Winner/Colome Legion baseball team defeated Platte 3-0 in 11 innings June 26 in Platte.
“This was one of the best Legion games I have seen in a long time,” said coach Drew Weber. “Both teams were solid defensively,” added the coach.
Reed Harter started on the mound and pitched 9 scoreless innings giving up 4 hits, 6 walks and striking out 8.
Kelly O’Bryan came in and picked up the win in relief.
Winner Teeners defeated Rapid City Risers 13-10 in game Sunday at Leahy Bowl.
Carter Brickman was the winning pitcher. Leading hitters were Cale Meiners and Riley Calhoon each with 2 singles.
On Thursday, the Teeners defeated Onida 12-7. Meiners was the winning pitcher.
On Friday in Gregory, Winner won 7-5. Ty Bolton was the winning pitcher.
Winner Lightning participated in the Oahe Power Surge fastpitch softball tournament in Pierre June 27-28.
Winner was one of six teams in the 10U division. The Winner team took second place.
The first day featured Winner playing three pool play games. They took on Rapid City Dynamite to start the tournament and Winner won 7-3. Winner beat Pierre Blue Bombers 17-5.
Winner defeated Pierre Yellow Bombers 21-5.
The second day Winner played Mitchell Adrenaline and Winner won 17-3 to make it into the championship game. The championship featured the Lightning against the Pierre Fireballs. Winner lost 10-4.
Melanie Brozik and Rylee Root received player of the game awards.
Winner Lightning finished the season with 11 wins, 3 losses and 1 tie.
They will play in the South Dakota state ASA softball tournament July 10-12 in Sioux Falls.
Winner/Colome amateur baseball team was defeated by Gregory 2-0 on July 4 in Gregory.
Jon Hanson was the losing pitcher.
Derek Graesser led the Pheasants with a double in the seven inning game.
Winner/Colome Legion baseball team defeated Tabor 17-7 by the 10 run rule Sunday afternoon at Leahy Bowl. The game ended in the seventh inning. The Royals bats were as hot as the temperature at the team scored 7 runs early in the game. Reed Harter threw a complete game giving up seven runs (5 earned) on 5 hits, 6 walks and 7 strikeouts.
On the 4th of July in Gregory, Winner/Colome defeated Gregory 9-3. Landon Engel earned the win on the mound. He pitched 7 innings giving up 3 runs on 4 hits, 4 walks and 6 strikeouts.
In a game on June 30, Tabor defeated Winner/Colome 14-4. Engel took the loss on the mound pitching 5 innings and giving up 11 runs on 10 hits, 2 walks and 1 strikeout.
Valentine, Neb., got by Winner/Colome 11-8 in the first game of a double header July 1 at Leahy Bowl. Biggins took the loss on the mound.
In the second game, Valentine defeated Winner/Colome 12-2. Jordan Turgeon took the loss on the mound. In batting, Turgeon had 2 singles and Engel had a double.
Winner varsity Teeners defeated Mission 4-3 Monday, June 29, at Leahy Bowl.
On June 27, the Teeners lost to Parkston 8-6. Ty Bolton was the losing pitcher. Cale Meiners was the leading hitter.
In the second game played on June 27, Winner lost to Corsica 3-2. Carter Brickman was the losing pitcher. Rhys Middlesworth was the leading hitter.
On Sunday, June 28, Winner defeated Bon Homme 12-8. Winner scored 11 runs in the 7th inning to win the game. The team was down 8-1 before their big inning.
Meiners was the winning pitcher.
Audra Vogt was born June 4, 1967 to Don and Joanie Vogt. She received her education in Winner, where she graduated in 1985. She later attended Mount Marty College in Yankton.
Audra was very proud of her three daughters Melissa, MaCallie and Shambraea. She had the biggest heart and you could always find her in the kitchen making the most amazing things and family and friends were the fortunate ones to enjoy her masterpieces.
This was a wonderful life, full of hope and promise, ended far too short. While we are sad to see her go, we are relieved that her struggle is over and now she is at peace.
Survivors include her beautiful daughters: Melissa, MaCallie and Shambraea Bettcher, loving parents Don and Joanie Vogt, sister, Sonya (Steve) Clark, nephew Kade Clark. Audra is also survived by numerous aunts, uncles and cousins and close friend George Hysell.
Preceding her in death were her grandparents Lena and Henry Vogt, Audrey (Hansen) Clubb, Kenneth Osberg, and uncle Kenny Wayne Osberg.
Leitha was born March 12, 1931, in Dallas, SD, to William A. and mabel (Cornemann) Brown. She was educated in various county grade schools and graduated from Gregory High School in Gregory, SD. She married Vernon B. Drey on October 24, 1949 in Gregory. He died October 8, 1987. Leitha was first employed by Graham’s Furniture Store in Gregory. After moving to Morrison, she worked for Dr. Curt Gronner, DDS. Then, along with her husband, she owned and operated Drey’s Liquor Store in Morrison. Most recently she worked at General Electric in Morrison, retiring in 1991. Following retirement she worked at Christian Care in Rock Falls, IL. Leitha was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Morrison, and the church’s Altar and Rosary Sodality. She was also a member of the GEM Club and the Morrison Music Theater Association. She enjoyed baking, cooking, sewing craft shows, participating in card clubs, hosting family gathering and attending grandchildren’s events. Memorials to the American Cancer Society and St. Mary’s Catholic Church have been established.
Survivors include two daughters, Coleen (Don) Bisgard of Menomonee Falls, WI and Roxanne (Jeffery) Fish of Albany, IL; one son, Roger (Sue) Drey of Morrison, IL; one daughter-in-law, Linda (Guy) Plumley of Davenport, IA, fifteen grandchildren, eight great grandchildren and one sister Shirley Ann Beck of Winner, SD.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband Vernon; one son, Dudley, six brothers, Willard “Rex”, Louis, Marlow “Jim”, Wayne, Russ and Gary Brown.
