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Chase Kingsbury stood at the free throw line with 4 seconds left in the game. The Winner junior made both shots to give the Winner boys basketball team an exciting 74-71 victory over Red Cloud in the semifinals of the Region 7A tournament Thursday night.
The victory propelled the Winner Warriors into the Region 7A championship game which was played March 8 in Rapid City. The Warriors faced Little Wound in the championship.

The Warriors took the first lead of the game at 65-64 in the fourth quarter and then Red Cloud came back to retake the lead. The game was tied at 67-67 when coach Gardner called a time out.

The Warriors take a 17-5 record into the regional championship game.

Winner girls basketball team placed three girls on the Big Dakota Conference all-conference team.  Making the team were Allison Cox, Bailey Volmer and Kylie Horstman.  Honorable mention went to Sydney Fritz and Madyson Frazier.  Winner Lady Warriors are the conference champions.

On the boys side, Devon Leiferman was named all-conference. Drew DeMers received honorable mention.
Winner boys were tri conference champions along with Cheyenne-Eagle Butte and Chamberlain.

Colome High School boys basketball team closed out the regular season with 63-30 win over Tripp-Delmont-Armour on Thursday.

Reed Harter scored 25 points and Holden Thieman added 19 points.

Thieman pulled down 9 rebounds, Harter pulled down 6 of Colome’s 26 rebounds, and Kelly O’Bryan added 5 boards.

Four Winner Area wrestlers placed in the State B tournament this weekend in Rapid City.  The Warriors took eight wrestlers to state.

Kayleb Brozik, 170, won fourth place as he lost a 6-1 decision to Nick Casperson of Beresford.

Colby Curtis came away from the state tournament with a victory in the 5th and 6th place match at 126 pounds. Curtis won 1-0 over Dalton Bodewiz of Marion-Freeman.

Wyatt Turnquist, 106, took 8th place. Turnquist was pinned by Sterling Rausch of Webster Area in 2:26.

Also placing 8th was Jayden Schroeder at 195 pounds. Schroeder was defeated 5-1 by Cooper Baloun of Redfield-Doland.

Trevor Peters and Cohl Turnquist also won matches at the tournament and came up just short of reaching the podium. Also wrestling was Avery Gilchrist.

As a team, Winner Area placed 19th with 34 points.

The excitement just continues to build for the Winner High School girls basketball team.  Thursday they defeated Pine Ridge 50-47 in a thriller to advance to the championship of the Region 7A tournament.

Cox led the Lady Warriors in scoring with 20 points. Volmer added 14 points and Fritz, 8.

Cox was strong on the boards pulling down 15 rebounds.

With an 18-4 record, Winner played Little Wound on March 1 in Pine Ridge for the region championship and a chance to play in the state tournament. Complete results of this game will be in the March 9 issue of the Winner Advocate.

Winner High School boys basketball team won the opening game of the Region 7A tournament Monday in Winner. The Warriors defeated Todd County 73-60.

In Monday’s game, Winner had four players in double figures. Leading the scoring was Devon Leiferman with 27 points followed by Lattrel Terkildsen with 15, Drew DeMers, 13 and Trevor Bertram, 10.

Leiferman pulled down 15 rebounds, Terkildsen 11 and Cameron Kuil, 10.  DeMers had 8 assists.

Winner High School boys basketball team closed out the regular season with a 66-52 victory over Crow Creek on Monday, Feb. 22.  The Warriors go into the regional tournament with a 15-5 record.  They tied for the Big Dakota Conference Championship. The Warriors tied with Cheyenne-Eagle Butte and Chamberlain.

In last Monday’s game, Leiferman led the team with 26 points followed by Terkildsen with 15, Cameron Kuil, 10 and Krockett Krolikowski, 5.

Kuil pulled down 12 of Winner’s 43 rebounds. Leiferman grabbed 11 and Krolikowski, 9.  Drew DeMers had 6 assists and Terkildsen, 5.

Colome girls basketball team fell to Avon 56-31 in the District 12B game last Tuesday in Avon.

Callie Heath had 9 points, Morgan Hofeldt, 8 and Taylor Hrabanek, 6.  Avon out-rebounded Colome 31-29.

Heath and Hrabanek each pulled down 9 rebounds.  The Cowgirls had 14 turnovers and 11 fouls.

Colome ended the season at 5-16.

The Colome Cowgirls won the opening game of the district tournament Monday in Colome. The Cowgirls defeated Gregory 67-56.

Colome used balanced scoring in its victory.  Scoring in double figures were Taylor Hrabanek with 19 points, Callie Heath, Mariah Kinzer and Elisabeth Duffy 12 points each. Duffy was 3/5 from the three points range.

Heath and Kinzer each pulled down nine rebounds.