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Winner Area wrestling team placed two wrestlers, both seniors, at the state tournament this weekend in Rapid City.

Tyrel Haley placed 7th with an 11-9 victory over Luke Bietz of  Parkston.

Jimmy Sharkey took 8th place as he lost to John Hoiten of McCook Central/Montrose.

“It was great to see the two seniors work their way into placing at the state tournament,” said coach Matt Chambers.

“Tyrel and Jimmy are both three time state qualifiers. Kayleb Brozik, Ty Bolton and Cameron Biggins wrestled well and will take this experience and improve for next year,” said Chambers.

The Winner High School girls basketball team punched its ticket to the region championship with a 66-42 victory over Chamberlain Thursday in Winner.

Winner will play Cheyenne Eagle Butte on Friday, March 6, at 7 p.m. in Ft. Pierre.

In the semifinal game in Winner, Kelsey Bertram led the scoring with 28 points. Bailey Volmer added 15 points.

“The girls did a good job of battling all game long,” said coach Larry Aaker. “We have to give a lot of credit to Chamberlain as they came ready to play,” said the coach.

“They defended us really well in the first half and shot the ball well. We were able to use the momentum from Volmer’s half court shot right before the half to take control of the game in the second half.”

Winner High School boys basketball team closed out the regular season with an 83-56 victory over Crow Creek on Feb. 23.

The Warriors ended the regular season with a 19-1 record. The only loss was to Mt. Vernon/Plankinton.

“We are proud of our student athletes as they went on the road and finished the regular season on a high note,” said coach Brett Gardner.

With the victory, the Warriors were able to capture the Big Dakota Conference championship outright. This is only the fourth time in school history of winning the conference outright. The other years were in 1986, 2002 and 2012.

Colome boys basketball team ended the season on a high note as they defeated Tripp-Delmont/Armour 66-43 on Feb. 26. This was the final regular season game before the start of district tournament competition.

Tripp-Delmont/Armour led 22-19 at the end of the first quarter but a strong second quarter for the Cowboys held their opponents to five points.

Holden Thieman scored 17 points, Reed Harter, 13 and Jackson Kinzer, 9.

“A win is always a good way to finish the regular season but I think we know that we will need to shoot the ball better if we want to have success in the postseason,” said coach Drew Weber.

Colome girls basketball team was defeated by Gregory Monday, Feb. 23, in the first round of the District 12B tournament in Colome.

Gregory defeated Colome 52-37.

Leading scorers for Colome were Taylor Hrabanek with 11 and Mariah Kinzer with 10.

Kinzer pulled down 11 rebounds and Hrabanek had 10.

Lauren Week had 4 assists.

Colome made 11 of 63 field goals.

The loss ended the season for Colome.

Jayd Docken and Sean Bice, both of Winner, are playing vital roles in the success of Augustana  College wrestling this season.

In the  final dual of the season, Augustana hosted St. Cloud State on Saturday, Feb. 20. Docken won a 5-2 decision over V. J. Giulio.

Docken, a senior wrestling at 197 pounds, is 22-3 this year and leads the Vikings in winning percentage.

“Jayd has only lost to one D-II kid and he always wins,” said coach Jason Reitmeier. “Now he is really starting to score some points and open up offensively.”

Ranked No. 4 in the nation and No. 1 in the NSIC, Docken has lost two of his matches to Division I opponents.

In order to keep winning, Reitmeier says Docken just needs to keep attacking.

“He needs to just let the offense flow,” Reitmeier said. “If he keeps his attack hand free, he can beat a lot of people.”

Bice, a true freshman, is wrestling at 157 pounds and is 7-10 this year for the Vikings.

“Sean is wrestling up a weight but he is always competitive,” Reitmeier said. “He’s

got a lot of offense and we are really excited with where he will be in a couple of years.”

Reitmeier said Bice suffered a setback with mono this year which didn’t allow him to get as many matches in.

Winner Area will send five wrestlers to the state Class B tournament in Rapid City this weekend.

As a team, Winner  placed fourth at the Region 3B tournament Saturday in Parkston.

The five WHS wrestles going to state are: Cameron Biggins, Ty Bolton, Tyrel Haley, Kayleb Brozik and Jimmy Sharkey.

Haley took first place at the region as he won 11-4 over Devon Gnat of Miller/Highmore-Harrold.

Bolton and Sharkey both took third place. Bolton won 2-0 over Sam Caba of Bon Homme/Scotland and Sharkey won by a major decision 13-1 over Tyson Serr of Burke/Gregory.

Placing fourth were Cameron Biggins and Kayleb  Brozik. Biggins was pinned in 4:11 by Conner Bertsch of Miller/Highmore-Harrold. Brozik was pinned in 2:53 by Paul Waring of Miller/Highmore-Harrold.

“It was great to see these five individuals earn their way to the state tournament,” said coach Matt Chambers. “They really came out and wrestled well to get themselves in the top four of an extremely competitive regional tournament. I was really proud of the way our entire team wrestled,” said the coach.

The state tournament starts at 9 a.m. on Friday at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City. Wrestling on Saturday starts at 10 a.m.

Winner High School boys basketball team came away with a 66-53 victory over Mobridge/Pollock on senior night Friday.

The Tigers led 31-29 at the half but a powerful third quarter with lots of three points shots lifted the Warriors in the third quarter.

“We are proud of our student athletes in the way they battled back after trailing the first 22 minutes of the game,” said coach Brett Gardner. “The crowd was tremendous and it really propelled our athletes in the fourth quarter.”

Nathan Galbraith scored 23 points, Brendan Harter, 19, Nick Hossle, 8, Lattrel Terkildsen 7 and Devon Leiferman,6.

Winner High School girls  basketball team closed out the regular season with a 66-32 victory over Mobridge-Pollock on Friday.

It was senior night for the WHS team.

The Lady Warriors  held their opponents to 2 points in the second quarter.

Kelsey Bertram led Winner with 41 points followed by Bailey Volmer with 10 and Sydney Fritz with 8. Bertram made 8 of 11 3 point shots

“We did a nice job of communicating defensively and finding their shooters,” said coach Larry Aaker. “Offensively, we struggled early but caught fire and were able to build a nice lead.”

As the post season draws near, the Colome Cowboys defeated Dakota Christian 60-54 on Friday in Colome.

The Cowboys were led in scoring by Reed Harter with 31 points followed by Holden Thieman with 12 and Kelly O’Bryan with 10.

“It was really a good win for our boys with the postseason right around the corner,” said coach Drew Weber. “Dakota Christian starts three guys over 6-4 and we knew we’d have to play very physical if we were going to be able to keep them off he boards and out of the paint. We were able to do a good job of denying their big post position, but they ended up shooting 64 percent from the 3 point line so it was kind of a catch 22 for us,” said Weber.