Winner Teeners broke a 7-7 tie to go on and defeat Valentine, Neb., 8-7 Monday, June 8 in Winner.
The Winner varsity Teener team was down 5-1 and came back and tied the game at 7-7. In the bottom of the sixth inning, Winner scored a run to go ahead 8-7 and held Valentine in the seventh inning.
Nick Lantz was the winning pitcher.
Platte defeated the Winner/Colome Legion baseball team 16-2 on June 9 at Leahy Bowl.
Platte took an early 8-0 lead after two innings.
“This game was not indicative of the way we normally should play but it’s a long season and there may be some games like this along the way,” said coach Drew Weber. “We were throwing some inexperienced pitchers and I thought they did a decent job with all things considered. We couldn’t really get anything going from the plate but that is due more to their pitching than our hitting. We’ll bounce back and get things turned around,” said Weber.
The Winner/Colome and South Central amateur baseball teams have each joined new leagues this season after the Rosebud TMT League disbanded due to a lack of teams.
“We ended up with just two teams in the Rosebud League and both teams still wanted to play, so we decided to split up,” said Winner/Colome coach Kevin Graesser.
“The Sunshine League allowed us to join their league and are very appreciative of that,” said Graesser.
With Winner/Colome joining the Sunshine League, the league is up to nine teams. They include Mitchell Mad Dogs, Parkston Mudcats, Parkston Bullheads, Alexandria, Dimock-Emery, Corsica/Stickney, Platte and Mount Vernon.
“No matter where we play, we are going to have to travel,” said Graesser.
The Pheasants finished second to Alexandria in the 2013 Class B state championship played in Sioux Falls.
Edward R. Kahler was born February 1, 1926 to Jake and Mollie (Neuharth) Kahler on a farm south of Burke, SD. After grade school, he attended Burke High School.
On June 11, 1939 Ed was confirmed at the Carlock Lutheran Church. His sister and his future wife Louise were in his confirmation class.
In 1944 Ed joined the Army and was sent to the Philippine Islands. He was with the 31st Infantry Division in the mountains of Mindanoa as a First Scout. Ed received the Combat Infantry Badge, the Bronze Star, Philippine Liberation ribbon, and other ribbons. He also served on the islands of Leyte and Guam. Ed was honorably discharged on November 4, 1946 having attained the rank of Sergeant.
On June 29, 1947 Ed was married to Louise Lindwurm and in September of 1947 they moved to Winner. Ed and Louise had three children—Ronald, Roxine, and Cheryl. Ed managed the meat market at the Crossroads grocery store and became involved with a corporation to expand into grocery stores. The first store for the corporation was the Outlaw in Winner. The corporation had grown to eight grocery stores when in 1968 Ed decided to buy Coast to Coast Hardware in Gregory. So he sold his portion in the grocery stores. Louise and the children also worked with Ed at the hardware store. In 1979 he bought the Coast to Coast store in Wagner in which his son Ron and wife Linda managed and co-owned the store.
Ed served on the Gregory Hospital board for 21 years.
Ed and Louise retired on January 31, 1988. The children continued to run the Coast to Coast stores for a few years.
After retiring Ed went back to hobbies he had as a teenager—woodworking and fishing. He took a short course in stained glass and enjoyed that for many years. Ed designed, built, and installed the stained glass windows in the Grace Lutheran Church.
In February of 1988 Ed and Louise started going south to the Rio Grande Valley in Texas for the winters. They both enjoyed living in the Valley. In the summer they enjoyed fishing and camping on the Missouri River.
Ed passed away June 11, 2015 at Avera Gregory Hospital at the age of 89.
Area students have been named to the spring semester dean’s list at Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell.
Named to the dean’s list are: Michael Rohde, Colome; Austin Calhoon, Lindsey Calhoon, Anthony Husher, Sara Husher and Tyler Vavra, all of Winner.
Rohde is a junior majoring in biology; Austin Calhoon is a junior majoring in mathematics education; Lindsey Calhoon, is a freshman.
Anthony Husher is a junior majoring in biology and Sara Husher is a freshman majoring in biology.
Vavra is a junior majoring in accounting.
Winner students have been named to the spring semester dean’s list at Black Hills State University.
Named to the list are: Bridget Aeschbacher, Lorrin Anderson, Ben Connot, Ethan Engel, Nathan Naasz, Samantha Patmore, Shayna Storms, all of Winner.
By Dana Hess
For S.D. Newspaper Association
PIERRE, S.D. — The South Dakota High School Activities Association’s transgender policy is going through more changes than Bruce Jenner.
At its June meeting, the association board of directors considered a revised policy designed to address concerns expressed during the last legislative session.
“We really kind of focused on what we heard from the Legislature,” said SDHSAA Executive Director Wayne Carney.
During the legislative session the association’s policy governing the eligibility of transgender students to take part in high school sports and activities was targeted by conservative lawmakers. Attempts to pass state laws superseding the association policy were unsuccessful.
The current policy allows students who self-identify as belonging to the opposite sex to compete with that sex if certain criteria are met.
