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Winner Area girls golf team opened the season by winning the Mobridge Invitational.

Riley Root was the medalist taking first place.

Kelbi Meiners took fifth and Brennan Bachmann placed 9^th. Devan Dougherty placed 10^th and Gracie Root was 12^th.

There are 17 girls on the golf team coached by Jim Halverson. The assistant coach is Liz Jankauskas.

The next meet for the Lady Warriors will be Thursday at the Big Dakota Conference meet in Pierre. On Friday, the girls will travel to Mitchell to play in the Parkston tournament.

Brady Fritz of Winner paced the Blue All Stars to a 99-94 win over the White All Stars at the South Dakota Basketball Coaches Association/Sanford Pentagon all star games Saturday in Sioux Falls.

Fritz finished with 16 points and four 3 pointers.

Fritz will play college ball at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell.

In the girls all star game, Winner’s Kalla Bertram had 14 points and five rebounds for the Blue team. The White all stars won the game 106-75.

Bertram will play her college ball at Black Hills State University.

Brady Fritz of Winner is a finalist for South Dakota Mr. Basketball.

The ten boys Mr. Basketball nominees are: Jackson Hilton, Brandon Valley; Tyce Ortman, Canistota; Paul Bruns, Dakota Valley; Colin Rentz, Dell Rapids; Connor Libis, Dell Rapids St. Mary; Tyler Feldkamp, Sioux Falls Roosevelt; Kelton Vincent Sioux Valley; Matthew Mors, Yankton; Jakob Dobney, Vermillion and Fritz, Winner.

The award will be presented in May.

Brady Fritz of Winner has been named to the Class A boys basketball first team.

The team, as selected by the South Dakota Basketball Coaches Association, was announced on April 7.

The Winner senior averaged 25.6 points per game for the 20-5 Warriors along with 4.8 rebounds, 14 assists and two steals per game.

His senior season scoring ledger included a career 41 points in a win over Bennett County.

Fritz scored 20 plus points in 22 games this season.

He is Winner’s first all-state first team selection since Brendan Harter in 2015.

Bella Swedlund of Winner has been named to the first team of the Class A all state girls basketball team.

Kalla Bertram, Winner senior, was named to the second team.

The all state squad was announced by the South Dakota High School Basketball Coaches Association.

Swedlund received her second first team all state selection and third all state honor during her career.

The guard averaged 22.5 points, 8.2 rebounds and 3.9 assists to propel the Winner Lady Warriors to third place at the state tournament. The second team featured Bertram, a 5-9 senior guard. She averaged 19.3 points per game, 5.5 rebounds per game, 3.3 assists and had 96 steals.

Winner area wrestlers placed at the Midwest Classic national wrestling tournament in Kearney, Neb.

Winner took third out of 125 teams.

Individual placers were: Gus Tobin, 5^th; Apollo Willuweit, 1^st; Cooper Craven 7^th; Kyan Bartels, 3^rd; Rhogan Robbins, 1^st; Blayden Stirling, 3^rd; Anna Tobin, 2^nd; Jace Koskan, 7^th; Hudson Peters, 7^th; Crawston Craven, 2^nd; Roukyn Robbins, 4^th; Teegan Shelbourn, 7^th; Coy Shelbourn, 5^th; Rylan Robbins at 84 pounds, 4^th at 80 pounds, 7^th; Bridger Stirling at 60 pounds and 61 pounds, both 1^st.

Brady Fritz of the Winner basketball team was one of the athletes considered  by the Mitchell Republic as the boys basketball player of the year.

Fritz finishes as the runner-up for this award for the second year in a row.

The senior average 25.6 points per game on 49 percent shooting and 40 percent three point shooting.

Fritz helped the Warriors advance to the Class A state boys basketball tournament.  

Mitchell senior Zane Alm was named the player of the year.