt at Mount Vernon Maquoketa at Benton Assumption at Vinton-Shellsburg Standings Overall, District, point difference average Mount Vernon 7-0 3-0 31.9 Benton 5-2 2-1 9.1 Central DeWitt 5-2 2-1 14.9 Assumption 2-5 1-2 7.7 Vinton-Shellsburg 2-5 2-1 1.3 Maquoketa 1-6 0-3 -24.3

Courtesy of Jim Magdefrau #BeABobcat #APlaceToBelong Lady Bobcats travel to CPU tourney Center Point-Urbana tournament Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022, at Center Point Columbus (11-23) 2, Benton (16-20) 0 WC 25 30 – 2 BC 19 28 – 0 Mabry Sadler had 16 assists for Benton. Brooke DeRycke added 10. The team had 30 kills in 102 attempts with 16 errors. Addison Phillips had 14 kills. Piper Nelson added 11. Nelson had 16 digs. Olivia Janss had 14. The team was 45 of 48 for serves with two aces, one each from from Janss and Sadler. Phillips was 10 of 10. Kennedy Donald was 9 of 9. Janss and DeRycke were 7 of 7 each. Solon (21-9) 2, Benton 0 BC 8 13 – 0 S 21 21 - 2 Emma Townsley had 10 assists. Benton had 12 kills in 53 attempts with eight errors. With six each were Phillips and Nelson. With seven digs each were Janss and Sadler. The team was 19 of 22 for serves with one ace from Addison Phillips. Nelson was 4 of 4. Assumption (24-5) 2, Benton 0 BC 8 11 - 0 DA 21 21 – 2 Sadler had four assists. The team had eight kills in 32 attempts with four errors. With three kills each were Phillips and Nelson. The team was 18 of 20 for serves with one ace from Nelson. Janss was 6 of 6. Phillips was 5 of 5. Benton 2, Waterloo West (9-18) 1 BC 20 21 15 – 2 WW 22 19 11 – 1 DeRycke had 14 assists. Sadler added eight. Benton had 30 kills in 94 attempts with 12 errors. Phillips had 12 kills and Nelson added 10. Nelson also had 15 digs. Benton was 52 of 53 for serves with two aces from Nelson. Philips was 10 of 10. Jenna Twedt was 9 of 9. Benton has WaMaC tourney action this Thursday, Oct. 13, at Mount Vernon.

Courtesy of Jim Magdefrau #BeABobcat #APlaceToBelong Benton cross country teams run at North Linn North Linn Lynx Invitational Troy Mills Saturday, Oct 8, 2022 Varsity girls 1 Solon 57 2 Williamsburg 60 3 Washington 76 4 Tipton 87 5 Hudson 137 6 North Linn Csd 162 7 Iowa City Regina 178 8 Marion 186 9 Grundy Center / Gladbrook 272 10 Vinton Shellsburg 329 11 Benton Community 329 12 Alburnett 333 Benton varsity girls 55 Gwen King, 12 22:42 65 Delaney Lohrer, 12 23:57 68 Haiden Moore, 10 24:45 70 Emma Schwake, 12 25:03 71 Lizzy Wolf, 9 25:05 Varsity boys 1 Marion 73 2 Solon 81 3 Tipton 120 4 Grundy Center / Gladbrook 124 5 Iowa City Regina 127 6 Vinton Shellsburg 129 7 Washington 134 8 Williamsburg 172 9 North Linn Csd 267 10 Benton Community 278 11 Starmont West Central 292 12 Maquoketa Valley 293 13 Hudson 332 14 Alburnett 393 15 Independence 433 Benton varsity boys 33 Isaac Morris, 11 17:43 5:42 41 Caleb Olson, 9 17:52 65 Blake Daugherty, 12 18:41 69 Luke Lange, 10 19:07 70 Marcus Ricklefs, 11 19:12 74 Brandon Schultz, 12 19:17 76 Evan Daugherty, 12 19:29

October 10-14 is National School Lunch Week. Thank you to our Food Service workers for providing our students nutritious meals every school day! #BeABobcat #APlaceToBelong

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Girls Wrestling Meeting: There will be a girls wrestling meeting on Wednesday, October 12 during 5th Block in Coach Hoeck’s room. If you can’t attend the meeting, please talk to Coach Hoeck before the meeting.

Ashley Jones is in her sixth year teaching and third year at Benton. Ashley teaches 7th grade language arts and one section of senior English. Over the summer Ashley got married and went to Hawaii for her honeymoon.

MS Student Council: There will be a middle school student council meeting Friday during 5th block. The meeting will be in Mrs. Jones' room.

FCCLA: If you are interested in FCCLA there will be a meeting next Tuesday October 11th at 3:00pm in room 212. If you have any questions please email bfox@benton.k12.ia.us or grnorton24@benton.k12.ia.us