Sports

Wildcat boys improve to 6-2

Published by admin on Thu, 01/13/2022 - 9:41am

The Custer High School boys basketball team was scheduled to play two games last week. As it turns out, it nearly played three.
That’s because in a pair of  wins over Sturgis and Parkston, the Wildcats played three overtime periods, including two against Sturgis in a 55-52 win on the Scoopers’ home floor.
“It’s hard to explain what they are doing,” Custer head coach Paul Kelley said of his young team. “These kids just keep making the plays when they really need to.”

Girls pick up a pair of road wins

Published by admin on Thu, 01/13/2022 - 9:39am

By Jason Ferguson

’Cats place sixth at Mid-Dakota Monster

Published by admin on Thu, 01/13/2022 - 9:33am

The Custer High School wrestlers came in sixth on Friday at the Mid-Dakota Monster Tournament at Presho’s Lyman Gardens and head coach Jared Webster says that placing is “awesome” when one considers the size of the tournament and the caliber of the competition.
“We’ve never had three kids in the finals before and we had a shot at putting five or six in the finals,” Webster said of the annual tournament, which attracts both A and B schools from across South Dakota and Nebraska.

Davis victorious at Hot Springs meet

Published by admin on Thu, 01/06/2022 - 10:31am
The Hill City Rangers Wrestling team had a huge win at the Hot Springs Holiday Extravaganza. Eli Isakason  placed eighth and scored 10 team points, while Tanner Davis placed first and scored 28 team points. 
It was a great feeling but weird,” Davis said about winning the tournament. “All of these tournaments I’ve walked into I always had the ‘I wish I was on top of that podium’ idea and I never got it.” 
And while the victory was exciting it’s also slightly bittersweet, knowing as he puts it, “I will never walk into the same gym to wrestle again.”

Girls Team to host Spearfish Thursday

Published by admin on Thu, 01/06/2022 - 10:20am
The Hill City High School girls basketball team opens the 2022 portion of its season Thursday evening against the Spearfish Spartans (3-2) and enters the game sporting a record of 2-3. 
The Rangers are on a two-game losing streak entering the game, having lost to St. Thomas More 38-49 just before Christmas and Vermillion New Year’s Eve at the Sioux Falls Pentagon. 
Head coach Wade Ginsbach said, “So far we’ve been tested quite a bit. We’ve played some good teams. I think we're figuring it out.” 

Boys split games at Chadron tourney

Published by admin on Thu, 01/06/2022 - 9:10am

The Custer High School boys basketball team closed out the Chadron (Neb.) Rotary Classic last Wednesday, Dec. 29 with a convincing win over the Valentine (Neb.) Badgers in the third place game of the annual holiday tournament.
Three Wildcats cracked double figures in the win, led by Kyle Virtue’s 26 points, as the freshman hit 12 of his 19 shot attempts. Fellow post player Gage Tennyson scored 10 points of his own, while freshman guard Kade Lehman netted 10.

Girls drop Bobcats, fall to Cardinals

Published by admin on Thu, 01/06/2022 - 9:08am

You would be hard pressed to find two games at the opposite ends of the spectrum than the two the Custer High School girls basketball team played last weekend at the Chadron (Neb.) Rotary Holiday Classic.
In last Wednesday’s third place game against the Hemingford (Neb.) Bobcats, Custer put on a shooting clinic, hitting 11 three-pointers and shooting 40 percent from the floor in a 60-29 victory.

Boys win bracket at Lakota Nation

Published by admin on Thu, 12/23/2021 - 9:15am

Heading into this season, Custer High School head basketball coach Paul Kelley privately worried that his team might struggle mightily at the outset of the season. In fact, he was worried the team would lose a lot.
And why wouldn’t he? The team lost nine seniors to graduation and was looking at a rotation that not only relied on freshmen, but started them as well. He just wasn’t sure how the youngsters would perform when the lights came on and the competition began.

Girls finish 2-2 at Lakota Nation Invitational

Published by admin on Thu, 12/23/2021 - 9:14am

On several occasions during the Custer High School girls basketball team’s game against White River last Saturday at the Lakota Nation Invitational, the Wildcats appeared to be poised to get over the hump so to speak, to crack the four-to-six point lead the Tigers held over them for most of the game.
Maleighya Estes just wouldn’t let that happen.

Wrestlers fourth at Holiday Extravaganza

Published by admin on Thu, 12/23/2021 - 9:12am

The Custer Wildcats coasted to easy victories in their first two times on the mat in the last week before the Christmas break but ran into a brick wall named Philip area on Saturday at the Hot Springs Holiday Extravaganza Invitational.   
To start their three days of competition last week, the ’Cats dominated the mats at the Belle Fourche Triangular last Thursday, defeating its dual opponents by wide margins. Custer beat the Belle Fourche Broncs 64-18 and devastated the Lead-Deadwood ’Diggers by a score of 68-12.