Kaden Keiser of Winner won both the freestyle and Greco Roman wrestling at the state tournament in Aberdeen on April 30.
He was in the schoolboy division at 105 pounds.
Keiser won the triple crown because he placed at the state high school level which is folkstyle.
Wyatt Turnquist placed second in freestyle in the junior division at 120-126 pounds and second in Greco in the junior division at 126-132 pounds.
Legend Benedict got second in freestyle at the bantam division of 77 plus pounds.
By Dan Bechtold, Editor
The Winner High School FFA chapter was named the FFA chapter of the year at the state convention held in Brookings.
Also at the state convention, Avery Gilchrist was elected state reporter. Other WHS FFA members running for state officer were Nick Blare and Kayleb Brozik.
Wyatt DeJong, advisor of FFA in Winner, says the national chapter award program is designed to award FFA chapters that actively implement the mission and strategies of the organization.
“This recognition is both motivating for our chapter to continue to grow and also to help us celebrate the value of what our members have been doing. This award is a reflection of the hard work and leadership from all of the Winner FFA chapter officers both currently and the past two years,” said DeJong.
Colome art students submitted work in an art show in Springview, Neb.
The students brought home several awards. They include: Jaclyn Laprath, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th places; Maggie McCarty, two second place awards; Aaliyah Fisher, two second place awards; Megan Seegers, second place; Anette Flores, one second and three thirds; Allia Swallow, third and Koty Dougherty, fourth.
Winner Area girls golf team won first place at the Chamberlain Invitational on April 24.
Ronae Klein won first place as she shot a 90. Addy Root, 2nd, 96; Liz Jankauskas, 4th, 100; Sam Marts, 6th, 106.
The next action for the golfers will be May 5 at Stanley County.
Winner High School boys and girls teams both won the Cecil Johnson Invitational in Presho on Thursday.
Two more Winner athletes pre-qualified for the state track meet. Sam Schuyler qualified in the 800 and Izak Moleterno in the 3200.
Results of the Winner girls include:
Shot put—Kyran Meek, 4th, 32-9.5
Discus—Meek, 3rd, 102-1
Long jump—Morgan Hammerbeck, 3rd, 13-9.25; Elisabeth Duffy, 5th, 13-2 and Madison Thieman, 6th, 13-2
100 hurdles—Duffy, 4th, :17.46
4×200—1st, 1:51.40, Alexis Richey, Morgan Hammerbeck, Sam Schuyler and Ellie Brozik
4×100—3rd, :54.96, Alexis Richey, Morgan Hammerbeck, Madison Thieman and Ellie Brozik
Mile—Sidda Schuler, 1st; Aryn Meiners, 4th
400—Chloe Bartels, 1st
300 hurdles—Duffy, 3rd, :52.78
medley relay—1st, 4:43.55, Charlotte Shopene, Madison Thieman, Saige Schuyler and Sidda Schuyler
3200—Sidda Schuyler, 1st, 12:18.08
4×400 relay—1st, 4:18.43, Alexis Richey, Chloe Bartels, Morgan Hammerbeck and Sam Schuyler
Results of the Winner boys include:
Shot put—Jayden Schroeder, 1st, 45-8.5; A. J. Roubideaux, 6th, 37-2
Discus—John Kludt, 2nd, 119-11; Schroeder, 3rd, 119-3; Roubideaux, 4th, 118
Long jump—Riley Calhoon, 3rd, 18.6.5; Phillip Jorgenen, 5th, 16-9.5; Joren Bruun, 6th, 16-6.25
Triple jump—Bruun 2nd, 36-1; Jorgensen, 4th, 33-8.5
4×200—3rd, 1:39.52, Riley Calhoon, Drew DeMers, Joren Bruun and Phillip Jorgenen
1600—Kade Watson, 5th, 5:11.31
4×100—1st, :44.72, Riley Calhoon, Isaac Naasz, Drew DeMers and Cameron Kuil
400—Kuil, 1st, :51.52; Calhoon, 3rd, :54.77; Atlas Willuweit, 5th, :55.93
Medley relay—2nd, 4:12.28, Phillip Jorgensen, Isaac Naasz, Joren Bruun and Kade Watson
200—Kuil, 1st, :22.12; DeMers, 3rd, :23.86
3200—Moleterno, 2nd, 10:25.37
The Colome boys track team tied for third place with Gregory at the Platte-Geddes Relays on Saturday.
