Herman Qualifies for State in Discus

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Winner High School track athletes competed at the Pierre Legion Relays on Friday.

Delores Herman had a state qualifying throw in the discus with a throw of 114-7. She took third place. Herman also placed 5th in the shot put with a throw of 35-7.

The medley relay team took fourth place in 4:33.1.  Runners were Sydney Fritz, Hayley Halverson, Alexis Richey and Chloe Bartels.

On the boys side, Nathan Galbraith took third place in the 400 in :51.5.

Other results of the WHS boys include:

Shot put—Brendan Harter, 5th, 46-1

Discus—Harter, 6th, 133-1

400 relay—6th, :46.2, Nick Hossle, Isaac Naasz, Riley Calhoon and Tyrel Haley

1600 relay—5th, 3:35.3, Coleton Schuyler, Sam Naasz, Kayleb Brozik and Nathan Galbraith

Medley relay—6th, 3:56, Nick Hossle, Riley Calhoon, Kayleb Brozik and Luke Engel

 

Winner Teams are Big Dakota Conference Champs

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Winner boys and girls track team won the Big Dakota Conference track meet held in Mobridge on April 21.

The WHS boys won first place with 157 points with Miller taking second with 105 points.

The Lady Warriors won the meet with 108 points with Mobridge-Pollock taking second with 102 points.

For the girls, Deloris Herman won both the shot put and the discus. The Winner senior threw the shot put 35-6 and the discus, 102-1.

Alexis Richey won the 400 in 1:07.08.

Other results of the WHS girls include:

400—Hayley Halverson, 4th, 1:09.02

800—Chloe Bartels, 2nd, 2:42.50; Richey, 5th, 2:51

1600—Bartels, 4th, 5:52.59

3200—Bartels, 2nd, 13:28.25

Long jump—Rachel Sherman, 4th, 12-2.5

Shot put—Kyran Meek, 4th, 30-1

Discus—Brindi Felix, 3rd, 90-6; Casey Norrid, 4th, 88-6

4×100 relay—3rd, :57.03, Rachel Sherman, Sydney Fritz, Kelsey Bertram and Kyran Meek

4z200 relay—2nd, 2:00.47, Rachel Sherman, Sydney Fritz, Kelsey Bertram and Sydney Schuyler

4×400 relay—3rd, 4:57.37, Alexis Richey, Kelsey Bertram, Kyran Meek and Sydney Schuyler

4×800 relay—2nd, 11:11.72, Haley Halverson, Sydney Schuyler, Alexis Richey, Chloe Bartels

Medley relay—4th, 5:06.87, Sydney Fritz, Kelsey Bertram, Hayley Halverson and Sydney Schuyler

The Winner High School boys were led by Coleton Schuyler who won the 800 in 2:05.55; Kayleb Brozik who won the high jump in 5-6; Brendan Harter who won the discus with a throw of 135-11

The Warriors won first place in two of the relays.

Other results of the Winner Warriors include:

100—Nick Hossle, 4th, :11.56; Tyrel Haley, 6th, :11.59

200—Windsor Barry, 4th, :23.78; Haley, 5th, :23.88

400—Nathan Galbraith, 2nd, :53.41

110 hurdles—Haley, 3rd, :16.55; Sam Naasz, 4th, :17.31

300 hurdles—Haley, 2nd, :44.18; Naasz, 4th, :45.24

800—Kayleb Brozik, 2nd, 2:15.34

Long jump—Nick Hossle, 2nd, 17-3; Riley Calhoon, 4th, 16-7.5; Windsor Barry, 6th, 16-5.5

Triple jump—Barry, 3rd, 36-9.5

High jump—Brendan Harter, 2nd, 5-6

Shot put—Harter, 2nd, 43-5; Trevor Sachtjen, 5th, 38-0; John Kludt, 6th, 37-6

4×100 relay—4th, :49.40, Jayden Schroeder, Isaac Naasz, Riley Calhoon, Levi McClanahan

4×200 relay—1st, 1:39.12, Nick Hossle, Isaac Naasz, Sam Naasz and Windsor Barry

4×400 relay—1st, 3:43.81, Coleton Schuyler, Kayleb Brozik, Sam Naasz and Nathan Galbraith

4×800 relay—2nd, 9:10.74, Luke Engel, Izak Moleterno, Kayleb Brozik, and Coleton Schuyler

Medley relay—2nd, Nick Hossle, Riley Calhoon, Isaac Naasz and Nathan Galbraith.