SDHSAA legal counsel Lindsey Riter-Rapp said lawmakers questioned the credentials of the Gender Identification Eligibility Committee that would be used in the current policy. The committee is to include a physician familiar with gender identity health care, a mental health professional and an advocate familiar with gender identity issues and expression issues.
Some lawmakers believed “there may be some bias in their perspective,” Riter-Rapp said
In the revised policy, the eligibility committee has been replaced by an independent hearing officer. Carney said a former judge has agreed to serve in that capacity.
The revised policy states that once a school has forwarded the proper documentation about a transgender student’s request to compete, the hearing officer would review that information as well as communicate with experts, review laws, communicate with the Department of Education and the Office for Civil Rights and review other information.
The hearing officer’s decision would be passed on to the SDHSAA board of directors, which would make the final decision. Board members asked that the policy be changed to follow current eligibility proceedings with a decision by the executive director and the board hearing any appeal.
This was not the first choice of Carney who clearly didn’t want to have the final say on transgender matters
“This is very unique,” Carney said, “This is way out of my realm.”
During the discussion, board members also asked Riter-Rapp to include a more thorough explanation of the hearing officer’s qualifications.
Board member Sandy Klatt questioned the perception of bias on the part of the association if it was picking the hearing officer.
Carney said the SDHSAA staff hear comments about bias all the time, particularly in dealing with the selection of officials for state tournaments.
“We hear the bias card a lot,” Carney said. “Somebody has to name that person. It has to start somewhere.”
The activities association isn’t the only education group struggling with transgender issues. Wade Pogany, executive director of the Associated School Boards of South Dakota, told the board that his group will likely issue a position paper about how to work with schools on this issue.
“The issue comes down to privacy issues” like setting policies for the use of restrooms and locker rooms, Pogany said.
The SDHSAA policy addresses student eligibility and Pogany agreed that it would be best to let each individual school work on its own privacy issues.
“Let the schools decide how they’re going to make those accommodations,” Pogany said.
Throughout the discussion, SDHSAA board members expressed their frustration with the transgender policy
Board member Dan Whalen said he understood the need to have a policy since case law is trending toward giving transgender students a protected status.
“This legal ship has sailed,” Whalen said. “I just hope the name of the ship is not Titanic.”
Whalen said he was concerned about safety issues if a male student who identifies as a female were to compete against female students.
“It becomes a physical issue there,” Whalen said, noting that in football practice coaches are already advised not to line a 140-pound freshman up against a 225-pound senior. He said it would be dangerous for a 150-pound female to play against a 150-pound male.
The revised policy does mention that transgender students would not be allowed to compete if their participation would provide them with a competitive advantage.
Riter-Rapp said safety issues were discussed in the writing of the revised policy.
“It was very hard to come up with language that addressed that,” Riter-Rapp said. “It’s just hard to define.”
At one point, Klatt suggested scrapping the current policy and taking a look at the revised policy at the next meeting.
Noting the heat that the board has taken from the Legislature, Klatt said, “I think we need to get rid of what we have.”
Board member Todd Trask agreed: “I think we need to start over and get it right.”
Aberdeen Central Athletic Director Gene Brownell cautioned against getting rid of the current policy, saying that he knows there are transgender students enrolled in his school district and he needs a policy in place if any of them want to participate in sports.
“We may have to apply this policy in August,” Brownell said, “if they’re coming out for a sport in the fall.”
The current policy will remain in place and Riter-Rapp was directed to continue with her revisions of the new policy and present them at the board’s August meeting.
Anthony Husher of Winner was one of 11 Dakota Wesleyan University athletes named Daktronics-NAIA scholar athletes for the spring semester.
Husher was the recipient from the DWU men’s golf team.
Gov. Dennis Daugaard has appointed former state legislator Kim Vanneman of Ideal to the South Dakota Transportation Commission.
Vanneman replaces former Commissioner Bob Benson of Winner whose term expired in April.
Vanneman and her husband own and operate a diversified farming operation including row crops, small grains, finishing feeder pigs and a commercial beef cow herd.
Vanneman is a former member of the South Dakota House of Representatives serving from 2008 through 2012. During her time in the legislature, she was appointed to two legislative summer study committees to examine highway funding and Department of Transportation.
By Dana Hess
For S.D. Newspaper Association
PIERRE, S.D. — If you’re going to a South Dakota High School Activities Association-sanctioned state tournament, leave your drone at home.
At its June meeting, the SDHSAA board of directors passed the first reading of a policy prohibiting unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones, from flying at any association-sanctioned state tournament.
“At state events we are not going to allow them,” said SDHSAA Executive Director Wayne Carney. “If you want to use it at your own event, that’s fine.”
Information provided to the board questioned the legality of the use of drones under Federal Aviation Administration rules as well as privacy issues and liability issues in case of an injury.
The policy states that at state tournaments drones will be banned from flying over all fields of play, courts, arena, mats, gym floor or pool as well as spectator and parking areas.
An exception to the policy can be made for the association’s broadcast partners.
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