HOT SPRINGS – Following their 7-2 record during the 2021 season, the Hot Springs Bison football team held its end-of-the-year awards banquet, where many individual honors were presented.

In addition to a successful win/loss record, the team also accomplished a number of milestones including a Black Hills Conference / Crazy Horse Division title as well as a pair of team records including Few Points Allowed in a Season (14) and Most Shutouts in a Season (7).

Included in the individual honors...

HOT SPRINGS – The Hot Springs Lady Bison volleyball team this year finished their season with a 20-11 record, which is the most wins for the team since the 2010 season.

Recently, the team held its end-of-the-season awards banquet where individual honors were presented, including Academic All-State, which went to seniors Brooke Harkless, Candra Maciejewski, Kylene Baker, Rachel Rickenbach and Megan Sanders for having a GPA of at least 3.5 and for being on the team for at least three...

EDGEMONT – This past season was a historic one for the Edgemont Lady Mogul volleyball team. Not only did they finish with one of their best records in recent history (20-11), they also qualified for the program’s first-ever SoDak 16 which put them just one win away from a State Class “B” tournament appearance.

Recently, the Panhandle Athletic Conference announced its All-Conference lists which included two Edgemont players making it onto the first-team, one on the second-team and also two...

By Eric Harrold

Staff Writer

SPEARFISH – Lathen Stevens, a 2016 graduate of Edgemont High School, was chosen by his teammates on the Black Hills State University football team to receive the ‘We Over Me’ Award, according to Head Coach Josh Breske.  

Stevens saw action on special teams (kick off and punt returns) early on and played cornerback for the majority of his career and played safety this year. He completed his undergraduate degree in Business Administration last...

Photos by Brett Nachtigall/Fall River County Herald-Star

TOP: The most recent inductees in the Hot Springs Bison Athletics Hall of Fame includes, from left: the 1917 Hot Springs Bison Football Team (accepted by Greg Burg, whose grandfather George Burg, Sr., was on the team), Lisa Collogan-Starr, Kathleen Schjodt, Cheryl Burg-Huddleston, Leroy Hofer (accepted by his son Preston Hofer) and Kevin Couch. Not pictured is Jim Kocer, who was represented by Hall of Fame board member Carlos...