Sports

The Gregory County club baseball team claimed an 11-3 victory Tuesday, May 16, despite a big push by the Lead-Deadwood Golddiggers in the fourth inning. The Golddigger’s offense in the inning was led by Wichterman, Bloedel, and Janke, all driving in runs in the inning.

The Gregory Elementary had their Track and Field Day on May 17, 2023. The morning was packed with track and field events. After lunch, the students had some fun relay contests with one another. Some of these relays included tugof- war, 3-legged race, gunny sack race, balloon pop relay, cracker race, box race and the gallon of water race. It turned out to be a nice day with tons of fun.

With members placing in second, fourth, and ninth, the Gregory High School men’s golf team won the Bon Homme Golf Tournament team championship on Friday, May 12, at the Springfield Golf Course. Eli Fogel finished the first nine holes leading by one; teammate Kade Stukel trailed him by two.

A walk-off single propelled Gregory County Club Baseball to a decisive, dramatic victory over Chamberlain-Kimball-Lyman Monday evening, May 1, in Gregory. The game was tied at nine with Gregory County batting in the bottom of the seventh when Jader Schonebaum singled on a 1-1 count, scoring one run.

Jessy Jo VanDerWerff led the varsity girls golf team to a third place finish in Burke on Friday, May 5. Winner came out on top with 281, followed closely by Burke with 282.

The Gregory track team took advantage of near perfect conditions at the Meet of Legends in Burke on Tuesday, May 2, putting up the best performances of the season in most events. “Luke Barreto ran his best and set a new meet record in the 3200m run with a time of 10:36.20,” Coach Kurt Stukel pointed out.

The varsity boys combined for a score of 255 to finish in fourth place at Lake Platte on Friday, May 5. Platte-Geddes won the tournament with 233, but Ethan kept the heat on, finishing one stroke behind with 234.

Tuesday, May 2, was a beautiful day to be on the golf course, and the Gregory High School junior varsity boys golf team took full advantage of the nice conditions to turn in top tier performances at the Springfield golf course.

Gregor County Club Baseball fell behind early and couldn’t come back in a 3-1 loss to Winner/ Colome Royals on Sunday, May 7. The Royals scored on a single by Calhoon in the first inning and a double by Bartels in the second inning.

The Gregory track team had five boys relay teams and two girls relay teams invited to the Howard Wood Relays in Sioux Falls, Friday and Saturday, May 5-6, and every relay turned in their fastest time of the year.