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Outdoor weather has not been kind to the Winner track team so they took their action inside.

The team took part in the Wesleyan Open on the campus of Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell on April 16.

Due to the snow and cold, the Winner team has not able to compete much outdoors.

The DWU Avera Sports and Wellness Complex provided an indoor place to compete.

Winner’s Ellie Brozik won the 200 in :27.34 and Sidda Schuyler won the 3,200 in 12:35.90. Schuyler also placed second in the mile run in 5:36.67.

Kelsey Sachtjen placed first in the high jump with a leap of 4-11.

The girls team won two relays—4×400 and medley.

For the Winner boys, Brady Fritz won the triple jump (41-2) and placed second in the long jump (20-4). Fritz also placed second in the 200 in :23.87.

Kade Watson won the 3200 in 10:53.05 and the boys medley relay took first place.

Results of the Winner girls include:

400—Alexis Richey, 4^th, 1:07.66

200—Brozik, 1^st, :27.34; Morgan Hammerbeck, 5^th, :29.80

800—Richey, 5^th, 2:45.94

1600—Sidda Schuyler, 2^nd, 5:45

3200—Schuyler, 1^st, 12:35.90; Aryn Meiners, 4^th, 14:36.43

60 hurdles—Skyler Hansen, 4^th, :10.91; Tedra Vrbka, 5^th, 11:08

4×200 relay—2^nd, 1:57.92, Tedra Vrbka, Kelsey Sachtjen, Katherine Jankauskas and Skyler Hansen

4×400 relay—1^st, 4:24.96, Saige Schuyler, Ellie Brozik, Kelsey Sachtjen, Morgan Hammerbeck

Medley relay—1^st, 4:36.79, Morgan Hammerbeck, Ellie Brozik, Alexis Richey and Sidda Schuyler

High jump—Sachtjen, 1^st, 4-11; Katherine Jankauskas, 5^th 4-4

Results of the Winner boys include:

60 meter dash—Riley Calhoon, 2^nd, :7.43; Nolan Sachtjen, 4^th, :7.61

200—Fritz, 2^nd, :23.87; Sachtjen, 4^th, :24.52

1600—Kade Watson, 3^rd, 5:03.13

3200—Watson, 1^st, 10:53.05

medley relay—1^st, 3:58.85, Riley Calhoon, Brady Fritz, Joren Bruun and Kade Watson

Long jump—Fritz, 2^nd, 20-04; Calhoon, 3^rd, 19-6.50; Joren Bruun, 7^th, 17-5.50

Triple jump—Fritz, 1^st, 41-02; Calhoon, 3^rd, 38-3.50; Bruun, 4^th, 37-3.75

Shot put—Levi McClanahan, 4^th, 42-05;

Colton Schroeder, 6^th, 37-02

Brady Fritz won the long jump at the Pierre Legion Relays on Thursday.

Fritz finished with a leap of 21 feet-4 inches edging out Rapid City Central’s Kailleb Walton-Blanden for first place. Fritz qualified for the state track meet in the long jump.

Also qualifying for state were the boys 4×100 relay and Kelsey Sachtjen in the high jump.

There were over 20 high school teams at the meet. This included some of the larger schools in the state from Sioux Falls and Rapid City.

In the preliminaries of the girls 100 meter hurdles, Skyler Hansen ran a :17.87, Tedra Vrbka, :18.70 and Elisabeth Duffy, :19.26

Results of the Winner girls include:

4x 800 relay—8^th, 10:42.30, Alexis Richey, Sidda Schuyler, Meagan Blare and Saige Schuyler

100 preliminaries—Ellie Brozik, 10^th, :13.56

4×100—14^th, :55.90, Tedra Vrbka, Katherine Jankauskas, Madison Thieman and Morgan Hammerbeck

400—Alexis Richey, 13^th, l:05.47; Saige Schuyler, 18^th, 1:06.47; Meagan Blare, 29^th, 1:08.99

1600—Aryn Meiners, 46^th, 6:46.41

300 hurdles—Hansen, 17^th, :53.22; Katherine Jankauskas, 26^th, :55.11; Elisabeth Duffy, 32^nd, :58.42

Medley relay—3^rd, 4:36.09, Tedra Vrbka, Morgan Hammerbeck, Kelsey Sachtjen and Sidda Schuyler

200—Skyler Hanson, 36^th, :31.24; Katherine Jankauskas, 38^th, :31.27; Madison Thieman, 45^th, :32.17

