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High school track results

Published by admin on Thu, 05/20/2021 - 9:39am

Black Hills Conference meet: boys — top 50

100 meters: 19. Austin Groven (12.49)

200 meters: 7. Willie Walther (23.68); 12. Jaxon Johnson (24.31); 15. Austin Groven (24.96)

400 meters: 3. Willie Walther (1:01.01)

800 meters: 9. Taylor Tallon (2:10.88); 16. Brandon Ramirez (2:22.80)

1600 meters: 11. Taylor Tallon (5:04.99); 17. Brandon Ramirez (5:20.96)

3200 meters: 6. Luke Rupert (10:44.92); 9. Leighton Aves (11:08.52); 12. Tate Grabow (11:13.37)

110m hurdles - 39”: 1. Jaxon Johnson (15.96)

Track racks up conference titles

Published by admin on Thu, 05/20/2021 - 9:17am

Several Custer High School track team members were crowned conference champions at last Friday’s Black Hills Conference meet, while both the boys and girls teams fared well as the season enters the home stretch.
The Wildcat girls finished in third place in the team race, with 133 points, while the boys finished fourth at 88 points. Both the boys and girls squads were only bested by the Class AA schools in the conference. Sturgis won the girls team title with 182 points, while Spearfish won the boys with 172 points.

Golfers seventh at conference

Published by admin on Thu, 05/20/2021 - 9:15am

Freshman Lauryn Robb shot a team low 121 to take 20th place at the Black Hills Conference Tournament at Spearfish May 11. The Wildcat golfers had a combined score of 524 to place seventh out of eight teams on the course that will be the site of the state tournament next month.
Two other Custer golfers were six strokes back at 127. Eighth graders Shauna Zacher and Jordyn Uphoff placed 25th and 26th. Freshman Maddie Meyer shot a 130 to place 27th in the conference tourney and eighth grader Makenna Allen came in 35th with her score of 146.

Progress evident for girls golf

Published by admin on Thu, 05/13/2021 - 9:16am

Shauna Zacher’s score of 118 led the Custer High School girls golf team last Thursday morning when the Wildcats traveled south to Southern Hills Golf Course for the Hot Springs Invitational.
“I am really happy with how the girls are progressing through the season,” head coach Haley Uphoff said. “We are coming up on conference and region and I think we will be playing our best golf at that time, which of course is the goal.”

Throwers lead the way for ’Cats

Published by admin on Thu, 05/13/2021 - 9:15am

Kellyn Kortemeyer’s pair of first-place finish in the girls’ throwing events highlighted the Custer High School track team’s day at the Rapid City Track O’Rama last Friday at O’Hare Stadium at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. The meet was held for field events only.
Kortemeyer set a new personal record (PR) in winning the shot put with a top throw of 46-1 1/2. Her winning discus toss was 131-6.

’Cats compete in Sioux Falls

Published by admin on Thu, 05/06/2021 - 9:22am

It was a weekend of stiff competition for the Custer High School track team last week as the team made the trek east to Sioux Falls to compete in both the Sioux Falls O’Gorman Invitational and the Howard Wood Dakota Relays on Friday and Saturday.
“It turned into a pretty good weekend for us,” head coach Karen Karim said. “We saw where we are in a lot of things and we had some kids step up and have some great performances.”

Wildcats fourth at rainy Douglas Invite

Published by admin on Thu, 05/06/2021 - 9:21am

The Custer High School girls golf team came in fourth out of 11 teams at the Douglas Invitational on April 27, but they got a little wet in the process. The tournament held at Box Elder was dubbed the “Douglas Rainy Invite” after the fact because rain showers shortened the event from 18 to nine holes. The Wildcats had a combined score of 227 strokes. Hot Springs won the event with a score of 190.
Freshman Maddie Meyer shot a 47 to take fifth place overall in the event. She was just three strokes behind the tournament champion, Sydney Olstad of Hot Springs.

Tennyson flies past school record

Published by admin on Thu, 04/29/2021 - 12:01pm

It is frequently said that records are meant to be broken. While that may be true, it takes much, much longer for some records to fall.
Such was the case with the Custer High School boys long jump record, which for the past 49 years has stood at 21-5. Mark Pendleton set the record in 1972, and it has remained in place as one of the oldest school track records in Custer.
That was until last Thursday, anyway.

Golfers second at Belle tourney

Published by admin on Thu, 04/29/2021 - 12:00pm

Custer eighth grade golfer Shauna Zacher shot a 108 in 18 holes to lead her team to a second place finish among six teams at the Belle Fourche Invitational on Thursday.
“She did really well,” said coach Haley Uphoff, “so I’m really proud of her.”
Teammate Maddie Meyer missed being in the top 10 by just one stroke. The freshman shot a 116 to finish in 11th place.
Next up for the Wildcats was freshman Lauryn Robb with a score of 122. Robb came in 14th overall. Eighth grader Jordan Uphoff shot a 125 to finish in 17th place.

Personal records galore for ’Cats

Published by admin on Thu, 04/22/2021 - 1:06pm

It was a personal record  bonanza for the Custer High School track team last Saturday in Belle Fourche, as over 20 such records fell for the Wildcats at the Center of the Nation Track Meet.
The meet was the only meet of the week for the Wildcats, as the Track-O-Rama scheduled for Friday in Rapid City was cancelled due to poor weather.
“It was good after two weeks of work to get a meet in,” head coach Karen Karim said, as both the Track-O-Rama and last week’s Queen City Classic in Spearfish were cancelled recently. “That was important for us to have that chance to race.”