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.
Reed Harter threw a shutout in five innings as the Winner/Colome baseball team defeated Chamberlain 13-0 in the first round of the playoffs on May 16 at Leahy Bowl. Harter had 13 strikeouts.
The Royals scored two runs each in the first and second innings, 4 runs in the third and 5 runs in the fourth inning.
It was a matchup of the top Class A and Class B teams in the state as the Winner/Colome baseball team faced Mitchell last Wednesday at Cadwell Park in Mitchell.
Mitchell won the game 12-2 in five innings. This was the first loss for the Royals.
The Winner/Colome Pheasants amateur baseball team spit a pair of games with Parkston on Sunday in Sunshine League play. The games were played in Parkston.
Parkston Mudcats won the first game 2-1 and Winner/Colome won the second game 5-3.
Winner High School boys track team won the SESD conference meet held in Winner on May 10. The Warriors scored 111 points for first place.
The Winner girls team took 7th with 41 points. Mt. Vernon/Plankinton won the girls division with 180 points.
Two conference records were broken. Winner’s Cameron Kuil broke the boys 100 meter dash record as he crossed the finish line in :10.68. The Winner junior had a sweep of the sprint races as he also won the 200 and the 400.
Ronae Klein was the medalist at the Winner Invitational track meet on Friday. Klein shot a 45.
The teams only played 9 holes due to the cold and windy conditions. Winner won first place and the team title.
Winner swept the top five placings. Liz Jankauskas was 2nd, Addy Root, 3rd; Samantha Marts, 4th; and Brennan Bachmann, 5th.
Colome girls track team took 3rd place at the Kimball meet on Friday. The Colome boys placed 4th.
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