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Winner High School boys basketball team placed sixth at the state Class A tournament in Rapid City this weekend.
Named to the all tournament team was senior Devon Leiferman.

In the consolation championship game Saturday afternoon in Rapid City, Winner was defeated by Sioux Valley 56-46.

In the first game of the state tournament on Thursday, the Warriors took on St. Thomas More. The Rapid City team came away with a 63-51 victory.

In the second game of the state tournament on Friday, Winner defeated Mt. Vernon/Plankinton 70-60. This the first time Winner has defeated Mt. Vernon/Plankinton.

Several Winner wrestlers placed at the Black Hills Nationals in Spearfish on March 19.

In the high school division, Tre’zen Doren won first and Wyatt Turnquist was 4th.
Ryan Orel placed first in the senior division.

Other results include:
9-10—Karson Keiser, 5th
11-12—Kaden Keiser, 1st and Maxton Brozik, 2nd
13-14—Kaleb Osborn, 1st and Achilles Willuweit, 2nd

The Winner/Colome club baseball team will open the season March 31 when they travel to Chamberlain. The game will start at 5:30 p.m. with junior varsity game followed by the varsity game.
The Winner/Colome team is coached by Drew Weber and Jon Hanson.

Lattrel Terkildsen of the Winner boys basketball team and Allison Cox of the Winner girls basketball team have been named to the All-Lakota Hoops boys basketball team.

Terkildsen and Cox are seniors at Winner High School. Both played in the State A tournament this year.

Allison Cox of the Winner Lady Warriors basketball team has been named to the Southeastern South Dakota all-conference team.

Named to the second team was Bailey Volmer and named to the third team was Kylie Horstman.

Taylor Hrabanek and Callie Heath of the Colome girls basketball team were named to the South Central Conference all-conference team.
Mariah Kinzer was named honorable mention.

Winner High School girls basketball team was defeated by St. Thomas More 49-32 in the championship game of the state Class A tournament Saturday in Watertown.

The Lady Warriors defeated West Central in the first game on Thursday and then Friday night avenged an earlier loss to Webster. With the two victories the Lady Warriors punched their ticket to the state championship.

The Lady Warriors were able to keep pace with the Cavaliers for much of the first quarter but turnovers were costly for Winner.

Cox had 16 points and seven rebounds for the Lady Warriors. Madyson Frazier added 6 points.

Winner had three players make the all-tournament team—Allison Cox, Sydney Fritz and Bailey Volmer.

In another thriller, the Winner High School boys basketball team punched their ticket to a return trip to the State A tournament with a 51-49 victory over Little Wound in the Region 7A championship. The game was last Tuesday in the ice arena at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City.

Winner will make a back to back appearance at the state tournament which starts Thursday in Rapid City. The Warriors took third at state a year ago.

Devon Leiferman led the scoring for Winner with 18 points followed by Drew DeMers, 13; Krockett Krolikowski and Trevor Bertram, 6 each; Cameron Kuil, 5 and Lattrel Terkildsen with 2.

Leiferman pulled down 12 rebounds with Krokikowski, 9 and Kuil, 8.

Terkildsen had 3 assists.

DeMers had one man maker and Krolikowski had 2.

Twenty-six local youths qualified for the state youth wrestling tournament in Aberdeen on April 2-3.  The regional was held Saturday in Mitchell.

Results include:

6 and under—Gus Tobin, Appolo Willuweit, Remmingyton Robbins, all 1^st; Rouyken Robbins, 2^nd; Teegan Shelbourn, 4^th and Cooper Craven, 6^th

7-8—Coy Shelbourn, 1^st; Rylan Robbins, Brody Calhoon, both 2^nd; Carter Craven, 5^th; Hudson Peters, 6^th and Peydin Peterson, 6^th

9-10—Ryken Orel, Kylah Biggins, Karson Keiser, Konner Osborn, Landon Calhoon, all 1^st; Kellen Brozik, 3^rd; Kash Peterson, 4^th and Payton Fisher, 5^th

11-12—Maxton Brozik and Riley Shippy, both 1^st; Riley Orel, 2^nd and Kiersten Fryer, 2^nd

13-14—Kaden Keiser, Kaleb Osborn, Aaron Gilchrist, all 1^st; Adam Cole, 2^nd; Achilles Willuweit, 3^rd; Joey Cole and Owen Duffy, both 4^th

15-16—Riggin Shippy, 1^st; Trevor Peters, Cailob Week and Landon Debus, all 2^nd

The Winner Lady Warriors basketball team was not going to let an 11 point deficient stop them from reaching their goal of playing in the state tournament.

Winner won the Region 7A title with a 58-52 overtime victory over No. 1 seed Little Wound in Pine Ridge on March 1.  Down 11 points at halftime, the Lady Warriors rallied back for the victory outscoring the Mustangs 12-6 in the overtime.

Cox led the scoring for Winner with 18 points followed by Fritz, 12; Volmer, 9 and Horstman, 8.  Cox pulled down 9 of Winner’s 36 rebounds. Volmer pulled down 8 and Horstmam, 7.

The Lady Warriors take a 19-4 record into the state tournament which will be played in Watertown March 10, 11 and 12. The last time Winner played in the state tournament was in 2014 in Spearfish.