A map of cattle trails and a life-size statue of James A. “Tennessee” Vaughn astride a horse dominate the Founders Room at the High Plains Western Heritage Center in Spearfish.
Cattlemen like Vaughn were significant in developing the open range and cattle operations in South Dakota and Wyoming.
The High Plains Western Heritage Center celebrated the Great Western Cattle Trail Event and the National Day of the American Cowboy on July 3 -5 with a Western art show, saddle displays and American cowboy displays. The Western Heritage Center is participating in the Great Western Cattle Trail Project, part of a nine-state effort by the Great Western Cattle Trail Association to identify the general route of that trail. The Great Western Cattle Trail ran from Texas to Dakota, Montana and Wyoming territories. Concrete markers on the High Plains Western Heritage Center’s grounds identify the trail’s route and an extensive floor display at the museum tells the trail’s story.
In the years after the Civil War, from the 1870s to the early 1890s, Texas cattle outfits drove their herds north to summer pasture to finish them for eastern markets. According to historian and author Paul Higbee of Spearfish, the land in Texas was overgrazed and the High Plains area offered outstanding grass.
Economics were also a factor, he said. The cattle were used to satisfy federal contracts on the reservations.
As a trail boss, Vaughn was credited with bringing more longhorns up the trail than any other trail boss. One of Vaughn’s responsibilities would be to advance the herd to determine grass and water sources and report back to the drovers to set up night camp. A trail boss was responsible for the safety of the cattle and had to be skilled in working with both cowboys and the owners of the cattle outfits.
The usual trail drive formation was made up of 11 positions of riders. Some cowboys were in charge of the herd of horses from which cowboys selected their mounts. There was also a cook.
It took an average of 90 days to travel from Texas to the forks of the Grand River in South Dakota’s Perkins County.
While most cattle herds on the trail numbered 2,500, Vaughn sometimes trailed twice as many.
Vaughn was born on July 22, 1851, in Lebanon, Tenn. He went to Texas in 1866, at age 15, and was hired as a cowboy by the Ellison Brothers outfit at Lockhart, Texas.
Vaughn made the first of his nine trail drives in about 1873, driving cattle for the Driskill Cattle Company from Texas to Wyoming. He would be with the Driskill outfit for 18 years before working for A.J. “Tony” Day, general manager of the Turkey Track. Both the Driskill and the Turkey Track were large cattle outfits that had operations in western South Dakota. Vaughn later drove horses to Canada.
Vaughn married Ella Bacon Dorsett in Idaho on Christmas Day, 1887. The newlyweds moved to the Spearfish area, living with Ella’s adoptive parents, David and Amanda Dorsett. In 1904, the Vaughns moved into a house in Spearfish. They raised seven children.
His obituary stated that “Mr. Vaughn had the reputation of being able to take a herd of cattle over the long trail and have them arrive in better condition than any other trailboss on the range.”
An Old Timers’ Annual Picnic was started in 1925 as a way for cowboys to get together. Ed Lemmon wrote that Vaughn attended the Old Timers’ Picnic at Bixby, near the present-day town of Bison, in 1932 and called him an “outstanding figure.” Lemmon was an early-day cattleman after whom the town of Lemmon is named.
Vaughn was active in the Oddfellow Lodge, the Spearfish Social Club and the Congregational Church in Spearfish. He died at his home in Spearfish on Jan. 8, 1934.
“The present generation can scarcely conceive the life that these heroes of the plains lived and loved,” wrote Vaughn’s son, Ernest, in a 1976 article that appeared in Black Hills area newspapers. “Though ever flirting with danger, they blazed the trail, they opened the way and led the men ever on toward better things.”
Sit yourself down, and prepare to be entertained! Bert Davis, the Coppertown Clown is coming to the Burke Stampede Rodeo on July 17th, 18th and 19th at the Burke Arena in Burke, SD! He’s armed with a wacky sense of humor and a wonderfully trained group of dogs and performing in front of a large rodeo crowd is ‘old hat’ for this veteran entertainer, rodeo clown, barrelman and specialty act. His stage is a rodeo arena and his cast of players bark and howl; his quick wit, award winning comedy routines and ability to interact with a crowd offers up the promise of tear rolling laughter for his audiences.
Bert Davis, often dubbed the “Clown with all the Dogs” reached the third round in the TV show: America’s Got Talent (2010); they were the only animal act to make it to Las Vegas. Known as the “Muttley Crew” this act features 10 rescue dogs, adopted by Bert and his wife, Frannie, all of whom are superbly trained tricksters. His great dogs were recognized by National Geographic in 2002 in a television documentary titled: “Dogs with Jobs”, and Bert has appeared in numerous PBR telecasts and the CMT documentary: “Stomped and Gored”, plus a variety of other television features.
While Davis is a courageous and hilarious performer; it is his numerous dogs that truly endear him to the spectators. Those sidekicks, with their high energy antics make Bert, the Coppertown Clown, one of the best and most-traveled animal specialty acts in the industry. They have gained international notoriety by performing in five provinces of Canada, 41 different States and in Australia.
Not much can throw a funnyman who has faced rampageous bulls on a daily basis for the past 38 years. What keeps this extremely courageous and hilariously talented performer going those thousands of miles, year in and year out? Well, it comes from the heart&ldots; Garth Brooks sings “It’s the roar of the Sunday crowd” in Rodeo. But for Bert Davis, the Coppertown Clown, it is the roar of any crowd.
Follow Bert Davis and Davis’ Muttley Crew on Facebook. Website: www.coppertownclown.com.
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