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Timber Lake’s Braden Lawrence (left) applies some pressure to a New Underwood ball handler during boys basketball action before the holiday break. Topic photo by Marie DuPreez

Timber Lake’s Braden Lawrence (left) applies some pressure to a New Underwood ball handler during boys basketball action before the holiday break. Topic photo by Marie DuPreez

Braves third, Mustangs sixth on mat at Lakota Nation Invite

Xadyn LaPlante and Tripp Schrempp captured individual titles and led the Cheyenne-Eagle Butte/ Dupree/Tiospaye Topa wrestling coop to a third place overall finish at the 2024 Lakota National Invitational last week in Rapid City.
Timber Lake sophomore guard Treyden Beer works the ball upcourt while being harrassed by a Mobridge-Pollock defender during cross-river boys basketball action in Mobridge just before the holiday break. Photo by Marie Du Preez

Timber Lake sophomore guard Treyden Beer works the ball upcourt while being harrassed by a Mobridge-Pollock defender during cross-river boys basketball action in Mobridge just before the holiday break. Photo by Marie Du Preez

TL boys 1-2 overall heading into busy four-game week

The Timber Lake Panthers split a pair of games with New Underwood and Mobridge-Pollock before the holiday break, dropping them to 1-2 overall as they head into a busy fourgame week.The Panthers take on North Central at Roscoe High School at 3:30 pm CT on Thursday, Jan.
Tucker Kraft

Tucker Kraft

Kraft named SD ‘Sports Celebrity’ of the Year

Timber Lake native Tucker Kraft, now in his second year as the starting tight end for the Green Bay Packers, has been chosen as South Dakota’s Sports Celebrity for 2024 by the South Dakota Sportswriters Association.
Timber Lake forward Jasmine Nash surveys the floor before running the Lady Panthers offense during recent girls basketball action. Nash, a senior, dropped a team-high 16 points to lift Timber Lake past Herreid– Selby before the holiday break and improve to 2-2 overall. Topic photo by Marie Du Preez

Timber Lake forward Jasmine Nash surveys the floor before running the Lady Panthers offense during recent girls basketball action. Nash, a senior, dropped a team-high 16 points to lift Timber Lake past Herreid– Selby before the holiday break and improve to 2-2 overall. Topic photo by Marie Du Preez

Big second half lifts Timber Lake girls past Herreid-Selby

A big second half gave the Timber Lake Lady Panthers their second win of the season on Dec.17 as they rallied to upend Herreid-Selby 60-56, evening their mark at 2-2 overall.The Lady Panthers return from the holiday break on Thursday, Jan.

Dupree boys upend Lead-Deadwood, up season mark to 5-1

Fresh off winning their division at the Lakota Nation Invitational, the Dupree Tigers picked up their fifth win of the season last week, slipping past Lead-Deadwood 58-55 in boys action at the 2024 Hoop City Classic in the Corn Palace in Mitchell.Dupree hosts Bison on Thursday, Jan.
The Dupree Tigers went undefeated at the 47th annual Lakota Nation Invitational Boys Basketbal Tournament to capture the championship in the He Sapa bracket. They followed that with a win over Lead-Deadwood last week to improve to 5-1 on the season.

The Dupree Tigers went undefeated at the 47th annual Lakota Nation Invitational Boys Basketbal Tournament to capture the championship in the He Sapa bracket. They followed that with a win over Lead-Deadwood last week to improve to 5-1 on the season.

Dupree boys win He Sapa bracket at 47th annual LNI

Three players hit double figures for Dupree as the Tigers knocked off Marty 60-51 in the championship game of the He Sapa bracket at the 47th annual Lakota Nation Invitational Boys Basketball Tournament in Rapid City.
Timber Lake guard Cole Ducheneaux battles Lemmon’s Blair Ham (in white) for a loose ball during the boys basketball season opener between the two teams last Friday, Dec. 13, in Lemmon. Ham would later hit a game-winning 3-pointer with eight seconds remaining to give Lemmon a 64-62 win. Topic photo by Marie DuPreez

Timber Lake guard Cole Ducheneaux battles Lemmon’s Blair Ham (in white) for a loose ball during the boys basketball season opener between the two teams last Friday, Dec. 13, in Lemmon. Ham would later hit a game-winning 3-pointer with eight seconds remaining to give Lemmon a 64-62 win. Topic photo by Marie DuPreez

Panther boys drop squeaker to Lemmon in season opener

Bad luck ... and poor free throw shooting ... cost Timber Lake a win in its 2024-25 boys basketball season opener at Lemmon last Friday, Dec.13, as the Cowboys slipped past the Panthers 64-62 in a nail-biter.Timber Lake will host New Underwood on Friday, Dec.

South Dakota bobcat hunting and trapping season starts Dec. 26

South Dakota’s 2024-25 bobcat trapping and hunting season opens Thursday, Dec. 26 and will close Feb. 15, 2025.Hunters and trappers are reminded that the season bag limit is one bobcat for the Black Hills and East River. and unlimited for West River, excluding the Black Hills.