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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.

Menno defeated the Colome girls basketball team 56-31 on Saturday.

Callie Heath scored 9 points, Kaydee Heath, 8 and Makayla Shippy, 6.  Leading rebounders were Kaydee Heath, 11, Callie Heath, 9 and Saydee Heath, 7.  Kaydee Heath and Shippy each had 2 steals.

Earlier in the week, Colome played Kadoka and lost 67-43.

Callie Heath and Shippy both scored 9 points.  The Cowgirls pulled down 44 rebounds and were led by Callie Heath with 11 and Saydee Heath with 7.