Warriors Pick Up Big Victory

Winner High School football team scored 44 points in the first half on the way to a 50-7 victory over Stanley County Friday night in Winner. This was the home opener for the Warriors which saw a great crowd follow the team.

Winner scored 14 points in the first quarter and 30 in the second quarter.

We played well,” said coach Dan Aaker. “We got off to a good start both offensively and defensively. We had a big play factor which is one of the things we wanted to see this year.”

Trevor Peters opened the scoring for the Warriors on a 15 yard run. Six minutes later quarterback Brady Fritz completed a 54-yard touchdown pass to Brandon Volmer.

To start the second quarter, Fritz went to the air again and completed 34 yard pass to Joren Bruun.

With 9:42 left in the first half, Fritz threw a 37 yard TD pass to Nolan Sachtjen.

Peters scored his second touchdown on a 23 yard run with 4:47 left in the second quarter. Capping the scoring in the first half was Sachtjen on a 21 yard run.

Stanley County scored in the second quarter.

Neither team scored in the third period.

The final score for Winner was in the fourth quarter on a 16 yard run by Aaron Gilchrist.

Aaker said Fritz threw the ball well. The quarterback was 4-4 for 151 yards. “Brandon Volmer, Joren Bruun and Nolan Sachtjen all made some nice catches,” said the coach.

Winner had 407 yards of total offense and held Stanley County to 154 yards.

Winner had 21 first downs and their opponent had 8.

Peters was the leading rusher for the Warriors with 92 yards followed by Sachtjen with 36, Sam Kruger, 29.

The Warrior defense was led by Shea Connot and Phillip Jorgensen with 5 tackles each.

Elijah Blare had 4 tackles along with Preston Norrid.

Aaker noted the defense played much better. “We made strides. We saw a lot of improvement in a lot of areas. The biggest thing I was happy with was how we played with some emotion and having fun. You could just see it in the guys Friday night.”

Everyone got in the game. The second half the junior varsity played and the coach complemented them for how well they played.

The Warriors will host West Central on Friday at 7 p.m.

Last year the Warriors defeated West Central on the road.

Aaker says West Central has a great program, well coached and very disciplined.

This will be a big challenge for us and we need to be ready,” he said.

Volleyball Team Opens with Two Wins

Winner High School volleyball team opened the season with two wins.

The Lady Warriors defeated Bon Homme on Aug. 21. The scores were 25-19, 25-13 and 25-13.

Alexis Richey and Gracie Littau each were 100 percent in serving.

Ellie Brozik had 5 ace serves, Richey and Kalla Bertram had 2 each.

Morgan Hammerbeck had 14 kills and Abby Marts and Brozik had 4 each.

Mackenzie Levi had 17 set assists.

Brozik had a 2.33 serve receive rating and Richey 1.77.

Hammerbeck had 15 digs, Richey 12.

Marts had 3 block assists.

As a team, Winner was 87 percent in serving with 10 aces, 26 kills, 25 set assists. The team had a 1.78 serve receive rating. The team had 46 digs and 3 blocks.

We came out a little nervous,” said coach Jaime Keiser. “Once we got the nerves out we did a great job of attacking the ball which kept Bon Homme on the defensive end. We were serving aggressively and getting in defensive position. We did a great job of talking and working together as a team,” said Keiser.

On Thursday, the Lady Warriors defeated Miller. The scores were 25-15, 26-24, 22-25 and 25-21.

Scoring leaders were Gracie Littau and Alexis Richey with 100 percent in serving.

Brozik had 4 aces serves and Richey and Hammerbeck, 2 each.

Hammerbeck and Marts each had 13 kills.

Levi had 27 set assists and Littau, 4.

Richey had 19 digs, Levi, 14 and Littau, 12.

Marts had 1 solo block and 2 block assists.

Levi had 2 block assists.

As a team, Winner was 92 percent in serving with 10 aces serves and 38 kills.

