<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2tMRvL_1FfGQ2TX00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2tMRvL_1FfGQ2TX00" width="950" height="899" ><figcaption>Members of the Pipestone Area Marching Arrows perform during the Big Sioux Review in Brandon on Saturday, Sept. 26. They’ll compete next on Saturday, Oct. 3 at the Festival of Bands in Sioux Falls. Photo by Kyle Kuphal</figcaption></figure>Rain began to fall shortly before the Pipestone Area Marching Arrows took the field at the Big Sioux Review at Brandon Valley High School on Saturday, Sept. 26 and continued throughout their performance. The band finished their performance wet, but successful, placing second out of six bands in Class A.Senior Brady Dunn said the rain definitely had an impact on the band. “At least for snare drums and then my quads, the water sits on the drum, so what I was playing was really muffled,” he said immediately after the performance. “I could definitely feel it doing the taps out to the field and to our positions.” Dunn said the rain also made the surface more slippery to march on and obscured the vision of those who wore glasses. Event staff actually called a 30-minute rain delay shortly after the Arrows’ performance. Director Zach Ploeger said Monday morning that Luverne was scheduled to take the field after the Arrows, but ended up waiting in the rain to take the field and then waiting for a half hour inside before taking the field in wet uniforms.“I don’t know who had it worse there, but it certainly wasn’t great to be performing in the rain and everybody else getting to perform dry,” Ploeger said. The Arrows were scheduled to compete at the Tri-State Band Festival in Luverne earlier in the day, but that competition was canceled due to rain. Dunn said that threw off the schedule a bit and shortened what is typically an exhausting day with the parade in Luverne in the morning, the field show in Luverne in the afternoon, and then the field competition in Brandon in the evening. The Arrows have now stacked consecutive strong performances, having performed well the previous weekend at the Waseca Marching Classic where they took first in Class A in both the parade and field competitions. Ploeger said he didn’t think the recent success was a fluke. “It feels like the years of progress are starting to show up on the score sheet, which is great,” Ploeger said. “It’s something that the kids can see — that our strategy of doing our best every day, every practice, every competition is paying off.” On Saturday, Oct. 3, the Marching Arrows will compete at the Festival of Bands in Sioux Falls. Ploeger said the band will perform in the parade competition at about 9:14 a.m. and will be one of six bands in Class AA. The parade route will be in downtown Sioux Falls on Phillips Avenue, starting on 12th Street and ending on Sixth Street. After the parade, the Arrows will head to Howard Wood Field at 1200 N. Western Ave. for the field competition. They’ll be one of five bands in Class AA and are scheduled to take the field at 12:15 p.m. Later in the day, the top 10 bands will compete during the finals beginning at 7 p.m. Ploeger said he thought the Arrows had a chance to make the finals for the first time in several years, but that they will face some tough competition, including Lennox and West Central, which are also in Class AA. Both of those bands have outscored the Arrows this year, including in Brandon. </div></body>

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Rain began to fall shortly before the Pipestone Area Marching Arrows took the field at the Big Sioux Review at Brandon Valley High School on Saturday, Sept. 26 and continued throughout their performance. The band finished their performance wet, but successful, placing second out of six bands in Class A.

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Rain began to fall shortly before the Pipestone Area Marching Arrows took the field at the Big Sioux Review at Brandon Valley High School on Saturday, Sept

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