Sports

The Yellow Medicine East High School Trap Teams SPRING 2023 season will get started on Sunday, March 26th at 1:30 pm. There are nine shoots total. Five of those shoots are for the conference competition rounds against other schools. This also includes a State Championship in June. This year the team has 18 athletes who will compete with individual scores and a team of five in whatever class they qualify in. This year’s team includes four-Seniors, four-Juniors, two-Sophomores, two-Freshman, two in eighth grade, two in seventh grade and one in sixth grade with one of them being brand new to the team. “We are looking forward to a great season,” says Coach/ Manager Sandy Berthelsen. YME’s Trap Team shoots at the Minnesota Heartland Preserve just outside of Granite Falls.

Chad Reimer (Granite Falls) and Justin Weckwerth (Montevideo) come from small towns in western Minnesota where everyone knows your name. On Tuesday night at the National Bowling Stadium, they were able to put together a score of 1,136 to take the lead in Standard Doubles at the 2023 United States Bowling Congress Open Championships, giving the bowling world the chance to know their names.

Over the weekend, the Yellow Medicine East boys varsity basketball team took on Dawson-Boyd in the Section 3A-North tournament in Montevideo for a 3776 loss. Leaders in the game included Bryce Sneller who scored 16 points with seven rebounds and three blocks, while Owen Torvik added another nine points to the team total.

Last week the Yellow Medicine East Girls Varsity Basketball team took on Lakeview at home for a 61-36 victory. Leaders in the game included Hannah Stark who scored 26 points with three assists and four steals, while Ruby Bones added another 14 points, eleven rebounds to the team total.