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Samantha Marts was the champion of the Winner Ladies city golf tournament.

Second place in the championship flight went Laura Root with Kari DeMers, 3^rd.

First flight winners were Jennie Fenenga, 1^st; Abby Jorgensen, 2^nd; Becky Olson, 3^rd.

Second flight winners were Stacy Rayman, 1^st; Addy Root, 2^nd and Donna Howland, 3^rd.

There are four athletes out for Winner High School boys golf team.

The two high school students and lettermen are Nathan Monk and Gage Watson.

There are two sixth graders on the team Karson Keiser and Ryder Halligan.

Watson qualified for the state tournament last year.

Larry Aaker is coaching the golf team.

Aaker says both of the lettermen have a year under their belt.

Practice for the golf team started on Aug. 6.

The schedule includes:

Aug. 30—at Chamberlain

Sept. 6—at Pierre

Sept. 11—Winner Invitational

Sept. 18—at Mitchell

Sept. 24—at Mitchell

Oct. 1-2—State at Spearfish

The Winner High School volleyball team is excited to start the season.

The girls started practice on Thursday and will open the season on the road on Aug. 21 when they travel to Bon Homme.

There are 24 girls on the team. The returning letterwinners are Katy Lantz, Gracie Littau, Addy Root, Jeslyn Felix, Mackenzie Levi, Alexis Richey, Ellie Brozik, Abby Marts, Morgan Hammerbeck, Sierra Hansen and Maggie LaCompte.

The only two seniors gone from last year’s team are Sam Marts and Daesha Klein.

This year’s Lady Warriors will include a new player, Kalla Bertram, who played at Elk Point/Jefferson. Bertram is a sophomore.

Also on the team is a foreign exchange student from the country of Georgia.

Two 8^th graders have been called up to the varsity—Rylee Root and Kelbi Meiners.

The six seniors on the team are Richey, Marts, Littau, Hansen, Felix and Lantz.

Last year’s record was 21-10.

Winner plays in the Big Dakota and SESD Conference.

“We are excited about the season,” said coach Jaime Keiser.

A lot of the girls coming back have a lot of experience.

Coach Keiser explained Marts was moved from the outside to the middle position.

Setters will be Addy Root, Mackenzie Levi with Rylee Root being the setter for the C team.

The coach says Winner starts out with a couple of tough matches. Winner opens the season Aug. 21 at Bon Homme.

In practice the team has been working on passing, defense and serve receive.
Keiser says serve receive is the team’s biggest weakness. “If we can control our serve receive and get some good passes will be will be a quality team.”

The team attended several team camps this summer.

The Lady Warriors are part of the Big Dakota Conference and the SESD Conference.

The coach noted the team was not happy a year ago when they were only a few points away from going to the state tournament. This year the Lady Warriors would like to be playing in the state tournament.

Jenna Phillips is the assistant coach for the volleyball team.

The 2018 Winner High School volleyball schedule includes:

Aug. 21 at Bon Homme

Aug. 23—at Miller

Aug. 28—Burke/South Central, home

Aug. 30—at Ainsworth, Neb.

Sept. 4—Bennett County/Gregory, home

Sept. 11—At Lyman

Sept. 15—at Stanley Co. tournament

Sept. 17—at Mobridge/Pollock

Sept 22—at Sisseton

Sept 25—Todd County, home

Oct. 2—at Gregory

Oct. 4—at White River

Oct. 6—at Chester area

Oct. 9—at Chamberlain

Oct. 15—Mt. Vernon/Plankinton, home

Oct. 16—Wagner, home

Oct. 20—at Bon Homme

Oct. 22—Platte/Geddes, home

Oct. 29—Region

Nov. 1—Region

Nov. 6—Region

Nov. 15-17—state meet in Sioux Falls

Winner Area cross country is starting to put in the miles as they prepare for the first meet of the season.

Coach Jady Schuyler has a good nucleus of lettermen returning. They include Saige Schuyler, Sidda Schuyler, JaclynLaprath, Charlotte Shopene, Aryn Meiners, Meagan Blare, Megan Brozik, Katherine Jankauskas, Gabby Kocer and Madison Thieman.

On the boys side, the returning lettermen are senior Wyatt Tunquist, Kade Watson and Dawson Phillips.

The only loss from last year was Atlas Willuweit.

The first meet in the Winner Invitational on Aug. 24.

Last year the girls team took fifth place at state and Sidda Schuyler placed 4^th and Laprath, 24^th.

The boys team had three state qualifiers—Kade Watson, who placed 16^th; Wyatt Turnquist and Dawson Phillips.

The girls team has won the regions the past two years and Coach Schuyler says that is a goal again this year along with placing at state.

The team started practice on Thursday and have been doing practice twice a day.

Reagan Nielsen is the assistant coach.

The cross country schedule includes:

Aug. 24—Winner Invitational

Aug. 28—at McCook Central

Sept. 4—at Scotland

Sept. 8—at Sioux Falls

Sept. 13—at Chamberlain

Sept. 15—at Lyman

Sept. 22—at Platte-Geddes

Sept. 25—at Todd County

Sept. 27—at Burke/South Central

Oct. 1—at Mt. Vernon/Plankinton

Oct. 4—at Parkston

Oct. 11—Regional at Chamberlain

Oct. 20—State meet in Sioux Falls

The Colome High School volleyball team opens the season on Aug. 25 when they travel to Burke/South Central.

The returning letterwinners on the team are Makayla Shippy, Saydee Heath, Jaclyn Laprath, Haley Krumpus, Rayne Hermsen and Kaydee Heath.

