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The Red Raiders traveled to O’Neill, Nebraska on Tuesday night to take on the Eagles.
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The Raiders had a busy week of competition, starting with the Miller Tournament, Saturday January 9th followed by the Bon Homme/ Scotland/Avon dual on Tuesday January 12th followed by the Philip dual tournament Friday January 15th. We had a strong showing throughout these three competitions. The Raiders finished with four placers at the Miller tournament. Karstyn Lhotak bringing home third place, Jhett Breen with 3rd, Bradyn Lhotak 3rd, and Nolan Dvorak 4th. The Raiders then traveled to Scotland on Tuesday for a dual against BHSA. While the dual came down to the last match to decide the final outcome, the Raiders came up short. With a short handed team, only filling 11 out of 14 spots, we wrestled very well and showed a lot of fight in every match. To cap the week of competition we traveled to Philip on Friday for a dual tournament. We wrestled four west river teams, Philip, Sturgis, Lead-Deadwood, and Mobridge-Pollock finishing the dual tournament 2-2 respectively. The Raiders received their first dualvictory of the seasonfrom Lead-Deadwood followed by another victory from Mobridge-Pollock. The first dual wins of the year were well deserved from a hard fighting team that wrestled with a lot of energy.
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Read moreThe Wagner middle school basketball team hosted the Bon Homme Cavaliers for a pair of games in the auxiliary gym on Thursday. It was the first game of the season for the B team and it saw them come up just short in the end falling by a score of 22-20. After a slow start in the first quarter, the team fought their back into the game and had a chance to win at the end but couldn’t convert. Leading the way in scoring was: Tate Bair with 6, Shea Kjeldgaard and Quincy Mousseaux with 4, and Frank Soukup and Leighton Carda each with 3.
Read moreThe Lady Raiders traveled to Parkston last Thursday night in girls basketball action. Both teams would start out cold as Parkston would finally score 3 minutes into the game and take an early 5-0 lead. Wagner would then connect on 4 triples and finish the quarter on a 13-6 run holding a 13-11 lead. The 2nd and 4th quarters would haunt the Raiders as they would only score a total of 12 points combined and fall to the Trojans 55-40. Wagner would be led by Abby Brunsing’s 16 points, 9 boards and 2 assists. Macy Koupal would add 7 points, 6 boards and dish out 2 assists. Eve Zephier would chip in 6 points. Shalayne Nagel would net 4 points, grab 4 boards and dish out a team high 5 assists. Caydynce Olson would also chip in 4 points for the Raiders. Kya Kjeldgaard and Ashlyn Koupal would round out the scoring with 2 and 1 points. Wagner would shoot 15-45 for 33%. Parkston would go 17-41 for 42%. The game would be won on the charity stripe as Parkston would convert on 17-20 while Wagner would go 5-8. Wagner would get out rebounded 32-25 and commit 19 turnovers compared to Parkston’s 13.
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The Gregory Gorilla’s traveled to Wagner last Tuesday night in girls basketball action. Wagner would jump out to an early 18-10 lead. Gregory would storm back in the second to time the game 26-26 and hold for the final shot to take the lead. Jayla Bruguier would come away with a steal and pass ahead to Ashlyn Koupal for the Raiders to take a 28-26 lead into the half. The Raiders would have a stellar third quarter connecting on 4 triples. 2 from Macy Koupal and 1 apiece from Jayla Bruguier and Abby Brunsing. They would out score Gregory 22-8 and take a 50-34 lead. The lead would never really change the 4th quarter with Wagner winning 64-50. Wagner would hit 24-57 from the floor for 42%. Gregory would convert 15-54 from the field for 28%. Wagner would shoot 8-10 from the line while the Gorillia’s would hit 11-21. Wagner would own the glass with a 38-34 advantage but would commit 16 turnovers compared to 11 from Gregory.Macy Koupal would lead all scorers with a game high 27 points, 4 boards, and dish out 4 assists. Abby Brunsing would also score double figures with 16 points, grab a 9 boards, and dish out 3 assists. Shalayne Nagel would chip in 6 points, get 3 steals, dish out a team high 8 assists and tie Brunsing for the team high 9 boards. Jayla Bruguier would add 6 points off the bench. Kya Kjeldgaard would add 4 points and 4 boards off the bench. Caydynce Olson would add 2 points, grab 6 boards, and dish out 4 assists. Ashlyn Koupal would also add 2 points, grab 4 boards, and dish out 3 assists. Sydney Cournoyer would round out the scoring with 1 point. “We did a great job of moving the basketball, finding shooters, being ready to shoot, and knocking down shots. We still need to continue to do a better job on rebounding. Defensively we have to talk better as they had three scorers knock down shots with us stride for stride. We still have to look for that inside outside presence but we did an awesome job of cutting and hitting those cutters. When you get 22 assists in a game that is great team work and ball distribution so I give credit to our players playing with in themselves.”
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The Red Raiders outscored Menno by 20 points in the first period at home Friday night, January 15th. Wagner led 25-5 after the first quarter and led 39-18 heading into half time. He Red Raiders kept the pressure on Menno in the second half winning the game 73-40. The Red Raiders were extremely balanced, Alex Cournoyer led the team with 12 points and had 7 rebounds. Nolan Carda scored 11 and had 9 rebounds, Simon Freier scored 8 points and had 3 assists, Chris Nelson and Jayden Aungie each scored 6, Toby Zephier, Jaden Peters and Niko Darpeau each scored 5, Marcus Zephier, Daelyn Red Buffalo and Calvin Wright each scored 2. The Red Raiders are now 5-2.
Read moreWagner lost to the Trojans in Parkston on Thursday night, January 14. The Red Raiders jumped to an early 11-0 lead, Parkston went on a run of their own making the score 17-15 after the first period. Wagner had trouble stopping Parkston in the second quarter allowing 18 points and only scoring 9 and trailing at half time 33-26. Parkston came out ready to go int eh second half outscoring Wagner by 5 in the third quarter and expanding their lead to 18 at times. The Red Raiders played hard down the stretch cutting the lead to 7 a few times but never got closer than that. The final score was Parkston 70 Wagner 60. Nola Carda scored 13 points and had 11 rebounds for Wagner. Toby Zephier also had 13 points and 4 assists. Simon Freier scored 11 points and had 3 steals, Dustin Honomichl scored 10 points, Marcus Zephier added 6, Alex Cournoyer 3 and Chris Nelson 2.
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