Sports

Boys fall to Red Cloud in opener

Published by admin on Thu, 12/15/2022 - 9:16am

The Hill City boys basketball team opened its season with a 75-41 loss to Red Cloud.
Despite the loss coach Laramie Harvey commended his team by saying, “I am very excited at the amount of effort and intensity the boys played with; I hope we can build on this.”
Harvey called the game frustrating acknowledging, “I do not know if we can have a worse shooting night as a team than we did on Saturday night.”
He credits Red Cloud as being a  “very good team.” The Crusaders had high energy and momentum throughout all four quarters of play.

Hill City wrestling takes to the mat

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

Hill City boys wrestling team finished 39 out of 44 teams at the Rapid City Invitational.
The team’s seven points were scored by Freshmen   James Dubois (2-4) and David Gomez.
Dubois fell in his championship bracket to Josiah Kauffman (6-4) of Sioux Falls Lincoln in a fall at 1:10.
In a preliminary round Gomez defeated Shin Loreno (2-5) of Sioux Falls Jefferson by fall at 0:54. Both Dubois and Gomez won their consolation rounds.
Hill City’s two girl wrestlers placed 32 out of 36 teams, scoring 10 total points.

Wildcats wrestlers dominate in first meets

Published by admin on Thu, 12/08/2022 - 3:03pm

If the first weekend of the season is any indication, the Custer High School wrestling team is going to be a handful this winter.
The Wildcats dominated a pair of home meets last Thursday and Friday, romping to a three wins in duals against the Hot Springs Bison, Harding County Ranchers and Burke/Gregory Storm while also finishing first at the their own Bill Young Invitational Tournament the following day.
The Wildcats piled up 239 points at their home meet Saturday, easily beating second-place finishing Spearfish, which had 199 points.

Basketball team young but experienced

Published by admin on Thu, 12/08/2022 - 3:02pm

The Custer High School boys basketball team enters its 2022-23 campaign with  great news, not-so-great news scenario that all surrounds the team’s youth.
The great news is that a bevy of the returning Wildcats have plenty of varsity experience after being thrown into the fire as freshmen and sophomores.

Hill City Youth Athletics adds volleyball league

Published by admin on Thu, 12/08/2022 - 2:28pm

After the Hill City High School volleyball team went to state Maryrose Nobel and Cori Schmidt noticed the excitement of the elementary children.
“It stirred fires in little girls who were watching their sisters or friends of their sisters or people they’d seen around school play. And they just got really excited about it (volleyball),” Nobel said.

Broncs kick Rangers to end season

Published by admin on Thu, 11/10/2022 - 8:47am
 
 
Volleyball season is over in Hill City after the Rangers lost to Belle Fourche in semifinal region action. The Rangers fells in three sets, 25-15, 25-21, 19-15.
 
This was the second time this season the Rangers lost to Belle Fourche, a team Hill City coach Allie Henderson described as versatile.
 

Volleyball loses in first round region play

Published by admin on Thu, 11/10/2022 - 8:44am

Custer came into regionals with a win versus Lead-Deadwood in its final regular season game, but the Wildcats suffered a loss to Hill City Nov. 1, losing regionals in the first round.
The Rangers again took all three sets versus Custer in this most recent match on Hill City’s home court; Custer couldn’t maintain any lead and lost each set 25-9, 25-21, 25-10.
Custer finished its 2022 season with a 12-19 record, with three of these wins being four or five set battles.

Volleyball team starts region play

Published by admin on Thu, 11/03/2022 - 9:18am

Custer High School began their regional campaign this week after a winning match last Tuesday versus Lead-Deadwood, 3-1.
The Wildcat team played its way to a 25-12 win in the first set, but then their start was cooled off as the Golddiggers took the next set 25-23.
Yet, Custer’s whole roster helped out the next two sets to bring a match win to their home court. The Wildcats took the third set, 25-14 and the fourth set 25-15.
Both Ally Cass (10 kills) and JoJo Larsen (six kills) contributed to making these last two sets no contest.

Rangers finish regular season with loss

Published by admin on Thu, 11/03/2022 - 8:56am
 
 
The Hill City Rangers girls volleyball team plays in the opening round of Regionals this week. 
 
The Rangers lost unexpectedly to Belle Fourche last week, 25-17, 25-18, 26-24, leaving them 20-12 on regular season play. Coach Allie Henderson was surprised by the loss.
 
“Belle didn’t go the way we wanted. We definitely did not play to our potential and I think we let nerves get the best of us,” Henderson said.
 

Girls third, boys fourth at state cross country meet

Published by admin on Thu, 10/27/2022 - 9:12am

Both of Custer High School’s cross country teams competed well at the Class A State Meet in Huron last Saturday.
Custer’s girls varsity took third place (84 points) out of 15 teams. Ramsey Karim (19:12) led the Wildcat squad in the 5K with a fourth place individual finish.  Custer’s Brit Wheeler’s also placed in the top 10 with a new personal best time of 19:28.
Two other Wildcats ran personal records at state: Mattea Marshall raced in at 20:55 and Hailey Woodward finished at 21:25.