Custer County Chronicle

’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.

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.

Custer wrestlers runner up at Burke-Gregory

Published by admin on Thu, 12/16/2021 - 9:06am

Coming off their victory at the Bill Young Invitational in Custer on Dec. 3, the Custer High School wrestlers hit the snowy road for Gregory on Friday for Saturday’s Burke-Gregory Invitational and came away with second place. Custer scored 132 points to finish second behind the host team, which scored 173.
In the process the Wildcats had three tournament champions, three second place finishers, three in third place and another trio in fourth.

Custer captures Bill Young Invitational title

Published by admin on Thu, 12/09/2021 - 9:12am

The Custer High School wrestling team got the 2021-22 season off to a powerful start by winning its season-opening home tournament at the Armory last Friday. The Custer wrestlers ran away with the team title in the newly renamed Bill Young Invitational Tournament by scoring 246 points, which was nearly 35 points more than second-place Spearfish in the 16-team tournament. Six Wildcat wrestlers came away as tournament champions in their weight classes.

Talent has girls talking championship

Published by admin on Thu, 12/09/2021 - 9:11am

The Custer High School girls basketball team is thinking championship.
Not Lakota Nation Invitational championship, although that would be nice. Not Black Hills Conference championship, although yes, that would be nice as well. No, the Wildcats have much larger, loftier goals in their heads—the kind that sees them cut down nets in Brookings at the conclusion of the Class A State Tournament.
They want to be state champions.

Volleyball ends season with 11-15 record

Published by admin on Thu, 11/11/2021 - 8:51am

The Custer girls volleyball team ended its season with an 11-15 win/loss record after the first round of Region 8A play against the No. 3 ranked Belle Fourche Broncs last Tuesday night in Belle.
The Broncs beat the No. 6 Wildcats in straight sets to win the right to compete for a spot in the SoDak 16.  
“The first set was very rough for us,” said Wildcat head coach Jill Hohn. “After a strong start we languished and let them dominate.”
And dominate they did. The Broncs won the first set by a 16-point margin.