“Great effort by all the student athletes,” said coach Larry Aaker.

“On the boys side, we were able to place someone in every event except one and that really helps when you’re trying to win a meet. We expected the boys to do very well  but they needed to go out and perform well  and they did,” said Aaker.

On the girls side, the coach said the team knew it was a going to be a close race and could possible come down to the last race, which it did. “All the girls stepped up and did what they were asked to do and were able to come away winning the team title by six points,” said the coach.

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Colome Team Places 5th

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Colome boys and girls track teams both placed fifth at the Kimball/White Lake Invitational on April 23.

Jackson Kinzer won the triple jump in 37-0.

Other results of the Colome boys team include:

Triple jump—Andrew Laprath, 5th, 34-2.

100—Cole McCarty, 5th, :11.88; Chase Hrabanek, 6th, :11.89

200—Hrabanek, 4th, :24.53; Reed Harter, 5th, :24.76

300 hurdles—Andrew Laprath, 4th, :52.58

1600—Cody Heath, 6th, 5:32.40

Long jump—Cole McCarty, 2nd, 18-4.5

Discus—Cody Heath, 4th, 96-5

4×100 relay—2nd, :48.09, Chase Hrabanek, Cole McCarty, Jackson Kinzer and Reed Harter

Medley relay—3rd, 3:58, Reed Harter, Cole McCarty, Chase Hrabanek and Jackson Kinzer

On the girls side, Jaclyn Laprath won the mile run in 5:57.88.

Other results of the Colome girls include:

300 hurdles—Morgan Hofeldt, 3rd, 1:00.28

800—Taylor Hrabanek, 2nd, 2:53.85; Lauren Week, 6th, 3:10.41

3200—Laprath, 2nd, 13:22.31

Long jump—Hrabanek, 3rd, 14-1.50

Triple jump—Week, 4th, 29 ½

4×200 relay—6th, 2:10.85, Lauren Week, Morgan Hofeldt, Mariah Kinzer, Taylor Hrabanek

4×800 relay—4th, 11:30.72, Morgan Hofeldt, Lauren Week, Jaclyn Laprath and Taylor Hrabanek

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Academic Awards Presented to WHS Teams

Winner is one of several schools that have received academic team achievement awards for the 2014-2015 winter season.

All varsity fine arts groups and athletic teams that achieve a combined grade point average of 3.0 or higher are eligible to receive the South Dakota High School Activities Association academic achievement team award.

Winner High School teams that won the award are: girls basketball cheerleaders, boys basketball cheerleaders, boys basketball team, wrestling team, girls basketball team and one act play.

Initiated during the 1996-97 school year, the academic team achievement award program is designed to recognize varsity athletic teams and fine arts teams for their academic excellence.

Duane Dale Blare, 79

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Duane Dale Blare, 79, was taken by his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on Sunday, April 19, 2015.  He was born to Dale and Josephine Blare on October 22, 1935 in the farm house near Hamill.  He has lived pretty much his whole life on the homestead farm out by Hamill.  He graduated from Winner High School and played sports, pranks and the yoyo.  There he met Ruth Colleen Minchow at the Young Peoples’ Meetings whom he then married on October 3, 1954.

He accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as his Savior and they joined the Orthodox Presbyterian Church where he served his Lord in whatever way possible.  Raising four children on the farm, he really enjoyed farming, raising cattle, observing how his family grew in the Lord.  Most everyone would agree that he had a happy and caring manner towards anyone he would meet.  Whether a good handshake, a big smile or most of the time a big hug, you knew he cared and wanted to help.  He hardly ever pushed himself on people but had a way of drawing you in to him.

Lorene Wolf, 87

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Lorene Anna Wolf was born April 22, 1927 at Woonsocket, SD to Mathew and Lena (Hein) Wolf.

