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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.

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.

Winner girls basketball team defeated Cheyenne-Eagle Butte 66-44 on Saturday.

Bella Swedlund led the scoring for Winner with 20 points followed by Chloe Bartels with 9.  Gabby Kocer pulled down 8 rebounds with Bartels, Abby Marts and Sydney Hollenbeck with 6 each.

Madyson’s Frazier’s double double helped Winner to a 72-50 victory over Crow Creek on Thursday.

Frazier had 16 points and pulled down 10 rebounds.   Bartels scored 17 points and Swedlund had 16 points and 9 rebounds.

Winner will play in McLaughlin on Friday.

Lyman defeated the Colome girls basketball team 65-36 on Jan. 30.Chamberlain defeated the Colome girls basketball team in the Highmore Classic on Saturday.

Callie Heath scored 10 points and Makayla Shippy, 7.Chamberlain won the game 36-15.

Abby Kortan led the Cowgirls with 7 points. Callie Heath grabbed 3 rebounds. Heath pulled down 12 of Colome’s 25 rebounds.

Colome will host Kadoka on Feb. 10.