They had 33 set assists, 73 digs and 4 blocks.

Keiser said the team came out focused and ready to play. “We were very aggressive serving which kept Miller out of system. We were getting in defensive position and playing very well as a team. We did a great job of keeping Miller’s best hitter in the back row.

It was a total team effort and everyone stepped up and did what they needed to do to win,” said Keiser.

The Lady Warriors are at Ainsworth, Neb., on Aug. 30.

On Sept. 4, Winner will host Bennett County and Gregory.

Cowgirls Fall in Opener

Colome volleyball team opened the season at Burke on Aug. 25 and lost the first match.

The Cowgirls lost 7-25, 24-26, 19-25.

Serving leaders were Haley Krumpus, 8 points, 1 ace; Kaydee Heath, 5 points, 1 ace; Makayla Shippy, 4 points.

Kill leaders were Kaydee Heath, 5 and Rayne Hermsen, 3.

Kaydee Heath had 2 solo blocks and Saydee Heath had 1 solo and 1 assist.

Kaydee Heath had 4 digs and Krumpus and Hermsen, 3 digs.

Shippy had 13 assists.

The C team lost 22-25, 21-25. Serve leaders were Libbie Petersek, 11 points and 3 aces; Ashlyn Hoffine, 6 points and 1 ace and Devon Dougherty, 6 points and 2 aces.

The junior varsity lost 11-25, 20-25.

Serve leaders were Dougherty, 5 points, 1 ace and Clarissa Ringing Shield, 4 points.

The next action for Colome is the Gregory Invitational on Sept. 1.

Bob Klas, 82

Bob Klas died peacefully, surrounded by his family at his Tigard home on Wed. May 2, 2018. At 82, he was rewarded for living a good life by a blessed, holy death. He fought lung cancer for a year and a half,

Bob was born May 28, 1936, the only child of Alice [Holden] K1as and Raymond Klas. He was delivered by a midwife, on a poor depression-era farm near Colome, SD. When he was 3, his parents moved to Winner where he grew up a “towny”. Bob’s 35 “farm cousins” were jealous of him because he a1ways had a room to himself whi1e moving often from one small rental to another. Bob was jealous of them because they had many brothers and sisters to have fun with whi1e sharing a room between three or four of them. The “country cousins” had many animals to “play with and ride” across vast open fields. whi1e he had just one dog “Blondie” to love. These fields were the same fields their grandparents homesteaded and on which their parents struggled through the dustbowls and 1ocust hordes. Being “rooted to the land” was a treasured value unknown to city folk. Winner, though tiny by our standards, was the “big town” and was the main trading center of this vast farming region. There Bob attended St. Mary‘s grade school and served as an altar boy before graduating with honors from Winner High in June of 1954. Weeks later, the family moved to Hillsboro, OR where a few relatives had relocated.

When Bob was barely 10, he started working as a shoe shine boy at he Winner Grocery lo help the family make ends meet. A good worker, he was promoted to sweeper, then bagboy, then clerk till eventually becoming a phone—delivery truck driver. In Winner, he made $1.00/hour and tips. Soon after moving to Hillsboro, Bob got a job at Smith‘s Market again as a phone—delivery driver but making $3.00/hour and tips! Bob thought he was rich and gone to heaven! Soon realizing that most customers ordered similar groceries each week, Bob began prepacking the orders well before the phone-in deadline. This way, by serving many more customers, Bob made more tip money while Smith made more profit. Bob continued to work for Smith full time-days then drove downtown nightly to study drafting at Multnomal College and Fine Arts at The Museum Arts School. He started pre Archineclurc at PSU in 1958. Oct. 1959 with the cold war warming up Bob enlisted in the Army. Right after boot camp and job
training, he was sent to Passalaqua, a small administrative base in the heart of Verona, Italy. Italy was a dream assignment for this young architecture student. Immediately, Bob started going off base every chance he got, eager to see the sites and experience the culture. Because of his precise grammar excellent spelling and clean cut mannerisms, Bob was entrusted to type and edit the senior-officer-performance-repots before sending then further up. He was promoted very quickly then chosen to be an honor guard. A few months later, Bob was “invited“ to the Italian Consul’s office. There he was asked if he wanted to “volunteer” to “occasionally just carry a few papers to Venice.“ Venice, just an hour away by train was where the US embassy was located. He was “offered a few extra
weekend leaves at government expense.” A young 22 year old Bob “volunteered in a heartbeat!” On THE day the Berlin wall was started, Bob was flown out of Verona and directly back to Portland, months before he was due. In Aug. 1961, Bob was honorably discharged.

