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when ty dixon graduated rolla high school in 2017, the national honor society student hadn’t formed a clear plan for his future. “fa*ming?” he recalls. “that’s what i was thinking about. i was going to study agronomy and become a crop consultant. i was kind of lost, honestly — after living in the moment as a high school student, playing basketball. now i was thinking, ‘what am i going to dixon’s interest “kind of fizzled out” after he talked to people in his rural community, who counseled him to pursue a career that since childhood, dixon had hoped to follow his father’s example — work in oil and gas, and run cattle — “but he always preached to me that he didn’t care what i did, as long as i got some schooling,” he said. father and son had seen firsthand the toll that work in the oil patch could take on a person’s body, and how a person can “hit his pinnacle” in terms of advancement. “he told me, ‘don’t be that guy who can’t move up because you don’t have a degree,’” dixon said. “i figured i better listen dixon enrolled in the corrosion tech program at sccc and discovered something completely unexpected: intellectual engagement. “in high school, you don’t get to choose what you learn, and i was so bored,” dixon said. “teachers almost ruined reading for me, with the whole accelerated reading system and the points, and when i got here, for the first time in a long time, i was able to come to clas*, get technical knowledge, do something with my hands, see the outcomes … i love it.”. greenhouse. thursday, the saints battled no. 12 snow college in mesa, ariz., and came away with a 76-71 win to move to 10-2 on the season. after a nearly two week break from action, the seward county men's basketball kept their hot hand, defeating their second straight ranked opponent, downing the no. 12 snow badgers 76-71 to open the fiesta bowl junior college shootout. seward came out firing, drilling their first four shots as they took a 10-4 lead. the badgers were head the first six minutes without a field