Playhouse Auditions

Winner Community Playhouse will hold auditions for a spring production on Jan. 19 at 7 p.m. at the playhouse.

“Rex’s Exes” is the play chosen for the spring show. The tentative dates for the production are March 4-5 and March 11-12.
The play will be directed by Sandra York.

Persons interested in trying out for this play are welcome to attend auditions.

At the audition on Jan. 19, persons are asked to bring their personal calendars.  Persons who have questions can call 842-2397.

Galbraith Climbs in Record Book

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Sharee Galbraith of Winner continues to climb up the Dakota State University women’s basketball record book for all-time blocks.
Galbraith has 45 blocks this season which is the second best in the NAIA and her average of 10 rebounds a game is 13th best in the nation.
In her DSU career, Galbraith has 145 blocks, which is the fifth most career blocks in the DSU history and is six blocks behind Sara Nelson for fourth most all-time career blocks with 151.

Winner VFW Auxiliary Scholarship

Attention all high school seniors, home-schooled students, & parents of the same.  The Winner VFW Auxiliary has provided a scholarship for an eligible applicant in the amount of $500 applied to their tuition.
The application form is simple to fill out and a short essay of a minimum of 400-500 words required to be written on the theme, “What Is The Importance of Patriotism?” Each applicant must be related to a veteran as described on the application.
Parents and guardians are asked to encourage their high school senior to enter the contest.  The deadline date is Feb. 25.   All applications can be turned into the counselor’s office or sent to: Rosemary Connot at 1114 E 10th St, Winner, SD  57580.

Winner Wild Opens Season

Winner Wild 6th grade basketball team played in the Sioux Falls O’Gorman basketball tournament on Jan. 9.
In the first game, Winner defeated BBA (Bartlett Basketball Academy) Fierce 37-14.  In the second game, Winner was nipped 45-43 by Brandon Valley.  In the third game, Winner defeated O’Gorman 40-29.

Wrestlers Place Fifth

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Winner Area wrestling team placed fifth at the Mid-Dakota Monster in Presho this weekend.  Nine Winner Area wrestlers placed.

Jayden Schroeder, 195, wrestled in the finals and placed second as he lost 3-2 in overtime to Cole Schelske of Lyman.

Kayleb Brozik, 170, took third as he won 11-3 over Tate Gatzke of Belle Fourche.

Fourth place went to Wyatt Turnquist and Colby Curtis.  Turnqusit, 106, lost 4-1 to Chance Grill of Custer.  Curtis was pinned in 2:45 by Caden Moore of O’Neill.

Trevor Peters, 120, took sixth place as he lost 5-4 to Weston Ireland of Bennett County.

Taking 7th were Aaron Gilchrist, Avery Gilchrist and Riggin Shippy. Aaron Gilchrist, 113, won 10-8 in overtime over Alec Dodson of Kingsbury County.  Avery Gilchrist, 145, pinned Tucker Holzer of Mobridge-Pollock in 1:36.   Shippy, 152, won 4-3 over Reese Hansen of Spearfish.

Taking 8th place was Cohl Turnquist, 182, who was pinned in :21 by Tristan Madsen of Hot Springs.

Warriors Fall to Chamberlain

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Winner boys basketball team fell to Chamberlain 65-52 on Jan. 5.
“We were kind of disappointed to give up 65 points and also to have one kid score 31 points against us,” said coach Brett Gardner. “Hats off to Chamberlain as they are a nice team and did a nice job of controlling the game,” said the coach.
Leading the scoring for Winner was Devon Leiferman with 14 points followed by Lattrel Terkildsen with 10 and Cameron Kuil with 8.  Leiferman pulled down 7 boards and Krockett Krolikowski with 6.  Terkildsen had 3 assists.

Harter Scores 32 Points in Colome Victory

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Reed Harter scored 32 points to lead the Colome Cowboys to a 69-48 victory over Lyman on Jan. 5.

“It was a nice win against a quality opponent, especially when we didn’t necessarily play our best,” said coach Drew Weber.

Holden Thieman added 14 points and Jackson Kinzer, 11.  Thieman pulled down 13 of Colome’s 34 rebounds. Harter grabbed 6 rebounds.

“We didn’t shoot overly well and turned the ball over more than usual but we were able to grind out a pretty nice win,” said Weber. “I was especially pleased with the way the bench came in and contributed in all facets of the game. If we can keep getting solid production out of them we will be able to continue having success,” said the coach.

With the victory, Colome improved to 4-2.

Wrestlers Down Stanley County

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Winner Area wrestling team defeated Stanley County 51-24 in a dual Jan. 5 in Winner.
“The boys really did a nice job coming out ready to go,” said coach Matt Chambers. “I thought we wrested well as a team even in a couple of the matches we lost. We were able to get five pins in the dual which is huge for team points.”

Winner’s five pins were recorded by Jaikob Week, Trevor Peters, Colby Curtis, Cameron Biggins and Jayden Schroeder.

Lady Warriors down Todd County

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Winner High School girls basketball team defeated Todd County 56-48 Thursday in Winner.  With the victory the Lady Warriors improve to 6-2 for the season.

Allison Cox led the scoring for Winner with 13 points followed by Chloe Bartels with 11, Bailey Volmer, 10 and Sydney Fritz with 9.

Fritz hauled down 9 of Winner’s 33 rebounds. Bartels and Cox each had 5 rebounds.

In a back to back game, the Winner Lady Warriors defeated Gregory 72-19 Saturday.

Thirteen Lady Warriors scored in this game. Leading the scoring for WHS was Allison Cox with 13 points. Sydney Fritz added 9 points.  The rebounds were spread among the team with Hanna LaCompte and Cox pulling down 4 rebounds.

The victory improved Winner’s record to 7-2.