Hot Springs girls wrestling team places 9th in state

All four qualifiers earn individual medals
  • With her coaches looking on from matside, Hot Springs junior Katie Snyder, top, gets control of Kenzie King of Canton in the consolation semifinals, which Snyder won with a 1:47 pin. Photo by Brett Nachtigall/Fall River County Herald-Star
    With her coaches looking on from matside, Hot Springs junior Katie Snyder, top, gets control of Kenzie King of Canton in the consolation semifinals, which Snyder won with a 1:47 pin. Photo by Brett Nachtigall/Fall River County Herald-Star
  • Hot Springs sophomore Sarah Rickebach, top, earned a 3rd place state medal for the second year in a row at 145 pounds. Photo by Brett Nachtigall
    Hot Springs sophomore Sarah Rickebach, top, earned a 3rd place state medal for the second year in a row at 145 pounds. Photo by Brett Nachtigall

    RAPID CITY – All four of Hot Springs’ girls wrestlers who qualified for this past weekend’s three-day S.D. State Championships in Rapid City came home with some hardware as the team also earned the school it’s highest ever team finish when they came in ninth out of the 59 schools who competed.

    With only one class of girls wrestling in the state, Hot Springs also competed against much bigger school …