School board receives award

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The Colome Consolidated School Board received an award from the ADBSD (Associated School Boards of South Dakota) Recognition Program at the Dec. 9 meeting for the 2018-2019 school year. Pictured in Front is Matt Bolie. Back from left are Brent Gill, Ryan DesMet, Joel Koskan, Justin Heath, and Pam Haukaas. Not pictured is board member Brett Galbraight.

By Colton Hall
Staff Writer

The Colome Consolidated School Board received an award from the ASBSD (Associated School Board of South Dakota) Board recognition program at the Dec. 9 meeting.

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Learning on the fly

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The Colome Cowboys basketball team is returning three starters for the 2019-2020 season. Pictured from left to right is Michael Supik, Rhet Bertram, and Jacob Beckers.

By Colton Hall
Staff Writer

The Colome Cowboys boasted a good basketball team in 2018. Finishing 17-5, Colome ultimately fell one game short of going to state in the SoDak 16 to Bridgewater/Emery-Ethan at the Corn Palace in Mitchell.

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Warriors open at home

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Winner Warrior basketball returning letter winners are in front from left Ethan Vesely, Evan Farner and Phillip Jorgensen. In back from left are Kameron Meiners, Joren Bruun, Brady Fritz and Oscar Pravecek. The Warriors open the season at home on Dec. 13 against Wagner.

By Dan Bechtold
Editor

The Winner High School boys basketball is excited to start the season.

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Youth is the key

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The Colome Cowgirls basketball team is returning nine letterwinners from last year. Pictured in back from left to right is Lanie Bolton, Baylie Hoffine, Elizabeth Yeaman, Clarissa Ringing Shield, and Libbie Petersek. In front from left to right is Carleen Burger, Cheyenne Dougherty, Saydee Heath, and Makayla Shippy.

By Colton Hall
Staff Writer

The Colome Cowgirls basketball team is young.

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Wrestlers open with a victory

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Winner Area wrestling team took first place at the Kimball/White Lake Invitational on Saturday. The Warriors had six champions.

By Dan Bechtold
Editor

Winner Area wrestling team picked up where they left off last season.

The Warriors won first place at the Kimball/White Lake Invitational on Saturday. The Warriors saw 15 wrestlers reach the podium with nine finalists and six champions.

The Warriors racked up 221.5 points in its first tournament of the season.
Riley Orel, wrestling at 138 pounds, was named the outstanding wrestler of the tournament.

Kaden Keiser bumped up to 126 pounds after winning the Class B state title last season. Keiser beat Wagner’s Lance Soukup by forfeit in the finals.

Fellow state champion Trevor Peters beat Sunshine Bible Academy’s Teigan Clark by decision, 7-1.

Another Winner state champ Sam Kruger beat Parkston’s Cordell Murtha by a 5-3 decision at 160 pounds.

The Warriors also got first place wins from Riley Orel, Jack Kruger (145) and Achilles Willuweit (285).

Also placing for the Warriors were Owen Duffy (182) who took second and Landon Debus took second at 195 pounds.

Preston Norrid (220) also took second place.

Placing fourth for Winner were Jude Sargent, Joey Cole and Charley Pravecek.

Cailob Week (152) took fifth place and sixth went to Aaron Gilchrist (145) and Maxton Brozik (106).

“I was happy with how we did in this tournament,” said coach Spencer Novotny. “Looking back I think we lost a few we should not have lost. I know going into the tournament we were not yet in shape but we are in better shape than I thought we were.”

The coach said it was nice having nine finalist with six winning individual titles. It was also awesome that Riley Orel was recognized as the outstanding wrestler.

“He has been working hard in and out of practice so it is nice for him to get that recognition,” said Novotny.

“We are going to have to hit on a little technique this week and get ready for the start of our dual season on Thursday.”

On Dec. 12 the Warriors will compete in a triangular with Wagner and Gregory in Gregory.

On Saturday, Winner will compete in the Gregory Invitational starting at 9 a.m.

New year and new goals

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Returning letter winners on the Winner High School girls basketball team are in front from left Katherine Jankauskas, Ellie Brozik and Maggie LaCompte. In back from left are Kelsey Sachtjen, Bella Swedlund, Morgan Hammerbeck and Kalla Bertram.

The Winner Lady Warriors basketball team comes into the start of this season as the defending Class A champions and sporting a 24-0 record.

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Eldridge named to Hall of Fame

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Bruce Eldridge, second from left, formerly of Tripp County, was inducted into the 4-H shooting sports hall of fame. Pictured from left are Tim Tanner, SDSU extension state 4-H youth development program director; Eldridge, John Keimig, SDSU extension youth safety field specialist and Karla Trautman, SDSU extension director.

Bruce Eldridge was inducted into the 2019 4-H shooting sports hall of fame.

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