3200—Sidda Schuyler, 6^th, 12:05.52; Aryn Meiners, 33^rd, 14:39.34

4×400 relay—11^th, 4:28.31, Alexis Richey, Kelsey Sachtjen, Morgan Hammerbeck and Saige Schuyler

discus—Jaynee Gregg, 38^th, 71-04

high jump—Kelsey Sachtjen, 9^th, 4-11

shot put—Jaynee Gregg, 30^th, 28-08

Long jump—Vrbka, 17^th, 14-8

Result of the Winner boys include:

1600—Kade Watson, 16^th, 4:57.22

4×100—8^th, :45.02, Riley Calhoon, Nolan Sachtjen, Joren Bruun and Brady Fritz

400—Bruun, 14^th, :55.84

200—Brady Fritz, 12^th, :24.61; Riley Calhoon, 23^rd, :25.24

3200—Watson, 13^th, 10:45.82

shot put—Levi McClanahan, 19^th, 41-06; Colton Schroeder, 37^th, 36-08; Landon Thieman, 43^rd, 35-03

discus—Preston Norrid 18^th, 118-06; ; McClanahan, 23^rd, 112-05; Jacob Clay, 48^th, 88-09
Long jump—Fritz, 1^st, 21-04; Riley Calhoon, 15^th, 18-10.75; Joren Bruun, 31^st, 17-06.50.

Triple jump—Fritz, 10^th, 40-09; Bruun, 20^th, 38-02; Calhoon, 26^th, 36-11

The next meet for Winner will be April 26 at Lyman

There are 26 girls this season on the Winner Area golf team.

The returning letterwinners are Ronae Klein, Addy Root, Cheyenne Dougherty, Sam Marts, Lauren Norrid and Kiersten Durrin.

The four seniors on the team are Klein, Marts, Norrid and Macy Olson.

The only senior who graduated was Liz Jankauskas.

Last season the Lady Warriors won the region tournament and placed 6^th at the state meet in Hartford.

Last year, Klein led the team as she took 12^th place.

Due to the weather, the girls have not had a lot of time to practice outdoors. Coach Kristin Livermont said with the cold weather the girls have been practicing indoors in the middle school gym.

The first tournament for the girls will be the Big Dakota on Thursday in Pierre and on Friday the team will travel to Parkston.

Livermont says the goals for the team is to win the regional and place in the top five at state.

Kaitlyn Steffen is the assistant golf coach.

The golf schedule includes:

April 19—Big Dakota in Pierre

April 20—Parkston Invitational

April 23—Chamberlain Invitational

April 27—Winner JV/JH tournament

May 1—Dell Rapids Invitational

May 4—Stanley County Invitational

May 10—Stanley County JH/JV tournament

May 11—Winner Invitational

May 14—Vermillion Invitational

May 22—Pre regional in Mitchell

May 29—Regional in Mitchell

June 4-5—State golf in Dell Rapids

Two Winner track athletes qualified for the state meet at the Wagner Relays on April 10.

Brady Fritz qualified in the triple jump and Ellie Brozik qualified in the 100.

The Winner girls team placed fourth and the boys took fifth.

Results of the Winner girls include:

Long jump—Tedra Vrbka, 5^th, 15-6

High jump—Kelsey Sachtjen, 4^th, 4-8

3200 relay—4^th, 10:49.40, Alexis Richey, Meagan Blare, Saige Schuyler and Sidda Schuyler

100 hurdles—Skyler Hansen, 4^th, :17.86

100—Ellie Brozik,3^rd :12.76

800 relay—4^th, 1:54.01, Richey, Sachtjen, Morgan Hammerbeck and Ellie Brozik

1600—Sidda Schuyler, 2^nd, 5:45.31

300 hurdles– Hansen, 4^th, :52.3; Katherine Jankausask, 4^th, :52.92

3200 run—Sidda Schuyler, 1^st, 12:22.16

1600 relay—2^nd, 4:22.1, Richey, Brozik, Sachtjen and Hammerbeck

Results of the Winner boys include:

Shot put—Levi McClanahan, 4^th, 42-9

Triple jump—Fritz, 2^nd, 41-1.5; Riley Cahoon, 3^rd, 39 -5.25; Joren Bruun, 6^th, 37-5.25

Discus—McClanahan, 2^nd, 120-10

Long jump—Calhoon, 4^th, 19-9; Fritz, 5^th, 19-7

800 relay—1^st, 1:35.36, Riley Calhoon, Joren Bruun, Nolan Sachtjen and Brady Fritz

3200 run—Kade Watson, 2^nd, 11:13.12

1600 run –Watson, 4^th, 5:09.37

Colome athletes placed at the Menno Relays held on April 12.

