The Custer High School cross country team traveled to Sioux Falls last Friday to compete in the Augustana Twighlight Meet. A total of 72 teams were represented at the meet. The flat course at a lower elevation usually makes for quicker times at the meet, and many runners improved upon last week’s times by big margins despite the hot 90-plus degree weather in Sioux Falls.
Despite what head coach Russ Bailey said was noticeable improvement and highlights in fits and starts, a disasterous first quarter put the Custer High School football team in a hole from which it could not recover last Friday evening in a 45-7 loss to the Tri-Valley Mustangs in Colton.
There was a strong wind blowing out of the south at the beginning of the game, and because of that, the Wildcats decided to take the wind in the second quarter, meaning it started the game battling the wind and dealing with deep offensive field position.
The Hill City Rangers High School Football team is 1-1 on the season after crushing the Goldiggers of Lead-Deadwood by a score of 46-20. The Rangers offense included a 29-yard pass, a 17-yard touchdown pass and several long runs.
It was another good day for the Hill City High School Rangers at the Northern Hills Invitational Cross Country Meet in Spearfish Sept. 1. This was a flat fast course and left several Rangers in the lead.
For the boys varsity 5K, Luke Rupert won with a time of 15:48.35, “which is the fasted time I’ve had any athlete run a 5K in my 10 years of coaching here, and it’s one of the fasted times I know of in school history,” said head coach Joe Noyes.
Much of the Custer High School cross country team has been running consistently and steadily through the summer. The hard work seemed to payoff for its first race of the season at Mallo Camp near Newcastle, Wyo., as the boys team earned third place and the girls earned second.
“It was a good first meet for everybody,” said head coach Karen Karim.
The course is hilly and challenging, and Karim said the team would treat the race like a workout, using it to prepare and get its feet wet for the coming races.
The Custer High School golf team finished in fifth place at last Thursday’s pre-conference meet at Hart Ranch outside of Rapid City.
The Wildcats finished with 372 strokes as a team. Sturgis and Spearfish tied for the team title with 335 strokes.
Regan Sorenson was the team’s leading scorer at the meet, as he carded an 89. He was followed by Zayden LaPlaca at 92, Jackson Wiles at 95, Ayden Petz at 96 and Lane Poper at 98.
Hayden Heig of St. Thomas More took home medalist honors, finishing at 72.
The Wildcat volleyball team saw its first games at home this weekend with the Custer Invite Saturday. The team is about 44 players strong—more than they’ve had in recent years.
Head coach Jill Hohn says that this season will look a lot different this year as they adjust to new coaching staff, which includes two new coaches. Heading into the first tournament, Hohn said she was feeling optimistic and that the team was “excited to out it all out on the court.”
Four games into its season, the Custer High School soccer team has doubled its win total from a year ago.
The Wildcats emerged from a flurry of early season games with a 2-1-1 record, defeating Sturgis JV and Douglas JV while tying Hot Springs and losing to St. Thomas More. All four of the games were played on the road.
The Hill City Rangers Girls Volleyball team played its first match after its season opener against Red Coud got postponed.
The Rangers went 3-2 at this weekend's tournament, beating New Underwood, STM, and St Francis. All the team’s losses were against the championship teams, Chadron and Rapid City Christian
The Rangers were off and running for the Hill City High School cross country team’s first meet of the season Friday, Aug. 25, hosted by Newcastle at Mallow Camp.
Head coach Joe Noyes described the course as a tough but true cross country course out in the sticks going uphill for a mile and a half and then downhill for a mile and a half.
