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05/09/2008 12:00 AM
CHICAGO — Jermaine Dye homered for the third straight game and Juan Uribe added a go-ahead two-run drive in the fifth to help the struggling Chicago White Sox beat the Minnesota Twins 6-2 on Thursday.
John Danks (3-3) made it through five innings, giving up six hits and two runs, and Chicago won for just the second time in nine games.
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Cornbelt Conference Track Meet |
05/09/2008 12:00 AM
FREEMAN — The Canistota boys and the Freeman girls won conference titles Thursday at the Cornbelt Conference track meet in Freeman.
Canistota scored 176 points to win the boys’ title easily over Marion, which had 132.5 points. Freeman had 130, Hanson had 102, Menno had 85, Montrose had 65 and Bridgewater/Emery had 42.5.
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Basketball star one of five inducted into MHS hall of fame |
05/08/2008 12:00 AM
It felt like the late ’90s Wednesday when applause filled the Corn Palace in appreciation of Mike Miller’s talents.
However, it wasn’t for a single spectacular play as it was so often during his storied high school career. Instead, it was in celebration of Miller’s cumulative accomplishments as a Kernel, and what his success has meant to this town, and the entire state.
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Last Twin to hit for cycle was Puckett, 22 years ago |
05/08/2008 12:00 AM
CHICAGO — Carlos Gomez became the first Twins player since Kirby Puckett 22 years ago to hit for the cycle, Livan Hernandez took a shutout into the ninth and Minnesota beat the Chicago White Sox 13-1 on Wednesday night.
One night after Chicago’s Gavin Floyd lost a no-hitter in the ninth, Gomez homered off Mark Buehrle (1-4) on the game’s third pitch.
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05/08/2008 12:00 AM
The Mount Vernon boys’ track and field team had six individual top finishers and one first-place relay team Wednesday and took first place with 143 points at the Custer Battlefield Highway Conference meet at Joe Quintal Field.
Ethan was second with 117 points, Stickney third, Sanborn Central fourth and Plankinton was fifth.
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Mitchell seniors picks Minnesota college over USD, George Mason |
05/07/2008 12:00 AM
In a senior season that saw Mitchell guard Jordan Miller earn first-team Class AA all-state honors and win The Daily Republic’s Area Player of the Year award, there were very few questions surrounding Miller’s game.
One of the only remaining questions was where Miller would be playing next season, and after a year-long process, that question has been answered.
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Second-straight first-team selection |
05/07/2008 12:00 AM
Four Dakota Wesleyan University softball players were honored Tuesday when the Great Plains Athletic Conference announced its 2008 all-conference selections.
Sophomore centerfielder Annie Martinez was named to the first team for the second-straight season.
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05/07/2008 12:00 AM
CHICAGO — Gavin Floyd’s no-hit bid lasted until the ninth this time.
Joe Mauer doubled with one out off Chicago’s young right-hander for the Minnesota Twins’ only hit and Floyd had to settle for a 7-1 victory Tuesday night as the White Sox ended a six-game losing streak.
Floyd (3-1) was taken out to a standing ovation after Mauer’s double to left-center and Bobby Jenks came on to get the final two outs.
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05/06/2008 12:00 AM
As details continued to emerge Monday regarding Mitchell Mavericks coach Ron Dahme’s arrest on charges that he molested young baseball players, a new coach took over the team and said the season will proceed as planned.
Steve Jendersee, who was an assistant coach for Dahme, said Monday that he has taken over head coaching duties of the independent, 12-and-younger traveling team.
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05/06/2008 12:00 AM
SIOUX FALLS — White River senior Louie Krogman and Sully Buttes senior Alexis Yackley were named South Dakota’s 2008 Mr. and Ms. Basketball respectively at the Hansen-Anderson basketball awards luncheon Sunday at the Ramkota Hotel in Sioux Falls.
The pair was chosen from a semifinalist group of 15 senior boys and 15 senior girls by a vote of South Dakota’s high school coaches.
