For the second consecutive week, the Winner Area wrestling team was impressive in tournament competition.
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By Colton Hall
Staff Writer
Colome Cowgirls head basketball coach Kory Foss knew that it would be a tough game against the almost unanimously number-one ranked Corsica/Stickney Jaguars in Class B girls basketball on Sat. Dec. 14.
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By Colton Hall
Staff Writer
Before the season began, Brett Gardner, the head coach of the Winner High School boys basketball team, wanted to win games in a pretty simple way. Play suffocating defense, score some points, and close out teams in the fourth quarter.
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By Colton Hall
Staff Writer
Wagner wasn’t going to stand in the way of the Winner Lady Warriors basketball team, and a 25-game winning streak.
One year removed from the program’s lone undefeated season in a 24-game winning streak, the Lady Warriors basketball team dominated the Red Raiders in all aspects of the game, in route to a 71-36 win in the first game and SESD showdown at home on Friday, Dec. 13.
Led by Bella Swedlund, who scored a game high 25 points, and Kalla Bertram who added 17 more, and a Warriors defense that came away with 16 total steals, Winner quickly went on a 10-4 run. Winner then proceeded to go on a 18-3 throughout the rest of the first quarter.
The Warriors went into halftime with a 39-14 lead, and weren’t going to surrender it.
In the second half, Bertram and the Warriors defense clamped down. In the blink of an eye, Winner went on an 8-0 run thanks to three straight buckets from Bertram, and a lay in from Swedlund. The Lady Warriors then coasted to their record 25th straight win.
Morgan Hammerbeck added eight points and six rebounds in the win.
The Lady Warriors go on to play Burke/South Central in Bonesteel on Thursday, Dec. 19. Tip off starts at 6:30 pm.
By Dan Bechtold
Editor
It is only fitting that Winner be well represented on the Class 11B all state football team.
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By Colton Hall
Staff Writer
The Colome Cowboys boasted a good basketball team in 2018. Finishing 17-5, Colome ultimately fell one game short of going to state in the SoDak 16 to Bridgewater/Emery-Ethan at the Corn Palace in Mitchell.
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By Dan Bechtold
Editor
The Winner High School boys basketball is excited to start the season.
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By Colton Hall
Staff Writer
The Colome Cowgirls basketball team is young.
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By Dan Bechtold
Editor
Winner Area wrestling team picked up where they left off last season.
The Warriors won first place at the Kimball/White Lake Invitational on Saturday. The Warriors saw 15 wrestlers reach the podium with nine finalists and six champions.
The Warriors racked up 221.5 points in its first tournament of the season.
Riley Orel, wrestling at 138 pounds, was named the outstanding wrestler of the tournament.
Kaden Keiser bumped up to 126 pounds after winning the Class B state title last season. Keiser beat Wagner’s Lance Soukup by forfeit in the finals.
Fellow state champion Trevor Peters beat Sunshine Bible Academy’s Teigan Clark by decision, 7-1.
Another Winner state champ Sam Kruger beat Parkston’s Cordell Murtha by a 5-3 decision at 160 pounds.
The Warriors also got first place wins from Riley Orel, Jack Kruger (145) and Achilles Willuweit (285).
Also placing for the Warriors were Owen Duffy (182) who took second and Landon Debus took second at 195 pounds.
Preston Norrid (220) also took second place.
Placing fourth for Winner were Jude Sargent, Joey Cole and Charley Pravecek.
Cailob Week (152) took fifth place and sixth went to Aaron Gilchrist (145) and Maxton Brozik (106).
“I was happy with how we did in this tournament,” said coach Spencer Novotny. “Looking back I think we lost a few we should not have lost. I know going into the tournament we were not yet in shape but we are in better shape than I thought we were.”
The coach said it was nice having nine finalist with six winning individual titles. It was also awesome that Riley Orel was recognized as the outstanding wrestler.
“He has been working hard in and out of practice so it is nice for him to get that recognition,” said Novotny.
“We are going to have to hit on a little technique this week and get ready for the start of our dual season on Thursday.”
On Dec. 12 the Warriors will compete in a triangular with Wagner and Gregory in Gregory.
On Saturday, Winner will compete in the Gregory Invitational starting at 9 a.m.
The Winner Lady Warriors basketball team comes into the start of this season as the defending Class A champions and sporting a 24-0 record.
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