Custer County Chronicle

’Cats dominate Custer Quad, Graf wins in Rapid City

Published by admin on Thu, 12/19/2019 - 10:02am
 
The Custer High School Wrestling team continued its winning ways last week with decisive victories over all three of the opposing teams at the Custer Quad held at the Armory Thursday. 
In team scoring, the Wildcats rolled over Newcastle-Upton, Wyo., 45 to 21, crushed Newell 69-6 and flattened Bennett County 62-12. 
“The kids came out ready to wrestle and so we were very pleased with that,” said head coach Jared Webster. 

Big second half propels ’Cats

Published by admin on Thu, 12/19/2019 - 10:01am
Custer High School girls basketball coach Mick Patzlaff had two messages for his team at halftime of last Friday’s season-opening game against Newcastle, Wyo.
Get the ball inside on offense, and stop fouling.
The messages were  received loud and clears, as the Wildcats overcame a 28-25 halftime deficit to come away with a 52-42 win over the Dogies in the Armory.

Boys open with win over Dogies

Published by admin on Thu, 12/19/2019 - 10:00am
The Custer High School boys basketball team led by as much as 24 at one point of its season-opening victory over Newcastle, Wyo., last weekend, cruising to a 67-53 win behind 21 points from Jace Kelley, 15 points from Daniel Sedlacek and 11 points from EJ Gonzalez.
“When I watched as the game was going on, I thought we had a lot of ugly moments,” head coach Paul Kelley said. “The benefit I have is watching on video numerous times. We did a lot of good things, but there’s still room to grow and improve.”

Wildcat wrestlers win Custer Invitational

Published by admin on Thu, 12/12/2019 - 9:17am
With a total of six tournament champions, the Custer High School wrestling team wrestled its way to first place in its own season-opening Custer Invitational Tournament over the weekend at the Armory.
Head coach Jared Webster said the six wrestlers in the winners circle was “probably the most we've had at the Custer Tournament in a long time.”
One of the standouts for the Wildcats was freshman Jonathan Lewis who won the 138 pound championship with a sudden victory (7-5) over Oakley Blakeman of Spearfish.

Boys team checks all the boxes

Published by admin on Thu, 12/12/2019 - 9:16am
This year. 2019-20.
For the past few years, when his freshmen and sophomores were taking their lumps on the floors of the various gymnasiums throughout the Black Hills Conference, Custer High School head boys basketball coach Paul Kelley pointed to 2019-20 as the year his young players would be more men than boys and ready to compete for a conference championship.
Or, maybe something even loftier than that.

Girls team should be much improved

Published by admin on Thu, 12/12/2019 - 9:15am
Coming off a season where it finished 7-14, the Custer High School girls basketball team is a year older and wiser, and expects to be much improved when the ball gets thrown into the air for the first time Friday evening.
While the team is still young—only four seniors are on the roster—head coach Mick Patzlaff enters his second year at the helm expecting girls who were forced in varsity action last year out of necessity to be much better prepared for games this year thanks to the experience they got under their belts last year and over the summer.

Custer wrestlers fewer but tough

Published by admin on Thu, 12/05/2019 - 9:17am
As the Custer High School wrestling team prepares for its first matches at the Custer Invitational Tournament this week, coach Jared Webster says he is working with a smaller but still tough team this season. 
Webster says only 16 to 17 wrestlers are practicing on the high school squad but adds “everyone we have in is just a solid wrestler...very tough. Every one of them is just a heck of an athlete and very well-rounded.”
The coach says everyone on the team “has experience and can place.”

’Cats lose to ’Diggers in Region 8A play

Published by admin on Thu, 11/14/2019 - 8:56am
The Custer girls volleyball team closed out its 2019 season Tuesday, Nov. 5 by losing to Lead-Deadwood in first-round Region 8A tournament play. 
The Wildcats had faced the Golddiggers on two previous occasions this season coming up short both times, so they knew it was going to be a tough match going in. 
In the first matchup Oct. 3 in Custer the ’Diggers dropped the ’Cats 3-2, and in the second game just a week before the final confrontation the ‛Cats lost in 4 sets. 

’Cats lose to ’Diggers in Region 8A play

Published by admin on Thu, 11/14/2019 - 8:56am
The Custer girls volleyball team closed out its 2019 season Tuesday, Nov. 5 by losing to Lead-Deadwood in first-round Region 8A tournament play. 
The Wildcats had faced the Golddiggers on two previous occasions this season coming up short both times, so they knew it was going to be a tough match going in. 
In the first matchup Oct. 3 in Custer the ’Diggers dropped the ’Cats 3-2, and in the second game just a week before the final confrontation the ‛Cats lost in 4 sets. 

Girls cross country retains Class A crown

Published by admin on Thu, 10/31/2019 - 9:22am
For the second year in a row the Custer girls cross country team was crowned state Class A champion at the state cross country meet in Huron over the weekend. The boys team, fresh off a second-place finish at the Region 5 meet in Pine Ridge on October 17, took fourth in the boys race which qualified the Wildcats to receive the Combined Team Champion award for the second year running.
“I was impressed with how they came through,” said coach Karen Karim. “They all had great performances. That’s hard to have happen.”