Dancers take 5th

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Winner competitive dance hip hop team placed third at the state tournament in Watertown. The state meet was on Friday, Oct. 21.

Winner competitive dance team placed third in hip hop and tied for 4th in pom at the state cheer/dance meet in Watertown on Friday. Overall, Winner took 5th place in dance.

“This was the best scores of the year,” said coach Sarah

Taggart.

“The girls danced their hearts out. We are going to miss our five seniors and their leadership, talent,” said Taggart.

Kendyl Bachmann and Josey Kludt were named to the all-tournament team.

Leah Wiechelman, Amanda Blare, Josey Kludt and Kendyl Bachmann were named all-academic.

Playing Tripp County Flag football is this Indianapolis Colts team

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Playing Tripp County Flag football is this Indianapolis Colts team. Pictured in front from left are Gianna Phillips, Rex Pederson, Kaysen Storms, Connor Herman. Second row players are Jack Peters, Crawston Craven, Bentley Dougherty, Nathan Melius. In back are coaches Jordyn Harter, Sully Shippy and Cole Rank. Not pictured are coaches Jack Peters, Cody Wheadon. Player not pictured is Liam Schroeder.

Four named all tourney

Four members of the Winner/Colome Pheasants baseball team have been named to the all tournament team. The announcement was made by the South Dakota Amateur Baseball Association.

Chosen from the Pheasants are Dillon Lambley, Chandler Bakley, Derek Graesser and Luke Bamberg, a pickup player from Corsica-Stickney.

Kelly O’Bryan of the Colome Chaos was a pickup player for Kimball-White Lake and was named to the all tourney team.

Ranch bronc, bull riding set

Winner Area Chamber of Commerce will be sponsoring a ranch bronc & bull riding on Sept. 3 at the Tripp County rodeo grounds.

The Calcutta will start at 7 p.m. and rodeo action will start at 7:30 p.m.

The stock contractor is Sutton Rodeo.

The announcer will be Jared Salgler and the clown will be Allan Dessel.

An added feature will be a calf scramble for kids ages 8-15.

Riders are to call 605-381-4251.

There will be an added purse of $2,500 in the ranch bronc ride and $2,500 in bull riding.

This event is all part of the Labor Day celebration in Winner.

Cross country team opens season Friday

The Winner Area cross country team will open the season at the Winner Invitational on Aug. 26. The meet will be held at the Winner Country Club.

The returning lettermen for the boys are Joseph Laprath, Chaz Blotzky, Hayden McMurtrey

The only letterwinner for the girls is Melanie Brozik.

Making up the boys team will be Joseph Laprath, Hayden McMurtrey, Chaz Blotsky, Donny De’Sersa, Matthew Calhoon and Taitin Ringing Shield.

The two Colome runners on the team are Laprath and Ringing Shield.

Brozik is the lone varsity runner for the girls. Middle school runners include Avery Manke and Cameron Olson.

The runners who graduated are Sidda Schuyler, Kade Watson and Kylar Meek.

The boys team qualified for state last year and coach Jayd Schuyler says they will be competitive again this year. “I look for a competitive boys team. Our goal is to win the regional and qualify for state,” said Schuyler.

The coach said Brozik’s goal is to qualify for state on her own.

The team has been holding practice twice a day running in the morning and late afternoon.

Assistant coach is Reagan Nielsen.

The cross country schedule includes:

Aug. 26—Winner Invitational

Aug. 30—at McCook Central

Sept. 6—at Scotland

Sept. 15—at Chamberlain (Big Dakota meet)

Sept. 17—at Lyman

Sept. 24—at Platte-Geddes

Sept. 27—at Todd County

Sept. 29—at Burke

Oct. 3—at MVP

Oct. 13—Regional in Chamberlain

Oct. 22—State at Huron

Cowgirls open on the road

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The returning letterwinners on the Colome volleyball team are in front from left Westlie Cahoy, Ashlyn Hoffine, Jordyn Ring and Landi Krumpus. In back from left are Maura Luedke, Toree Ringing Shield and Devan Dougherty.

The Colome girls volleyball team opened the season yesterday (Aug. 23) when they traveled to Armour to play TDA.

The returning letterwinners are Westlie Cahoy, Ashlyn Hoffine, Jordyn Ring, Landi Krumpus, Maura Luedke, Toree Ringing Shield and Devan Dougherty.

Others on the team are Sophie Hofeldt, Libbie Petersek, Emma Vandenbark, Shayleena Kingsley, Shanna Connot, Kalene Preslicka, Aspyn McKenzie, Raylynn Dehing, Raelynn Kingsley, Leticia DeNoyer, Emme Nelson, Keasha Kartak, Gracie Rohde and Savanah O’Bryan.

Taylor Hrabanek is the new head coach for the Cowgirls. She graduated from Colome High School in 2016 and played volleyball all four years.

The coach explained the team has been doing a lot of team building exercises and working on communication. “Now we are starting to work on rotation and get on the court to get playing time in,” she said.

Hrabanek says the girls are excited and she is excited for them. “Their enthusiasm is pretty high and they want to go far in the region.”

There are seven seniors and Hrabanek says they are the leaders. “I have some juniors who are right are right up there with them,” said Hrabanek.,

“I am excited to see where we go.”

The seniors are Devan Dougherty, Sophie Hofeldt, Ashlyn Hoffine, Landi Krumpus, Libbie Petersek, Jordyn Ring, Toree Ringing Shield.

The team only lost 2 seniors—Kasie Leighton, Katie Welker.

The assistant coach is Casey Shippy.

The Colome volleyball schedule includes:

Aug. 23—at Tripp, Delmont, Armour

Au g. 25—at Burke

Aug. 30—Crow Creek, home

Sept. 1—at Platte-Geddes

Sept. 3—Gregory Tourney

Sept. 6—Lyman, home

Sept. 12—Marty, Home

Sept. 19—St. Francis, home

Sept. 22—at Avon

Sept. 24—Wessington Springs tourney

Sept. 27—at ACDC

Oct. 1—Great Plains Conference tourney at Lake Andes

Oct. 6—at Stanley Co.

Oct. 11—at Gregory

Oct. 13—White River, home

Oct. 15—Thunder Nation tourney

Oct. 18—Jones Co., home

Oct. 21—Centerville, home

Oct. 24—at Kimball/White Lake

Oct. 25—at Corsica-Stickney

Oct. 31-Nov. 1,3—Regions

Nov. 8—Sodak 16

Nov. 17-19—State