The Timber Lake Panther boys golf team posted a third place finish at the Black Hills Classic played at Hart Ranch near Rapid City on Monday, May 13, with two players medaling with top five finishes. Wall won the team title with 245 strokes, followed by Hill City with 248 and Timber Lake with 261.

The Timber Lake Panther golf team claimed second place honors in the Little Moreau Conference Tournament hosted by Bison and played in Belle Fourche on Friday, May 10. Lemmon took home the team title with a 290 while the Panthers followed 12 strokes back at 302.

McIntosh golfer Wyatt Larson, three-time defending Little Moreau Conference and Region 6B champion, carded a 43 to win top honors at the Newell Golf Invitational last Tuesday, April 30, where competitors battled cool temperatures and high winds.

The South Dakota High School rodeo season is underway and several area competitors have earned a few points in the early going. Next on the schedule is Faith on Sunday, May 12. Competing in Wall on Saturday, May 4, Minda Woodward of the Dupree High School Rodeo Club claimed top honors in barrel racing with a time of 16.248 while Easton Eisemann of Glenham, a member of the Timber Lake Rodeo Club, won the saddle bronc event in the second round of the Quatro Crown Rodeo in Burke on the same day with a 55 point ride.

Timber Lake’s boys and girls junior high track teams carried 20 first place medals home from the Lemmon JH Track Meet last Tuesday, April 30, with five athletes capturing more than one top finish. The Panther JH boys accounted for 13 top finishes and the girls had seven.

The Timber Lake boys relay teams ran in four events at the Howard Wood Relays in Sioux Falls last Friday and Saturday, May 3-4, with two squads posting top 10 finishes. The Panther 1600 meter relay team of Holden Gill, Cole Ducheneaux, Gracen Hansen and Gavin Farlee clocked in at 3:37.24 to finish fourth overall while Ducheneaux, Farlee and Gill teamed with Carter Keller to earn eighth place in the 1600 sprint medley relay with a time of 3:47.57.

Some of the region’s best track and field talent was on display last Thursday, May 2, at the Timber Lake Invitational, with the hometown Panthers hosting athletes from Faith, Lemmon, McIntosh, McLaughlin, Cheyenne-Eagle Butte and Tiospaye Topa, as well as Standing Rock and Hettinger-Scranton, ND, at Doug Kraft Field.

The South Dakota High School rodeo season is underway and several area competitors have earned a few points in the early going. Next on the schedule is Faith on Sunday, May 12.

McLaughlin bull rider left Uvalde, TX, with a little change in his pocket after finishing third in the finals and average at the Cactus Jack Xtreme Bull Rodeo last Friday and Saturday, May 3-4, in Uvalde, TX.