The Colome boys won the 4×100 relay and the 4×200 relay. The Cowboys won the 400 relay in :46.77 and the 800 relay in 1:37.16.
Holden Thieman won the 400 in :53.98.
Matt Campbell won both the discus and the shot put. The Colome senior had a throw of 50-8 in the shot put and 162-5 in the discus.
Other results of the Cowboys include:
100—Beau Bertram, 2nd, :11.36
200—Bertram, 3rd, :23.39
400—Holden Thieman, 1st, :53.98
800—Andrew Laprath, 6th, 2:34.16
Medley relay—2nd, 4:13.01, Chase Dufek, Jackson Kinzer, Layton Thieman and Calvin Ringing Shield
Long jump—Thieman, 3rd,19-11.25; Kelly O’Bryan, 4th, 19-2
Triple jump—Kelly O’Bryan, 2nd, 39-0; Laprath, 5th, 35-3
The Colome girls took fourth place with 86 points.
Results of the Colome girls include:
100—Saydee Heath, 3rd, :13.23
200—Callie Heath, 1st, :26.88
1600—Jaclyn Laprath, 2nd, 6:08.68
3200—Laprath, 1st, 12:43
100 hurdles—Kaydee Heath, 5th, :17.76
300 hurdles—Kaydee Heath, 1st, :52.01
4×100—3rd, :53.87, Matrix Noteboom, Kaydee Heath, Saydee Heath and Callie Heath.
4×200—1st, 1:55, Noteboom, Kaydee Heath, Saydee Heath and Callie Heath
Long jump—Callie Heath, 1st, 15-4; Saydee Heath, 2nd, 14-9
Triple jump—Abby Kortan, 3rd, 30-7
Colome boys and girls track teams both took second place at the Great Plains Conference meet Thursday in Scotland.
The Colome boys scored 110 points and the girls scored 84 points. Corsica-Stickney won both team titles.
Results of the Colome girls include:
100—Saydee Heath, 2nd, :13.38; Hayley Krumpus, 6th, :14.05
200—Callie Heath, 1st, :27.20; Saydee Heth, 4th, :28.63
400—Callie Heath, 1st, 1:03.37
800—Jaclyn Laprath, 3rd, 2:48.18; Abby Kortan, 4th, 2:50.39
1600—Laprath, 2nd, 6:00.34
3200—Laprath, 1st, 13:16.51
100 hurdles—Kaydee Heath, 3rd, :18.23
300 hurdles—Heath, 1st, :54.12
800 relay—2nd, 1:58.08
Long jump—Callie Heath, 2nd, 15-3; Saydee Heath, 3rd, 15-1/2
Triple jump—Abby Kortan, 2nd, 31-2.5
Results of the Colome boys include:
100—Beau Bertram, 3rd, :11.52
200—Bertram, 2nd, :23.94; Layton Thieman, 5th, :25.11;Calvin Ringing Shield, 6th, :25.38
400—Holden Thieman, 1st, :54.05
800—Kelly O’Bryan, 6th, 2:19.58
400 relay—2nd, :46.90
800 relay—2nd, 1:37.85
Medley relay—4th, 4:11.22
High jump-Andrew Laprath, 5th, 4-11
300 hurdles—Adam Cole, 6th, :55.18
Long jump—Kelly O’Bryan, 3rd, 19-6.5; Chase Dufek, 6th, 18-2 ¾.
Triple jump—O’Bryan, 3rd, 39-5
Shot put—Matt Campbell, 1st, 52-7
Discus—Campbell, 1st, 166-6
Phillip Jorgensen had the game winning single to score Carter Brickman as the Winner/Colome baseball team defeated Platte 5-4 in extra innings. The game was played Monday, April 24, at Leahy Bowl.
Kelly O’Bryan earned the win in relief throwing five innings, giving up 2 runs on 3 hits, 3 walks and 6 strikeouts. Ty Bolton started on the mound and pitched four innings, giving up 2 runs on 3 hits, 2 walks and 3 strikeouts.
At the plate, Kelly O’Bryan had 2 singles and a RBI. Carter Brickman scored two runs.
The next action for Winner/Colome will be on May 12 at Chamberlain which is only a junior varsity game.
The Royals will host Rapid City 320 Shooters on May 13 at Leahy Bowl in Winner at 1 p.m. This will be a varsity game only.
