Sports

Wildcat golfers take second at regions

Published by admin on Wed, 05/24/2023 - 10:11am

The Region 4A girls golf tournament was held last Tuesday at Meadowbrook golf course in Rapid City. Out of five placing teams, Custer came out second overall with a score of 411. They were behind St. Thomas More (STM), whose team scored 359. Coming in third, fourth and fifth were Belle Fourche, Hot Springs and Lead-Deadwood, respectively.
“Everybody had a pretty good day. Overall, I was really happy with it,” said head coach Hailey Uphoff.

Boys, girls sweep Region 8A track titles

Published by admin on Wed, 05/24/2023 - 10:10am

The Custer High School track team appears to be rounding into peak form at the right time, as both the boys and girls teams ran, leaped and threw their way to sweeping the Region 8A Track Meet championships last Thursday in Belle Fourche.
The Wildcat girls piled up 192.5 points, over 80 points ahead of second-place finishing Belle Fourche, which had 112 points.

Rangers win regions

Published by admin on Wed, 05/24/2023 - 8:35am
The Hill City Rangers golf team is 2023 Region 6B champion.
The team captured the region 6B championship at Hart Ranch outside of Rapid City May 22 for the first  time in school history.  The Rangers edged out the Wall Eagles and White River Tigers by six strokes.
Leo Daiss led the Rangers by finishing in the number four spot after carding a round of 87. David Hubacher followed in fifth with an 88. Zane Messick was eighth with a 90 and Breylon Rahn fired a 91 to finish in 12th. 

Eighteen rangers head to state

Published by admin on Wed, 05/24/2023 - 8:34am
Hill City High School Ranger athletes placed in the top eight for every event group at the 2023 Black Hills Conference Track & Field Championship May 16. 
Alaina Dean won the 100 meter run at 13.12. Riley Wiese followed in eighth at 13.59. 
In the distance events, Brooke Thayer-Burke finished the 1600 meter run in eighth with a time of 5:53.85. Then in the 3200 meter run, Abby Cutler finished third at 12:09.64, and Aspen Veneklasen finished eighth at 13:22.44. 

Paulsen brothers head to hall of fame

Published by admin on Wed, 05/17/2023 - 11:22am

A pair of Custer brothers who are Wildcat basketball legends are among 13 former players who had exceptional careers in the state who will be inducted into the South Dakota High School Basketball Hall of Fame during the 13th annual banquet Aug. 26 at the Ramkota Hotel in Sioux Falls.
Paige and the late Derek Paulsen are among those set to be inducted into the hall of fame. Wildcat basketball fans will no doubt remember the brothers, who in the late 1990s and early 2000s produced some of the best seasons in the history of Custer High School.

Stiefel, Boyster shine at Howard Wood

Published by admin on Wed, 05/10/2023 - 10:10am
By Jason Ferguson
 
Two of Custer’s standout track athletes appear to be rounding into their best form as the postseason approaches.
Ciana Stiefel and Blake Boyster both had big days last Saturday at the Howard Wood Dakota relays, with Boyster running a 48.80 to win the 400 meter while Stiefel set a Class A record in the pole vault, clearing 12-7 to win the gold medal. The height moved Stiefel into second-place all-time in the state in girls pole vault and also broke a Howard Wood record that has stood for 15 years.

Wildcat golfers third at Black Hills Conference

Published by admin on Wed, 05/10/2023 - 10:08am
The Custer High School girls golf team competed in the pre-conference tournament in Hot Springs last Thursday and then back in Hot Springs for the Black Hills Conference on Monday. The Wildcats secured a third place finish at the Black Hills Conference tournament with a team score of 418. They finished behind Spearfish and St. Thomas More (STM) with scores at 379 and 365, respectively. 

Rupert breaks two mile school record

Published by admin on Wed, 05/10/2023 - 9:11am
By Esther Noe
 
Fifteen Hill City High School Rangers competed at the Howard Wood Relays in Sioux Falls May 5-6. According to head coach Joe Noyes, this “is one of our bigger meets this time of the year where we get to see where we stack up against other relays and kids in our class statewide.” 
Noyes went on to say that the distance boys performed really well during this meet. Luke Rupert broke the school record in the 3200 meter run by 22 seconds, coming in ninth at 9:33.43. 

Ranger golf competes at Stanley County Invitational

Published by admin on Wed, 05/10/2023 - 9:00am
The Hill City High School Ranger Golf team traveled to Ft. Pierre for the Stanley County Invitational hosted at the Dunes Golf Course last Friday. The Rangers got their second team tournament victory in a row by edging out the Wall Eagles by four strokes, 213-217.
David Hubacher also took home the individual title after firing a scorching two under 71. Breylon Rahn followed in sixth with a 74, Adolph Tyler was 11th with a 78, Zane Messick was 15th with a 79, Leo Daiss was 16th with an 80 and Max Rupert was 30th with a 91.

Wildcat golfers get into the swing of season

Published by admin on Wed, 05/03/2023 - 12:19pm

The Custer High School Wildcat girls golf team competed in the Sturgis Invite at Boulder Canyon last Friday and at the Custer Invitational at Rocky Knolls Golf Course Monday.
Head coach Haley Uphoff said she was happy with the turnout at both meets. In Sturgis, the team finished fourth with a score of 412. They were behind Saint Thomas More (STM) at 363, Spearfish at 371 and Rapid City Stevens at 394. Uphoff reported that she was pleased to finish behind only one other Class A school, STM, at the Sturgis meet. Both Spearfish and Stevens are larger class AA schools.