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Winner High School boys golfers competed in the Parkston Invitational on Sept. 18.

Gage Watson placed 26^th and Nathan Monk placed 57^th.

Winner volleyball team won the Eastern Conference tournament in Sisseton on Saturday.

In the championship, Winner defeated Dakota Valley. The Lady Warriors won 25-22, 25-20.

Mackenzie Levi and Gracie Littau were 100 percent in serving.

Littau, Levi and Morgan Hammerbeck each had one ace serve.

Hammerbeck had 11 kills and Abby Marts, 7.

Levi had 15 set assists and Root, 7.

Maggie LaCompte had 11 digs and Littau, 10.

Ellie Brozik had 1 block and Gracie Littau, 2 block assists.

As a team, Winner was 92 percent in serving, with 4 ace serves, 23 kills, 22 set assists and 55 digs.

In the opening match of the tournament, Winner defeated Webster in two sets—25-16, 25-12.

Littau and Levi were 100 percent in serving. Brozik had 2 ace serves and 9 kills.

Hammebeck had 5 kills.

Levi had 10 set assists and Root, 7.

Hammerbeck and Root each had 8 digs.

Kalla Bertram had 2 solo block.

As a team, Winner was 91 percent in serving with 6 ace serves, 19 kills, 17 set assists.

Winner beat Milbank 25-22, 25-23.

Littau was 100 percent serving and Hammebeck was 90 percent.

Hammerbeck had 3 ace serves and Levi, 1.

Hammerbeck had 11 kills, Brozik, 6 and Marts, 5.

Levi had 15 set assists and Root, 8.

Littau had 10 digs and Brozik, 8.

Marts had 1 solo block and 1 block assist. Bertram had 2 block assists.

The Lady Warriors were 90 percent in serving with 4 aces, 24 kills, 23 assists and 48 digs.

“We came out focused and ready to play,” said coach Jaime Keiser. “We played pretty consistent most of the day. I was proud of how the girls showed intensity and how we jelled together as a team. All day we did a great job of attacking the ball which kept our opponent on the defensive end,” said the coach.

Keiser added: “In the championship match we came out ready to play and had the momentum most of the match. We did a great job of serving and attacking Dakota Valley and got them out of system. Dakota Valley is a good team and had some good hitters. It was a fun day with a great team effort,”

The Colome High School volleyball team placed sixth at the Kimball Tournament on Sept. 22.

Wessington Springs defeated Colome 2-0—25-22 and 27-25.

Haley Krumpus had 6 points and 2 aces; Saydee Heath and Kaydee Heath each had 4 points.

Kaydee Heath had 7 kills and Haley Krumpus and 10 digs.

Colome defeated Iroquois 25-11, 25-12. Baylie Hoffine had 11 points and 4 aces. She was also 100 percent in serving.

Carleen Burger had 7 kills.

Makayla Shippy had 14 assists.

Burke/South Central defeated Colome 25-16 and 25-10.

Shippy had 5 points and one ace. Burger had 5 kills.

Shippy had 6 assists.

The Cowgirls fell to Canistota 2-1. Colome won the first set 25-23 and then fell in the next two 9-25, 21-25

Saydee Heath had 8 points and one ace; Haley Krumpus had 5 points and 2 aces.

Burger and Krumpus had 6 kills.

Shippy had 17 set assists and 10 digs. Kaydee Heath had 7 digs.

Saydee Heath and Kaydee Heath each had a block.

Winner High School football team played a competitive game against a tough Valentine, Neb., team Friday night.

The Warriors, rated No. 5 in Class 11B, came away with a 26-20 victory. This improved Winner’s record to 3-1.

“We tried to prepare our guys all week to understand the intensity we knew Valentine was going to bring to this game,” said coach Dan Aaker.

“We have beaten them 11 straight years and they really wanted us bad.”

The score was tied 14-14 at halftime and Winner played an excellent third quarter to pull away for the win.

The Badgers got on the board first at the end of the first quarter. Jon Keller completed a 59 yard pass to Devon Osnes.

The Warriors countered with a long drive and Trevor Peters scored on a five yard run.

Midway in the second quarter, Valentine scored again giving them a 14-6 lead.

With 1:08 left in the first half, Peters scored on a 7 yard run to tie the game at 14-14.

In the third quarter, Winner scored two touchdowns. Sam Kruger scored on a 3 yard run and Phillip Jorgensen scored o a 30 yard run to give Winner a 26-14 lead.

However, Valentine came back in the fourth quarter and scored to narrow the score.

With 6 minutes left, Winner had a nice drive but fumbled inside the 30-yard line.

The Warriors had 380 total yards and Valentine had 284 yards. Winner had 355 yards rushing.

Leading rusher was Peters with 139 yards followed by Jorgensen with 109, Kruger with 80.

Winner’s defense was led by Shea Connot with 8 tackles, Ethan Vesely, Peters, Preston Norrid, 5 each. Brandon Volmer had 4 tackles.

