Monthly Archives: February 2017

Winner Area wrestling team took fifth place at the Huron tournament on Saturday.

The Warriors had six wrestlers place. Wyatt Turnquist took 1st; Atlas Willuweit and Kayleb Brozik, both 2nd; Kaden Keiser, 3rd; Jayden Schroeder, 4th and Aaron Gilchrist, 6th.

The next action for the wrestlers will be the regional tournament which is Saturday, Feb. 18, in Wagner. Wrestling starts at 10 a.m.

Five Winner area wrestlers placed on the state middle school tournament in Pierre on Saturday.

Placing were: Riley Shippy, 2nd; Owen Duffy, 3rd; Joey Cole, 4th; Kaleb Osborn, 5th and Riley Orel, 6th.

Winner boys basketball team fell to McLaughlin by a score of 76-71 after a fierce battle at the end of the game on Friday.

Drew DeMers led the scoring with 33 points followed by Wyatt Ewing with 10, Luke Engel, 9; Trevor Bertram and Brandon Volmer with 6 each.

Bertram pulled down 5 rebounds and DeMers had 4 steals.

The battle between the Winner High School boys basketball team and St. Francis came down to the wire.

In the end, St. Francis nipped the Warriors 47-46 in the final three seconds of the game.

DeMers led the scoring with 15 points, followed by Waytt Ewing, 14; Isaac Naasz, 10 and Trevor Bertram, 5.

Brandon Volmer pulled down 9 rebounds, Naasz, 6 and Chase Kingsbury, 4.  Bertram had 4 assists.

Platte-Geddes nipped the Colome boys basketball team 50-47 Thursday in Platte.

The Cowboys had four players in double figures—Kolton Salonen with 13, Kelly O’Bryan, 11; Layton Thieman and Holden Thieman with 10 each.

Holden Thieman pulled down 6 of Colome’s 18 rebounds. Salonen grabbed 5 rebounds.  Holden Thieman had 5 steals.

A strong second quarter propelled the Colome Cowboys to a 66-40 victory over Menno on Saturday.

Holden Thieman scored 16 points followed by Kolton Salonen, 13; Kelly O’Bryan 11; and Jackson Kinzer, 10.

Salonen grabbed 11 of Colome’s 29 rebounds. Holden Thieman grabbed 8.

Kelly O’Bryan scored 19 points as the Colome Cowboys defeated North Central 69-41 on Feb. 7.

Kolton Salonen added 16 points.

The Cowboys out-rebounded North Central 33-24. Holden Thieman pulled down 11 rebounds with Salonen grabbing 6.

Winner Lady Warriors defeated Platte-Geddes on Thursday and fell to McLaughlin on Friday.  Winner won over Platte-Geddes 54-49.

Bella Swedlund and Morgan Hammerbeck both scored 13 points with Sydney Hollenbeck adding 12.

Winner pulled down 30 rebounds led by Gabby Kocer and Swedlund with 5 each.

The Lady Warriors traveled to McLaughlin on Friday and were defeated 45-35.

Swedlund led Winner in scoring with 17 points.

Chloe Bartels pulled down 9 rebounds with 6 each from Rachel Sherman and Hammerbeck.
The Lady Warriors will host Mobridge-Pollock in a double header Friday in Winner.

Winner girls basketball team defeated Mt. Vernon/Plankinton 50-40 in action Feb. 6 in Winner.

Gabby Kocer led the scoring for Winner with 17 points. Sydney Hollenbeck added 13 points.

In rebounding, Winner had three players grab 6 each—Kocer, Bella Swedlund and Hollenbeck. Morgan Hammerbeck grabbed 5 rebounds.  Swedlund had 5 assists.