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Baker, Roy earn first-team honors |
05/06/2008 12:00 AM
The Great Plains Athletic Conference baseball all-conference team was announced Monday, and the two Dakota Wesleyan University players named to the first team weren’t a surprise. But the fact that they didn’t earn player of the year status was.
Tigers’ seniors Chris Baker (starting pitcher) and Jake Roy (outfield) both earned first-team All-GPAC status for their performances this season, and they headlined a group of nine DWU players in all that were honored by the conference.
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05/06/2008 12:00 AM
SIOUX FALLS — The Mitchell High School boys’ tennis team fell to Sioux Falls Lincoln 9-0 at a dual Monday afternoon in Sioux Falls, but head coach Gayle Klein said the score wasn’t entirely indicative of the way her team played.
“Despite the score, Lincoln really did have to earn their points,” Klein said.
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Mitchell scores 32 runs in doubleheader sweep |
05/05/2008 12:00 AM
The Mitchell High School baseball team got the bats going early and often Sunday at Cadwell Park, sweeping a double header from Sturgis with 13-3 and 19-2 wins.
The Kernels have been swinging hot bats for the last several weeks now, and coach Luke Norden said it couldn’t come at a better time.
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Howard Wood Dakota Relays |
05/05/2008 12:00 AM
SIOUX FALLS — Twenty-seven area high school track and field teams competed at the Howard Wood Relays in Sioux Falls on Saturday.
After the first day of the two-day event was rained out, the weather cooperated on Saturday, allowing for a busy day of competition, though several events had to be scratched after Friday’s postponement.
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05/05/2008 12:00 AM
HASTINGS, Neb. — Three outs are all that separated the fifth-seeded Dakota Wesleyan baseball team from a surprising championship in the Great Plains Athletic Conference tournament Saturday in Hastings, Neb.
But a three-run Morningside rally in the top of the seventh inning erased what had been a 4-3 DWU lead entering the final inning and sent second-seeded Morningside on its way to the GPAC championship with a 6-4 victory.
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05/05/2008 12:00 AM
SIOUX CITY, Iowa — The Dakota Wesleyan men’s and women’s track and field teams competed Saturday at the Great Plains Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships in Sioux City, Iowa, where the Tigers had three athletes earn All-GPAC honors.
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05/05/2008 12:00 AM
MINNEAPOLIS — The Detroit Tigers left Yankee Stadium this week with the hope and momentum of a three-game sweep, but Jim Leyland was cautious.
Not over the hump yet, their seen-it-all manager said.
As usual, the boss was right.
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05/03/2008 12:00 AM
In the first 100 years of its existence, the South Dakota High School Activities Association never had an American Indian on its board of directors or any of its advisory committees.
In 1992, Indian schools in the state considered seceding from the SDHSAA and forming the South Dakota Indian Activities Association so that they could have a voice somewhere. They went so far as to create their own bylaws before deciding not to break away.
Now, 16 years after they considered forming their own activities association, Indian schools in South Dakota have a voice and are about to begin the task of finding another.
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05/03/2008 12:00 AM
The rain that fell Friday afternoon at the Great Plains Athletic Conference baseball tournament in Hastings, Neb., may have washed away Dakota Wesleyan’s second game of the day, but it couldn’t wash away the frustration of a 17-6 loss to Morningside on Friday morning.
After a 2-0 start to the tournament on Thursday, DWU squared off against Morningside, the other unbeaten team, on Friday. A Sean Heary grand slam in the third gave the Tigers a 5-4 lead at the time, but it was all Morningside the rest of the way.
“We got whooped,” DWU head coach Adam Neisius said. “It was a pretty good baseball game for about five innings. But then we kind of fell apart pitching wise, we kind of fell apart offensively, and the final score got a little out of hand.”
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05/03/2008 12:00 AM
The Dakota Wesleyan track and field team will travel to Sioux City, Iowa, today for the Great Plains Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships. Ten members of the men’s team and three members of the women’s team will be competing.