She moved to the Winner area at an early age and in 1945 she moved to the Redfield State Hospital and School. She remained there for the next 30 years.

In 1975 she moved back to Winner when the South Central Adjustment Training Center was opened. Later, she moved to the Winner Long Term Care Facility.

While living at the Adjustment Training Center, she enjoyed her work and new found independence. Lorene was presented the first Bill Sacker award. It was given to an individual with mental retardation who left an institution and became an integrated member of society. It was said in the very beginning she was determined to make it on her own. It was her dream and her goal and she never lost sight of it. Lorene won eleven Special Olympic medals and was a member of the Greater Tripp ARC, Catholic Daughters of the Americas, and the Winner Lioness Club.

Veteran Receives Past-Due Medal

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By Hot Springs Star staff  

HOT SPRINGS – At the command, “Sergeant Jerke, Front and Center!” Army Korean War veteran Clarence Jerke, formerly of Winner,  jumped to his feet and walked to the front of the auditorium during the Resident’s Council meeting at the State Veterans Home in Hot Springs.  Unbeknownst to Jerke, he was about to receive a long-overdue medal for his service.

As State Home Director of Operations Randy Meyers read from a letter signed by Kim Dae-jung, the President of the Republic of Korea and dated June 25, 2000, State Home Superintendent Brad Richardson pinned the Korean Service Medal to Jerke’s shirt front.

The Korean Service Medal was awarded by the Republic of Korea in 2000, 50 years after the start of the conflict, as a way to thank the American Servicemen and women for their efforts in safeguarding the country.

Athlete Safety Becomes Priority at Activities Association

By Dana Hess for S.D. Newspaper Association

PIERRE, S.D. – Policies dealing with student-athlete safety will be studied during the next year for possible implementation, the South Dakota High School Activities Association Board of Directors was told by staff April 21.

The study will be led by SDHSAA Assistant Executive Director John Krogstrand who attended a meeting about athlete safety.

“I came back scared,” Krogstrand said of the meeting the National Athletic Trainers’ Association and the National American Society for Sports Management that dealt with high school athletic injuries.

Key areas covered at the meeting included emergency action plans, sudden cardiac arrest, contact and concussions and heat exposure.

“These are real things that happen,” Krogstrand said of the incidence of heart attacks in young athletes.

He said many schools have automated external defibrillators but the speakers at the meeting pointed out that the machines may not be charged or properly maintained.

Krogstrand said he learned that heat exposure isn’t necessarily just an occurrence in Southern states.

“It can take place anytime, anywhere,” Krogstrand said.

The states that had rules in place to guard against these injuries had one grim similarity.

“It seemed like every state, before they’d address these issues, kids would die,” Krogstrand said.

During the next year, SDHSAA staff and sports medicine experts will work on policy recommendations to bring to the board.

“We really need to do a better job of this within the next 12 months,” Krogstrand said.

Farming In Right of Way Is Not Allowed

PIERRE, S.D. – The South Dakota Department of Transportation says it is against the law to plant crops within the right of way of a public road and it also can be a safety hazard for motorists.

According to director of operations Greg Fuller,  the purpose of the highway right of way is to create an obstruction free area for the safety of the traveling public. Farmers who unlawfully plant crops in the right of way can create a visual obstruction and possibly limit sight distances for motorists, especially near intersections.

Tall crops also can cover important signage and create cover for deer and other wildlife. That gives motorists less of a chance to see wildlife in time to avoid a serious accident. Highway right of way also is used by utility companies to install gas lines, power lines, telephone lines and fiber optic cable. Plowing and tilling can damage these lines and create a potentially dangerous situation for farmers, utility workers and area residents. It also can cause possible service interruptions.

Along with safety concerns, farming activity in the right of way can create erosion and landscape changes that can affect proper drainage, clog culverts and jeopardize the stability of the shoulders and the roadbed itself. Right of way widths can vary depending on location. Landowners should verify where the right of way line is prior to farming. If there are any questions on where the right of way line is, they should contact their local region or area DOT office.

Contact information can be found on the SDDOT website: HYPERLINK “http://www.sddot.com/contact/”http://www.sddot.com/contact/.