“It is a quality win,” said Aaker. “I saw some resilience in our guys. We did not play very clean as we had 3 turnover and penalties killed us,” said the coach.

For homecoming on Friday, Sept. 21, the Warriors will host the undefeated Mt. Vernon-Plankinton who is rated No. 3 in Class 11B.

Aaker says a big concern will be their junior running back Jessie Hastings. He added MVP has a nice team and will be a good challenge.

The WHS coach noted: “I like playing good teams for homecoming because it forces our guys to understand that they need to bring their best game to the table.”

It is an exciting week with all the homecoming events including the coronation on Thursday night.

“We are looking for an exciting week,” said Aaker.

No. 3 rated Colome Cowboys rolled to a 68-16 homecoming victory over Gayville-Volin Friday night.

The contest ended in the third quarter due to the mercy rule.

Gayville-Volin put the first points on the board but after that it was all Colome.

Scoring for the Cowboys were Jaikob Week on an 11 yard run, Kinzer on a 75 yard run, Week on a 49 pass from Kinzer, Riley Shippy on a 37 yard run, Michael Supik on a 15 yard run, Layton Thieman on a 73 yard pass from Kinzer, Kinzer on a 40 yard run.

In the third quarter, Shippy had runs of 16 and 46 yards.

The Cowboys had a total of 504 yards.

Kinzer ran for 159 yards and passed for 131 yards.

Wyatt Cahoy had 11 tackles.

“We had some players step up and played well,” said coach Ben Connot. He noted that Riley Shippy played well in this game.

The Cowboys, 4-0, will host Alcester-Hudson on Friday.

Winner Lady Warriors volleyball team took second place in the Big Dakota Conference tournament Saturday in Ft. Pierre.

Alexis Richey, Abby Marts and Morgan Hammerbeck were named to the all-tournament team.

Winner was defeated by Miller in three sets in the championship. The scores were 25-23, 20-25, 19-15.

Addy Root and Maggie LaCompte were 100 percent in serving. Ellie Brozik was 92 percent in serving with two ace serves.

Gracie Littau had one ace serve.

Kalla Bertram had 7 kills and Brozik, 6.

Mackenzie Levi had 16 set assists and Root, 4.

Morgan Hammerbeck had 7 digs and LaCompte, Richey and Levi had 6 digs.

Hammerbeck and Bertram each had a solo block.

For the team, Winner was 90 percent in serving, with 3 ace serves, 21 kills, 21 set assists and 55 digs.

In the first match, Winner defeated Stanley County in two sets—25-13, 25-7.

Brozik and Richey were 100 percent in serving. Brozik had 3 ace serves and Root and Richey 1 ace serve.

Hammerbeck had 11 kills, Marts, 9 kills.

Levi had 15 set assists, Root, 7 set assists.

Richey had 18 digs and Hammerbeck, 9.

As a team, Winner was 88 percent in serving with 5 ace serves, 26 kills, 23 set assists and 45 digs.

Winner beat CEB in 2 sets. The scores were 25-12 and 25-16.

Hammerbeck, Brozik and Littau were 100 percent in serving. Hammerbeck had 7 ace serves and Brozik, 2.

Hammerbeck had 9 kills and Marts, 6.

Levi had 12 set assists and Root, 7.

Hammerbeck had 11 digs and Richey 10 digs. Brozik and Bertram had 1 solo block.

As a team, Winner was 98 percent in serving with 12 ace serves, 21 kills, 19 set assists, 34 digs.

Winner beat Chamberlain in two sets—25-17, 25-5.

Hammerbeck and Bertram were 100 percent in serving. Bertram had 6 aces and Hammerbeck, 5 aces.

Hammerbeck had 4 kills.

Root had 8 set assists and Levi had 3.

Richey had 10 digs and Brozik, 7.

As a team, Winner was 89 percent, 12 aces, 15 kills, 13 set assists and 31 digs.

“It was a real up and down day,” said coach Jaime Keiser. We came out ready to play. We did a good job of attacking the ball against Stanley County and Cheyenne-Eagle Butte. We were put in the championship pool and played Chamberlain first. We came out a little flat and made some errors and gave Chamberlain some unearned points. The second set we took care of the little things and did a great job of serving and attacking which kept Chamberlain out of system,” said Keiser.

“We had Miller in the championship and we knew they would want revenge after beating them earlier in the season. The first game we had everything clicking and played pretty good. We had all the momentum after winning the first set and took it into the second set. We had the lead with Alexis Richey went down with an injury and it took everything out of us and completely took away our momentum,” said the coach. “We stayed with Miller but just couldn’t completely recover after beating deflated by Alexis’s injury.”

Winner Lady Warriors defeated Lyman in four sets on Sept. 11.

The scores were 25-18, 25-14, 22-25 and 25-21.

The Lady Warriors are rated No. 2 in the Class A poll.

Alexis Richey and Gracie Littau were 100 percent in serving.

Mackenzie Levi had 4 aces and Maggie LaCompte, 3.

