BELLE FOURCHE – Hot Springs’ boys relays shined last Tuesday, April 23, at the Northern Hills Invite in Belle Fourche as seniors Braden Peterson, Matt Close and Luke Haertel, along with freshman Hunter Kunz, won two gold medals and also set a new school record.

HOT SPRINGS – This year has seen a high number Hot Springs student-athletes achieve high honors on a statewide level in several different sports. Sophomore Braden Yeager is another athlete who can be added to that list, as he is currently sitting in sixth place of his U18 division in the four-week South Dakota Youth Bowling State Tournament, with a 204 average in ‘All Event Scratch.’ Despite only bowling for about three years, Braden – who is known by many as ‘Berto’ by his friends – has excelled quickly in the sport, which he credits to practicing 2-3 times per week, watching YouTube videos and the support of his family.

MORRILL, NEB. – Edgemont once again had another track meet, this time at the Panhandle Conference Track Meet in Morrill, Neb., on Friday, April 26.

BELLE FOURCHE – The Hot Springs Lady Bison golfers took part in a triangular in Belle Fourche on Thursday, April 11, where Custer took the team title with a four-person nine-hole score of 210 followed by the host Broncs in second place with a 257. Hot Springs did not have a full team and thus could not pull together a team score.

EDGEMONT – Edgemont had a busy week in the track world last week, having two track meets where lots of the student athletes were able to improve against some tough competitions as well as gain some times in events they haven’t run this year yet.

HOT SPRINGS – The Hot Springs Bison baseball team had a tough stretch of games last week as they lost three in a row to St. Thomas More (0-15), Platte-Geddes (0-11) and Bennett County (214).

RAPID CITY – With more than two dozen track and field teams from South Dakota, Wyoming and North Dakota, the Hot Springs Bison faced a lot of tough competition last Friday, April 12 at the Track-ORama in Rapid City.

SPEARFISH – Versus more than 30 teams from a threestate region, the Hot Springs Bison boys and girls track & field teams competed in the Queen City Classic last Friday, April 4, on the campus of Black Hills State University.

HOT SPRINGS – The Hot Springs Bison baseball team picked up its first win of the season last Friday, April 5, at home versus the Douglas Patriots when they earned a 6 1/2 inning victory by a score of 7-5, thanks to a big five-run third inning for the hometown boys.

STURGIS – The Hot Springs Bison track and field teams saw their first action of the season last week when they traveled to Sturgis for a 13-team Early Bird meet at Woodle Field. First-year head coach Mike Close said his team had some “first meet of the year jitters,” but that all of the assistant coaches did a great job of getting all of the kids prepared.