On Sept. 2 the Custer High School golf team continued its winning ways by cruising to the team title at the pre-region meet at Hart Ranch Golf Course outside Rapid City.
Dustyn Fish played his way to a second-place finish with an 87, followed by Austin Eggers in third at 89. Ryder Bailey was also in the top five, coming in fifth with a 90, while Dylan Polzine finished ninth at 99. Rounding out the Custer entries was Gunner Prior with a 109.
The Wildcats came in with a team score of 365, well ahead of second-place finishing St. Thomas More at 407.
The Custer Wildcats girls volleyball team broke the Belle Fourche Broncs in three sets at home last Thursday to bring their season record to 2-3 on the new season.
“We were very excited about our win over Belle Fourche and are happy to see the girls coming together as a team,” said co-head coach Jill Hohn.
The ’Cats started out strong in the match at the Armory with a 25-14 win in the first set. Pulling ahead after a close start, Custer was able to capitalize on Belle’s mistakes and saw some strong team play.
A last-minute decision not to perform their pyramid may have cost them a higher placing but Custer High School competitive cheer team coach Tiffany Newman says she is pleased with her team’s performance at its first tournament of the season.
The eight-member team traveled to Belle Fourche on Thursday to participate in its invitational competing against five other teams and placing fifth.
When the Custer cross country team travels up north to the Belle Fourche Invitational on Thursday it may seem like a walk in the park compared to their experience last week at the Augustana Twilight Cross Country Meet in Sioux Falls.
After taking a nearly six-hour bus ride to the other side of the state on Friday, the team competed against 47 other high schools from six different states having to run at dusk and deal with distractions like hundreds of spectators taking video on their cell phones and loud music playing in the background.
“I was very pleased with where we started out,” said cross country coach Karen Karim of her varsity teams in their first outing at the Douglas Early Bird tournament on Friday.
Senior Mallory Delmont came in second in the 5K race at Box Elder’s Prairie Ridge Golf Course with a time of 18:43.78 and four other Wildcat runners earned medals for finishing in the top 15.
“They didn’t keep team scores at this first meet, but we we would have won it going away if they had,” said Karim, adding “That’s a nice start.”
The Custer High School girls volleyball team started off its season with one win and two losses as it hosted the Custer Invitational Tournament on Friday and Saturday at the elementary and high school gyms.
The victory came in the Wildcats’ third game of the tourney Saturday against Red Cloud. The Custer team won in three sets (25-17, 23-25 and 25-16).
For 28 minutes last Friday night, the Custer High School football team gave one of the most revered high school football programs in the state of South Dakota all it wanted—and then some.
Custer led the visiting West Central Trojans 28-21 into the second half before being undone by some costly mistakes that allowed the Trojans to rattle off 21 unanswered points in the Trojans’ 42-28 win.
Coming off a season last year that was disappointing at best, the Custer girls volleyball team is looking to make big improvements in the 2019-2020 season.
Coming off last year’s state championship wins for both the boys and girls teams, Custer High School cross country coach Karen Karim knows her team has a target on its back, but she’s OK with that.
“That target comes from performing well before,” said Karim, adding that she sees the former victory as an incentive to runners moving up from lower grades. “It proves to our kids that it can be done.”
It was another meet and another win for the Custer High School boys golf team last week, as it traveled to Box Elder for a tournament in which it won by 79 strokes in the team total and placed six golfers in the top 10.
Austin Eggers once again led the charge for the Wildcats by placing second with a score of 85, following by Matthew Merrill of Custer in third at 87.
