submitted photo Winner/Colome High School trap team recently handed out awards from the spring clay target season. Pictured from left are Elijah Everette, Tane Pravecek, coach Tim Pravecek, Katie Welker, Megan Brozik and Faith Covey.
The Winner/Colome high school trap team recently handed out awards that were earned from the spring clay target season.
In the girls division, Katie Welker was the overall high average female in the state. She also won first place for girls in the conference and was the high overall shooter in the conference.
Megan Brozik earned second place for girls in the conference and Faith Covey was third place in the conference. In the boys division, Elijah Everette was the first place shooter for boys in the conference and Tane Pravecek was third place.
Welker and Everette were both named to the all state team.
As a team the Winner/Colome team took first place in the conference. There were 14 members of the team. Others members include Jack Anderson, Parker Baker, Matt Brozik, Jesse Larson, Juli Larson, Austin Olson, Hunter Osborn, Cole Rank and Hunter Shippy.
The team will begin shooting the fall league in September.
Dan Bechtold/Winner Advocate Photo Dillon Bates is the new Game, Fish and Parks conservation officer in Tripp County. He has been on the job for about a month and also serves Mellette and Todd Counties.
By Dan Bechtold /Editor
Dillon Bates is the new Game, Fish and Parks conservation officer in Tripp County. He is also serving Todd and Mellette Counties.
Originally from Wilber, Neb., southwest of Lincoln, Neb., Bates started his new job in Winner on July 24.
The GFP office in Winner is located in the city building on Monroe Street. “Growing up in southern Nebraska I had heard of Winner and the pheasant hunting tradition. I would hear people say they were taking a family trip to Winner to go pheasant hunting.”
The young conservation officer finds it cool that he is stationed in an area that has such a rich hunting tradition.
Since an early age Bates has wanted to be a game warden. “I could not tell you what sparked my interest in high school,” he said. His family took vacations to national parks and seeing the park rangers, being outside and being able to help people kindled that interest in Bates.
“Every job I have had after college made me want this job more and more. I just kept getting experience.”For Bates, the big draw is getting to be outside every day, getting to help people with hunting and fishing and helping more people get interested in hunting.
Bates graduated from Wilber Clatonia High School in 2012. Both of his parents are educators. His father is the high school history teacher and head wrestling coach and his mother is a title teacher in the elementary school.
In high school, Bates played football, wrestled and ran track where he was a hurdler.
He received a college football scholarship to play at Doane University in Crete, Neb. He played college football all four years and was a safety on the college team.In 2016 he graduated from college with a degree in sociology. After college, he worked for the Iowa Conservation Corps for a six month seasonal job.
Bates then took a job with Utah Conservation Corps in Cedar City, Utah. The conservation corps was contracted out by the National Park Service. “We did a lot of back country stuff. We would hike into an area, camp for 8 to 9 days doing work such as building trails, cutting down trees and doing stream restoration. Bates worked at this job in Utah for 10 months.
He worked for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources as a natural resource technician doing wetland work, planting food plots for wildlife.
Following the job in Iowa he was hired as a fisheries technician in Ft. Collins, Colo for seven months and then worked as an elk feed ground technician in Pinedale, Wyo.While in Wyoming Bates applied for a job with the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks. All these job just added to the experience to make him a better conservation officer.
In November of 2019 Bates started training with GFP.
He did his field training in Lemmon before being stationed in Winner.
Since he has been in Winner he as been getting his name out to local residents and contacting a lot of landowners. He has checked all the game production areas in Tripp County and wants to work on increasing the walk in areas before the pheasant season starts.
When asked what he wants people to know about him, he said: “I am here to help. Feel free to contact me. Anyway I can make fishing and hunting better and improve access is important to me.”
Nancy Jo (Schramm) Giessinger, age 79, of Huron, SD and formerly of Winner, passed away on Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020 at the Huron Regional Medical Center in Huron.
A private funeral service for Nancy was held on Friday, Aug. 28 at Welter Funeral Home in Huron with burial at Riverside Cemetery.
Nancy Jo Schramm was born on Dec. 27,1940 to Herbert F. and Harriet C. (Hanson) Schramm in Winner, SD. She attended school and graduated from Winner High School in 1958. Nancy worked as a store clerk for many years in the telephone industry, mainly Northwestern Bell and later US West until her retirement. She then worked at Dakota Pork in Huron in the same capacity (store clerk) and later worked part time with the South Dakota American Legion Auxiliary.
Nancy met Eugene in Huron, SD when they both worked for Northwestern Bell Telephone. They were united in marriage on Oct. 9, 1965 in Huron.
Nancy enjoyed spending time with her three grandsons, Sam, Ben, and Will. She also enjoyed Bingo, shopping, playing cards, and an occasional trip to the casino. Nancy was a member of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Huron and lifetime member of the American Legion Auxiliary.
Grateful for having shared in Nancy’s life are her husband Eugene of Huron, SD; her son Jason (Cindy) Giessinger of Bloomington, IL; three grandsons, Sam, Ben, and Will ; one brother, James (Karen) Schramm of Winner, SD; and one sister, Cindy (Neil) Quitsch of Sumpter, SC. Nancy was preceded in death by her parents; step-father, William Bergman, and several uncles, aunts, and one niece.