Other members of the team are Maxtrix Noteboom, Carleen Burger, Sara O’Bryan, Jordyn Seegers, Lanie Bolton, Madison Gill, Baylie Hoffine, Clarissa Ringing Shield, Kasie Leighton, Katie Welker, Elizabeth Yeaman, Devan Dougherty, Moran Gill, Sophie Hofeldt, Ashlyn Hoffine, Landi Krumpus, Libbie Petersek, Jordyn Ring and Toree Ringing Shield.

The loss from last year’s team are Maggie McCarty and Lynn Baker.

Abby Kortan, who played last year for the Cowgirls, has moved and will be playing for Hanson High School this year.

Kathy Hrabanek is the head coach of the Cowgirls with Dee Temple as the assistant coach.

Hrabanek says the team will be experienced. She says there are very versatile players on the team.

The 2018 Colome girls volleyball schedule includes:

Aug. 25—at Burke/South Central

Sept. 1—At Gregory Tourney

Sept. 4—Lyman, home

Sept. 8—at Tripp/Delmont/Armour

Sept. 10—Marty, home

Sept. 11—at Platte-Geddes

Sept. 17—St. Francis, home

Sept. 18—at Avon

Sept. 22—at Kimball tourney

Sept. 25—at AC/DC

Sept. 29—Great Plains Conference tourney

Oct. 2—Neb. Quad

Oct. 9—at Gregory

Oct. 11—White River, home

Oct. 13—at Andes Tourney

Oct. 16—Jones County, home

Oct. 19—Crow Creek, home

Oct. 22—at Kimball/White Lake

Oct. 23—Corsica/Stickney, home

Oct. 29-30—Region

Nov. 6—Round of 16

Nov. 15-17—State meet in Sioux Falls

Winner Junior Legion baseball team defeated Clark 6-5 Sunday morning to take the consolation championship held at Leahy Bowl in Winner.

The Winner team had to go extra innings to claim the victory as the scored was tied 5-5 after seven innings.

Winner got thing moving in the second inning when Zach Bohnet laid down a sacrifice bunt scoring one run.

Jacob Beckers led things off on the mound. He lasted five innings allowing five hits and four runs while striking out five.

Phillip Jorgensen, Aaron Gilchrist and Oscar Pravecek all collected multiple hits.

In Winner’s opening game of the state tournament, they were shut out 9-0 by Lennox on Friday evening. Lennox went on win to the state meet.

A double by Pravecek in the first inning was a positive for the host team.

Joren Bruun took the loss.

Pravecek, Tyler Olson and Jorgensen all managed hits for Winner.

In a game at noon on Saturday, Winner got down to business and shut out Wessington Springs 11-0. The victory propelled the Winner Junior Legion into Sunday’s consolation championship.

On Saturday, Winner had two really big innings. In the second they scored 6 runs and added five more in the third inning.

Evan Farner got the win for Winner. He allowed one hit, zero runs over five innings striking out eight and walking one.

Winner totaled 8 hits in the game.

The Winner/Colome amateur baseball team fell to Larchwood, Iowa, in the opening round of the state amateur baseball tournament in Sioux Falls.

The Pheasants were defeated 10-4. Larchwood had 10 runs in the final four innings.

“We had a good season,” Winner/Colome coach Kevin Graesser told the Mitchell Daily Republic.

“We come out of a really good district as champs and we thought we were playing really good ball. But give them credit, they had a good pitching staff,” said Graesser.

The first five innings was scoreless with Connor Hopkins pitching for the Pheasants.

In the bottom of the sixth inning, Austin Calhoon and Geno Katz hit back to back RBI singles, Lakin Negebauer laid down a sacrifice bunt and Kelly O’Bryan had an RBI single for a 4-2 lead. It was Winner/Colome’s last run of the day.

The Pheasants loaded the bases with one out in the bottom of the 8^th inning but they could not get a run across. Larchwood added four more runs in the top of the 9^th inning.

Offensively, Zach Harter was 4-5, Reed Harter had two hits including a triple.

Several golfers took part in the Winner Regional Foundation golf tournament held Aug. 4 at Winner Country Club.

Winners of the first flight were Justin and Kara Zeigler, Brandon and Karley Arizmendis

Second place in this flight went to Larry Aaker, Brett Gardner, Jessica Calhoon, Austin Calhoon

Champions of the second flight were Keith, Kari and Lynn DeMers and Chuck Keiser.

Second place in this flight went to Rick and Deb Godel, Terami Nespor and Michelle Lovejoy.

Winning the third flight were Stormy, Melissa and Ryder Halligan and Ty VandenHoek.

Second place went to Jason and Tovi Bartels, Jamie and Kevin Keiser.

Justin Zeigler was the champion of the Benson Haley Gant golf meet held Aug. 5 at the Winner Country Club. This tournament was a one-man scramble.

Second place in the championship flight went to Derris Buus with Mike Cahoy taking third and Nick Larson, fourth.

Winner of the first flight was Mike Hammer. Other placers were Bill Benedict, 2^nd; Austin Hammer, 3^rd and Tim Gant, 4^th.

Second flight winner was Frikkie. Second place went to Mike Dreyer. Also placing were Buck Jedlicki, 3^rd and Bob Benson, 4^th.

Tanner Best and Izac Nespor won the Winner Area Chamber of Commerce golf tournament on Friday. They shot a 32.

Second place in the championship flight went to Ryan Radant and Rick Godel, 33 and third to Cody Haiar and Jason Beehler, 35.

The first flight winner was Bob Benson and Tim Gant, 40. Second went to Lisa Halverson and Rusty Arthur, 41 and Jason and Jonah Sachtjen took third with a 42.

Chad Peterson and Peggy Heilman won the second flight with a 46. Second went to Aric and Katie Craven with a 47 and third to Madi Engel and Brandon Hauf, 48.