Home again, he reenrolled in PSU and again went to work at Smith‘s Market. Bob married Mary Anne Millington June 8, 1964,

That fall, they moved to Eugene when Bob transferred to U of O. Bob made the Dean’s list and received several scholarships. He graduated in Dec. 1966 earning his Bachelor of Architecture degree,

Moving back to Portland, he began working as a draftsman. Over the next 40 years, Bob specialized in designing commercial retail. Hundred of Safeways, Albertsons, Thriftways and adjoining strip malls throughout OR, WA, ID, NV, and Northern California were designed by EKA. Bob‘s firm did motels, restaurants, banks & some larger regional malls. He redesigned Beaverton mall 3 times. In the 70’s Beaverton used his double-pod-design for 8 schools years. Throughout those 40 years, because of his high standards, integrity and fairness, Bob had many repeat clients and employees who stayed with him for 20 plus years until he finally retired when 70.

About 25 years ago, Bob volunteered his services to remodel Trinity’s original ‘long gym Church’ into the more ‘congregation-friendly-round one’ that served us for two decades. It is fitting that today, Bob’s funeral is being held here in this, ‘Trinity’s new Church’ whose original-concept roots came through Bob years ago. Trinity was Bob’s spiritual home. Here, he taught CCD and led the scouts when his children were young. Later he was a lector, usher, collection-counter, and a 4th degree Knight of Columbus. Serving as Eucharistic minister was what he cherished most. He was Fed here and from here he is Freed to his new life.

The day Bob died, Wed. May 2. 2018, was the most peaceful, deepest, calmest, most Spirit-filled day of his whole life. Having the whole family together always was Bob‘s greatest joy. For us to feel, see and, witness his spirit rising that whole day, to know he was on the way to Heaven was a gift he shared with us.

 

Direct Support Professionals Recognition Week

PIERRE, S.D. – Gov. Dennis Daugaard has proclaimed Sept. 9-15 Direct Support Professionals (DSP) Recognition Week in South Dakota.

DSPs are employed by 20 community support providers throughout the state as well as the South Dakota Developmental Center in Redfield.

DSP Recognition Week highlights the efforts of those who work closely with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. DSPs help individuals with disabilities to participate in their communities, find employment, and lead full and independent lives.

“DSPs are essential in ensuring people with disabilities have equal opportunities to lead a life they desire,” said South Dakota Department of Human Services Division of Developmental Disabilities Director Darryl Millner.

Many South Dakotans with intellectual and developmental disabilities rely upon DSPs to deliver their individualized support services and help them to achieve their goals.

DSP Recognition Week in South Dakota coincides with National Direct Support Professionals Recognition Week to celebrate DSPs across the country, which also begins on Sept. 9.

WOMEN IN AG DAY SET FOR SEPTEMBER 11TH

Woman in Ag Day will be held on Sept. 11 in Burke. One of the speakers will be Yvonne Hollenbeck of Clearfield.

Woman in Ag Day is a great opportunity to socialize with women from your area and surrounding areas. We have 6 great guest speakers .The Day will be filled with valuable information along with the opportunity to do a little special shopping just for you!

