Sydney Fritz of Winner was one of the state’s volleyball players considered for the Mitchell Daily Republic’s “Volleyball Player of the Year”.
Fritz was the key to Winner’s attack throughout the season and was selected as a first team all-state player. She had 545 kills or about six per set and added 320 digs, 39 blocks and 46 aces.
Fritz is a senior at Winner High School.
Winner came up with two dual victories in a triangular in Winner on Thursday.
Winner Area defeated Burke/Gregory 50-23 and topped Wagner 48-27. In the third dual of the night, Burke/Gregory defeated Wagner 42-36.
Winner Area will compete in the Valentine, Neb., tournament Dec. 18-19.
Two Winner Area wrestlers placed at the Rapid City Invitational this weekend.
Wyatt Turnquist placed fourth as he lost 12-5 to Jacob Woods of Sturgis. Kayleb Brozik placed 7th as he won 2-1 over Trig Olson of Harding County.
Other wrestlers who made the second day but came up one match short of placing were Colby Curtis, Cameron Biggins and Jayden Schroeder.
Winner placed 20th out of 35 teams from the 3-State Region.
Winner High School boys basketball team opened the season with a 55-34 victory over Wagner Friday in Winner.
Krockett Krolikowski led the Warriors with 13 points and Devon Leiferman added 12. Leading rebounders were Leiferman with 9, Krolikowski with 7 and Chase Kingsbury with 6.
Winner shot 50 percent (23-46) from the field and were 4-10 from the line.
Colome boys basketball team was defeated by Vermillion 51-33 at the Tea Classic on Saturday.
Reed Harter led the scoring for Colome with 15 points and Holden Thieman added 11. Leading rebounder was Thieman with 6 and Harter with 4.
Winner High School girls basketball team used balanced scoring as they defeated Wagner 78-61 in the opening game of the season Friday in Winner.
Bailey Volmer led the team with 27 points followed by Allison Cox with 20, Sydney Fritz, 15 and Kylie Horstman with 10.
Cox pulled down 10 rebounds for Winner and Volmer grabbed 5.
Winner shot 51 percent from the field and 72 percent from the free throw line.
Andes Central/Dakota Christian defeated the Colome girls basketball team 38-28 Thursday in Colome.
The Cowgirls were led in scoring by Taylor Hrabanek and Mariah Kinzer with 8 points each. Kinzer and Rayne Hermsen each pulled down 8 rebounds and Callie Heath, 7.
Colome shot 18 percent from the field and 39 percent from the free throw line.
Winner Area wrestling team placed third at the Kimball/White Lake Tournament on Saturday. First place went to Philip with Parkston taking second.
“The boys came out and performed very well in the first tournament of the year,” said Coach Matt Chambers.
The Winner High School boys basketball team will open the season on Dec. 11 when they host Wagner. This will be a boys and girls double header.
The Warriors return 10 lettermen including Luke Engel, Lattrell Terkildsen, Trevor Bertram, Drew DeMers, Krockett Krolikowski, Isaac Naasz, Devon Leiferman, Wyatt Ewing, Cameron Kuil and Chase Kingsbury.
Last year the Warriors finished third in the State A tournament as they defeated Little Wound 60-54.
Dakota Wesleyan University volleyball coach Lindsay Wilber has signed nine athletes for the 2016 season. Among those signing is Sydney Fritz of Winner.
Fritz wrapped up a successful volleyball career for the Lady Warriors. She finished with 871 kills, 646 digs, and 106 serve aces. She had a career high 44 kills in a 2015 match. Named to the Big Dakota Conference team twice and to the all-state second team as a junior. In addition to participating in volleyball for the Lady Warriors, she also played club volleyball for CPAC.
Fritz also participates in basketball and track and field for the Lady Warriors.
The daughter of Jim and Pam Fritz plans to major in elementary education at DWU.
“Sydney has a quick arm swing with power that is hard to defend,” said DWU coach Wilber. “She reads the block well and has a great court sense defensively.”
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