George Rodney Leetch was born July 14, 1943 in Colome, South Dakota the son of Charles & Myrtle (Robinson) Leetch. He grew up in Colome, South Dakota, graduating from Colome High School with the class of 1962. He entered the United States Army, April 1, 1965 serving during the Vietnam War and was honorably discharged March 31, 1967. He returned to Grand Island where he was employed at the Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant until reduction in forces in February of 1971. He was later employed by the Veterans Administration working at the Veterans Hospital in Grand Island until December of 1986. He also worked at Riverside Inn, Grand Island, driving the shuttle bus and doing maintenance work, and the Grand Island Public Schools from 1998 until 2003 when he retired.
He was a member of United Methodist Church, Grand Island.
He enjoyed fishing, bowling and the company at the Grand Generation Center.
South Dakotan Ernest Roth answered when President Woodrow Wilson called for volunteers.
The United States had declared war against Germany on April 6, 1917, committing the country to join the Allied Powers of Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy and Japan in their efforts to defeat the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire (Turkey). The Great War had been raging since 1914.
Roth had been working as a carpenter and living with his uncle and aunt at Columbia when he decided to enlist. On April 25, 1917, he boarded the freight train for Aberdeen, where he went to the National Guard recruiting office and signed up. The next day, he was taken by train to Mobridge and transported to the headquarters of Company “L” of the 4th South Dakota infantry regiment. A total of 32,791 soldiers, sailors and marines from South Dakota served in the war, according to the South Dakota Department of Veterans Affairs.
“In the forenoon of April 27, 1917, we were lined up and duly sworn in, thus making us full-fledged soldiers on paper although we were to learn the hard way that it required many, many months of intensive training and drilling on our part, much of it under a broiling sun, to become proficient at soldiering,” Roth wrote in his diary.
The World War I Reminiscence of Ernest Roth is kept in the South Dakota State Historical Society –State Archives manuscript collections. Find it online at www.history.sd.gov/Archives/, by clicking the Digital Archives icon, then selecting the Manuscript Collection and typing in “Ernest Roth.”
Two companies, both of the 4th South Dakota Infantry, were billeted in tents along a railroad siding about two miles northwest of Mobridge at Camp Pontis.
“When we arrived there the only buildings in evidence were the partly completed mess halls,” Roth wrote. “The company kitchens were set up in three or four old boxcars on railroad sidings. I was immediately set to work on the buildings under construction.”
Roth described infantry training at Camp Pontis as: reveille at 6 a.m. followed by calisthenics, breakfast, clean-up quarters, drill or hike (usually with full pack), lunch at noon, more drill, return to quarters for more clean-up, supper, and attend lectures and school.
Toward the end of September, rumors were rampant that the companies were going to be sent directly to the battlefields of Europe or to Mexico to prevent the Germans from coming over and entering the United States through Mexico.
“The facts were: the last two days of this month we loaded all the property of the Company as well as our own personal stuff into boxcars and on October 1, 1917, both companies from Camp Pontis entrained for a destination yet unknown,” Roth wrote.
Many people, some from Columbia, turned out to meet the train when it stopped at the Aberdeen depot. Crowds were always on hand to cheer on the troops whenever the train slowed to pass through a town, according to Roth.
The troops’ final destination was Camp Greene near Charlotte, N.C., where they were joined by other units comprising the entire 4th South Dakota regiment. Roth learned that the regiment was to be converted from infantry to machine gun battalions.
“The rank and file of the fellows were quite unhappy with the machine gun assignment as rumor had it that these units were always the first to be ordered into the front lines of combat in actual battle and were consequently referred to as ‘Suicide squads,’” Roth wrote.
Roth arrived at the battlefields in France in January 1918.
In his diary, Roth shared some of his combat experiences. He wrote about meeting a battalion coming from the trenches that had a captain and enlisted men killed, experiencing a chemical weapons attack, marching for hours, walking through knee-deep mud, and preparing to go to the front lines.
On Nov. 11, 1918, Roth’s diary entry read, “Hostilities ceased at 11 a.m. This means – the war is officially over.”
By the time World War I ended, more than 9 million soldiers had been killed and 21 million more were wounded. An estimated 10 million civilians had been killed. A total of 554 South Dakotans died overseas who were killed in action or died from wounds, disease or other causes.
Roth returned to the United States in January 1919. After being discharged from the service, he went to Cresco, Iowa, where his father and stepmother lived. He later returned to Columbia and served as postmaster for 23 years. He died in Walla Walla, Wash., on June 7, 1976.
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