Speakers include Yvonne Hollenbeck:

South Dakota ranch wife, Yvonne Hollenbeck, is one of the most published and award-winning cowgirl poets in America, writing about her life on a Clearfield area ranch where her cowboy husband, Glen Hollenbeck, raises angus beef cattle and registered quarter horses. Hollenbeck writes about her life on the ranch, whether she is helping outside with the livestock, putting up hay, paying the bills, or feeding a crew and puts real life experiences into her poetry, stories and weekly article in the Farmer/Rancher Exchange.

Yvonne is also an avid quilt maker and quilt historian and has a collection of family quilts spanning 150 years, all made by members of her family. This has become one of the most popular programs in a large area and attending this program, called “Patchwork of the Prairie”, you will not only be entertained by some of her award-winning poetry and the showing of these quilts, but will enjoy a background slide presentation showing the makers and homes they lived in, some of which were sod houses.

Hope Kleine, is a Health Education Field Specialist with SDSU Extension. She will be presenting “Getting Comfortable Canning at Home”. She graduated from SDSU with a Masters in Exercise Science. She is a skilled food preserver with experience in water bath canning, pressure canning and freezing foods.

Joel Neubauer, Regional Financial Consultant with Farm Bureau Financial Services will be presenting “Farming without the Bank”. The focus is to become your own bank by taking control of your resources and building a financial system you own.

Southern Plains Behavioral Health Services will be presenting Surviving Stressful Times. Lesley Homes has a Bachelors in Behavioral Science from Bellevue University in Omaha, Lindsey McCarthy has a Bachelors of Social Work from the University of SD, and Jennifer Bennett has a bachelor’s of science in Psychology from the University of NE at Kearney. Lindsey and Jennifer provide Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy in the four county catchment areas that Southern Plains serves.

Douglas P Barnett, assistant attorney general, will be presenting “Opioid and Meth Addiction in SD” . and Mary Jane West, Gregory County Executive Director presenting information about “ FSA Program Updates” .

Please set aside Sept. 11. This will be held at the Burke Civic Center in Burke, located on Main Street. Pre-registration will be required. This will include a noon meal with all the great speakers and interesting topics. Persons must register no later than Sept. 7. Space will limit the number of people that can attend so register now.

Brochures with registration forms may be picked up at your Farm Bureau Financial Services Office at 829 Main Street in Burke, SD or you may call in your registration to 605-775-8290.

For more information contact Nichole Matucha, Gregory County Farm Bureau President at (605)830-9802, Farm Bureau Financial Services (605) 775-8290 (S.Brychta-Johnson@fbfs.com).

 

Cast Chosen for Upcoming Play

 

The cast has been chosen for the upcoming production by the Winner Community Playhouse.

The comedy, “Two Witches, No Waiting,” will be presented Sept. 28-29 and Oct. 4, 5 and 6 at the playhouse.

The cast includes: Tami Comp, Barb DeSersa, Emily Moser, Andrew Taylor, Brandy Biggins, Tim Meldrum, Hanna Rowe and Mary Marso.

The play is directed by Sandra York with Dan Patmore as the technical director.

Gant and Marchese Win Member Guest Golf Meet

Tim Gant and Tim Marchese were the overall winners of the Ron Waller Memorial member guest golf tournament at the Winner Country Club.

Awards were presented Sunday following the two day tournament. This is 24th year of the member guest golf meet in Winner.

The derby winners were Barry Gardner and Blake Gardner. The runner up in the derby were Ryan Radant and Nick Larsen.

