Custer County Chronicle

Wildcat soccer returns

Published by admin on Thu, 08/11/2022 - 9:05am

Custer High School is competing this Fall in soccer for the first time since 2013.
Head coach Sydney Hickman said, “Back in wintertime, there was a push to bring it (soccer) back to the high school. It went to the school board, was approved and then we just went full steam ahead.”
The team’s first practices were last week and Hickman said the new program’s foundational team has a wide range of ages. The team is “a handful of seventh and eighth graders, a few seniors, four juniors. (It’s) a nice mixture which helps. It really just makes us stronger,” Hickman said.

Three Wildcats compete in national rodeo finals

Published by admin on Thu, 08/11/2022 - 9:01am

The Custer High School rodeo team had three members compete at the National High School Finals Rodeo recently in Gillette, Wyo.
Jestyn Woodward, bull riding, Tegan Fite, tie down roping and team roping and Cody Dirkes, cutting, all competed at the event.
Dirkes finished in 14th place in the Monday morning cutting performance and third in the Friday evening performance for an overall 19th place finish in the second-go.

Wildcats golfers place 11th at state

Published by admin on Thu, 06/16/2022 - 9:35am

The Custer High School girls golf team improved both its individual scores and its team placing in a second showing at the state tournament in as many years. The Wildcat golfers finished 11th out of 13 teams in last week’s State A championships at Sioux Falls, moving up from last place last year which was the first time Custer had qualified as a team in many years.

’Cats excel in state tune-up tourneys

Published by admin on Thu, 06/09/2022 - 9:20am

The Custer girls golf team had a couple of opportunities to keep its tournament skills sharp between region meet and state last week. The Wildcats came away with some impressive scores and placings at the same time in meets in Box Elder and Hot Springs.

Boyster dominates sprints at state track meet

Published by admin on Thu, 06/02/2022 - 9:51am

Have yourself a day, Blake Boyster.
Have yourself three days while you’re at it.
Boyster, a junior sprinter for Custer High School, had a meet for the ages at the South Dakota Class A State Track Meet last weekend when he won the 100, 200 and 400 to propel the Wildcat boys to a third-place finish at the meet. The Wildcat boys closed the meet with 59 points, 30 of which came from Boyster’s three gold meals. Sioux Falls Christian won the meet with a team total of 125.

Golfers qualify for state meet

Published by admin on Thu, 05/26/2022 - 10:14am

For the second year in a row, the Custer girls golfers have punched their ticket to participate as a team at the state tournament in early June. The Wildcat team came in second behind St. Thomas More (STM) at the Region 4A golf tournament in Belle Fourche last Tuesday with a combined score of 438 as compared to 420 for STM. Host team Belle Fourche finished in third place with a score of 476 and Hot Springs was fourth with 479.

Track teams sweep region titles

Published by admin on Thu, 05/26/2022 - 10:12am

The Custer High School track team made it a clean sweep at the Region 8A track meet last Thursday at Hart Ranch, as both the boys and girls overcame the blustery, cold weather and the other region teams to come away with the team championships.
The girls piled up 181 team points, easily out-distancing second-place Belle Fourche, which had 144 points. The boys had 151 points of their own, also besting Belle Fourche, which had 119 points.

Girls tie for conference crown

Published by admin on Thu, 05/19/2022 - 9:10am

Josey Wahlstrom and Jojo Larsen appear to be joined at the hip. On the track they are, anyway.
The two finished first and second in three races at last Friday’s Black Hills Conference meet, helping propel the Wildcat girls to 164 points, putting them in a tie with Spearfish for the team championship.

’Cats strong heading into postseason

Published by admin on Thu, 05/12/2022 - 9:17am

Freshman Shauna Zacher continues to lead the Custer girls golf team heading into post season play. Zacher led the team in three tournaments over the past week, culminating in a tie for ninth place at the Black Hills Conference Tourney held in Custer on Monday morning.
Zacher’s score of 104 tied her with Amity Strand of St. Thomas More (STM) and helped the Wildcat golfers to a forth place finish as a team.

Boyster uses kick to win special 200

Published by admin on Thu, 05/12/2022 - 9:15am

If you watched the first 150 meters of the special 200 meter event at last Saturday’s Howard Wood Dakota Relays in Sioux Falls, you might not have seen Blake Boyster.
That’s because he really wasn’t anywhere near the front of the pack.
Boyster, who told local media after the race he got off to a slow start, changed that in a hurry over the last 50 meters of the race, using a furious kick at the end of the race to edge Spearfish’s Jaden Guthmiller, running a time of 22.57 in the process.