Memorial are preferred to Our Saviors Lutheran Church, 2040 Ohio Ave. SW, Huron, SD 57350
The 2020 Pigskin Preview
features a story on they 40th anniversary of South Dakota High
School Activities Association football playoffs and football championships.
November of 1981 brought the
first ever state football championships.
The magazine features a story on Harvey Naasz, long time
Winner High School football coach.
Naasz was the coach of the
Warriors who defeated Vermillion 31-21 in the first Class 11A championship in
1981. It will mark the 40th anniversary of that historic Winner
football victory.
The story tells how Naasz fondly remembered his 1981 team and their road to the championship.
“All year long we knew we had
a good team,” he said. “We were undefeated. The year before we also went
undefeated with 18 seniors who did not get to play in a championship game but
we had 18 juniors on that team who were now a year older. In the playoffs, we
had to beat Mobridge and Belle Fourche to be able to get to the Dome.”
Naasz recalled memories involving the Warriors rivalry between Winner and Vermillion. “We had beaten Vermillion 6-0 earlier in the season in DakotaDome so we were familiar with them. “I knew it was going to be a good match up as Coach Culver was a good coach. Once when we found out we had to face Vermillion again I thought whoever scored 14 points was going to win the game. Lo and behold we scored 31 points and even on the first play of the game. We faked off tackle and ran our left end deep so John threw a pass to Dean Novotny
who ran it in for the touchdown.”
While Winner led the entire
game, Coach Naasz shared two integral plays that sealed the championship for
the Warriors.
“With five minutes left in
the game, Jack Sharkey ran off tackle 50 yards for a touchdown to give us some
breathing room,” Naasz said. “We knew we finally had them when we intercepted a
pass with just seconds left in the game and ran out the clock.”
Coach Naasz said the championship was especially poignant for him and his family. “It was kind of a family affair for me,” he said. “I was coaching my son Brian as he was a senior that year. My son Bart was on the team the year before and came down from Northern to watch. My son Brad was a sophomore on the team as well. My wife Karen was from Vermillion.”
Coach Naasz spoke about what
it meant to be a state champion and what it meant to the community of Winner.
“It felt great,” he said. “I
don’t think I quit smiling for two weeks. Bart and I went out to the football
field on the Sunday after we won and saw a bunch of kids playing football. I
remember talking to them and saying they too could be in the Dome if they
worked hard. It was a very big deal to win the championship,” he said. “Our
community really rallied around us. Players would walk into stores and they
were get cheered. Our fans loved following our team.”
Naasz went on to win some
other state football championships.
A day long meeting was held by the Winner City Council on Aug. 20 to go over the budget for next year. The council head from every department head. In addition, Mike Scott, executive director of the Winner Area Chamber of Commerce and Charli Gill, president of the Chamber board, made a presentation to the council. Chandra Weidner, finance officer, explained in the general fund the city would be cutting how much the city gives in donations. She said these donations were cut back with the understanding that groups like the Chamber could come and ask for funds when they have a specific need and the city could take this money from the contingency fund. Weidner explained the city will be putting more money into the contingency fund. As an example, Weidner said if Tripp County economic development has a huge opportunity for business to come to Winner and they need more funds they can come to the city request funds and show what they plan to do with the money.
By state law, a city can put 5 percent of its total budget into contingency. Since the budget is going to be so tight, the council asked each department to cut their budget. The amount asked to be cut was $1.3 million which includes about $100,000 from miscellaneous funds, $300,000 from public safety and $900,000 from public works. The focus this year for the city is infrastructure. Last year the city spent a lot of money on buying equipment and this year they will not need equipment.
In the budget, Mayor Jody Brozik explained the city is not going to defund the police department. The city is up to full staff on police officers. “We are supporting our police department very much,” said Brozik. In Scott’s presentation he noted big Chamber events bring sales tax dollars into the the city as people are buying gas, food and other items. A good example was the BBQ Pit Row which was combined with the August Winner Summer Nights which drew over 1,000 people downtown. Scott told the council with events they have planned they are bringing people to Winner. “We want to do anything we can to create a positive feel,” he said. Weidner said “Overall, the city is tightening its budget in every category.” The estimated budget is a little over $16 million.
Though it was a long day, the mayor and council felt the budget discussion, which was open to the public, was beneficial. The meeting was live streamed so people who could not attend could watch.
In other business at the meeting, the council approved the temporary malt beverage license for the Legion demolition derby on Sunday, Sept. 6.
The next regular meeting of the Winner City Council will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 8 at 6:30 p.m.. The council will not meet on Labor Day, Sept. 7.
Submitted Photo The winners in the Run for a Reason race on Aug. 15 include from left Emily Tideman, Allie Tideman, Jill McMurtrey, Meagan Blare, Aaron Gilchrist and Chase Boerner.
The Winner FFA Run for a Reason was held on Aug. 15.In the 5K race, Aaron Gilchrist won the men’s 18 and under division .Jill McMurtrey won the women’s division of the 5K race. In the women’s 18 and under 5K, Meagan Blare was the winner. Emily Tideman won the women’s mile race and Allie Tideman won the women’s 18 and under mile. The proceeds from this race went to the Tripp County building facility.
