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Casino Speedway Memorial cut short by rain with only one of six features completed
WATERTOWN — With just a little more than half of the racing program completed, the weather got the best of the ninth Casino Speedway Memorial racing program on Sunday night. The Casino Speedway Memorial is held each year to celebrate the lives of Casino Speedway family members who passed away in the last year. ...
Poll voting remains open through 11:59 p.m. on Sunday
South Dakota's 2024 spring high school sports season is winding down and last week included the state track meet, state-qualifying playoff games for softball teams and conference and/or region golf tournaments. We've come up with a list of 15 candidates for the Public Opinion's Athlete of the Week poll for...
Watertown's Raderschadt and Kranz, Aberdeen Central's Rife among individual-event winners
SIOUX FALLS — Area athletes, including Watertown throwers Malia Kranz and Boaz Raderschadt and Aberdeen Central sprinter Gracie Rife, combined to win 18 events Friday and Saturday during the final two days of the South Dakota State High School Track and Field Championships. The three-day meet concluded Saturday at Howard Wood Field. Kranz won...
Arrow standout seeking to become school's first three-time AA boys' pole vault champion
WATERTOWN — It won't take a third-straight state Class AA championship to put Owen Spartz atop the list of the best high school boys' pole vaulters in Watertown High School track and field history. The Arrow senior and University of South Dakota recruit already holds the school's all-time record...
Deubrook Area's boys and girls lead the way by sweeping the Class B 3,200-meter relays
SIOUX FALLS — Deubrook Area swept the Class B boys' and girls' 3,200-meter relays and Ipswich's Trevor Heinz won the Class B boys' long jump Thursday to spearhead the performance of area athletes in the opening day of the South Dakota State Track and Field Championships. The three-day meet at Howard Wood Field concludes on Saturday. ...
Watertown edges Aberdeen Central for second in ESD; Roncalli captures Region 1A title
YANKTON — Mitchell repeated as the Eastern South Dakota Conference girls golf champion on Thursday with a different individual medalist. The Kernels topped the nine-team field with a 323 at the Fox Run Golf Course. Watertown edged Aberdeen Central by two shots (332 to 334) for second place. Maddie...
Aberdeen Central (Class AA) and three area Class A schools come up short in SoDak 16
BROOKINGS — Three-run homers by Sarita Stevenson and Aleia Johnston highlighted a 12-run eighth-inning outburst that carried Watertown High School's softball team into next week's state Class AA tournament. The ninth-seeded Arrows (11-9) used the uprising to snap a 6-6 tie and held on to beat eighth-seeded Brookings 18-13,...
Six different drivers win features on the second week of racing in Watertown
WATERTOWN — The second racing program of the season at Casino Speedway produced six different feature winners on Sunday night. South Dakota drivers Trevor Walsh of Watertown (Gen X late models), Maria Broksieck of Goodwin (street stocks) and Bradley Rossow of Florence (hornets) each won features. They were joined...
Bauer, Heil receive Career Athlete Awards at Great Plains Lutheran
WATERTOWN — Seniors Halle Bauer and Alex Heil received Girls and Boys Career Athlete Awards Sunday during the Great Plains Lutheran High School Spring Awards Assembly. A number of GPL students received awards for boys and girls golf, boys and girls track and field, theater and music. Halle Bauer's Accomplishments ...
Florence-Henry, Castlewood, Deuel and Elkton-Lake Benton make up half the field
FLORENCE — Wednesday turned out to be a history-making day for Haley Hlavacek, Elizabeth Reiter and the rest of their teammates on the Florence-Henry high school softball team. The eighth-seeded Falcons held off ninth-seeded Hanson 5-2 in a Class B SoDak 16 game to punch their ticket to next week's state Class B tournament scheduled for May 30-June 1 at Aberdeen. ...
Ten worthy candidates under consideration for Athlete of the Week for May 13-19
It's Monday and that means it's time to vote again in this week's Public Opinion Athlete of the Week poll. Take the time to vote. Voting runs through 11:59 p.m. on Sunday. Congratulations to pitchers Kaden Rylance and Nash Berg of Watertown Post 17's American Legion Baseball team for winning the weekly honor for May 6-12.
Top performers' list includes athletes from track, golf, softball, baseball and tennis
Here's a list of some of the top Watertown and Aberdeen area performers from May 13-19: Boaz Raderschadt and Owen Spartz, Watertown — Raderschadt won the boys' shot put (56-11.25) and discus (163-0) and Spartz tied his school record a second-place vault of 15 feet, 9 inches in a meet at Brandon Valley. Raderschadt also won the shot put (56-11) and discus (154-11) in the Mark Wendelgass Relays at Huron.
Induction banquet part of Watertown Baseball Association's Hall of Fame weekend
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Watertown, Aberdeen Central among 11 area teams playing for state-tournament berths
Eleven area teams, including Class AA Watertown and Aberdeen Central, will play in SoDak 16 state-qualifying games on Tuesday. Sixteen teams each in Class AA, A and B will play in one-game matchups, with the winners qualifying for the state tournament May 30-June 1 at Aberdeen. Watertown is the No. 9 seed in Class...
Clark-Willow Lake's Roehrich, Hamlin's Abraham lead teams to titles in Region 1B at CCGC
WATERTOWN — Medlists Aiden Abraham of Hamlin (boys) and Brynn Roehrich of Clark-Willow Lake (girls) carried their teams to titles in the Region 1B high school boys and girls golf tournament on Monday at Cattail Crossing Golf Course. Abraham shot an even-par 72 and won the boys division by three shots. Hamlin won the team title with a 231, 17 shots better than runner-up Castlewood. ...
Writer's second hall of fame induction prompts another column for his grandsons
Nearly five years ago, I wrote a column for my oldest grandson Graham who was getting ready to attend his grandfather's induction into the South Dakota Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame. The headline read — Dear Graham: Do you think you'll care that your grandfather is a Hall of Famer? My guess, since he was not much more than a month old at the time, that he really didn't. If I recall, he slept comfortably and didn't...
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