Category Archives: Sports

Winner Teeners defeated Onida 9-4 on Thursday at Leahy Bowl.  Riley Calhoon was the winning pitcher.

The varsity Teeners played two games in Deadwood on Sunday.
In the first game, Winner lost to Lead/Deadwood 5-4.  Carter Brickman was the losing pitcher.

In the second game, Rapid City defeated Winner 11-6.  Bolton was the losing pitcher.

The next action for the Teeners will be Thursday in Valentine and this weekend in Winner is the Teener tournament.

Winner/Colome baseball team scored four runs in the first inning and held on for a 5-4 victory over West Central to claim the club baseball team’s first ever state title Monday at Sioux Falls Stadium.

Winner/Colome baseball team won 4-3 in the bottom of the 13th inning in the first game of the Class B state baseball tournament Monday morning in Sioux Falls.
Kelly O’Bryan had the winning hit to drive in the scoring run and send the Royals into the championship game which was played later on Memorial Day at the Birdcage in Sioux Falls.

Winner sprinter Cameron Kuil achieved his goal of winning a first place medal at the state track meet.

The Winner High School junior accomplished that goal as he won the 400 meter dash at the South Dakota state track meet Saturday at Howard Wood Field in Sioux Falls.  His winning time was :49.89 seconds edging Spearfish’s Matt Peterson.

In addition to wining the 400, the Winner runner took second in the 200 and third in the 100. His time in the 200 was :22.54 and his time in the 100 was :11.14.

He also helped the Winner boys medley relay team to a second place finish in 3:41.76. In addition to Kuil, runners on this relay were Riley Calhoon, Luke Engel and Kayleb Brozik. Sioux Falls Christian won the boys medley 3:35.85.

The Winner boys team took 8th place at the state track meet.

The Winner High School girls team placed 8th in the medley. The Lady Warriors ran a 4:3l.05 on Saturday. The runners were Hayley Halverson, Alexis Richey, Samantha Schuyler and Chloe Bartels.

Results of other Winner athletes on Friday include:

100 hurdles—Tedra Vrbka, 22nd, :17.92
Girls 4×200 relay—15th, 1:54.66, Hayley Halverson, Chloe Bartels, Sam Schuyler and Alexis Richey
Boys 4×200 prelims—18th, 1:37.57, Riley Calhoon, Isaac Naasz, Drew DeMers and Nolan Sachtjen
Girls 400 relay prelims—20th, :55.79, Hayley Halverson, Katherine Jankauskas, Madison Thieman and Tedra Vrbka
Boys 400 relay prelims—13th, :46.38, Jayden Schroeder, Isaac Naasz, Drew DeMers and Nolan Sachtjen.
Girls 300 hurdles—Morgan Hammerbeck, 18, :55.26
Girls sprint medley prelims—4:26.75, Hayley Halverson, Alexis Richey, Sam Schuyler and Chloe Bartels
Girls mile relay—14th, 4:19.36, Hayley Halverson, Chloe Bartels, Sam Schuyler and Alexis Richey
Boys mile relay—10th, 3:37.48, Luke Engel, Riley Calhoon, Brady Fritz and Kayeb Brozik
Girls Discus—Kyran Meek, 17th, 74-03; Jaynee Gregg, 18th, 71-08
Boys discus—John Kludt, 20th, 119-05; Jayden Schroeder, 21st, 115-01
Boys shot put—Jayden Schoeder, 10th, 46.03.50; Treven Doren, 13th, 44-09
Girls shot put—Kyran Meek, 31-05.50
Girls long jump—Tedra Vrbka, 26th, 13-02; Morgan Hammer beck, 27th, 12-04
Boys long jump—Brady Fritz, 21st, 19-01.25; Riley Calhoon, 24th, 18-05
Boys triple jump—Brady Fritz, 16th, 38-8.25

Colome junior Matt Campbell had an outstanding day on Saturday at the state track meet in Sioux Falls.

Campbell won the Class B shot put with a throw of 51 feet-1.75 inches. He edged out Canistota’s Xavier Ward who had a throw of 50-4.

But the Colome athlete’s great day continued because he still had to throw the discus in the afternoon. Campbell placed second in the discus with a throw of 157-11. For the second time in a day, Campbell found himself on the awards stand after his discus throw.

Results of other Colome athletes at the state meet include:

Kelly O’Bryan placed 10th in the triple jump at 39-9.5.
Holden Thieman placed 12th in the long jump at 19-5.25.
Kaydee Heath placed 12th in the prelims of the 300 hurdles in :51.04.
Jaclyn Laprath placed 16th in the two mile run in 13:09.81.
Callie Heath was 11th in the girls long jump at 15-03.75. She also ran the prelims of the 400 placing 12th in 1:02.51.

Winner High School girls golf team placed second at the pre-regional tournament in Mitchell on May 24. Winner was second shooting a 411.

Ronae Klein took fifth place shooting a 92. Liz Jankauskas shot a 93 to finish sixth and Addy Root was 11th to help Winner finish in second place.  Sam Marts placed 14th.

The regional was held May 31 in Mitchell.

Winner/Colome baseball team gave their fans something to cheer about as they won the Region 4B title last Tuesday in Winner.

The Royals defeated St. Thomas More 3-2 in extra innings for the victory.

For the first time in six years, Winner/Colome will represent Region 4B in the state tournament.

Many awards were presented to Winner High School athletes at the athletic awards night on May 17.
Hayley Halverson was named the outstanding senior athlete.
Named as senior most inspirational for the males was Devon Leiferman and the co-most inspirational for the females were Bailey Volmer and Kylie Horstman.
The Bill Pistulka Friend of Athletics award went to Cyndy DeMers and Marsha Risseeuw was named the outstanding quarterback club member.

Winner High School boys and girls track teams made a clean sweep of the Region 7A track meet in Winner.
On a day dominated by the wind, the Warriors and Lady Warriors were also pretty dominate winning both team titles on the way to setting several new meet records.
The boys won the title with 236 points and the girls took home the championship plaque with 203 points.

Jaclyn Laprath won the 3200 meter run and Kaydee Heath won the 300 hurdles at the Region 6B tournament in Gregory on Thursday.