Mount Marty was chosen for third place out of 11 teams in the G-PAC Pre-Season baseball Coaches poll. Concordia was the regular-season champion two years ago and were picked to win the title again. The Bulldogs are rated 24th in the first NAIA national poll of the season, while Jamestown was picked to finish second. …… read more »
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SD Boys State Basketball Tournaments Begin Today
The South Dakota High School basketball state tournaments get started today. The Class AA boys tourney begins at 1:00 Central time at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City. The second-seed Yankton Bucks face the Mitchell Kernels tonight at 6:00 Central time. Our broadcast of Bucks basketball with Sports Director Bryce Ladwig begins at…… read more »
MMU Adds Three for Women’s T & F Program
Mount Marty University has announced the commitment of three athletes for their Women’s Track & Field program. Jacey Cihak from Sioux Falls O’Gorman, Teyha From of Cody-Kilgore, Nebraska and Brooklyn Nielsen from Lake Benton, Minnesota will each run sprints and compete in other events for the Lancer women next spring.… read more »
NAIA National BB Tourneys Start Today
The NAIA Top 16 national basketball tournaments begin today. Dakota State faces Sterling, Kansas at 3:00 this afternoon in the Women’s Tournament at the Tyson Events Center in Sioux City. Tonight in the Men’s tourney in Kansas City, Jamestown takes on Faulkner, Alabama in the opening round. The Concordia women and the Morningside women and…… read more »
YHS Soph Leonard All-ESD in Girls Wrestling
There were seven athletes named to the first-ever All-ESD Conference Girls Wrestling Team. Yankton sophomore Nevaeh Leonard was named all-conference after a season in which she won the Class A State Title in her weight class… read more »
YHS Track & Field Athletes Continue Practices
As boys basketball teams travel to their state tournaments this week in South Dakota, spring sports athletes are beginning their practices. The Yankton Bucks and Gazelles track athletes started practicing two weeks ago and will be the first teams to compete this spring when they take part in a high school meet March 26th at…… read more »
MVFC Teams Dominate the FCS Football Ratings
In the FCS Massey Ratings this week, five of the top seven nationally are from the Missouri Valley Football Conference. In this rating, North Dakota and North Dakota State are rated one-two in the country with South Dakota State in fourth. Coming up Saturday, the Jackrabbits visit fifth-ranked Southern Illinois while the South Dakota Coyotes…… read more »
USD and SDSU Qualify for NCAA Women’s Tournament
South Dakota and South Dakota State will head to San Antonio this week and the NCAA Women’s Basketball “bubble” for the 64-team tournament. The USD Coyotes earned an 11th-seed and will face sixth-seed Oregon next Monday night at 9:00 in the first round. The SDSU Jackrabbits are a ninth-seed and will take on eighth-seed Syracuse…… read more »
Four GPAC Basketball Teams Advance to National Top 16
Four basketball teams from the Great Plains Athletic Conference won their first round series over the weekend and have advanced to the NAIA Top 16 national tournaments. The Morningside men and women along with the Jamestown men and Concordia women have each qualified to compete in the 16-team tournaments. The Women’s final is being held…… read more »
Bucks and Tanagers Head to State BB Tourneys this week
The Yankton Bucks basketball squad is preparing for this week’s Class Double-A state basketball tournament in Rapid City. The Bucks are the number-two seed after an 18 and 3 season as they take on seventh-seed Mitchell which is 15 and 6 overall at 6:00 Central time on Thursday. Yankton defeated the Kernels 53-44 on February…… read more »
