Category Archives: Sports

After Friday’s day 1 of the Valentine Invitational, Winner Area wrestling team sits four points off the lead.

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By Colton Hall
Staff Writer

Teams can’t win games when they have more turnovers than points.

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Winner girls basketball team continue to keep its unblemished record alive.
On Thursday, the Lady Warriors defeated Burke/South Central 51-27.

The No. 1 rated Lady Warriors are 2-0 for this season and 26-0 dating back to last season in which they finished with a perfect record.

At the end of the first quarter it was a two-point game with Winner leading 13-11.

However, Winner held Burke/South Central scoreless in the second quarter while scoring 18 points. At the half, Winner led 31-11.

In the third quarter, a strong Winner defense held the Cougars to 4 points.
Bella Swedlund led the scoring for Winner with 19 points. Kalla Bertram added 13 points.

As a team, Winner made 21-47 shots for 45 percent from the field.
Morgan Hammerbeck pulled down 7 of Winner’s 28 rebounds. Swedlund added 5 and Kelsey Sachtjen, 4.

Winner won the junior varsity game 35-21. Leading scorers were Josey Kludt and Jenna Hammerbeck with 8 points each and Katherine Jankauskas, 7.

The next action for Winner will be Jan. 3 when they host Bon Homme in a boys and girls double-header.

Below is the box score

Winner 51
Burke/South Central 27
Non-Conference at Bonesteel

Winner;13;18;14;6 — 54
Burke/South Central;11;0;14;6 — 27

WINNER (3-0): Maggie LaCompte 2, Jenna Hammerbeck 4, Kalla Bertram 13, Morgan Hammerbeck, Bella Swelund 19, Kelbi Meiners 3, Kelsey Sachtjen 4. Totals 21-47 5-13 51.

3-pt FG — WIN 4 (Swedlund 2, Meiners 1, J. Hammerbeck 1). Rebounds — WIN 28 (M. Hammerbeck 7). Assists — WIN 17 (M. Hammerbeck 4). Turnovers — WIN 9. Steals — WIN 15 (Sachtjen 4, Bertram 4). Blocks — 3 (Sachtjen 2). JV Game —35-21 Winner .

By Colton Hall
Staff Writer

The Winner Warriors boys basketball team put together another dominating performance at home with a 79-35 win over the Miller Rustlers in a Big Dakota Conference game on Friday, Dec. 20.

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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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