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Winner Area wrestling team defeated Stanley County 51-24 in a dual Jan. 5 in Winner.
“The boys really did a nice job coming out ready to go,” said coach Matt Chambers. “I thought we wrested well as a team even in a couple of the matches we lost. We were able to get five pins in the dual which is huge for team points.”

Winner’s five pins were recorded by Jaikob Week, Trevor Peters, Colby Curtis, Cameron Biggins and Jayden Schroeder.

Colome girls basketball team was nipped by Kimball/White Lake 60-56 in overtime Thursday in Colome.

Taylor Hrabanek scored 16 points, Mariah Kinzer with 14 and Callie Heath, 12.  Leading rebounder was Heath with 7.  Kinzer led in assists with 7 and Hrabanek led in steals with 6.

Winner High School girls basketball team defeated Todd County 56-48 Thursday in Winner.  With the victory the Lady Warriors improve to 6-2 for the season.

Allison Cox led the scoring for Winner with 13 points followed by Chloe Bartels with 11, Bailey Volmer, 10 and Sydney Fritz with 9.

Fritz hauled down 9 of Winner’s 33 rebounds. Bartels and Cox each had 5 rebounds.

In a back to back game, the Winner Lady Warriors defeated Gregory 72-19 Saturday.

Thirteen Lady Warriors scored in this game. Leading the scoring for WHS was Allison Cox with 13 points. Sydney Fritz added 9 points.  The rebounds were spread among the team with Hanna LaCompte and Cox pulling down 4 rebounds.

The victory improved Winner’s record to 7-2.

Winner Lady Warriors improved their record to 5-2 with a 61-47 victory over Chamberlain on Jan. 5.
Allison Cox scored 23 points in the win. Bailey Volmer added 15 points.  Cox pulled down 11 of Winner’s 31 rebounds. Kylie Horstman grabbed 6 rebounds.

Todd County defeated the Colome girls basketball team 64-36 on Jan. 9 in Mission.

Callie Heath led Colome with 17 points.  Mariah Kinzer pulled down 10 rebounds.
Stevie Long Dog led Todd County with 18 points.

Todd County won the junior varsity game 46-11.

The next action for Colome girls is Jan. 14 at Burke/South Central.

Winner Area wrestling team took sixth place at the McCook Central tournament in Salem on Jan. 2.  Eight Winner area wrestlers placed in the tournament.  There were 19 teams in the tournament with Canton taking first place.  “This was our first time at this very good tournament with several top teams and many of the top wrestlers in Class B,” said coach Matt Chambers.

Wyatt Turnquist took third place with a 6-2 win over Parker Snyder of Philip Area.
Trevor Peters placed 5th as he won 7-1 over Martin Ruelas of Flandeau.
Colby Curtis took 7th as he won by injury default over Colby Fitch of Philip area.
Cameron Biggins and Avery Gilchrist both took 5th place. Biggins won by pin in 2:24 over Grant Plucker of Parker.
Gilchrist won by a pin in 37 seconds over Jayden Even of Parker.
Kayleb Brozik took 4th place as he lost 7-4 to Jesse Mikrut of Wolsey-Wessington.
Cohl Turnquist took 6th place as he was pinned by Blake Crowser of Philip Area in 1:48.
Jayden Schroeder placed 4th as he was pinned in 2:46 by Tyson Serr of Burke/Gregory.

“As a team, I thought we looked a little up and down, everyone really looked good at times which is a great positive. I also thought we left a few team points out there in matches that we could have either won or wrestled a little better,” said the coach. “Overall, it was a good showing coming out of break against some very good competition,” said Chambers.

The Winner boys basketball team suffered its first loss of the season Jan. 2 in Parkston. The Warriors were nipped 57-51.
The Warriors led at the end of the first three quarters. “We kind of let Parkston get away from us in the fourth quarter as they recorded 17 points alone,” said coach Brett Gardner. “We fouled a few too many times and they make their free throws. Hats off to Parkston as they made the plays in the fourth quarter,” said Gardner.
The Warriors were led in scoring by Devon Leiferman with 13 points followed by Lattrel Terkildsen, 12 and Krockett Krolikowski, 9.

Colome boys basketball team defeated Wessington Springs 72-44 on Jan. 2.

Kelly O’Bryan led the Cowboys with 17 points followed by Jackson Kinzer and Holden Thieman with 14 each and Reed Harter, 11.

Winner High School boys basketball team defeated Bon Homme 47-40 in the Snowball Classic in Winner on Dec. 29.
With the victory, the Warriors are undefeated with a 4-0 record. Winner is ranked third in the latest prep high school basketball poll.
Devon Leiferman led the scoring for Winner with 17 points followed by Lattrel Terkildsen with 11 and Krockett Krolikowski with 9. Isaac Naasz added 6 and Wyatt Ewing, 4 points.  Krolikowski pulled down 12 rebounds and Leiferman, 11.

The Colome girls basketball team was nipped 44-42 by Wessington Springs on Jan. 2.
Taylor Hrabanek led the scoring with 13 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists. Helping out was Rayne Hermsen with 10 points, Mariah Kinzer with 7 points and 6 rebounds. Kaydee Heath had 6 rebounds.

Colome will host Kimball/White Lake on Jan. 7. On Jan. 9, Colome will travel to Todd County and will host Jones County on Jan. 12.