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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.

Winner Area wrestling team will send eight wrestlers to the state tournament this weekend in Rapid City.

The wrestlers who qualified for state are: Wyatt Turnquist, Atlas Willuweit, Trevor Peters, Colby Curtis, Avery Gilchrist, Kayleb Brozik, Cohl Turnquist and Jayden Schoeder.

As a team in the Region 3B meet, Winner Area placed third. Parkston was first and Bon Homme/Scotland, second.

Colby Curtis was the champion at 126 pounds. The Winner senior won 4-3 over Landon Sivertson of Miller-Highmore-Harrold.

Six wrestlers took third place and one placed fourth.

Wyatt Turnquist, 106, won 6-0 over Matt Koch of Mt. Vernon/Plankinton.  Willuweit, 113, won 8-0 over Wyatt Stevens of Wessington Springs/ Woonsocket.  Peters, 120, won 3-1 over Jackson Nockels of Kimball/White Lake/Platte-Geddes.  Gilchrist, 145, won 4-2 over Alex Daum of Kimball/White Lake/Platte-Geddes.  Brozik, 170, won 5-1 over Jesse Mikrut of Wolsey-Wessington.  Jayden Schroeder, 195, pinned Tyson Serr of Burke/Gregory in 4:02.

Cohl Turnqusit took fourth as he lost 10-6 to Jed Konechene of Sunshine Bible Academy.

Winner High School basketball team won a Big Dakota Conference game when they defeated Mobridge-Pollock 44-21 on Friday.

The Warriors held the Tigers to one point in the second quarter and scoreless in the third quarter.

Drew DeMers led the scoring for Winner with 15 points followed by Devon Leiferman with 12, Cameron Kuil and Lattrel Terkildsen with 5 each.

Leiferman pulled down 12 rebounds, Kuil and Wyatt Ewing, 8 each.

Winner forced 22 turnovers.

Terkildsen, DeMers and Leiferman each had 3 assists.

In a thriller that came down to the wire, the Winner Warriors defeated Platte-Geddes 53-48 last Tuesday in Platte.

Devon Leiferman led Winner with 18 points followed by Terkildsen with 14 and William Schroeder with 6.

Krockett Krolikowski pulled down 11 rebounds and Leiferman, 9.

Terkildsen had 4 assists.

Colome Cowboys defeated Burke/South Central 65-40 on Feb. 16.

Reed Harter led the scoring for Colome with 18 points followed by Holden Thieman with 13, Jackson Kinzer, 10 and Will Cahoy, 9.

Kinzer and Thieman each pulled down 9 rebounds.

Colome had 6 turnovers and 7 fouls in the game.