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Winner Junior Legion baseball team defeated Valentine, Neb., 15-12 on June 27.

Pitching in the game were Oscar Pravecek, Dalton Baker and Phillip Jorgensen.

Leading hitters were Colby Kaiser with 2 hits, Jorgensen with 3 hits, Pravecek with 2 hits, Kameron Meiners with 2 hits, Bosten Morehart with 2 hits and Tyler Olson with 2 hits.

The Winner Junior Legion baseball team defeated Mission 20-9 on June 29.

Pitching five innings was Dalton Baker and allowed only 3 earned runs.

Leading at the plate was Colby Kaiser with 2 singles and a double. Baker had 3 singles, Phillip Jorgensen had 3 singles and a double.  Oscar Pravecek added a double and two singles.  Shea Connot had 3 singles and Tyler Olson had 2 singles and Bosten Morehart had 2 singles.

Jorgensen had 6 RBIs.  The Winner team had 22 hits.

In the opening round of the Father’s Day tournament, Winner Junior Teeners defeated Lyman 16-5.

Brady Fritz pitched four strong innings and also had a hit and a run scored.  Zach Bohnet had 2 hits and 3 RBI’s. Klein had 2 hits and Owen Duffy reached base safely 3 times.

In the semifinal game, Winner was outscored by Platte 20-3.  Zach Bohnet pitched four solid innings and Ashton Klein pitched in relief.

Coach Jon Hanson said Winner struggled defensively and it shows with eight errors in the game.  Fritz had 2 hits and 2 runs scored and Klein had 2 hits.

In the final game, Winner lost a slugfest 13-10. Winner played Onida in the third place game on Sunday.

Evan Farner, Ashton Klein and Jesse Calhoon shared pitching duties.  On the offensive side, Kolbie Osborn and Adam Bohnet had 2 hits each while Fritz finished with 4 hits.

Gregory won the Father’s Day tournament with a 5-4 victory over Platte. Bryce Frank’s two out single scored Coy Determan for the win.

Earlier, the Winner junior teeners were victorious over Mission 13-3 in a game played last Thursday.

Riley Orel pitched two innings and Farner pitched the final inning.  Farner had 3 hits, and Michael Olson, Ashton Klein, Zach Bohnet, Charlie Pravecek and Brady Fritz each had a hit.

The next action for Winner is Thursday when they will host Gregory at 6 p.m.

Colome Junior Teeners defeated Valentine 7-6 in the consolation championship of Winner Father’s Day Tournament on Sunday.  In the fifth inning, Joey Cole tied the game at 6-6.   Valentine took an early 2-0 lead but Colome came back to tie the game 2-2. Valentine regained the lead before colome came back to score the winning run.

In the first game of the tournament, Platte defeated Colome 13-5 and in the second game Colome won 4-1 over Lyman. This game was called due to rain out.

Parkston Mudcats defeated Winner/Colome amateur baseball team 6-1 in Sunshine League play Sunday in Winner.

Parkston led 2-1 after the first inning and scored four runs in the second inning.

Austin Calhoon started on the mound for Winner/Colome as he pitched one and one third innings.  Jared Donahue took over the pitching duty for the Pheasants after the first inning.

For Winner/Colome, Donahue had two hits with Austin Calhoon and Austin Richey both adding a hit.

Winner/Colome will play the Platte Killer Tomatoes on Thursday in Platte.

Winner/Colome Legion baseball team was swept by Mitchell Friday night.

In the first game, Mitchell scored nines runs in the first three innings. Mitchell won the game 10-0 in five innings and took the second game 15-2 in five innings.

Ty Bolton took the loss for Winner/Colome and Drew DeMers had the team’s lone hit. Jeremiah Yeaman also pitched.
In the second game, Levi McClanahan took the loss allowing eight runs on five hits. Drew DeMers and Cameron Biggins each pitched.

DeMers had two hits and a run scored and Kelly O’Bryan had a hit and a run scored.  Nick Lantz had an RBI single.

“These were not two good outings. We had too many walks on the mound and never really got anything going at the plate,” said coach Drew Weber.  “We had 8 hits in the second game but never strung them together to have a big inning. We need to start doing a better job of limiting big innings from the other team and start finding a way to get some of them for ourselves,” said Weber.

On June 24, the Winner/Colome Legion will play Lead-Deadwood at home at 3:30 p.m.   On June 27, the Legion team will play at Platte.

Winner/Colome Legion baseball team defeated Mission 6-5 on June 14 in Mission.

Cale Meiners started on the mound and pitched five innings, giving up five runs on 7 hits, 2 walks and 6 strikeouts.  Drew DeMers picked up the win in relief pitching two innings.

Meiners had an RBI double, Kelly O’Bryan, Nick Lantz, Ty Bolton and Levi McClanahan each had singles.

“It was nice to win in a game where we didn’t play our best. We are not good enough offensively right now and hopefully things will right themselves as we get a little later in the season. We have a talented ball club but we need to start clicking on all cylinders and I think we will,” said coach Drew Weber.

The Winner Junior Legion baseball team defeated Mission 16-6 on June 15.

Pitching for Winner were Colby Kaiser, Bosten Morehart and Oscar Pravecek.

Leading hitters were Pravecek with 3 hits, Phillip Jorgensen with 3 hits and Tyler Olson with 2 hits.

Winner Area girls golf team placed seventh at the state Class A golf tournament in Hartford June 5-6.

On the first day, the Winner Area girls shot a 389 and the second day shot a 369.

Two golfers received medals. Ronae Klein placed 13th and Liz Jankauskas placed 17th.

Klein had a two-day total of 176 and Jankauskas shot a 179 over the two days.

Results of other Winner Area golfers include: Addy Root, 203; Cheyenne Dougherty, 206 and Sam Marts, 221.

Colome Teeners won the 16U tournament Sunday afternoon in Winner as they defeated Onida 7-5 at Leahy Bowl.  Layton Thieman pitched the entire game.   Chase Dufek and Layton Thieman scored the first two runs for Colome. Colome scored four runs in the second inning.   Nash Atteberry had a triple in the game.
Colome played two games on Saturday.

The team opened with a 9-4 victory over Gregory at noon on Saturday. Jackson Kinzer was the winning pitcher.  Leading hitters were Chase Dufek with thee hits including two doubles and a single. Kinzer added 2 singles.
In the second game, Colome defeated Valentine, Neb., 10-4.   Calvin Ringing Shield was the winning pitcher with Jacob Beckers credited with the save.   Dufek had a double, Thieman a triple and a double and Ringing Shield a triple.

Winner Junior Legion opened play in the 16U tournament in Winner with a 15-3 win over Mission Saturday morning.   The game ended in the fourth inning.  Winner scored nine runs in the third inning.  Aaron Gilchrist was the winning pitcher.
Leading hitters were Dalton Baker with two hits, Phillip Jorgensen with 2 doubles and Shea Connot with two hits.

Saturday evening Winner was defeated by Onida 7-6 in nine innings.  Kameron Meiner and Gilchrist were the pitchers in this game.  Jorgensen had a double and a single with Oscar Pravecek getting two hits.

Sunday Winner was defeated by Gregory 10-2.