Saturday flight winners were:

Flight A—1st place Tim Gant and Tim Marchese, 69; 2nd—Ryan Radant and Nick Larsen, 72; 3rd—John Halverson and Donny Godel, 73 and 4th Larry Aaker and Brad Haynes, 73

Flight B—1st Curt Calhoon and Casey Osborn, 80; 2nd—Brett Gardner and Chris Haynes, 80; 3rd—Tanner Best and Derek Cihak, 80 and 4th Mike Barfuss and Troy Feisterman, 81

Flight C—1st—Randy Kludt and Rob Collins, 89; 2nd—Casey Berndt and Steve Johnson, 91; 3rd—Rusty Arthur and Brady Arthur, 91and 4th—Mike Dreyer and Travis Peters, 91

Sunday flight winners were:

Flight A—1st—Tim Gant and Tim Marchese, 62; 2nd—Izak Nespor and Marshall Cihak, 65; 3rd—Charlie Grossenburg and Adam Severson, 66; 4th—Ryan Radant and Nick Larsen, 67

Flight B—1st—Brett Gardner, Chris Haynes, 67; 2nd—Mike Stickland and Phil Husher, 68; 3rd—Curt Calhoon and Casey Osborn, 69; 4th—Chuck Keiser and David Keiser, 78

Flight C—1st—Casey Berndt and Steve Johnson, 70; 2nd—Randy Kludt and Rob Collins, 78; 3rd—Chris Burns and Bruce Drapeaux, 74 and 4th—Rusty Arthur and Brady Arthur, 74

The calcutta winners include:

Flight A—1st—Charlie Grossenburg and Adam Severson, 61.5; 2nd—Tim Gant and Tim Marchese, 62; 3rd and 4th—Izak Nespor and Marshall Cihak, 62.5; Jeff Schramm and Mike Schramm, 62.5 and Barry Gardner and Blake Gardner, 62.5

Flight B—1st—Mike Stickland and Phil Husher, 64; 2nd—Brett Gardner and Chris Haynes, 67; 3rd—Curt Calhoon and Casey Osborn, 69 and 4th—Chuck Keiser and David Keiser, 70.5

Flight C—1st—Casey Berndt and Steve Johnson, 69; 2nd—Chris Burns and Bruce Drapeaux, 71.5; 3rd—Scott Meiners and Scott Dutt, 72.5; 4th—Randy Kludt and Rob Collins, 73; Rusty Arthur and Brady Arthur, 73

Pin prize winners on Saturday include:

No. 2 closest to pin in 2 for member Rich Crow Eagle and guest Blake Gardner

No. 3 closest to pin for member Curt Calhoon and guest Ryan Pokorny

No. 4 long putt—member Randy Pokorny and guest Craig Thieman

No. 5 closest third shot—member Ryan Radant and guest Cordell Nilson

No. 2 long putt—member Charlie Grossenburg and guest Donny Godel

No. 7 closest to pin for member Jack Burns and guest Larry Goodell

No. 9 long drive for a member Dan Aaker and guest Nick Larsen

Pin prize winners on Sunday include:

No 2 member Brett Gardner and guest Donny Godel

No. 3 member Ryan Radant and guest Charles Schlomer

No. 4—members Barry Grossenburg and guest Darrell Herman

No. 5 member Rick Godel, guest Brad Haynes

No. 6 member Chris Burns and guest Dan Drake

No. 7 member Chris Burns and guest Jeff Seefeldt

No. 9 member Ryan Radant and guest Brad Haynes

SDSU Graduation

Area students graduated from South Dakota State University in Brookings.

The graduates include: Laura Kahler, Colome, master of science; Sarah Calhoon, Ideal, doctor of pharmacy; Grant Galbraith, Ideal, bachelor of science.

Winner graduates are: Nathan Farley, bachelor of science; Jack Kerner, doctor of pharmacy; Trace Meyer, bachelor of science; Rebecca Moorhead, bachelor of science; Chesney Nagel, bachelor of science.

Drivers Be Safe During Mobilization Period

During this August mobilization period, the Winner Police Department will strive to reduce the number of drunk drivers. The police department will be on the lookout for impaired drivers and erratic driving.

The Winner Police Department will strive to keep drivers and passengers safe during this mobilization period and provide saturation periods and to spread the word about the dangers of impaired driving.

The police department wants persons to be safe over the Labor Day weekend.