The Hanpa Tec’unpi Akic’ita (Handgame Warriors) competed at the 2017 Dakota Oyate Challenge in Huron on Jan. 27.
The team beat out Lower Brule in the first round, Standing Rock in the second round, lost to Little Wound in the third round, beat St. Francis in the 4th and then played Little Wound again in the championship. Winner lost this round and took second place.
The team is coached by DeAnne Felix.
Matt Campbell, a senior at Colome High School, has signed a letter of intent to play football at Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell.
National signing day was on Feb. 1.
The 6-2 230 pound Campbell helped the Colome Cowboys win a state championship this year. He recorded 142 tackles, eight for a loss, 10 sacks and one interception. He was named all-conference twice and all state his senior year. In 2016, he was named the outstanding senior lineman in the state championship game. Campbell was also a three time state qualifier in high school track and field. His junior year he took second in he discus and was the state champion in the shot put. He plans to major in physical education at DWU.
The Tigers signed 34 players during national signing day. “We’ve met our needs in terms of being bigger up front, being more physical up front, bringing in guys that can compete but also highlighting some really talented skill guys,” said coach Ross Cimpl.
Krockett Krolikowsi of Winner has been named a football all American for South Dakota. The National High School Athletic Coaches Association names the selection. Also chosen from South Dakota was Spencer Neugebauer of Mitchell.
Krolikowsi helped the Winner Warriors win back to back Class 11B football titles. This past season he had 114 tackles, 34.5 tackles for a loss and 17 sacks. The Winner High School senior plans to play football at South Dakota State University.
“It is a great honor and I am very proud,” said Krolikowski. “I could not have done this without my coaches, player and this community,” he said. The athlete says he appreciates the work ethic instilled in him by his parents.
The KSYF Taco John’s athlete of the week was Tristan Watzel, a senior wrestler from Winner High School. He proves that winning records and state championships aren’t the only criteria to make you a true champion.
Winner High School senior wrestler Tristan Watzel hadn’t won a match in his high school career. The sport was made more challenging since Watzel has limited use of his right arm and leg due to an accident when he was young. However, Watzel got his first win in this match by a fall on senior night on Tuesday, Jan. 31 in Winner’s dual against a classy Chamberlain team and the place went nuts.
Tristan competed in both football and wrestling all four years of high school for that perseverance and for staying with it despite everything life throws at you sometime.
Wyatt Ewing, a senior at Winner High School, has earned a $7,000 Coyote Commitment Distinction Scholarship,
which is awarded by the University of South Dakota to academically talented seniors who have been admitted for Fall 2017.
This award is based on strong standardized test scores and cumulative grade point average.
Ewing is the son of Wade and Val Ewing and plans to major in medical biology.
The fall 2016 incoming class at USD received $6.8 million in scholarships for academic, artistic, athletic or other successes. Sixty-two percent of new students on the Vermillion campus received awards from the USD Foundation, other USD accounts and from other private sources outside the university.
The Winner Area wrestling team won the Big Dakota Conference wrestling tournament Saturday in Ft. Pierre.
Champions for Winner were Kaden Keiser at 103 pounds, Avery Gilchrist at 152 and Kayleb Brozik at 170.
Taking second place for the Warriors were: Wyatt Turnquist, Atlas Willuweit, Trevor Peters.
Aaron Gilchrist and Jayden Schroeder both placed third.
The moment Tristan Watzel has been waiting for over four years happened on Senior Night in a wrestling dual with Chamberlain.
In an exhibition match under the spotlight with family and fans cheering the senior on, Watzel pinned Hunter Foltz in 44 seconds. This was Watzel’s first career win and the last time he would wrestle at home.
Results of the dual include:
106—Gabe Skustad, C, dec. Kaden Keiser, 5-3
113—Wyatt Turnquist, W, dec. Max Donovan 6-0
120—Collin Powell, C, dec. Atlas Willuweit 8-6 in overtime
128—Trevor Peters, W, TF over Dilen Anderson
132—Aaron Gilchrist, W, won by forfeit
138—Landon Debus, W, won by forfeit
145—Tyler Sorensen, C, dec Owen Duffy, 13-6
152—Jett Evans, C, pinned Tristan Watzel, :42
160—Jasiah Thompson,C, dec. Cailob Week, 8-0
170—Avery Gilchrist, W, pinned Remington Rossow, 3:26
182—Riggin Shippy W, pinned Deion Stork, 1:59
195—Achielles Willuweit, W, pinned Gunner Ristau, :33
220—Jayden Schroeder, W, pinned Ruger Forester, 1:10
285—Nash Hutmacher, C, dec. Tre Doren, 4-1 in overtime
Results of exhibition matches include:
Kaleb Osborn over Dominic Santiago in 5:47
Trey Neilan, C, over Kaleb Osborn 9-2
Riley Shippy over Garrett Ristau 8-0
Gavin Tucker pinned Thomas Powell in 3:35
Joey Cole pinned Garrett Ristau in 1:25
Winner High School boys basketball team defeated CEB 50-48 on Saturday.
Trevor Bertram scored 19 points, Wyatt Ewing, Drew DeMers, 9 each; Isaac Naasz, 6 and Brandon Volmer, 4.
Naasz pulled down 7 rebounds, Bertram 6 and Ewing, 5. Volmer and DeMers both had 4 assists.
The next action for Winner will be Feb. 10 at McLaughlin and Feb. 14 at home hosting Platte/Geddes.
Winner High School boys basketball team was nipped 44-43 by Todd County on Jan. 30 in Winner. The Warriors led 25-21 at the half.
Drew DeMers led the scoring with 18 points followed by Trevor Bertram with 15 points.
Chase Kingsbury, Brandon Volmer and Wyatt Ewing all pulled down 4 rebounds.
DeMers and Bertram each 3 assists and Luke Engel had 3 steals.
Colome Cowboys improved its record to 10-2 with 54-50 victory over Kimball/White Lake on Jan. 31.
Holden Thieman led the scoring with 19 points followed by Will Cahoy with 12 points. Colome out-rebounded Kimball 25-24. Jackson Kinzer pulled down 8 rebounds, Kolton Salonen, 6 and Holden Thieman and Kelly O’Bryan with 5 each. Cahoy and O’Bryan had 6 assists.
On Friday, the Cowboys defeated Andes Central/Dakota Christian 55-47 and on Saturday Colome played in the Highmore Classic and defeated Harrold 57-54.
On Friday, Colome defeated AC/DC 55-47. The Cowboys received balanced scoring with Holden Thieman scoring 23 points, Kelly O’Bryan, 11; Kolton Salonen, 10 and Jackson Kinzer, 9. Colome out-rebounded AC/DC 31-18. O’Bryan pulled down 7 rebounds with 6 each from Salonen, Holden Thieman and Jackson Kinzer.
On Saturday, Holden Thieman scored 28 points and Kolton Salonen added 16.
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