Three Tiger men have already qualified for the national meet, which will be held May 22-24 in St. Louis, and the team will look to qualify more athletes today. However, DWU head coach Pat Belling said the team’s goals won’t be entirely individual oriented.
“We always have team goals in the conference meet,” he said. “We’ll go down there and try to beat a few teams, see how well we can do.”
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05/02/2008 12:00 AM
It didn’t take long for word to spread that Mitchell High School was in need of a new activities director, or for interested parties to start contacting the school to submit their applications.
Current A.D. Scott VanDerMillen handed in his resignation minutes before Monday’s 5 p.m. school board meeting.
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05/02/2008 12:00 AM
Maggie Malloy has been a fixture on the Parkston girls’ basketball team for six years, and during that time, she’s racked up a lot of impressive statistics and led the Trojans to a lot of wins.
However, one of the most impressive things about Malloy’s career is her growth, both as a player and as a person.
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05/02/2008 12:00 AM
HASTINGS, Neb. — On a day filled with drama, it was the Dakota Wesleyan University baseball team always getting the big hit or making the key pitch during the first two rounds of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Baseball Championships in Hastings, Neb.
As a result, the fifth-seeded Tigers pulled off a pair of very different upsets, each by a single run, and they enter today as just one of two teams without a loss in the tournament thus far.
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05/02/2008 12:00 AM
For the second consecutive year, the weather is taking a toll on the Howard Wood Relays.
The potential inclement weather threatening Sioux Falls Thursday and today forced meet officials to cancel all events scheduled for today and revise Saturday’s schedule of events.
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05/02/2008 12:00 AM
The Mitchell girls’ golf team finally got its first taste of competition on their home course this season Thursday when the Kernels hosted Huron in a dual at Lakeview Golf Course.
And probably not coincidentally, the Kernels enjoyed their strongest performance of the season, finishing with a 409, which was 17 strokes better than their previous season best, which came Monday at the Sioux Falls Washington Invite.
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Circle this DWU pitching performance, Bert
Matt Higgins
Any Minnesota Twins fan that watches FSN North’s broadcasts of the team’s games on a regular basis can likely tell you how many complete-game shutouts color commentator Bert Blyleven threw in his major league career, because it comes up often.
The answer is 60, which is nearly an impossible number for a starter to approach today.
Canaries popular with younger crowd
Matt Bunke
In the weeks leading up to Monday night’s exhibition baseball game between the Sioux Falls Canaries and Dakota Wesleyan University at Cadwell Park, the Canaries organization said it hoped the game would be a “celebration of baseball in Mitchell.” The team also promised to bring a brand of exciting, family-friendly baseball to the ballpark.
Ready and waiting for the start of football
Leah Rado
I can’t wait for football to start.
Turns out I’m not the only one.
I e-mailed Kent VanOverschelde last Thursday to see if he knew how many days until practice started, or at least what date it starts so I could figure it out.
Kent has — and has had for some time, I think — the official countdown going. But that’s not the only reason I knew he was excited.
Changes to Class AA playoffs deserve closer look
Matt Bunke
When the Mitchell boys’ basketball team beat Yankton in dramatic fashion at the state tournament in March, coach Gary Munsen’s favorite way to describe the outcome was “dodging a bullet.”
Now, just a few weeks after Mitchell finished second at the tournament, Mitchell may have dodged another bullet.
At the South Dakota Interscholastic Advisory Committee conference in late March, the 17 Class AA athletic directors voted on a proposal to change the current formats of the Class AA basketball and volleyball tournaments. Had it passed, the proposal still would have had to go before the Board of Directors, but luckily for Mitchell and a number of other schools, the athletic directors voted 10-7 in opposition to the change, which could have altered the format of regional play.
Under the current format, the four district champions advance to the state tournament automatically. The other four state qualifiers are determined by a series of regional games. The four spots are determined by a series of crossover games where the third place team from one district plays the second place team from another district, and vice-versa.
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