Morgan Hammerbeck had 18 kills, Ellie Brozik, 16 kills.

Levi had 23 set assists and Addy Root, 16.

Richey had 30 digs and Hammerbeck, 29.

Kalla Bertram had 3 solo blocks and 1 block assist.

Abby Marts had 1 solo block.

As a team, Winner was 88 percent in serving, 14 ace serves, 48 kills, 43 set assists, 122 digs and 5 blocks.

“Lyman was a very scrappy team and they seemed to get over everything we hit at them,” said coach Jaime Keiser.

“It was their homecoming week and they came out ready to play. We played flat and had a hard time getting anything going,” said the coach.

“It seemed like we were just going through the motions and our minds weren’t in the match. We gave up too many unearned points with serving and attacking errors. I was proud of the girls that came off the bench and played the end of the fourth set. They stepped up and showed a lot of intensity and heart.”

The next action for the volleyball team will be Sept. 22 at Sisseton and Sept. 25 Todd County will be in Winner.

Colome swept Marty in a prep volleyball match on Sept. 10. Set scores were 25-10, 25-14, 25-12.

Makayla Shippy had nine aces and 20 assists. Rayne Hermsen added three aces, five digs, four kills and one block.

Kaydee Heath led the team with 10 kills and five digs.

Saydee Heath finished with six kills while Carleen Burger had 5 kills.

Platte-Geddes defeated Colome 3-1 on Sept. 11. The scores were 25-13, 25-19, 25-27 and 25-22.

Shippy had 28 assists and four digs. Kaydee Heath had 13 kills, eight digs, two blocks and an ace.

Hermsen had six kills and five digs and two aces.

Winner Area girls cross country team took second place in the Big Dakota Conference and Chamberlain Invite on Thursday.

Sidda Schuyler placed 4^th. She was followed by Saige Schuyler, 9^th; Jaclyn Laprath, 18^th; Aryn Meiners, 28^th; Meagan Blare, 41^st; Melanie Brozik, 59^th.

In the varsity boys race, Wyatt Turnquist placed 29^th and Joseph Laprath placed 59^th.

In the junior varsity girls, Madison Thieman placed 10^th; Gabby Kocer, 24^th; Katherine Jankauskas, 31^st; Trinity Vrbka, 35^th.

In the junior high boys, Konner Osborn took 2^nd.

The next action for the Winner area team will be Sept 22 at Platte and Sept. 25 at Todd County.

Winner Area girls cross country team won the Lyman Invitational on Saturday.

In the girls varsity, Sidda Schuyler took first. She was followed by Saige Schuyler, 4^th; Meagan Blare, 8^th; Melanie Brozik, 10^th; Aryn Meiners, 14^th; Jaclyn Laprath, 20^th.

In the varsity boys, Joseph Laprath was 30^th.

In the junior varsity girls, Madison Thieman placed 3^rd; Gabby Kocer, 8^th; Trinity Vrbka, 10^th; Katherine Jankauskas, 11^th.

Konner Osborn placed 4^th in the junior boys division.

Parkston won the team title in the Winner boys golf invitational on Sept. 11. Second place went to Mobridge-Pollock and third to Chamberlain.

Gage Watson led the Warriors as he placed 12^th.

Nathan Monk placed 32^nd.

In the junior varsity, Landon Calhoon placed 4^th; Ryder Halligan, 5^th and Karson Keiser, 7^th.

The Winner boys golfers competed in the Todd County Invitational on Thursday.

Gage Watson shot an 81 and Nathan Monk shot a 101.

Watson placed fifth in the tournament.

In the middle school results, Karson Keiser shot a 47, Ryder Halligan, 48 and Landon Calhoon, 51.

The Winner boys golfers competed in the Todd County Invitational on Thursday.

Gage Watson shot an 81 and Nathan Monk shot a 101.

Watson placed fifth in the tournament.

In the middle school results, Karson Keiser shot a 47, Ryder Halligan, 48 and Landon Calhoon, 51.

Winner High School volleyball team defeated Bennett County in three sets.

Winner won 25-11, 25-9 and 25-5.

Morgan Hammerbeck and Addy Root were 100 percent in serving.

Alexis Richey had 6 aces and Ellie Brozik, 2.

Hammerbeck had 15 kills, Abby Marts, and Kalla Bertram, 6 each.

Root had 26 set assists.

Hammerbeck had 13 digs and Gracie Littau, 10.

Brozik and Marts had one assist block.

As a team, Winner was 95 percent in serving, with 10 ace serves, 30 kills, 29 set assists and 45 digs.

“We came out ready to play from the start,” said coach Jaime Keiser. “We did a great job of serving and attacking the ball. We were getting in defensive position and playing very well as a team. Our serve receive was better but we still got out of system. We did a great job of talking and playing together as a team,” said Keiser.

The Lady Warriors are at the Big Dakota Conference tournament on Sept. 15 in Ft. Pierre. On Sept. 17, Winner travels to Mobridge.