Mcdonald classroom kits

Dan Bechtold/Winner Advocate Photo
McDonalds of Winner and Leonard Management handed out classroom kits to teachers on Aug. 2. Receiving her kit is Winner Middle School teacher Robin Curtis, center. Making the presentation is Brittany Lunderman. Looking on is McDonald manager Dustin DeSersa. Leonard Management provided kits to teachers who stopped in McDonalds from the Winner, Colome, Gregory and Mission School Districts.

Legion falls in state tournament

Winner/Colome Legion baseball team was eliminated from the state tournament after falling to Madison and Groton this weekend.

The state tournament was held in Groton.

On Saturday. Groton defeated Winner/Colome 4-2.

The game was tied at two with Groton batting in bottom of the fifth when an error scored one run for Groton.

Both teams had a run each in the second and third innings.

Aiden Barfuss had a triple for Winner and he was 2-3 at the plate.

Also getting hits were Jesse Colson, Charley Pravecek, Kameron Meiners.

Meiners pitched four innings and was the losing pitcher. Evan Farner pitched two innings.

The Royals opened state tournament play on Friday and lost a heartbreaker 6-5 to Madison.

Madison scored five runs in the third inning.

Ashton Klein, Aiden Barfuss, Aaron Gilchrist, Evan Farner, Meiners and Pravecek each collected one hit for Winner/Colome.

Gilchrist and Pravecek had doubles and Barfuss had a triple.

Jacob Beckers took the loss for the Royals.

He pitched six innings and threw 102 pitches.

Colome advances to state tournament

Linda Kinzer Photo
Shea Connot bats for the Colome Chaos in the game with Miller-Wessington. Colome
won 14-4

For the first time in franchise history, the Colome Chaos has punched their ticket to the state amateur baseball tournament.

Colome defeated Miller/Wessington 14-4 on July 28 in Chamberlain.

Ethan Vobr drove in four runs for the Chaos. In addition, Vobr had both a double and triple. He went 3-4 at the plate to lead Colome in hits.

The big inning for Colome was the fifth when they scored five runs and in the fourth and first innings they scored 4 runs each.

Top hitters for Colome were Shea Connot, 1-4, Jackson Kinzer, 2-4; Ben Connot, 2-3; Jake Luse, 1-3; Terrance Kinzer, 2-3; Vobr, 3-4.

Carter Brickman took the win for Colome. The right hander went seven innings allowing four runs on ten hits and striking out nine.

Brickman threw 121 pitches.

The state amateur baseball tournament will be held in Mitchell.

Heat records broken

Winner set two new heat records in July.

The temperature was 105 degrees on July 27 and this breaks the record of 103 set in 1952.

The temperature in Winner was even hotter on July 28 when it reached 107 degrees. This breaks the record of 104 set in 1975.

There were five days in July where the temperature was 100 or more.

Elks rodeo results

There were 300 contestants at the Elks 52nd annual LifeScape benefit rodeo July 23-25 in Winner.

The cowboys and cowgirls competed for $30,000 in prize money.

Contestants were from Wisconsin, Wyoming, Texas, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Colorado.

Winners of the half and half drawings each night were Jake Handcock, Kristen Maier and Glenda Lindwurm.

Winners of the $25 beef certificates were Kristina Heath, Madison; Richard Kerner, Burke and Vicki Condon, Winner.

Rodeo results include:

Bareback

Whitten Hoover, 79; Ty Kenner 76; Tanner Rupprecht, 76, Chase Yellow Hawk, 76; Jhett Knight, 73 and Bobby Reynolds, 70

Saddle Bronc

Kyle Hapney, 76; Miles Kreeger, 76; Trey Elshere, 72; Derek Kenner, 72; Lane Hall, 69 and Zane Howe, 68

Bull riding

Jhett Knight, 68; John Jacobs, 64

Steer wrestling

Sid Hart, 4.5; Kaiden White Bear, 4.9; Camerson Fanning, 5.3; Clay Holz 5.4; Sawyer Strand, 5.9; Wyatt Tibbits, 6 and Jace Christensen, 6

Goat tying

Karissa Rayhill, 8.1; Kailyn Groves, 8.2; Maddee Doerr, 8.5; Madison Moody, 8.9 and Bailey Tibbs, 9

Calf roping

Clay Bauer, 9.3; Clete Scheer 9.4; Ty Moser, 10.1; Dillion Sackett, 11.4; Nathan Sandox, 11.5;  Rio Nutter, 11.7

Ladies breakaway

Brooke Jamison, 2.2; Georgie Lage, 2.3; Brooke McCully, 2.7; Lanie Schonebaum, 2.9; Bailey Tibbs, 2.9 and Sydney Adamson, 3

Senior men’s breakaway

Chad Hetzel, 3.4; Tim Nelson, 3.5; Steve Klein, 3.5; Marty Jandreau, 3.5; Fay Jandreau, 3.6 and Darrell Barry, 3.6

Ladies barrel racing

Becky Amio, 16.48; Raylee Fagerhaug, 16.55; Dori Hollenbeck, 16.7; Patty Finney 16.76; D’Ann Gehlsen, 16.77; Breanna Kohle, 16.92

Mixed team roping

Danielle Wray and Jade Nelson, 6.2; Brooke Howell, Riley Curuchet, 7.2; Jayme Paterson, Payton Pirrung, 7.2; Peyton Mentzer, Toby Mentzer, 7.4; Cierra Christensen, Carson Musick, 7.8; Jayla Reed, Ty Spicklemeier, 7.9

Team roping

Blair Lammers, Bryan Lennon, 5.1; Braden Pirrung, Coley Nicholls, 5.4; Brian Dunning, Toby Mentzer, 5.6; Jade Schmidt, Jade Nelson, 5.7; Colton Musick, Carson Musick, 6.4; Joe Ross and Kaiden White Bear, 7