Sports

Wildcats record at 16-13 in final days of season

Published by admin on Thu, 10/24/2019 - 8:57am
 
The Custer High School girls volleyball team extended its season record to 16-13 Monday night with a five set win against Edgemont on the road. 
The Wildcats beat the Moguls in five sets. Coming back from 16-25 and 22-25 losses in the first two sets, Custer stayed in the game and ended winning the next three games (25-17), (25-18) and (15-8). 
On Tuesday last week, the Wildcats traveled to Pine Ridge to take on the Red Cloud Lady Crusaders adding another win to their record. 

Wildcats dominate conference meet

Published by admin on Thu, 10/17/2019 - 8:52am
The Custer varsity cross country teams made it two-in-a-row as Black Hills Conference champions last Wednesday, running a day earlier than planned to beat a snowstorm forecast for Thursday. 
“We worked out really hard on Monday,” said coach Karen Karim, “so they didn’t by any means have ‛fresh legs’ going into that meet but they came through and ran what they needed to.”

Girls volleyball season record now at 14-12

Published by admin on Thu, 10/17/2019 - 8:51am
The Custer High School volleyball team had rematches with two teams it had faced earlier in the season last week, both with similar results bringing the team’s season record to 14 wins and 12 losses. 
On Tuesday the Wildcats traveled to Hot Springs for a rematch with the Bison. In the previous game Sept. 12 the Wildcats were victorious in three sets.
Again they came away from Tuesday’s match with a 25-18, 25-20, 25-17 win, but co-head coach Jill Hohn says the Bison were a harder team to beat this time. 

Grace runs for 319 yards, seven touchdowns in win

Published by admin on Thu, 10/17/2019 - 8:50am
In a must-win game last Friday, the Custer High School football team needed its best players to have big games.
Micaiah Grace took that to heart.
In a wild game in which the teams combined for 15 touchdowns and 103 points, it was Grace who stood out the most as the Wildcat running back had the game of his life, piling up 319 yards rushing and what is believed to be a school record seven touchdowns in the ’Cats’ 62-41 victory over Lead-Deadwood at Ferguson Field in Deadwood.

Competitive cheer team strong heading into finals

Published by admin on Thu, 10/17/2019 - 8:49am
Despite having to make more changes to its routine due to the recent loss of team members, the Custer competitive cheer team cheered its way to a fourth place finish in the Douglas Invitational Cheer and Dance Invite on Saturday in Box Elder. 
Rapid City Stevens placed first in the meet with 208.5 points followed by Douglas in second with 179.5. Hot Springs placed third with 172.
The Custer squad earned 166.5 points from the judges putting Sturgis and Belle Fourche in fifth and sixth place respectively.  

Run Crazy Horse runners set the pace

Published by admin on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 12:31pm

The Run Crazy Horse Marathon and Half- Marathon was held Sunday.

The race started at Crazy Horse Memorial. Participants wound their way through the Black Hills before finishing on Main Street in Hill City. It was a beautiful, sun-shiny day with perfect temperatures for running.

Over 1,000 people from 45 states, Canada and the United Kingdom registered for the race, said Emily Wheeler, race organizer.

Cross county girls take their revenge on Stevens

Published by admin on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 10:14am
It didn’t take the Custer High School varsity girls cross country team long to get their revenge on Class AA school Rapid City Stevens for beating them in the Rapid City Invitational meet a couple weeks ago. In their very next meeting at the Sturgis Invite last Thursday, the Wildcats took first place, pushing Stevens back to third. 

Wildcats blank Warriors

Published by admin on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 10:12am
 
For the past seven or so quarters of football, the Custer High School Wildcat defense has been nearly perfect.
It has now been two games and counting since the first-team defense of the Wildcats has given up a score, as the ’Cats added to their first-team shutout of Todd County two weeks ago with a 41-0 blanking of Bennett County during last Friday night’s homecoming game at Wildcat Field.

Despite losses Wildcats make gains

Published by admin on Thu, 10/10/2019 - 10:12am
Coming off a week in which they beat Spearfish and took second place in the Lakota Nation Invitational (LNI), the Lady Wildcats volleyball team dropped two games during homecoming week but continue to play stronger and stronger going into the final weeks of the season. 
On Tuesday, Oct. 1, the Custer team traveled to Box Elder to take on Douglas, hoping to avenge a five set loss to the Patriots at home on Sept. 2. 

Rangers tournament win caps winning week

Published by admin on Thu, 10/03/2019 - 10:59am

The Hill City Rangers volleyball team capped of a week where it went 8-0 — including six wins on Saturday — with a win at the Belle Fourche Invitational Volleyball Tournament.

To start off the day, the team beat Douglas, Lyman and Hot Springs. It played Belle Fourche to make into the semifinals, where it was matched up against St. Thomas More.