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A farming family brought luck to a school

Times file photo Black Hawk senior Melissa Wellnitz will make her third trip to state this week. She has played all of her high school years with at least one of her sisters, Aryn, Kim and Jen. The Wellnitz family moved to the Black Hawk School District years ago from Clinton.

Times file photo Black Hawk senior Melissa Wellnitz will make her third trip to state this week. She has played all of her high school years with at least one of her sisters, Aryn, Kim and Jen. The Wellnitz family moved to the Black Hawk School District years ago from Clinton.

Mark Nesbitt

Posted: March 23, 2011, 12:17 p.m.

SOUTH WAYNE - It's ironic how the ball bounces in basketball. Black Hawk senior Melissa Wellnitz and her freshman sister Jen Wellnitz could have ended up playing basketball for Argyle or Clinton. When the Wellnitz family moved from Clinton into the Black Hawk School District several years ago, they considered the Argyle School District. Black Hawk has been a perfect fit for the Wellnitz family.

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