The Colome girls tied for 13^th place.

Results include:

Saydee Heath, 6^th in the 100, :13.49; long jump, 8^th, 15-7.50

Abby Kortan, 7^th in the 800, 2:44.68

Haley Krumpus, triple jump, 4^th, 32.3.25.

Winner/Colome club baseball team was able to get in a game before the blizzard hit on Friday.

Thursday night, the Royals defeated Chamberlain 7-2 at Leahy Bowl.

Jackson Kinzer started on the mound pitching five innings and giving up one unearned run on one hit, 2 walks and 8 strikeouts.

Riley Calhoon pitched the last two innings giving up one run on 3 hits, 3 walks and 3 strikeouts.

At the plate, Kinzer had a triple, single and 2 RBIs. Carter Brickman had 2 singles and scored 2 runs and Calhoon had a single and scored 2 runs.

“It was nice to get out and play again with the way the weather has been,” said coach Drew Weber. “Jackson did a great job of throwing strikes and attacking their hitters early in the count. Our defense had some chances to make some plays in the field and they responded well, which is something I had been concerned about coming in with our limited field time so far this spring.”

The coach added: “We did not crush the ball around the park but we had some timely hits and put the pressure on the other team by putting the ball in play.”

Reed Harter of Colome had four hits in a baseball double header for Dakota Wesleyan University.

On Thursday, DWU split a doubleheader with Mount Marty. Dakota Wesleyan won the first game 6-0 as Harter went 2-2 and drove in three runs in the victory. The Tigers lost to Mount Marty in the second game.

Matt Campbell, Colome High School graduate, qualified for the national NAIA meet in the discus. Campbell now competes for Dakota Wesleyan University, Mitchell.

He had a throw of 157-05 for fifth place.

Campbell set a personal best in the hammer throw with a toss of 146-02 taking ninth place and also set a personal record in the shot put with a throw of 47-9 for 7^th place.

While at Colome High School, Campbell threw the shot put and discus placing at the state meet.

Winner/Colome baseball team won a pair of games over Todd County and Gregory County on April 2 at Leahy Bowl in Winner.

Winner/Colome defeated Todd County 11-2.

At the plate, Nick Lantz had 3 singles and two RBIs. Carter Brickman had a double and 3 RBIs. Riley Calhoon scored three runs.

The Royals big innings were three runs in the fourth and five runs in the fifth.

Ty Bolton earned the win as he pitched two innings and giving up one unearned run, 1 hit, two walks.

Levi McClanahan pitched two innings giving up one run with 3 strikeouts

Jeremiah Yeaman pitched two innings giving up 1 hit, 2 walks and 3 strikeouts.

Chase Dufek pitched one inning with two strikeouts.

Winner/Colome threw a no hitter in the second game with Gregory County with the Royals winning 10-0.

Carter Brickman earned the win pitching 3 innings.

Jackson Kinzer pitched two innings.

At the plate, Brickman had 2 singles and 2 RBIs, Calhoon, had 2 singles and scored 2 runs, Nick Lantz had a single and 3 RBIs, Levi McClanahan had double and 2 runs scored and Layton Thieman had a single and 2 runs scored.

“These were two nice wins even in the cold weather,” said coach Drew Weber. “The spring weather hasn’t cooperated at all and it’s cost us a lot of practice time that we normally have, but it hasn’t affected the boys very much,” said Weber.

“I’m very please with our pitching thus far and we’re doing a good job of getting on base offensively. We really need to continue having a balanced attack at the plate and throwing strikes on the mound,” said the coach.

Weather continues to play havoc with the baseball games. Snow and cold weather have caused the postponement of the April 6 game with Chamberlain. This game will be played in Winner on April 12 with the junior varsity playing at 5:30 p.m. followed by the varsity.

On April 14, Sioux Falls Washington will play a junior varsity game in Winner at 2 p.m.

On April 15, St. Thomas More will be in Winner for a junior varsity and varsity game starting at 1 p.m.

A group of Winner wrestlers competed in Kearney, Neb., this weekend.

Achilles Willuweit placed fourth and Atlas Willuweit took second.

Also placing were Apollo Willuweit, 2^nd; Roukyn Robbins, 3^rd; Teegan Shelbourn, 4th, Coy Shelbourn, 4^th, Cooper Craven, 6^th and Rylan Robbins, 7^th.