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Winner High School volleyball team defeated Bennett County in three games on Sept. 8.
Winner won 25-13, 25-18, 25-20.

“We came out slow and had no intensity,” said coach Jaime Keiser. “We gave Bennett County too many unearned points and didn’t play up to our potential. We struggled passing in serve receive which kept us out of system,” said the coach.  “It was a win but we needed to get more consistent to playing to our level and not to our opponents level,” she said.

The next action for Winner will be at the Big Dakota Conference meet in Ft. Pierre on Sept. 19.

Colome volleyball team fell to Lyman on Sept. 8. Scores were 16-25, 15-25 and 15-25.

Colome volleyball team defeated Jones County on Sept. 10. The scores were 25-16, 25-20, 25-16.

Winner Area cross country girls took second place at the Scotland Invitational on Sept. 8. The Winner area boys took fourth place.
Leading the Lady Warriors was Chloe Bartels who placed third followed by Sam Schuyler, 6th; Aryn Meiners, 14th and Hayley Halverson, 27th.
In the girls JV race, Megan Blare placed 2nd and Katherine Jankauskas was 7th.

The Winner area varsity boys were led by Colby Curtis, 6th; Grant Winter, 21st; Dawson Phillips, 26th and Wyatt Turnquist, 32nd.
In the junior varsity boys race, Cohl Turnquist placed 25th.

Winner High School boys golf team placed third at the Big Dakota Conference golf tournament in Pierre on Thursday.  Chamberlain won the team title.

Sam Hossle led the Warriors as he took fifth place. Hossle shot an 83.  Also golfing for Winner were Luke Engel, 94; Duncan English, 108 and Matt Hartley, 112.

The Winner golfers will compete in the pre-regional Sept. 21 in Pierre.

Winner High School boys golf team took fourth place at the Chamberlain Invitational. Chamberlain won the team title.

Sam Hossle was the top golfer for Winner as he took 11th place with a 90.   Also golfing for Winner were Luke Engel, 100;  Duncan English, 120 and Matt Hartley, 130.

Winner High School competitive dance team took third place and the cheer team took fifth place at the Winner competitive cheer and dance invitational on Sept. 12.
Winner hosted several schools for invitational.

The Winner High School cheer team competed in Pierre on Saturday at the Pierre Invitational. “We competed against 8 double AA schools and 3 A schools. This is probably the hardest competition that we go to all year. Most of these programs have girls that are dedicated to just one sport at a time. Winner on the other hand shares girls between cheer, dance, volleyball and cross country,” said coach Val Ewing.

Winner High School football team opened the season in dominant fashion Friday night as they shut out Mobridge-Pollock 50-0.

The game ended with 4:21 left to play in the fourth quarter due to the mercy rule.
On a beautiful night for football before the home fans at Warrior field the team was clicking on all cylinders.
The final touchdown was by Carter Brickman on a 5 yard run. The Warriors punched in the two point conversion on a run by Matt Smither to end the game.

“It was a good start to the year,” said coach Dan Aaker. “One thing I liked was that we played with emotion from start to finish.”
The Warriors scored 21 points in both the first and second quarters and led 42-0 at the half.

Colome High School football team opened the season Friday night with a 34-22 victory over Corsica/Stickney.

The first points on the board were put up by Corsica/Stickney but the Cowboys came back to tie the score at 8-8 on a 9 yard run by Kelly O’Bryan. The two point conversion was a pass from Reed Harter to Will Cahoy.
The Cowboys scored 14 points in the second quarter.
Jackson Kinzer scored on a 22 yard pass from Harter. The extra point was Harter on a run.
Corsica/Stickney came back to tie the game at 16-16 but Jackson Kinzer had a huge 92 yard kickoff return for touchdown and the Cowboys never looked back after that.
Colome led at the half 22-16.
There was no scoring in the third quarter.
In the fourth quarter, Harter scored on a 1 yard run. This was set up by a fumble recovery by Koty Dougherty. The final Colome TD was on a 15 yard run by Harter.

Winner High School varsity volleyball team defeated Miller in three sets on Aug. 27. The scores were 25-22, 25-20 and 25-20.

“We came out focused and ready to play,” said coach Jaime Keiser. “We were aggressive and did a great job of attacking the ball which kept Miller on the defensive end. We were getting in defensive position and playing very well as a team,” said the coach.
Keiser said the serve receive was better “ but we still gave up a few unearned points. It was a total team effort and everyone stepped up and did what they needed to do to win.”

In the opening match of the season, the Lady Warriors fell to Bon Homme on Aug. 25.
Bon Homme took the first two 26-24, 25-21, then Winner won the third game 25-19 with Bon Homme taking the fourth 25-18.

Coach Keiser said Bon Homme is a great team and brought back everyone from last year. “They have a very balanced and athletic team. I thought we came out nervous and scared. The first two games we let Bon Homme get up 5 points before we scored. They have some good hitters and we were chasing the ball all over the place which kept us playing defense the whole time.
“We gave Bon Homme too many unearned points with attacking errors and serve receive errors. The third game we came out and took the lead right away. We were playing offense and made Bon Homme play defense and chase the ball.
“We know we did not play our best and we just need to take care of the little things. Hopefully, we will get another shot at them in the SESD Conference tournament in October,” said the coach.

The next action for the volleyball team will be Sept. 3 in a triangular in Ainsworth, Neb.

Colome volleyball team defeated Burke/South Central 3-0 on Saturday in Colome.
The Cowgirls won 30-28, 26-24 and 25-22.

The Winner area girls cross country team won first place at the Winner Invitational on Aug. 28.
The Lady Warriors swept the top three places with Chloe Bartels taking first place in 21:57.60.
Second went to Jaclyn Laprath, 22:41 and third to Samantha Schuyler, 23:15.14.
Aryn Meiners placed 8th in 25:03.94 and Hayley Halverson was 10th in 32:41.9.
Coach Jayd Schuyler said the girls team ran solid.

The Winner Area boys team tied for second place. The Warriors were led by Colby Curtis who took 4th place in 20:16.69. Curtis was followed by Grant Winter, 10th, 21:32.57; Dawson Phillips, 13th, 22:11.45 and Wyatt Turnquist, 14th, 22:17.94.