Hometown Newspaper Covering the Greater Belle Fourche & Butte County Area in South Dakota
On Friday April 10th, the high school track and field team competed in the Queen City Classic in Spearfish against 22 other teams. The Broncs had two athletes who set new school records at the meet. On the men’s team, Chris Jewett set the school record in the javelin with a throw of 130 feet […]
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On Tuesday April 7th the Belle Fourche Middle School track and field team had their long awaited for first competition after a cancellation of their first scheduled meet due to inclement weather. The weather Tuesday was fantastic for a track meet with sunny skies and temps in the 60s. The middle schoolers competed in a […]
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On Tuesday March 24th a group of Belle Fourche youth competed in a Special Olympics basketball event held in Spearfish. Some of the highlights of that day are displayed here. The team consisted of Brady Pierce, Kendall Owen, Emma Juelfs, Gracey Weishaar, Harper Pottorff, Berklee Nore, Brekyn Montgomery, Logan Carson, Jaxon Sanderlin, Sadee Keil, Jadah […]
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The first week of middle school track and field and the second week for high school was halted due to inclement weather moving into the area. The middle school was set compete at the Douglas (Box Elder) middle school meet on March 31st. The high school was set to compete at the Early Bird Invite […]
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The evening of Friday March 27th saw many awards for the Bronc wrestlers. 5 athletes earned their first time Varsity letters with wrestling emblems, 2 athletes earning their first Varsity letter in wrestling while already having earned a letter in another sport, therefore receiving their first wrestling emblem for their letter, and 13 athletes earning […]
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On Thursday March 26th, the Bronc high school track team had their first meet in Newcastle, Wyoming with some chilly, wet temps in the 30s. Coach Wattier says, “despite the cold, wet day, the Broncs had some kids step up and give some standout performances.” On the girl’s side, Ansley O’Brien made the Belle Fourche […]
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The Belle Fourche AAU Club had 21 state qualifiers this year. The tournament was held over 3 days in the attached original arena at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls. On Friday, March 20th, the 14U and USAW Freestyle Juniors competed all the way through their brackets to the podium in a single […]
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Junior athletes in the Belle Fourche AAU Wrestling Club are wrapping up their season with the run to state competition. On Saturday, March 7th, 38 wrestlers in 6U, 8U, 10U, 12U and 14U age divisions competed in District wrestling to earn top 8 placement in order to move on to the Regional competition. All 38 […]
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Two Bronc runners have spent their off-season training and competing in races. Rhys Pearson and Lennon Clarkson have been racing in open events at South Dakota State University, Chadron State College, as well as the Heartland Nike Cross Nationals races during the winter season between cross country and track seasons. Individuals are able to run […]
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The Broncs wrestlers took 2 girls and 4 boys to the South Dakota State Championship held at the Denny Sandford Premier Center on February 26-28th State qualifiers were AnnaBelle Dighton and Kyra Vandenberg for the girls and Caden Swaney, Cooper Conry, Kolby Tibbs and Riley Dighton for the boys. Cooper and Kolby were beat out […]
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