Submitted photo A Buddy Bench has been installed at the Tripp County Library. Marsha Risseeuw, coordinator for a local Modern Woodmen chapter, hopes children and others will use the bench.
The Buddy Bench, an idea that began with a 2nd grader, Christian Bucks, in 2016. He suggested this to his school principal as a way to help his school friends that were lonely and feeling left out. From there it has mushroomed into a movement to help encourage a feeling of acceptance.
Since that time, Buddy Benches are finding their way onto playgrounds, parks and libraries. In fact, you can find one at the Winner Elementary School and Tripp County Library. Also, the library just acquired “Buddy Book” authored by Patti Brozi which helps children understand the need to be caring and thoughtful to others. The spokesperson for the Buddy Bench idea stresses the need to make sure children understand the purpose behind the bench which is to eliminate loneliness and foster friendship.
Marsha Risseeuw, coordinator for a Modern Woodmen chapter, believes this is a great service project. Her fondest hope is to see children using the bench—maybe reading a book as they wait for their ride to pick them up from the library.
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Photo courtesy of the Pierre Capitol Journal Riley Orel carries the ball for Winner in Fridays game with Stanley County. Winner won the game 52-7.
Experience and depth paid off for the Winner Warriors as they opened the football season with a 52-7 victory over Stanley County on Friday. On a hot night the Warriors put the pressure on Stanley County even though they struggled in the first part of the game. It was a night that football players were just happy to play a game.
This is the first athletic contest at Winner High School in the last five months. COVID-19 has changed everyone’s lives and that change has also involved the sports world.So Winner is following all the rules of the South Dakota High School Activities Association and the CDC to ensure they have a complete season. Some of those rules involved wearing masks on the bus trip to Ft. Pierre and assigned seating. Temperatures were taken of each player as they got on the bus.
The first points did not come onto the scoreboard until 1:43 left in the first quarter when Riley Orel scored on a 26 yard run. Shortly after Winner’s score, Stanley County counter as Evan Nordstrom ran 76 yards for the touchdown. Stanley County kicked the ball for the extra point and took the lead 7-6.One of coach Dan Aaker’s goals this year is preventing big plays from halting Winner drives. However, the Warriors gave up four big plays in the first half. Once the Warriors got clicking there was no stopping the No. 1 rated team in Class 11B.
Preston Norrid had a big 17 yard carry to setup a Winner touchdown at the end of the first quarter. With 4 seconds left, QB Brady Fritz carried the all in on a 15 yard TD run. The Warriors were now up 14-7. The Warrior running backs are so deep and that depth and ability to give the ball to multiple runners showed up in the second quarter as Winner scored three more touchdowns. Orel scored on a 4 yard run and this was followed by Karson Keiser on a 7 yard run and Sam Kruger on a 46 yard run.
Winner led 34-7 at the end of the first half.“We built up a nice lead at the half and we wanted to finish the second half strong. The only negative was the amount of penalties in the third quarter,” said the coach. A touchdown run by Orel in the third quarter was called back due to a penalty. Winner responded with Evan Farner scoring on a 2 yard run and giving the Warriors a 42-7 lead.
In the fourth quarter, Winner scored a safety as the Buffaloes lined up for a punt. A lot of younger kids got into the game in the second half. Aaker said the sophomores got a taste of varsity football.The last touch down was scored by Aaron Gilchrist on a 6 yard run as he went over the top to make the score.
The Warriors had 510 yards of total offense.Sam Kruger was the offensive leader as he picked up 147 yards on 9 carries. Orel had 95 yards, Keiser, 61 yards and Preston Norrid, 56 yards. In passing, Fritz was 1-4 for 21 yards.Leading tacklers on defense Farner, Orel, Norrid and Landon Thieman, all 4; Keiser, Joey Cole both 3.
The Warriors will travel to Rapid City on Friday and play St. Thomas More. This is a big rival between the two schools. Last year Winner defeated STM twice, once in the second week of the season and in the quarterfinals of the football playoffs. “This is a game we get excited for and the community is excited about,” said Aaker. The coach says STM has good athletes and their offense is challenging for the Warriors. Aaker says Ryan Wojcik is one of the better players in 11B. Coach Wayne Sullivan’s son is the starting quarterback for STM. “For us it will be controlling the line of scrimmage and playing physical football,” said Aaker. The coach says it will be a huge week of practice.
The weather will be hot so the team will need to concentrate during practice. “Our guys know who we are playing and it is a big game for both programs. It is a game where we will find out where we are at,” said Aaker. The Warriors are hoping to take the next step forward and get better this week.
The last time Winner student were in a classroom setting was March 12. For the rest of the year students took their lessons on line due to COVID-19.
The virus is still with us but schools have plans to return to the classroom. Winner classes will start on Aug. 20 with a full day of school. Classes will run from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
There will be school on Friday, Aug. 21. “I think starting school is the best thing we can do for the students and staff,” said Supt. Keven Morehart. “We need to get them back into some sense of normalcy.”
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