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Brandon Valley's girls and Harrisburg's boys capture team championships in conference meet
BROOKINGS — Watertown and Aberdeen Central athletes won a combined six events on Saturday during the Eastern South Dakota Conference Track and Field Championships. Aberdeen Central's girls scored 110.25 points and finished third for the second-straight year behind champion Brandon Valley (201.75) and runner-up Harrisburg (144). The title was the 10th in a row for the Lynx. Watertown added a fourth-place finish with 89, up three spots from last spring. Pierre was fifth at 69, followed by...
Brown County Speedway in Aberdeen set to open its season on Friday, May 17
The 70th season of racing at Casino Speedway in Watertown has arrived. Promoters-owners Todd and Vicki Good have unveiled a 2024 schedule with 19 nights of racing, including the scheduled season-opening program this Sunday (Mother's Day) at the 1/4-mile dirt oval track that opened in the mid-1950s. The program, scheduled to start at 6:30...
Watertown, Lake Norden and Aberdeen Central grads among 14 greats to be inducted in August
Half of the 14 former standouts who will be inducted into the South Dakota High School Basketball Hall of Fame on Aug. 24 have Watertown or Aberdeen area connections. The former area standouts set to be honored include 1978 Watertown High School graduate Kay (Stormo) Freund, 1954 Lake Norden graduate Dale Jacobsen, 2004 Aberdeen Central graduate Derrick McCauley, 1953 Aberdeen Central graduate Wayne Fix, 1994 Hitchcock graduate JoEllen (Hofer) Salmen, 1967 Glenham graduate Dennis Smith and 1978...
Highlights from ECC, LCC, LRC and 281 Conference track and field meets
Great Plains Lutheran's track and field teams continued their successful run of championships in the Eastern Coteau Conference meet at Britton on Tuesday. The Panther boys scored 198 points and won the boys division title for the 18th-straight year. The Panthers girls won for the 14th-straight year with 207 points. Micah Holien led the...
Justin Remmers' second-place finish at No. 3 singles leads Watertown to fifth
SIOUX FALLS — A runner-up finish at No. 3 singles by Justin Remmers sparked Watertown High School's boys tennis team to a fifth-place finish in the two-day Eastern South Dakota Conference tournament that concluded on Tuesday. The tourney was slated to be held at Pierre, but was moved indoors to Sioux Falls because of the forecasted weather. ...
Warriors currently hold top seed in Class B with a 10-2 season record
CASTLEWOOD — Don't think for a minute that Castlewood High School's softball team is content after winning the state Class B championship last June in the first season as a sanctioned sport in South Dakota. Coach Craig Horn's Warriors did graduate four talented seniors off a team that capped a 13-5 season by rallying past second-seeded Arlington in the semifinals and top-seeded Alcester-Hudson 3-2 in the championship. ...
Watertown, Aberdeen Central set to compete in Eastern S.D. Conference meet at Brookings
The 99th Howard Wood Dakota Relays concluded Saturday at Howard Wood Field in Sioux Falls, and that signals the start of a busy week of conference track and field meets for area athletes. The Eastern Coteau, Lake Central, 281 and Lake Region conference meets are all set for Tuesday with the Northeast and Big East meets on tap for Thursday. The Eastern South Dakota and Central South Dakota Conference meets wrap up the week on Saturday. ...
A second story on some of Watertown best Legion and high school baseball players since 1984
Editor's Note: Sports writer Roger Merriam is compiling a "20 Favorites" series highlighting some of his favorite athletes in a variety of high school sports since he started working at the Watertown Public Opinion in December of 1984. The series is about northeastern South Dakota athletes, but some played at colleges all over the state and others have moved to other areas. The series recently received a second-place honor in the Best Sports Series (for multi-day publications) in the 2023 SDNA Better News Media Contest). ...
The run will make stops across the state and raise awareness for Special Olympics South Dakota
WATERTOWN — Special Olympics South Dakota is hosting the Law Enforcement Torch Run across the state of South Dakota, starting Monday, May 13 and ending Thursday, May 16 at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2024 Special Olympics South Dakota State Summer Games in Vermillion. Throughout the four days of the Torch Run, law enforcement officers, along with two Special Olympics athletes will bring the “Flame of Hope” to 19 cities to help raise awareness for Special Olympics. ...
Highlights from the NEC meet at Sisseton and the BEC meet at Baltic
SISSETON — Milbank's reign over the Northeast Conference track and field championships remains. The Bulldogs won the boys division for the seventh-straight year and also secured a third-straight girls division title in the 11-team meet on Thursday. Milbank won the boys division with 192 points, followed by Webster Area at 129, Aberdeen Roncalli 94,...
Dakota Gold Academy gymnasts perform well in state, region championships
WATERTOWN — The Daktoa Gold Academy gymnasts of Watertown wrapped up another successful season with strong performances in the South Dakota State USA Gymnastics Championships at Rapid City and Region 4 Championships in Iowa. The state meet produced two state championship teams, 36 regional qualifers and 64 top-3 podum finishes for DGA athletes. Dakota Gold has won four state team titles in five years under owners Bobby and Liz Linneman. ...
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