Category Archives: Sports

Winner High School boys basketball team closed out the regular season with a 62-53 victory over Crow Creek on Feb. 20.

Drew DeMers scored 18 points followed by Cameron Kuil, 15; Trevor Bertram, 8; Isaac Naasz, 7 and Wyatt Ewing, 6.

Naasz pulled down 7 rebounds with Kuil, Chase Kingsbury and Ewing, 6 each.

Brandon Volmer and DeMers had 3 assists each.

Little Wound defeated the Winner girls basketball team 62-49 Saturday in Kyle.

Bella Swedlund led the scoring for Winner with 19 points including five 3 pointers.  Morgan Hammerbeck added 7 points.

The Lady Warriors shot 26 percent from the field. At the free throw line they shot 23 percent.

Chloe Bartels and Hammerbeck both pulled down 6 rebounds.

Winner ended the season with a record of 15-7.

Gregory defeated Colome girls 46-32 in the first round of the District 12B basketball tournament last Monday in Colome.

Abby Korton and Saydee Heath each had 6 points for the Cowgirls. Callie Heath had 7 rebounds.

Colome was 7 of 56 from the field and at the free throw line made 17 of 31 shots.

Colome ended its season with a 4-17 record.

Bon Homme out-scored the Colome Cowboys 13-7 in overtime to win a 76-70 victory on Saturday in Tyndall.

Holden Thieman led the Cowboys with 29 points with Kelly O’Bryan adding 20 and Jackson Kinzer, 11.

Holden Thieman pulled down 8 rebounds and Layton Thieman and Kolton Salonen each grabbed 5.

Winner Area wrestling team won the 3B wrestling title Saturday in Wagner. The Warriors will send eight wrestlers to the state tournament which starts Friday in Sioux Falls at the Denny Sanford Premier Center.

The Warriors advancing to the state tournament are: Kaden Keiser, Wyatt Ewing, Atlas Willuweit, Trevor Peters, Avery Gilchrist, Kayleb Brozik, Jayden Schroeder and Tre Doren.

Wrestling at the state tournament starts at 9 a.m. on Friday.

Winner boys basketball team had three high scoring players in Friday’s 68-43 victory over Mobridge-Pollock.

Drew DeMers led the scoring with 22 points followed by Trevor Bertram, 19 and Wyatt Ewing, 15. Brandon Volmer added 5 points.

Ewing pulled down 9 rebounds and DeMers had 6 assists.

The next action for Winner will be the regional tournament.

In an overtime victory, the Winner Warriors defeated Platte-Geddes 68-66 on Feb. 14 in Winner.

The regulation game ended in a 59-59 tie. A free throw by Drew DeMers with 4 seconds left tied the game.

DeMers scored 28 points followed by Trevor Bertram with 15 points, Naasz and Wyatt Ewing, 9 each.

Naasz pulled down 7 rebounds, Ewing, 6; Cameron Kuil and DeMers, 5 each.

DeMers had 7 assists.

Mt. Vernon/Plankinton defeated the Winner Warriors 51-46 on Feb. 13 in Winner.

Trevor Bertram scored 12 points, Wyatt Ewing, 10; Drew DeMers, 9 and Brandon Volmer, 8.

Ewing pulled down 10 rebounds, Cameron Kuil, 6 and Chase Kingsbury, 5.

Colome boys basketball team defeated Burke/South Central 53-42 on Feb. 14.

Holden Thieman scored 18 points, Kelly O’Bryan, 13 and Kolton Salonen, 12.

Holden Thieman pulled down 6 rebounds.

Will Cahoy had 5 assists and Jackson Kinzer, 5 steals.

Colome girls basketball team was defeated by Platte-Geddes 56-22 on Friday.

Callie Heath had 6 points and 8 rebounds.