Custer High School senior Melissa Flores can add one more honor to her volleyball conquests as she was recently named to the South Dakota Volleyball All Star Team.

The honor came as quite the surprise for the young lady who started playing the sport in the fifth grade.

The bad news for the Custer High School wrestling team members who participated in last weekend’s Class A state wrestling tournament in Sioux Falls is that none of them were able to crack the win column in any of their matches at the tournament. The good news for them, and head coach Jared Webster, is that all three will get the chnce next year.

Basketball can be a heartbreaking sport.

No matter how well you play defense, no matter how much you hustle, and no matter how great you rebound, if you can’t make any shots, you’re going to lose. Monday night in Pine Ridge, the Custer High School boys basketball team couldn’t make any shots. Predictably, that led to a loss.

Three wrestlers—Cody Herman, Tanner Eisland and Ty Cooper—will represent Custer this weekend at the State “B” Tournament in Sioux Falls.

In a game where everyone knew the final outcome before the game even started, the Custer boys did what they were supposed to do.

As Yogi Berra once famously said, it was deja vu all over again.

All except two Custer wrestlers will head to Stanley County this weekend to compete in the Region 4B Tournament. That number could’ve been great if Custer wasn’t able to right its wrongs after a rough start at the District 7B Tournament in Philip this past Saturday, Feb. 13.

If anyone needed proof the Custer High School boys basketball team is playing some of its best ball of the year, they got it Saturday night. The Wildcats went into St. Thomas More’s gym prohibitive underdogs, and although they didn’t win, they looked every part of a team to reckon with in a 53-44 loss that saw the ’Cats actually lead 14-13 after the first period.

Someone needs to take the snooze button off the Custer High School girls basketball team’s alarm clock.

In what has been an all-too-familiar theme for the ’Cats this season, they had a less-than-stellar first half of their game in Rapid City last Friday night, scoring only eight first half points in a 38-25 loss to the St. Thomas More Cavaliers.

Chad Bryant scored 22 points and Brandon Smith and Luke Roddy both added 12 as the Custer Wildcats completed a season sweep of the Lead-Deadwood Golddiggers with a 69-55 win Feb. 8 in Lead. Custer head coach Larry Luitjens called it the best game the â??Cats have played all year

Despite most of the team being either battered or sickly, a slew of Custer Wildcat wrestlers placed in the Hill City Invitational Tourney this past weekend in Hillâ??City. Cody Herman (103) set the pace for Custer as he took first place, while Clayton Wahlstrom (125) finished in third place, Soren Wahlstrom (130) finished in fourth despite not finishing due to a sickness. Max Wilson (135) finished in sixth place, Dylan Severyn (140) took second place, Zach Wager (160) took third and Ty Cooper (215) took fifth.

TJ Stover scored 17 points and grabbed 10 rebounds and Chad Bryant and Jordan Konkol both added 12 points as the Custer Wildcats cruised to a 78-26 win over the Newell Irrigators last Thursday night in Newell.

The Custer High School girls basketball team used an 11-0 fourth quarter run last Friday night in the armory to outlast the winless Douglas Patriots 52-38 in a game that was much closer for longer than most people probably thought it would be for much longer than those same people thought it should have been.